skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally having a narrow viewpoint of a situation (at a restaurant, eyeballing some receipts) and assuming you've seen enough to identify the root cause of a problem. There's a pretty large assumption that the cause was mishearing or misreading the order identifiers. They had apparently personally experienced a "swap" twice, but made no mention of whether in these cases this was the cause.

However I don't want to dump on the guy, he broke down what he thought was the problem, and attempted a solution and did so with a bit of humility ("I hope it's clear that I don't think I'm smarter than anyone at Uber, Uber Eats, or really anywhere").
I was* a Mercury customer for >1 year, and their product really is excellent. It behaves reliably, has good features. After SVB they enhanced their existing deposit insurance to spread your money across more bank accounts, giving you effectively $5MM of insured deposit coverage. Setup was a snap with them too.

Generally, if Stripe etc claimed the money was on the way, Mercury's app already saw the funds and made them available by the time I received the Stripe email. Underneath the hood its Evolve Bank and Trust (or at least my bank account was).. Mercury is merely the smart software layer on top of the actual bank account they open on your behalf behind the scenes.

* The only slight negative is that they did terminate my account last week - they immediately suspended all in/out transactions with no warning, and said they'd either wire or cut me a check to get my balance out in a few weeks. I think it's because I asked their support a question about bringing one of our other much larger businesses across and so asked some ACH related questions which probably spooked them due to lack of understanding.

I'd use them again quite happily in other businesses though.. just be mindful if they do shut you down you might find yourself unbanked for a period of time... and the wire to get your funds out if they suspend you requires manual approval by someone in Mercury Compliance. The account in question is a SaaS for Franchisor Operations and Franchise Compliance, so we're usually considered quite low risk.. I regret losing my Mercury account, as the alternative (RelayFi) is 'good' but not as good unfortunately.
I wrote Geometry for Programmers (https://www.manning.com/books/geometry-for-programmers) and even so, I don't think that math knowledge is really essential for programming. It is, of course, a non-perishable competitive advantage so from a career perspective, it makes sense to invest in mathematical education as early as possible. But it's not truly essential. Mathematical illiteracy does not disqualify a programmer from being a programmer.

In a modern technological climate, math savviness feels more like a superpower from the 50s comic books applied to a real-world profession. Would X-ray vision make you a better doctor? Probably. But nowadays, there are tomography machines in every hospital. Would flying make you a better urban planner? Maybe. But there are drones and satellite imagery. Would learning geometry make you a better game programmer? Sure. But there are engines and frameworks that do your math for you.

Surely, knowing geometry behind your tools enables you to outperform the "no math" solutions. Sometimes drastically. But today, it's more like a bonus not a necessity.
The AI does not hate you, neither does it love you. You are simply made of atoms which can be turned into more jewellery for @flangola7.

(It was either that or a reference to a 4000 year old Phrygian…)
I feel like I'm the same.

In my case, personally, this is a product of my upbringing. My parents were the first generation of our family to have a little extra income (grandparents were poor farmers).

I have a good salary by all accounts, but still count the beans, since this was what my father taught me. I am extremely weary of spending large sums of money in anything.
It's not too early to judge, it's going badly right now, that's clear.
Nah, tried all of those and settled on Mate.

IMO the most important aspect of a desktop environment is that you never notice it. That's what I loved so much about Windows 2000 (and why I lamented every UI change they made since then).
I'd like to believe that, but can't shake the feeling there is a chance of performance impact or a need for special magic dance to make something work.

The teenager me would have no problem, he had a (fairly) working Enlightenment config and tried an array of distros, and it was fun to tinker. But he had way, way more time, and didn't spend his own money on the gaming hardware.
Related and open source: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
I'd put more blame on the police than the prankster to be honest. The prankster should be fined for wasting the police's time and for messing with important societal safety systems but how the police engages the target is entirely up to them.
I heard Zuck is behaving more like a majority shareholder than a CEO in day to day operations and management, Meta restructuring is handled by a consulting a firm. Could be wrong though.
> For ssh that doesn't really apply as clearly though.

Do you think that DNS-based proof of ownership is not something that CAs would use for SSH certification?
I run mid to high end desktops. It's not even close.
Also Bios have millions of years of pre-trained reservoir DNA to put into use as/when needed.
Paying my respects to a pioneer.

I started a project to implement a LZ77 decoder in Game Boy assembly to see if it could compress the sprites in Pokémon Red and Blue versions better than the algorithms actually used in the game. Results are inconclusive so far, but it's been an enlightening experience.
Since you mention support, customer service is just atrocious.

