skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.

And the posted benchmarks for the M2 Macbook Air make me consider 'upgrading' to an Air.
All hail Grand Perspective back in the day, not sure who is carrying the "what's wasting my disk space" torch for free these days.

Edit: still alive! https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
The reason that women live so much longer than men is to make up for the time they spend waiting in line to go to the bathroom.
I just feel like they're digging the antitrust hole deeper and deeper. How do they see this ending?
We need tort reform. Tax payers shouldn’t be on the hook for such crazy amounts.
Or maybe not:

https://slashdot.org/story/05/07/13/236203/doctorow-and-stro...

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Two prominent science fiction authors have recently released their newest novels as free downloads to coincide with their in-store releases. The first is Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow. This is an unconventional story about an entrepreneur (who happens to be the child of a mountain and a washing machine) who gets involved in a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless mesh network, among other things. The second is Accelerando, by Charles Stross, which tells the tale of three generations of the Macx family (beginning with perptually-slashdotted venture altruist Manfred Macx) in the years leading up to and beyond a technological singularity
It also is swinging back towards caring about quality of life issues after a bout of other (and unachieved) priorities in the last two mayoral terms.
Mergesort with punched card decks would have been fairly obvious, so I wouldn't be surprised if the general idea predated his software implementation by at least several decades?
"In vivo" means in a living body. "In vitro" means in the lab/petri dish.
> e.g., only after certain guarantees of autonomy are made and the Taiwanese opt for the 'easy route'

Is that really so plausible after what happened in Hong Kong?
Thanks, you have a point. This sentence is trying to get across two separate ideas without doing the work, and its breezy style doesn't help.

1. Ad-free premium search is already an option with Brave Search, and the ads in the free leg we just launched are privacy-preserving, but none of this proves the "free and open exchange" claim. The "free" part was intended to mean no-payment-required, because many can't afford and some find ads useful. The "open" is thorny and should have been separated: all engines have biases even if algorithmic, from the Web they index if not how they weigh and measure inputs to their indexing.

2. Some folks do find ads useful (I do, on Google especially as its organic results have declined in quality since the old days, but even in the old days). These users will probably prefer the free leg on this basis, and that's what the last clause of this overlong sentence was trying to get across.

We will do better in future posts. I hope the privacy-preserving nature of search ads is clear too -- if not, please reply and I'll take back your feedback there too.
This is so lovely :)
We use qdrant. It's well written software. I do wish these vector indices would stop trying to be complete databases though.

Probably the best outcome is for large DB companies to acquihire and add vector queries as a feature.
TCI: Google, stop paying staff too much
>It's somewhat ironic that you've included X.org in that list given (a) its history, and (b) how much time and effort has been spent in recent years on creating something to replace it.

There's nothing "ironic" about it at all. For many, many years, X.org was the only real display server that anyone used, after they all abandoned XFree86 for good reason. Wayland didn't come about until later, and even then, *it was made by the same people*. It was never a competing project.

>if I have strong feelings on how a particular piece of software should work, and it's made clear that the project leads disagree and any patch to implement such will be rejected

This is understandable, but frequently not the case. The KDE/Gnome fiasco, for instance, all started because of an argument about a license.

>merely an observation that when people work on project for the enjoyment of it, rather than for a living

Here again, it's frequently not the case. In the KDE/Gnome fiasco, many of the devs there were employed full-time by companies like RedHat to work on it. So it was really political.
> employees will get normal pay and medical benefits until January 31, 2023 and are “expected to work” through that period.

So severance but they have to keep working too? Seems rough. Hard to imagine anyone in that situation would focus on working for their soon-to-be former employer.
NYC is the only American city I know where garbage is just left on the sidewalk for hours every day.

I imagine simply requiring bins/dumpsters would absolutely devastate the rat populations.
SEEKING WORK | ATX | REMOTE

I got into Flash while studying animation at UT but then Steve Jobs banned it from the iPhone, so I switched to Ruby on Rails when v3 came out. I started freelancing projects with Ember.js and Express for a while, but switched to React when that got big.

