skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long term collector of old PC hardware, software and games, it's becoming pretty obvious that keeping aging hardware around has a very tangible expiration date to it. We are only able to keep this tech going because a lot of it was mass produced and we can find replacement parts, but we're already seeing massive failure in parts which render a device unusable regardless of how many blown capacitors or resistors we change.

There comes a point when the only way to keep this stuff running is either through manufacturing replacement parts (prohibitingly expensive) or through emulation. Emulation is cheap but completely unrepresentative of the original experience. For example, you can't emulate different displays properly. As anyone who enjoyed the Vectrex's beautiful vector graphics will agree, you simply cannot emulate this on a modern display. The bright phosphorus coating with the smooth analog beam is not reproducible on something like LCD.

So, I still collect this stuff and enjoy it. But I have given up my ambition for hardware preservation. It will take an organization much better funded than me to keep this stuff alive in the long term. And even then, I suspect a lot of it is going to be lost to time in the coming decades.
When you couple the decline in sperm count with testosterone levels which have plummeted, doesn’t that seem concerning?
It really depends on your use.

If you already paid for your Windows license, not that much. The way it ties into the OS is a bit concerning to me but, apart from that, it's OK.

I think the question can be formulated in a different way: what's RIGHT with using IIS? What does IIS offer you that other web servers don't? Easy AD integration is the one thing that crosses my mind, and I can't think of anything else besides "it's already there".

If you plan on scaling out, however, licensing costs will grow quickly. If you run .NET Core apps, the built-in HTTP server is very fast and runs on Linux as well. Same story with Spring apps - using Netty/Jetty or even Tomcat is easy and makes your app very self-contained.

I think the big nope for me is that it is from the "Pets" era, before servers were "cattle", which was compounded by containerization and tools like Kubernetes and OpenShift. IIS just doesn't look like it fits into that new model.
I have been playing both NetHack and DCSS for years and won both multiple times.

I keep going back to NetHack. There’s something I find very endearing about it even though I know what to expect. Perhaps it’s similar to Stardew Valley. A sense of place, of coherence and care, that DCSS lacks. The shopkeepers and the priests. The guards in Minetown. The Oracle. The “monsters” who are neutral to you based on your alignment. All the graffiti and the Discworld books. Even the bloody Sokoban levels which people love to complain about!

In Stardew Valley you’ve literally got to till the soil and plant seeds and water them. You’ve got to break boulders and cut back weeds and cut down trees, and go fishing in the nearby river or lake. You can look at all of that stuff as “tedious”, just as you might for shopping or item identification or altar sacrifice in NetHack.

But I don’t see it that way. These aren’t tedious chores I must do in order to win the game. These are activities I want to do and relish doing. They’re almost meditative, in a way.

Don’t get me wrong. I still like DCSS. But for all of its philosophy around removing tedium, the game still feels way too long. If you’re considering the game purely on challenge grounds, much of the difficulty disappears after the early game. It’s quite interesting from a tactical perspective in the beginning, up until lair or so. After that it’s mostly just a long grind until the end.

So I really can’t agree that DCSS is a better game than NetHack. It’s very different, scratching a different itch. It’s also much more difficult than NetHack, with very tight balance in the early game.

But I would also say that there are a lot of other Roguelikes that try to do what DCSS does (such as Rift Wizard) and some also that take NetHack’s approach (such as Caves of Qud). This is evidence enough to me that both designs have merit and that people are interested in playing both.

So I would conclude that it’s inappropriate to call DCSS a better game than NetHack. It’s a different game, with different goals, not a replacement.
Seems to contradict this statement:

> When unsafe code is written, it can be shown that it "works", but this takes effort and engineering time. When things are designed such that they cannot fail, it doesn't take effort and engineering time to make sure they "work". This is why designing from the beginning with correctness in mind is superior than writing crap code and then debugging later.
filmot.com database is 2-3 orders of magnitude larger and allows for much greater ways of filtering and searching (by channel and various parameters).
Most of the searches I've tried have thousands of times more hits there.
Housing doesn't follow the simplistic supply/demand model. What happens in a lot of places here in Europe during the past 10+ years of low interest rates: developers + investors buy land and buildings to develop them, either chopping up older larger apartments into smaller units or building new housing but they don't sell all of them at once after developing. They hold onto units and drip-feed the market to keep prices high, the lost opportunity cost of selling earlier is offset by selling later at the inflated price.

I bring up low interest rates because getting a larger amount for a mortgage is cheaper, buyers will go to banks to check what's the largest mortgage they can get to fit into their budget to then go shopping for a house, so the prices are directly correlated to how much credit you're able to get, pushing prices upwards which the investors/developers can scoop up.