My Pixel 5 phone is still under warranty and has developed a battery fault. I contacted Google support:

1. No option to repair, only replacement and only by post (unnecessarily inconvenient given that it's just a straightforward battery swap that any number of local shops can do -- I did this myself in the past except that this phone's still under warranty and I'm too pressed for time to be sourcing parts etc).

2. I got repeatedly prompted to confirm that I was using the charger that came with the phone (this seemed to suggest there might be warranty implications if I wasn't -- not sure this is even legal in the UK).

3. I had to consent to a page worth of legalese, including granting Google permission to access my phone usage data -- wtf is that?

In the end, I chose to walk into a third-party repair centre and just pay for an out-of-warranty repair. Took an hour, £50 ($60) and a voided phone warranty -- IMO a great deal compared to getting warranty service from Google.
Precise? May depend on usage. I worked at a company that used them for measuring traffic, but the speed detection was not good. Vehicles have multiple reflecting surfaces, and it's hard to interpret multiple reflections.
The "1 in 5" example is the most prominent one (introduced at the start of the article), but I was more impressed with another one - "Do you say the word hello or charisma more". Similar is this. Try remembering two of your acquaintances (friends) and tell with whom you talked more last year. In many cases you would give the exact answer, but it comes not from the explicit knowledge somewhere in the "symbolic storage", it would be probably derived implicitly from two (or more) "neuron clouds" related to these two individuals. Just to leave the symbolic world whatsoever, let them be unnamed persons like a cashier in the shop. You still can derive this information. For me it's a special thing about the frequency and probably some other kind of properties/data. Being discrete/symbolic for the human tasks, they can come from a non-symbolic memory storage
To be fair the power management issue is pretty much a niche issue at this point. Sure if you run closed down hardware like a Mac book don't except your drivers to work from day 1.

If you go for a ThinkPad however there are usually no issues. Plus you can usually fix the power issues by just installing the right drivers or disable one or two well documented settings
Even though I've been using Linux desktops for 20 years, for me it's mostly CAD, BIM and 3D design apps still keeping me at least partially 'stuck' on windows
You'd fire people for leaving around some log files?
None of the operating systems are your friends. They are all very imperfect tools with different problems and tradeoffs. In many cases the devil you know can still be reasonable choice
I don't know about desktop mac pricing, I'm referring to laptops. Desktops can surely be built for cheaper. Desktops with screens as good as the iMacs? Not sure. Laptops? No way
Onboarding is also very dependent on employee goodwill. Too much churn, and people stop wanting to bring new employees up to speed.
>I don't want anything, any type of news being pushed by my OS. It simply isn't it's job.

Yes, it is. The job of a proprietary OS is whatever that company says it is. If it's shoveling annoying ads to users, that's its job, and having annoying ads is a very sensible thing in a proprietary OS since the company is driven by profit, and they can make more profit by including lots of annoying ads. If you don't like the product your vendor has sold you, then you should choose a different vendor. A Free OS that doesn't come from a company with a profit motive won't have this same problem.
Boyfriends loving life as a 'throuple' and hope to marry each other one day
Investing in startups that make no profit is a risky business. The volume of money that's poured into tech startups over the last 10 years has been insane, anything that breathed was having money showered on it. It's as if risk control was just thrown out of the window.
Reducing temperature doesn't automatically result in correctness, it only results in more precision.

It could be inaccurate with high precision - like a bow that consistently undershoots, and you would have a harder time trying to correct it.
MATE is a fork of Gnome 2. Not everyone likes Gnome 3 and newer versions.
Most of my feed is sourced from one of our wretched right-wing daily newspapers (Briton here) - despite diligence in not reading any of these articles, rather instead selecting to hide from this particular source, which I've attempted numerous times, their occurrence only increases. I'd like to understand the algorithmic genius behind this behaviour.
But I'm not being a pedant, we're measuring sarcasm. Someone has to clearly define it to judge the AI. If everyone in these threads thinks sarcasm is anything "negative" then they are wrong. That would be a negative sentiment classification. You have to be clear with what you're measuring.
Indeed (I guess you meant "much better to have it with ZFS support already enabled"). I simply mentioned this for people unaware of the existence of this script who don't have network issues with the Arch ISOs.
Take a look at what happened to SVB when they did that.
This little thread already has like five different versions of "Linux works great for me, you just need to fizzbang the wagglesprocket"
Sorry, “built in keylogger?” Which one is that?
Same here. I even have WMs wake up after a year of not using them just to watch them instantly break themselfs.