I’m comfortable full-stack and I’m best with JavaScript, but I’ve worked with Python, Golang, Ruby, Java, etc

Did 4 years at a couple big companies as a tech lead but started freelancing again about a year into the pandemic when layoffs hit.

I was coasting on savings but you know how the situation is rn so my semi-retirement is over :(

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulizzle
8 gb ram
Thanks for the info. Export of cardboard makes sense: lots of trees in North America, so they can make the 'new' stuff, while other places can't. And at worst, it burns somewhat cleanly.
Most of the main stream media is of very low quality. The same is true of most of the non main stream media. Not to mention the low quality of most of the main stream media’s detractors. The situation isn’t ideal.
Tangentially taking this opportunity to mention the far-superior "Lying and Cheating" version of Stratego, that (as far as I know) my father invented.

It makes the game so much more interesting, IMO. Played it a lot as a child.

Here are the basic rules, when a piece is attacked:

* The attacker says what their piece is, without showing it (they can lie)
* The defender says whether they believe that
* The defender says what their piece is, without showing it (they can lie)
* The attacker says whether they believe that
* ONLY IF someone calls a bluff is that piece revealed. Otherwise, it is treated as the piece it was claimed to be, and kept hidden.
* If someone calls a bluff, and they were right, then the other player loses a piece (reach over and remove any piece you like)
** If you pick their flag, then you win — game over.
* Likewise, if someone calls a bluff but is wrong, then *they* lose a piece.
* After all of that is resolved, do combat as normal, with pieces having either their revealed or not-revealed claimed value, as appropriate.

Once you resolve all this, there is no "memory" - you can claim it is a different piece in the future.

Some minutiae:

* You can move any piece as though it were a Scout (9), but when you do the move, the other player can call your bluff since you're essentially claiming it is a Scout at that moment. Resolve that bluff/call before completing the move.
* You could even call a bluff on *any* move someone makes, if you believe that piece is a bomb or flag (and thus cannot move).
* You can attack with a bomb! It's a two-step process: first you move (and they could call your bluff, if they know it is a bomb - see above). Then, when the attack happens, you say it *is* a bomb. Of course, your opponent may say their piece is a Miner, and if you haven't seen it, it's a dangerous proposition (since bombs are rare).
** You can also do a variant where bombs can't attack (by attacking, you are claiming it is *not* a bomb). I prefer the above version.

Overall, I find this version of the game is a lot less boring. Since you'll probably get several pieces zapped over the course of the game, it affects your flag placement. Plus, you can move flags and bombs, making it more dynamic. Also, the "remember where things were" aspect is even more poignant, since once a piece has been revealed, it loses all the power of being whatever-is-needed-right-now (assuming the other player has a good memory).

So, for instance, you can do something crazy like move your bomb as though it were a Scout, all the way across the board, onto an opponent's piece, but then claim it's a "5" instead for the attack. Then if it survives, just let it sit there, continuing to be a bomb in the future (causing havoc).
It depends what the "primary" place is. If poeple go to Patreon to receive a product, and Discord is a sidebar to that, then yeah, keep it to Patreon. If a Discord community is funded with a Patreon, this can be a replacement.
ZeroTier is peer to peer but we don’t end up using the term very much. Loads of conferencing systems use P2P. WebRTC is P2P. Yet the term isn’t used there too much either. Same with games.

