skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured an alternative angle was to provide a state-managed licensing board.

If the original rights-holder doesn't want to sell, or is intentionally obtuse (i. e. making obvious bad-faith offers), you'd be able to buy a license from the state and the rightsholder can claim the funds from the licensing board.

The pricing would be intended to be "convenience store pricing"-- too expensive to be a good choice most of the time, but when nothing else is available, (or you want something otherwise unobtainable, like a wide-scale blanket license over a large set of content), it's still a better deal than having to go without.
> Next: if you can believe that one person is such an outlier, can you believe that hundreds are? Thousands? Millions?

Yes, those people exist as outliers. But a population-level outlier theory doesn't explain why obesity is growing in the population.
Very good point! Maybe not unsolvable, but a real issue.
You don't have to transfer to a different career in one shot. Do it gradually. Pick what you like and go from there.

A big advantage you have is that you have a well paying job now. Continue with your job, save a bit, and make the change when you are financially comfortable. Tech pays very well. You should be able to do it relatively soon.

I had a teacher a while back that taught an intro to CS once a week. His goal was to retire from his day job and teach full time. I don't know if he did it but he was starting when I met him. You can try the same thing.
Just to clarify, 5.85 ms and 11.8 ms are the data points of the baseline, so complexity is indeed linear there. The Elixir implementation, though, runs in 225.4 ms (39x slower) and 664 ms (56x slower).

Thanks for pointing out the mistake in the data sent to Wolfram Alpha! Still, if you look at the results table, you can see that the factor of increase is ~2x at the beginning, but is ~3x at the end.

(This is why I wanted a plot instead of a table in the blog post :p, because then the curve speaks for itself)
It's entirely feasible to do battery swapping if high uptime is a requirement -- e.g. see Monarch Tractors.
Maybe you're the robot
I had the occasion to see him at a little place in Madrid specialised on magic shows a couple of decades ago ("La Cripta Magica"). He was already a legend by then after years and years of TV apparitions here in Spain.

After the show, he went down the stage, set up a table in the middle of the venue and asked people to gather around him for a couple of more tricks --obviously this was also part of the show. Those days smoking cigarettes was allowed, and he managed to put some cigarette ashes inside the closed hand of my girlfriend while doing his thing. I was at, what, one meter from him, and knew he was doing something that was not related to the card trick but couldn't for the life of me guess what it would be. He doesn't stop talking, joking, guides your eye to where he wants it to be, throws decoy tricks to make you thing you got him, but then the trick is somewhere else... also a very nice and charming chap.

If someone deserves to be called a "magician" it's him!
It will be painful.

That's probably the most important lesson you need to learn before starting.

1. log your weight everyday on a graph

2. eat very small portions, no carbs

3. when hungry force yourself to drink a large glass of water

4. drink hot tea at scheduled intervals

5. eat lots of popcorn, get the raw grains from Safeway and put them in microwave for 4 mins in a large bowl with a cover
How is a life coach different from a clinical counselor/psychologist? If they are mostly the same thing, I can confidently tell that they can be helpful and are not full of shit.
Wait... Professional employee? So... Paid people need not apply? Or, is this some weird definition of professional that only applies to white collar jobs?
Oof. I'm so sorry to hear that. The sounds you discovered on your own were the start of your own personal vocabulary. That's you following your ear and following the pleasure of the sound itself. That's the most important part.

The technique is important, but it's often for nothing if it's not in support of a distinct musical voice.
Uh, those bike racks have nowhere near the infrastructure required to charge huge truck battery packs.

You can’t be serious?
> The fact that 20% of streets don't produce trash doesn't alter the fact that the remaining 80% of streets have largely uniform trash distribution.

What makes you say it's uniform? Skyscapers, businesses, and others not using public trash services aren't clustered on one street; you find them all over town. The number of stops per street can vary considerably.
When I decided to use LE for my website's HTTPS cert, I wrote my own ACME client from scratch based on the RFC. Never tried certbot, since from the beginning I wanted to to have the cert issuance process run in an Azure Function. The RFC (and the related RFCs for JWK and JWS) are very readable and easy to implement as long as you know how to delegate the crypto to libraries.

(I actually ended up writing three different versions, one in PowerShell, then one in F#, and finally one in Rust that I still maintain.)

Once I had it working, I wrote a blog post with a higher-level description of the whole cert flow, which you may find useful: https://www.arnavion.dev/blog/2019-06-01-how-does-acme-v2-wo... It links to the relevant sections of the RFCs, so you can follow along while reading the post.
I know a family that continues to do this. They say if someone breaks in they'd rather not have to replace a window on top of it all.
a notable number of Garbage trucks are LPG or some variant

Be interesting if they're able to clean/compress/use methane produced by the dump itself instead of having it flared off - or drive a generator tied into battery charging. It really needs to be burned instead of just being released as-is, might as well get use from it.
A while ago I stumbled upon this channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3dOam9Hg4

And now am completely in love with those wonderful birds.