It's not fun, it's 2022 and fixing OS level issues shouldn't be what we spend our time on
How about delivering the public keys via another trusted path: https://paul.totterman.name/posts/ssh-pki-web-pki/
We are at the point where windows is irresponsible and those declutter tools are what the responsible user makes use of. You are irresponsible for not using them.
Shameless plug - I ran into this while developing REST interfaces with Django and built django-auto-prefetching: https://github.com/GeeWee/django-auto-prefetching

It essentially travels your DRF serializer tree and builds an auto-prefetched query automatically without you needing to do any work.

Back when I still worked actively on it, I wanted to monkey-patch models to track whether or not n+1 was happening, and if it was, automatically do pre-fetching, so instead of an n+1 problem you'd end up with just a "3-4 queries when it could've been 1" problem - which is much more palatable. Never got around to that part though.
There are warts, like it got confused into thinking that my second SSD was a removable device until I forced it in the fstab. But the level of annoyance nowadays is pretty much on par with Windows warts and annoyances (especially Windows printer drivers OMG).

But I've been using Linux desktops for years on my laptops and virtual desktops, so I had a pretty good idea of what to expect before changing my PC over.

But for games I'm completely intolerant of annoyances, which is why I took so long with this step.
You have to remember that these issues do not apply to all users equally. Between different editions, regions, accounts, a/b testing, usage patterns etc different folks can have very different experiences.
From the article: "Windows is the most popular operating system in the world"

Therein lies the rub, or lies the lie to be exact, a 38-year old+ lie: Windows was never an operating system (neither is MacOS for that matter). The system worthy of that name, operating system, is only a type 1 hypervisor (such as Xen because open source), where you truly operate over the system(s): any issue with some weird quirk in a machine? nuke it from orbit and spin another one.

Your Adobe Photoshop application has nothing to do with your Fortnite game, and both of them have nothing to do with your browser and your propensity for tabloids: they should have never been and should never be on and under the same "operating system", perhaps not even on the same disk. Isn't it insane that we must sometime restart the operating system with all the apps because some single app crashed? How could this system design ever use the name "operating system"?

The only benefit of cohesion is the corporate benefit: the system, and hence you, your data, your consumption patterns, are easier to manage if they are under one "operating system". And you, the faceless, nameless, general you, because you don't actually care about your data, about your attention, and perhaps not even about your life, oppressed as you are into being choiceless, hence powerless, deserve "operating systems" such as Windows, MacOS, and companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and nowadays "Open"AI.
Yes, the IMAP sync protocol was one of my discoveries when trying to turn Apple Notes into a CMS[0]. But like you said, many features are missing. I could do without the collaboration features, but I found that tables didn't work either. A lot of the unsupported features just disappeared from the IMAP-synced note, so you can't recover them later if you move the note back to an iCloud account.

[0]: https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/apple-notes-blog-cms/
I heard that only reptiles can bank there.
I think the mistake a lot of people make is assuming that their job is actually important. We got a little sneak preview of that during the lock downs in the last two years when people's daily routines got disrupted a lot and a lot of day to day work either stopped happening or was reduced by a lot. It had a lot less effect than you would expect if you assume that most people do something important/essential. Most of what people do in their jobs isn't all that important.

This is a result of automation that has gradually been introduced since the industrial revolution. People kept on working but the nature of what they do has become increasingly detached from things that people back in the day would have recognized as work or important.

We work less than ever and lot of "work" basically involves people having meetings, managing other people, or doing things in the services industry in a complex network of interdependent tasks and processes where you might question what it actually is that we are actually doing collectively or why.

Obviously, there is some value in doing these things because we're obviously doing them and getting something out of the process of doing that. At least subjectively. But what matters economically is that money changes hands and is used to create the demand for all these things. Without demand, there's no need to do a lot of the things that we do. And without that, the need to automate it also goes away.

So there's this paradox that automating what we do, removes the demand for the thing (or at least downgrades its value). And it helps create demand for more valuable things we can do.

Take bread for example. Rather crucial to a lot of people and it used to be the main component of a lot of people's diets. Bread now comes from factories and ever since we invented sliced bread it's been considered the best thing ever. Sliced bread (sliced by a machine) from a factory that produces bread at an industrial scale.

Except we pay extra for artisanal bread that is made the old fashioned way. So we now have people with college degrees opening bakeries and selling us really expensive baked goods that they made with their own hands. Could what they do be automated? Yes, that already happened. But the whole point of what they do and why it is valuable is that it isn't. The factory bread is low value. And the bread is just part of the experience. The whole bread experience involves interacting with the amazing people that bake the bread, that knead the dough, and visiting the beautiful shops in which they do that. Add premium packaging to the mix and it makes you feel really good about spending 10$ on a loaf of bread. Can AI automate that experience. No. It might bake some bread but it won't be worth 10$.