I think the term has just faded from the hype cycle.
Sounds just like an Ian Fleming passage (though I don't think he wrote it?) - plausible-sounding, but not centered in reality.
Thanks! Looks like a gold mine~~
Well that's a bummer
I just made an account with just an email last week with no issues.
Members of the C++ community are working on fixing that. The Herb Sutter CPP2 idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELeZAKCN4tY
The other issue with deepl is that it has limited language pairs. I wonder what limits it. The language I'd like should have enough of a corpus of text.
>I'd say any C128 model was a smart buy in 1985

No, the Amiga 1000 was a much better buy (as tjmc said). More expensive, but far, far more power.
Contacts don't need any more maintenance, probably less. You just clean them quickly after you take them out for the night, or in the morning just before you put them in. Glasses need to be cleaned regularly. Plus you throw the contacts away after a while (daily, biweekly, or monthly usually) and use new ones.

Putting contacts in takes a few seconds if you're used to it. What's weird is walking around with heavy metal contraptions on your head and ears.
> [...] Imagine two people, one of whom is given $10 and told to propose a way to split the money with another person—a stranger, let's say. The catch is that if the stranger doesn't agree to the deal, they both get nothing.

> Economists and psychologists alike love this experiment because it captures an interesting facet of human behavior that appears irrational at first glance. Surely the second man should accept any deal offered by the first. So what if he's offered just a penny? Free money is free money! Who cares if the other guy gets to keep $9.99? Instead, across all cultures and contexts, people reject offers they perceive to be unfair: The details vary, but human beings turn down money with astonishing consistency if they think they're being done dirty.

> [...]

> "The process of contracting a worker is often close to ultimatum bargaining," explained Elwyn Davies (then with the University of Oxford) and Stanford University's Marcel Fafchamps in a 2016 paper exploring the effects of competition on behavior within the ultimatum game. "The employer specifies a job description and proposes a wage and the worker accepts or rejects."

Elwyn Davies and anyone with an economics degree who read that and thought that was a reasonable idea should have their economics degrees revoked until they've worked a minimum-wage job for a year with no other income, because this is incredibly ignorant of economics.

Free money is free money, sure. But labor isn't free money. Workers have resources such as ~75-80 years of life, some health, energy, etc., and workers are giving up a portion of those resources to their employer in exchange for money. You don't get those back.

Those resources have a value to workers. At some point as wages decrease, those resources become more valuable to the worker than the amount being offered for them.

I'm currently in Tennessee. Minimum wage here comes to about $1200/mo. That doesn't cover rent, let alone expenses of a reasonably enjoyable life. I'm very grateful that these aren't my options, but if my options were work 40 hours/week for $1200/mo, or have that time, I'd rather have the time, because that's a more enjoyable life. The things that $1200/mo buys me are simply not worth as much as being able to go on a hike when I want to. That's rational. It's not some irrational human sense of fairness thing, or sticking it to the man, it's the only reasonable reaction to the situation.
This isn’t remotely accurate. Mayoral politics in NYC is eternally dominated by basic quality of life issues. It’s the single thing that dominates voting in the city.

I’ve been much more impressed with the city council than the mayor as of late. Our esteemed mayor seems to have more of a taste for cutting QoL projects (like compost collection, and bike lane expansion) than he does for cultivating them.
For context, California and Texas state govt revenue is ~$250B (GDP of Finland)
Immigration status dodge? Say you "expect them to work", but don't enforce it, so they aren't technically unemployed and the H1B clock doesn't start ticking right away?

Maybe trying to game unemployment insurance rates? If someone is employed they can't go on unemployment, hopefully in two months some of them find something new driving down your costs compared to firing them and having them apply right away?

It's a pipe dream if they think anyone laid off will be putting any effort in.
Indeed, but IMHO they're very different products if you understand the positioning, which I guess is hard to guage.
I assume because it stores persistent data on the user's PC without consent (last-modified), just like a cookie.
Has anyone had success hiring bootcamp grads?

I’ve interviewed dozens and their resume will say something like “Fellow at [bootcamp]” or “Instructor at [bootcamp]”, and it turns out they made a simple programming 101 app and taught a 1hr intro to JavaScript class.