They're also quite intelligent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gui3IswQ0DI
Here is some background. These experiments were part of the United States CIA's MKUltra mind control experiments. The victims of the CIA program span several countries:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mkultra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra#Experiments_on_Canadia...
Perhaps try a side hustle?

https://time.com/nextadvisor/in-the-news/starting-a-side-hus...
Mud, sweat and data: The hard work of democratizing data at scale
There is almost no difference between sugar and HFCS. Sugar is 50/50 glucose/fructose. HFCS is maybe 45/55 glucose/fructose. Fructose can only be metabolized by your liver into inflammatory fat cells in your belly. Glucose can be metabolized by every cell in the body. HFCS would only be worse because it has more fructose but it's barely any worse than sugar. The whole hysteria over HFCS is a joke because sugar is nearly just as bad.
I think the first 2 e's actually did predate extinguish
Yes, it certainly looks like a very clever solution. I know they tried the same thing with a flywheel based bus but that ultimately did not work out. Let's see how this works in practice.
> But it's always true that if you manage to eat fewer calories than your body needs each day you will lose weight.

No, not necessarily. Several studies have shown that different people can get different amounts of energy out of the same food, depending amongst others on their gut micro biome, though stress also seems to play a role. It’s never going to be that simple.

> the laws of thermodynamics won't fail

Conventional thermodynamics don’t work when you consider a full human, which is a very out-of-equilibrium and not-isolated system. Conservation of energy does not tell you anything about the efficiency of the energy extraction process.
European regulators fine Meta over $400M for targeted ad program
Very nice. And it makes me wonder what would be the result if the GPT was asked to point out security problems in the code.
PS for any aspiring entrepreneurs: don't offer lifetime plans, and definitely not for $19, lol.

And for those aspiring to find the lifetime plans by startups, go look through offers on AppSumo.
I was being sarcastic, hence all the quotes. I fully sympathise with the Greeks and would like to see the British Museum broken up entirely.
I remember VRML going nowhere fast.
AMD shoves 512kB of L2 per core in Zen3, and 1MB of L2 per core in Zen4.

I'm pretty sure Zen3 has more SRAM (aka: L2 cache) than the M1/M2 (128kb + 192kB is a LOT of L1 cache, but its still less SRAM than what AMD is stuffing into its cores).

Even with all the extra register files + ROB buffer (also SRAM), the M1 just ain't getting close to 512kB L2 alone (plus all the L1 I$ and L1 D$, and uOp cache, and ROB and Register Files and 256-bit AVX registers on the Zen3).

If anything, bringing up the Apple L1 cache vs AMD L1/L2 per-core caches just emphasizes how big Apple's logic units are in comparison.
It's a good start to acknowledge the fact that you want to learn and improve soft skills.

I like to read books about different things. I would call this the "theoretical foundation".

- Fictitious stories can help you understand different view points.

- Books about society, philosophy, listening strategies, ... can help to put it into a broader context.

- Dedicated books about organizing teams, conflict management, how to be a leader, that kind of thing.

I am pretty sure that there are also videos aboiut these topics.

In the end, you need to apply these things. Next time you get a new junior on your team, try to be a mentor for them, help them understand what they need to know.

That said, soft skills are .. soft. There is no right and wrong. What works for me, might not do it for you. You way of communicating might be perfect when you talk to senior engineers, but completely overwhelming for a junior.
Was Microsoft Comic Chat a Metaverse?
Thank you! I've always wondered if/when I'd have a reason to check out F#, so now I do! :)

Also, after I wrote the above comment, I checked out Nim, and it in many ways is exactly what I was describing. And Cython as well, even for all its (thankfully continuously reducing) weirdness.
What do you think Twitter's stance on free speech is now vs before?
GameStop. Tesla. Tech stocks generally until last year.

Doesn’t need to be fraudulent to be a bubble.
Right. Because everything in Genesis makes perfect sense.
I have a family. I could do meal prep for only me and eat separately, but I value eating the same meal with everyone. And I'm not doing meal prep for our entire family.

I do this sometimes for lunches, which we eat separately anyway. But that's only 1/3 of my meals.
I view the cookie popup like the warning labels on a cigarette pack. It's not going to stop people who want to smoke, but it's going to raise awareness of what's going on behind the scenes.
"You tagged someone I don't like, your argument is invalid"
Because that looks really bad if the email is made public as a result of a court case, like this one was.
He wasn't getting enough sleep.
I read this as tongue-in-cheek.

The author was amused at his younger self’s naïveté and entitlement in assuming such a raise was a given and planning it on a timeline app.