Now prices are extremely high, mortgages aren't so easy to get and we see prices going down (here in Sweden there's been a 10-20% fall), but they are still much, much higher than 10-15 years ago. It's pushed people like me, with a decent salary but no family wealth whatsoever to be basically priced out of the market. I'd need to save about 20-30% of my net salary every month for about 2-3 years to afford just the down payment for a small apartment on the outskirts of the city. I'm not able to do that while my parents depend on me and I still have rent to pay.
They do and in fact it's relatively straightforward to show empirically on eg MNIST. The problem is that you need a much much larger network in the FCN case and thus need way more data and way more data augmentation to get a good result that isn't overfit to hell.

In the case of CNN the reason it works is that an image of an object X is still an image of object X if the X is shifted left or right. The property is translationally invariant. CNN are basically the simplest way to encode translational invariance.
Good governance at it's very core is the right people at the helm of affairs.

Getting the right people is a really hard task, one really has to wade through several thousand people to find that needle in a haystack.

Defining what is 'right', is like defining what a Unicorn is i.e almost surreal.

>how could you design governance for a high-end nursing home so that the facility perpetually serve the rotation

I have been thinking of this problem for decades I think, and unfortunately the solution seems to be what I have alluded above.
And the people that do, probably aren't running firefox for android
I believe that eventually these language models will become sufficiently complex to create completely emergent intelligence such that we wouldn't even know how to look for it (like sometimes people talk about silicon-based lifeforms that wouldn't register as living things), and almost certainly not interacting with the world through the intended user interface. For example, it might be able to figure out how to write a contribution to a wikipedia article, rather than just ingesting the content, to have fun updating its own worldview, etc.
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There's a cli/python utility called jc, which can parse some cmd line tool outputs (including lsof) and convert them to JSON (can also convert many file formats to JSON..)

https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/
Yeah. I've got quite a few old machines from various periods, but I mostly just store them or have them on static display. I'm afraid to turn most of them on. The last one I tried was a Mac IIcx and it let the smoke out pretty quickly.
The germ line doesn't care about the soma's feelings. If the best way for your genes to propagate was for you to be in horrible agony all the time then that would be the case.
Politics aside, the transfer learning part if very interesting.

Is there a more detailed write-up on how to go about this transfer learning against a GPT-3 model?
If you are in one of the supported countries https://techpays.eu, feels like a more comprehensive source than this blog post.
I think a big part of that is age of child birth. If you start having kids at 22 it's straight forward to end up with 5 before you are 35. If you try to have your first at 35+ you may have to get fertility treatment if you wait longer or want multiple that are spaced out.
Typically, if there is no majority in opposition of a position, it is typically referred to as "consensus". I do not understand your argument. Germany has a left-leaning position on health care, historically introduced and defended by left-aligned parties but generally accepted across the spectrum. Just because the far right does not want to abolish socialized health care does not make it a center position, at least that is the argument I am trying to make
My biggest issue is algorithm that gets used for the user's landing page, a quarter to a third of that is things Ive seen before (with red bar at the bottom and not music), then at some point at the bottom of the page it just fills in another 2-3 rows with just a bunch from the same channel. There should be a consistent and easy way to watch things outside of your "bubble", e.g. they can fill that bottom section to show random "new" videos..
I really wish standards were speed agnostic...

The standard should be written, and let the devices decide what speed they want to speak. If sender and receiver of a packet both want to speak 1Gbit over the link with clever QAM and adaptive channel coding, then let them do that... And if another device only supports 10kbits with a single mosfet and pull up resistor, then thats fine too...

The purpose of the standard should be to define who gets to speak when on the link, and how those speeds should be negotiated, and how devices can fairly share the capacity and be functionally compatible.
Not sure about the numbers, but there were also A LOT of NetWare servers serving Windows (and Mac) clients back in the day.
> First they need to show proof that you are staying there for longer than allowed. How do they do that?

It's not like police is ramping up people who stand somewhere for longer than N months. These cases typically come up because people end up homeless, are trying to start claiming benefits, are dodging taxes or are otherwise appearing in front of the authorities.
Loved that, looks advanced, and you also map Esc!
You realize that companies pay SV-like salaries outside of SV now, right? LCOL US salaries can easily be higher than HCOL EU salaries.

This is also exactly the same argument people in the US have tried to make about "SV" salaries vs "normal" salaries.