None have ever passed an initial screening by me for mid level dev jobs, but I’m curious if anyone else has hired a bootcamp grad for a junior role and had a great experience.
Great. Those exist. Go buy one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho...
US-Japan trade war was a big thing, and Japan relies on US for national security. There was no option not to manufacturing in the US.
>I dont think it sucks at all and its quite great.

You enjoy sitting there uncomfortable with a full bladder? Or you don't mind missing 5 minutes of the movie when you need to go?
The Reason Ukraine Is Optimistic about Crimea
Everyone I've ever known with water hard enough to be a bother just installs a whole-house water softener, so all the water inside the house is already softened. Seems inefficient to soften only the dishwasher when a whole house system is pretty cheap.
No. Trans people have existed for quite a long time. It just happens that the "West" has become more accepting of them, and since it is the "West" that gets most of the media attention it's looking like a new thing with them coming out.
> Market has spoken right or wrong.

I call BS on this. The non-pouch detergents disappeared, that much I know. I strongly doubt people had stopped buying gel and powder. I suspect that some bright bulb at Johnson & Johnson or wherever did the math and realized that pouch margins were higher than gel and powder margins.
https://archive.ph/zQrd4
Missing TikZ and pgfplots.

With GitHub Copilot, TikZ just became a lot more discoverable and somewhat nicer to use.
It's not a mess structurally. If you read the notes on it, you will will find Stross wrote a series of nine loosely connected short stories, which follow each other temporally and thematically. If you you try to remember it's not a novel as such it will help you relax and enjoy each section better.

Stephenson's inability to finish books coherently is a completely different issue
But why should US legal allowances/restrictions be the baseline for the global cultural definition of free speech? And seeing the current discussion of this is focused on Twitter, ~75% of it's users aren't in the US.
Availability on the market vs your wallet. Power consumption vs how much power you can safely draw from an outlet in your apartment/home/place before a breaker trips. Massive waste heat vs your native climate and whatever your place is capable of offering (i.e. AC).

Anecdotally, having a single high powered modern GPU in my office generates enough heat that it is in part why I keep a temperature monitor on my desk to ensure I'm not cooking myself. Having more than one gets far more interesting.
The subtitle of this article "How the game theory of John von Neumann transformed the 20th century." isn't addressed in this article unless briefly in passing. Poor editing (if that's the word for it).

This part is intriguing:
> In his Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata (published posthumously in 1966), von Neumann went even further, describing the conditions under which, with no more than eight parts (four structural and four dedicated to logical operations), complex creatures could emerge capable of executing any type of computation and even of replicating themselves.

Von Neumann machines are a fun part of science fiction. The phrase "Hegemonic swarm" from Iain Banks comes to mind.
WeChat won’t start on Android if you didn’t give access to your contact list, this is not the case on iPhone as Apple wouldn’t allow that crippled user experience. Android already allows shenanigans so the incentives for more stores aren’t that big. I had Samsung store on my last Android phone also.
> You seem to be missing the point.

> Sure, years of life are lost, but what kind of years?

No, I understand your point very well now. It is what I always thought it was.

Someday you may feel differently. If you live long enough, you may finally understand. But then it'll be too late, and the generations younger than you will also want to send you on "Logan's Run".
If you re-read my post I think it will make more sense. Ranking naturally (SEO) often costs FAR more, so running even a small paid campaign can help those with smaller pockets strategically focus their efforts and is often the only option they realistically have.
Best work of fiction I've ever read, the fuller continuation of my posthuman thinking that began with Ghost in the Shell.
Pretty sure the author means that big school districts are too big. My county, total population less than the proposed 40,000 student line, has at least 5 school districts (and this is typical in most of Michigan).

I imagine the underlying idea is that people shouldn't have to pay taxes for kids that are a little further away. Or maybe that crank parents arguing crank causes is super productive and they should have lots of forums to do it in.