So I think you are actually in agreement.
Has anyone ever used the cross platform capability of java? Java is cross platform in the way c is cross platform, you can compile to many target platforms. But aren't pretty much all java applications intended to run on one specific platform only? Developers like the idea of cross platform but they pretty much never use it. I think javascript is the only language that is truly used in a cross platform way.
https://www.reddit.com/report to skip the subreddit mods and send it right to the admins.
Yeah, this is a good thing. At this point - consent is only opt-out, which doesn't go far enough, but it's an important step forward.
Opera beats both. Always has.
> Also the L2 cache and shared logic make up a larger percentage of M1/M2 per-core at >45%;

AMD's L2 cache is 1MB on Zen4, and L3 cache is like 4MB. (and L2 cache compares to Apple L1 cache, while L3 AMD cache is LLC / Comparable to Apple's L2 cache).

AMD's L2 cache is per-core. AMD's L3 cache is decentralized last-level, is 32MB for 8-cores (equivalent to Apple's 16MB for 4 cores). Except... AMD's cores have 2 threads on them while Apple only has 1.

I think my overall point is clear: Apple's cores are abnormally large. AMD / Intel have smaller cores (and larger caches). This is _despite_ shoving 2-thread per core on AMD/Intel through SMT or Hyperthreading.

Remember that only one thread gets that HUGE core on Apple. Its very, very unusual. Even POWER10 (which has oversized cores) allows 8x SMT (8 threads per core) to compensate for its oversized nature.
yes, it is cool for employees to do so because of balance of power.

Companies have more power than employees when thinking about the size of the event:

they can fire you unexpectedly (with/without severance) so for your life (and probably your family) this is the main event happening.

But if you leave for a company that is usually a minor event that will probably not have any effect (or very limited) on their "life" (income/profit/culture ...)
I'm kinda in the same boat. We've just started to experiment with GH Actions and I'm really liking it. This is just going to move the needle faster.
> I think one of the things folks struggle with in grokking the value of these models is that we're really used to tools being like you say; they're reliable and do a thing. As though there are two states of work - perfect and useless. There are other patterns to interact with information, and this puts what we used to need humans for in a place that we can do other things with it.

Maybe, but look at it this way: Do you work in business? If so, step back and reread that - it seems a lot like a salesperson finding a roundabout way to say, 'my product doesn't actually work'.
I started in tech in the late 90s. Here's what I recall:

1. Sun originally meant Stanford University Network and the university shared the open-source ethos of Unix along with UC Berkeley.

2. Although Microsoft was already dominant on the desktop by then, the Internet was still up for grabs.

3. And even though JavaScript shipped with Netscape (meaning almost from the beginning of the public Internet), it was still severely underpowered.

4. Java, in the form of "applets" (mini apps running on the browser), could add dynamism to HTML (CSS didn't exist yet) and so define a new software paradigm for the Internet.

5. Sun, like Apple, made money on hardware.

All five factors incentivized Sun to give Java away. Java applets, although a cool demo for the time, never really went anywhere, but Java did go on to compete with Microsoft for the (enterprise) server.
I hereby endorse ChatGPT as a limited form of AGI. It can complete a variety of novel cognitive tasks (example: judging texts and proposals) often enough that it meets my personal requirements for this. My opinion is that the definitions which others believe disqualify ChatGPT from being considered AGI are not relevant, since they focus on things it fails at rather than what it can do. For example, when it tests as well as average human students, people focus on its mistakes rather than its achievements applying general forms of intelligence to succeed at that level. I've also personally interacted with it as an intelligent conversational partner with severe limitations. It's not that it can do everything, but that it does things that require what meets my personal definition of general intelligence often enough to qualify as limited AGI. You can have your own definition. Maybe that means never dropping the ball. Maybe that means getting 100% on tests. It's not my definition. In my opinion, ChatGPT is a general form of intelligence, remarkably, able to generate novel opinions and judgments about all sorts of situations, as well as sometimes briefly appear to learn things. Sure it has limitations, sure it isn't human in its abilities, but it passes my tests often enough that I personally consider AGI a milestone humanity successfully passed with the release of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.

As someone who personally uses ChatGPT's general intelligence on a daily basis and has not encountered issues with its cognitive function that are serious enough to stop me from continuing to do so, I can confidently say that ChatGPT meets my definition of limited AGI.
What are the most interesting nonfiction books in your language?
This is a good reminder to always follow least-permission best practices.
It was (and is) very common to develop on a Windows desktop / laptop and deploy to a Linux server
Some things never change.

From the legendary industrial designer Raymond Loewy's impeccably fantastic and cheeky 1951 autobiography Never Leave Well Enough Alone:

> Why were products and things so ungainly? To understand this, one must realize the industrial revolution had displaced the craftsman, and that engineers were really mechanics.