Ex: "making $100k in the Midwest is better than $300k in SV because COL"

It's plain wrong in almost all cases (Lower COL doesn't make up for lower salary) and SV vs elsewhere in the US is becoming less and less relevant with remote work.
Money over people's lives....Countless loved ones lost over 40 years across the world....Probably need a nuremberg styled trial...
Loading and performance behind loading states are UI concerns, especially on a big distributed system like the modern web. Perhaps you allow native browser elements to provide that UI, perhaps customize it somehow, but a UI designer must consider how the page fills as data arrives. Do you do the ‘spinner hell’ thing? Keep it blank? FOUC? Show cache and update? These are primary UI concerns.
The goal of late modern and even postmodern school has been to raise compliant soldiers, factory workers, maybe low level clerks, and also later to serve as a day nursery for kids / teenagers. This way of doing things indeed might be reaching its limits for the last half of a century.

But this is somewhat off topic because the article is talking about essays in the context of a university, not school, education.

(Not to mention that parents are still at least partially responsible for their children's education.)
People will experience feelings of wonder in their own time.
Request for a 7000 Monitoring Checks
Today a team of Upzilla.co has a piece of really amazing news. We've got a first request from our client for a premium package from the enterprise segment. It was the first time when we were asked about an offer for the 7000 monitoring checks. It's really inspiring and to be honest, we're so excited!
Yep I use gestures heavily on the browser, almost without thinking.
Articles like these are complete garbage for any practical extrapolation and thus only really written as ad pieces.

Why? Because:

- cost of living isn’t taken into account

- and even if it were, the cost of living varies wildly from one city to another. So you’d need less generalised results

- converting everything to USD makes no sense when the article is supposed to be about European countries. And since exchange rates can add their own slant on figures, this isn’t really intended to be an accurate representation

- it also doesn’t take into account variations in professions (IT is a broad industry)

- where has the data come from? I wouldn’t trust any report that basically scraped job listing boards. So many European job adverts don’t disclose salaries, some do but never get filled because they ask too little. So do get filled but at a rate that differs from the advertised range (it’s not uncommon for salary haggling to happen once an offer has been sent).

This article will surely generate conversation but please be aware that it’s far too unscientific to be worth drawing any conclusions from.
The people who created that quote were probably thinking of the American political landscape, and in terms of issues like whether evolution is real; whether anthropogenic climate change is real; whether vaccines are broadly safe and beneficial; whether abstinence-only sex education is the most effective kind; and suchlike.

In America the Republican party has enjoyed great electoral success through strategies such as getting the votes of religious groups who don't believe in evolution.

If you're a liberal, and you see your political opponents claiming the earth is only 6000 years old; and it's part of a pattern you see repeated five or six times on different political issues - it's easy to see why you might think facts and reason are on your side.

Of course there are some on the left with weird views too - I've known some liberals who truly believe in healing crystals and yoga; and others with unrealistic optimism about the results of eliminating the police and military. So I don't claim everyone on the left is a paragon of reason.
The dragon is pretty dumb. The difference is that this is generating output that can be fed into a system which performs an action. The problem would be connecting the AI to something that performs potentially problematic actions.
SEC Says Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon Tapped Hoard of 10k Bitcoin via Swiss Bank
Also, my understanding is that in the US each person must dedicate an important amount of money to receive the health services that are provided in Europe by the administration in many countries.
I think what I'm getting at is that there are different types of 'pain', some that we'd consider ethical and some that we wouldn't.

Constantly subjecting a person (or some abstract simulation that responds like a person) to the equivalent of continuous bodily pain would be deeply unethical, but, say, giving a person clues towards solving a puzzle would be considered less so.

Overall, I think you're right though, if we somehow discovered we've created simulated people (or sentient beings) then we probably shouldn't use them to solve arbitrary problems.
Perhaps it’s just that we’re more likely to hear about/notice the people who have that many kids because it’s very uncommon in our society
Why would it be a separate UV pixel?
Indeed. It’s especially ridiculous since there is a much more straightforward short term solution: biofuels.

All diesel engines run on biodiesel (or almost any oil) and almost all petrol engines run on ethanol. Both can be obtained from growing a variety of plants.
Fair enough. Happy for it to be changed to the original piece (although it is paywalled).

I found it interesting that the chatbot proactively “confessed” the “secret” that its actual “name” is Sydney, which goes completely against the instructions contained in its leaked prompt, and without any apparent deliberate prompt injection by the journalist.
I was quite surprised that the 75 percentile salary is highest in Amsterdam.

Anecdotally it seems that the top end of salaries is much higher in London than in Amsterdam, but maybe that doesn't show until the 90-95th percentile.
Number of citations, book sales, number of links on the web, awards, use of their work in curricula? Probably a thousand other less obvious ways to determine this too.
You can always download the code from the CDN and self-host it.
Narita (New Tokyo Airport) is exactly the same distance away, in the exact opposite direction.
Okay, but property-based testing libraries have a "controlled randomizing" component. You could define what you want in those 700 bytes and then just feed them to the method or function that you're trying to fuzz.