(we have relatively consistent standards for education, working towards attaining those standards is going to happen administratively, not by having more school boards to air grievances in front of)
I mean, I feel this. I watched George Bush get mocked and made fun of on the news for having a stutter almost every day. I also watched them do daily reports on the deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. When Obama took over they stopped reporting deaths and some organizations cheered him on while others broadcast viscerally racist shit.

So, to answer your question: it's both. It's bullshit I don't want to hear and what a grip of powerful people probably want me to hear.
Looking forward to this quietly being discontinued in a couple months when Stripe realizes a lot of the activity is just hype and not actual people.
> Seems like another easy win for the rats at the tax payers expense!

This is the unofficial city byline: "New York City - where the rats always win."
> Do you support the Civil Rights Act's restriction of freedom based on race and/or think it is constitutionally valid?

Sure, just as common carrier regulation is constitutionally valid. The Constitution isn't a suicide pact; the Founding Fathers very clearly did not intend it to be one. We've accepted a non-literal wording of the First and other amendments since the beginning.

> Why would the same logic not hold for restricting companies such as Twitter then?

Because being kicked off Twitter is hardly the same as not being able to dial 911 or purchase critical services. We've passed laws to correct specific, significant harms that are nothing like being unable to tweet. We weighed First Amendment rights against the rights of those being harmed in these situations and had to decide which conflicting rights mattered more.

That same process happens here. Different situation, different consequences, different decision.

> Spare me rebuttals of "if they really wanted to communicate, they could do so by carrier pigeon!" - 99% of users won't go through with such effort, or even know who they are being herded away from.

No need for a rebuttal. That's fine.
Canadians loved Rdio, trust me.
The person you’re exchanging with is an ideologue.
Do please note that Stross is quite well known not to a fan of the idea of the Singularity, and that his book should not be taken as a manual for the future, and rather as a cautionary tale and fantastically creative techno future
Amazing, very nicely done!

I was hoping for some way of really getting disorder! But the parallel lines seem to stay parallel and evenly spaced no matter what. I wrote a program years ago to make tilings from any arrangement of lines, including random lines - they dont have to be in parallel groups; any arrangement of lines makes a tiling - and have still never seen the idea anywhere else.

i.e. I'd love another slider or two that make the lines increasingly unparallel and unevenly spaced.

Many pictures of what I mean on this page https://www.adamponting.com/de-bruijn-tilings/
With this variant, since there are a finite number of legal board positions in chess, and Human^n chess is simply chess with a finite number of moves prohibited at each board position (claiming is the same as resigning, in this formulation), there are a finite number of distinct Human^n chess, so the mapping Human^n-1 chess -> Human^n chess must eventually reach a cycle (potentially of length 1, i.e. a fixed point).
We have been using Render for around a year now. It is a good service but this new pricing makes it impossible for us as a small bootstrap startup of 3 people to continue using it.

We have two teams, one for staging and one for production (they dont offer any other means of segmentation). So this means 120$ just for users. Thats more that we pay for compute...

If anyone has suggestions for alternatives I am all hears, going to be a fun Christmas I guess...
> We should not bury C++ prematurely before answering the question - "what else is as fast and efficient as to replace it for OOP?"

We have an answer: Rust.
It's no longer premature, bury it.
I'm guessing it's different depending on model, but on my SM-X900 (US model Tab S8 Ultra), the key used to sign the vbmeta image (Android verified boot's root of trust) is different from every key used to sign the system apps.
According to the OP of the report, the key used to sign an OTA image and the key used to sign system apps are different.
Statistics as practiced today (1930s until now?) consists almost entirely of making inferences about unobserved probability distributions. That includes nonparametric statistics, and frequentist versus Bayesian has nothing to do with it.

There are some probability models that are not really statistical models, but there are few or no statistical models that are not also probability models.

Least-squares regression is a probability model. Even if you don't particularly care about the error distribution, you are still estimating a conditional expectation and setting a conditional independence assumption on the residuals. If that's not a probability model, then I don't know what it is!
Apparently in Europe and some other countries they don't do whole house water softeners?