> The first mechanical products were put together by men of ingenuity and resourcefulness. The prime objective was to make the contraption work. Will it work? was the question.

> No one gave a thought to cost and far less to appearance. Products were "engineered as you go" and they betrayed this technique by their haphazard, disorderly look.

> By the end of the [19th] century, machines and products were more numerous, more complex, and engineers had been trained.

> Trained in everything except aesthetics.

> So when mass production appeared on the scene, the country became flooded with products, usually of good quality but clumsily put together ...
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> Naturalism insists that anything which is supernatural cannot be scientifically investigated, by definition.

No, that is not what naturalism is. That would be circular. Naturalism is the philosophical stance that things that cannot be observed do not exist.

Alleged supernatural phenomena cannot ever be definitively ruled out (because new observations may confirm their existence) but to date there has never been an alleged supernatural phenomenon that did not have an adequate naturalistic explanation.
When asked about that by the colloquial layman my answer is generally :

Virus can self execute, replicate and spread (like biological ones) while malware (layman also refer to troyans) need user actions and unawareness to execute.

Am I totally wrong?
Having listened to "oxide and friends" and "on the metal" podcasts.. next and sun were nothing alike.

The above podcasts are hosted by Bryan cantrill and often has guests from that era, though the newer episodes try not to reminisce so much, because it became a bit much at some point
Update from CEO Andy Jassy on role eliminations
I have a lower model but yes, it’s super annoying
I loved this part. It's not new but nicely put:

> As you and know very well, this sort of widespread interest can become a self fullfilling phenomenon, because programmer attention creates programs. Some of these will be successful and that only fuels more participation in the phenomenon.

I hope this is what's happening with Rust. :)

I also thought this paragraph just afterwards had an interesting point:

> In the limit, they can make the web totally OS agnostic - but there will still be other things that motivate one platform versus another.

This looks like it happened; but did/do people actually credit Sun for this? On the client side it was Netscape that broke MS' monopoly with Internet Explorer, but on the server side Java was and is still very popular with the business folks, so... does Nathan have a point here?
The two extreme cases still existed in that era. One extreme was the DEC VAX. The instruction set is complex, convenient, high level, and slow. The other extreme was the original IBM 801, which led to the IBM POWER architecture. In its pure form, it was one instruction per clock, had lots of registers, and was quite simple. MIPS went down that road in a big way.

Then CISC microprocessors became superscalar, and started executing more than one instruction per clock. Now RISC machines were behind in speed. So they had to become superscalar. That killed the simplicity. There was no longer any real point to pure RISC instruction sets.

(The author mentions the Itanium. That existed mostly because Intel wanted a patentable technology others couldn't clone. It was very original, and not in a useful way.)
AFAICT the current owner of the patent for the memristor, HP, are just not too interested in developing it. I don't know the reasons; they can be anything from an apathy towards a technology which is not bringing a product quickly, to a plan to shelve it because else it would somehow cannibalize some of their other important products / technologies.
By your logic absolutely anything that is written down is not a forgery so long as the author believes the claims in its writings sincerely enough. That is clearly an awful standard for assessing truth claims or the veracity of stories.
Yea, recalling the book of that name might have contributed to my drift of recollection. Solvable earlier on land (but not sea) on terms of clock synchronization.
It's not a black and white thing. They are ways to make learning maths or even the oboe a little less boring. Enough so that kids don't get outright repulsed. But that requires a particular charismatic type of teacher that are probably rare (and very pricey).
> science can’t comment on the “divine inspiration” claim

It certainly can. It can point out that there is no evidence that any human writing is divinely inspired, and so claims of divine inspiration are almost certainly false.
Open-source, runtime encrypted K8s
What's interesting to note is that Microsoft now owns Minecraft, which is one of the most successful "virtual worlds" I can think of.
I struggle with sugar cravings too. Controls that work for me are intermittent fasting, eating more fruit after meals, and most importantly, just not having sugary things around the house. The sugar cravings pass after a couple of weeks, but only take a day or two after having sugary to start again.
Exactly, that's the "c is cross platform" way. What java offers is that you compile once and you can run the same binaries on any platform (hence freely switching OS as Bill Gates feared). But who uses that in real life?

Because compiling on windows and deploying on linux/unix/etc, that was posssible 20 years before java in c/c++.
What works for me is blocking time in my calendar. Also this makes you aware of the limits that your life is currently imposing (sleep, work, family, friends) and what you can achieve or not. Like, trying to get to run from 0 to 10k while dedicating only 1 hour per week will not guarantee to get you there in 3 months.

Consistency is key, so I believe that the best resolutions are those that can be turned into habits.
"Creative Technology"? I thought it was called Creative Labs?
Glad I'm not the only one that thinks this