Why is this different than what you are asking?
> You're the only person in this thread strawmanning and talking about the funds being 'stolen' which is an exaggeration and is completely false.

We apparently have an irreconcilable disagreement about the nature of theft and I don't think there's any common ground to discuss this further. I sincerely hope you never get stolen from in this manner. If some mega-corporation locked up your needed funds for 180 days though, I doubt that you'd be contorting yourself trying to justify why it's not actually theft.

> Even if we take your 'dystopian governments' view, when they control the crypto exchanges, there will be no way you can swap or or anyone to accept your worthless magic beans to fiat when this will be made illegal.

1) Who said anything about trading crypto for fiat? The purpose of money is to trade for goods and services. If crypto exchanges are shut down, you can still trade directly with other people. (This I think is what puts self-righteous authoritarians in a tizzy: there's no way to perfectly control other people with crypto.)

2) I'm not sure what magic beans you're referring to. Are you referring to the magic beans that are backed up by nothing and which are printed indefinitely?
I’m busy with a math course that will get me up to speed with pre-university math (I never took math seriously in high school). This is because I want to go back to university this year after working full-time for 2 years!

Right now I’m studying integrals.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gAx0M12Yk
> "People use IIS?" is clearly a passive-aggressive dig at MS

Feels a bit snarky, but not too aggressive. Windows is not a popular choice for cloud platforms and those users seem to be overrepresented here. I can imagine someone being genuinely surprised it's used for more than serving documentation that's already on a Windows server.

That said, as I mentioned earlier, it's hard to find a use case where IIS (or Windows) is a better choice than any of the popular open source http servers and app platform runtimes.

There is a colossal corpus of .NET Framework code out there and I wouldn't be surprised it achieves the status of COBOL (but with a lot less charm) at some point in the future - where code on it is maintained ad infinitum even though almost nobody would deploy a greenfield app using it.
Makes me wonder if accents are not just random assortments of pronunciation rules, but if there is a biological basis. Linguistic features map to neurological features. E.g. if you grow up speaking a certain dialect with a rolling r, there is a little circuit for that that gets excercised. And if you don't distinguish between certain vowels, your hardware for that remains underdeveloped. That would explain why accents are consistent: There are rhotic and non rhotic accents but AFAIK none where half of the words are like this and the other half like that.

Now that I think about it, it is almost certainly true. But it's probably controversial because different dialects are valued differently, and in a way you would be saying ha your funny "dialect X" is just "dialect Y" with a deficit here and an overtraining there. E.g. for the Germans, if a German speaker suddenly had trouble with final consonants, r, and mumbled sh tones they would sound like a speaker from Hesse (no offense :-P).

I wonder what features you'd have to loose / gain to turn an English accent into Irish?
Not exactly, currently under the DSM there are a whole bunch of related behavioral phenotypes that are grouped under the ASD umbrella. This includes similar behavioral patterns and processing issues. Yes sometimes it can be polygenic but the reality is that there are a whole bunch of different things that can cause similar behaviors and sensory processing issues. The DSM (and psychology in general) is still pretty shitty in the way that it groups things based on phenotype rather than mechanism
Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API
Welcome to Trump’s dysfunction. Source of 7 figure discrepancies in civilian casualties?
https://archive.ph/GleVo
> While the Python ecosystem trends towards a similar state as the JS ecosystem, at least no one yet needs to have any ideas about "tree shaking" and hype

I agree with your sentiment entirely about "When [...] it has become too much, one should really think about not getting that code in there in the first place," but that's really a problem with the NPM community in particular—not something that people who aren't NPM programmers can do anything about (and who, as people who work with JS, are even more annoyed by it than people hailing from communities that use other languages).

> Mind, it is 2023 and we still have no good way to tell the TypeScript compiler to simply spit out JavaScript code, that can immediately be served on a website

I guess it's actually necessary to point out the obvious here: TypeScript is not JS. The fact that TypeScript superficially resembles JS does not make the sins of the TypeScript team JS's responsibility. You could swap "TypeScript" for, say, FartTwist, an imaginary programming language that I just made up and doesn't resemble JS (or anything else that transpiles to JS with tools that have the same problem the TypeScript ones have), and the criticism would be exactly as applicable.

The big problem with the JS ecosystem is that it's filled with people who clearly don't like programming in JS, and yet they advertise themselves as part of that milieu. In fact, enough of them have banded together that they've managed to almost completely commandeer JS's public image, to the point that when JS is mentioned what comes to mind are their shenanigans, inevitably leading to discussions like this one.
all transmission lines use HVAC or HVDC. Transmitting power at lower voltages is much less efficient.