There's going to be a lot of that. People will look for activities that are valuable to others in some way. The automated stuff is inherently lower value, boring, and a commodity. And we need value creation to create demand for whatever else it is that we do for each other.
The MEPs don't have the right to change EU law. So it doesn't matter even if they were all voted out and replaced. The commission does what it wants, it's not really a democratic system.
An ORM is about more than mapping results to types, in Djangos case you get a powerful DDL generator, migration management, constraint validation when saving, DB portability, ...
The RESTRICT act may let the government control any public tech company
The case being made for the RESTRICT act is that it's needed because of "Chinese communist control" over TikTok.

Whether that's true or not, my reading of the actual proposed law is that it allows basically any U.S. tech company to fall under direct U.S. government control.

The reason I'm saying this is that companies that fall under this act are any in which any person in any foreign country that is now or is ever declared to be "foreign adversary" owns even one share of stock, at least by my reading.

From the bill:

A "holding" is defined as:

(i) an equity interest;

(ii) a stock;

(iii) a security;

(iv) a share;

(v) a partnership interest;

(vi) an interest in a limited liability company;

(vii) a membership interest; or

(viii) any participation, right, or other equivalent, however designated and of any character; and

(B) includes, without limitation, any security convertible into an ownership interest and right, warrant, or option to acquire ownership interests.

===

This seems to mean that if a company is public and someone from China owns a share, or if the company accepts VC money and anyone from any country that is declared an "adversary" was an investor in the fund, that company now is fair game for falling under government control.

I'm not a lawyer or legislative expert so it would be great to hear from people who are who can confirm or deny that this bill is actually a giant power grab, either intentionally or by sloppy drafting.

If this bill has the effect that I'm afraid it might, everyone in tech (and outside of tech too) should be very concerned.
A win 11 pro license isn't 200$.

Also, I've never seen an ad in my win 11 installation, on win 10 it was trivial to remove them from start.
why would the labor market be so special? (compared to the generic pharma market, because we have data for that, https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/center-drug-evaluation-and-res... )

microeconomics works.

to assume that there is a big effort to fight labor implies things that seem to be simply not true.

what's more likely is that both the wage gains and the inflation are caused by the same thing(s), covid: stimulus, supply chain shocks, missing millions from the labor force coupled with historically low immigration rates (of course due to administrative limits).
Ah yes because we saw how easy it is to leave the EU for the UK even though it still has its own currency.

Realistically current EU countries are locked in. They aren't allowed to reintroduce their own currency, but doing so is step one towards leaving.
The thing with AlphaGo Zero is that there is a clear external arbiter of which side of the internal debate wins, so the algorithm can learn.

For LLM to use the technique on the kind of reasoning you talk about, you need a human in the loop to explain it why it's wrong or right, otherwise it just hallucinates random stuff.

That's basically what RLHF[0] is, which was used to great success in training ChatGPT.

[0] https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf
The secret trick for flawless power management and sleep on Linux is to buy a Chromebook and put Linux on it.

They're natively Linux machines to begin with. All the manufacturer-coded power management stuff is upstream in the mainline kernel already.
It doesn't require 'great effort' at all. Maybe 10 years ago.

There's a reason numerous governments and industries have switched over. I suspect you are vastly overestimating the complexity and trouble you would face in switching.
Does it? Who uses it?
Web3 will define a new generation of subcultures
I don’t see your first link supporting the claim “physical activity has actually risen significantly in recent decades”. When I click through that first link, I eventually get at https://journals.humankinetics.com/downloadpdf/journals/jpah..., which is about self-reported physical activity and thus “subject to recall and social desirability biases.”

It also only is about leisure time physical activity. So, if a subject buys a robot lawn mower, stops mowing the garden every week, and starts driving to the gym to do half an hour of moderate exercise once a month, the number measured here goes up.

Ignoring those, it says

“The prevalence of insufficient activity was not significantly different in 2018 compared with 1998 for most subgroups (Table 3), with exceptions of increases among men, adults aged 65 years or older, adults of Hispanic origin, adults with less than a high school education, adults in the Midwest or South Census regions, and adults with obesity, and a decrease among adults with a college degree or higher.”

and

“recent increases in meeting or exceeding the guideline overall are primarily driven by more people reporting sufficient activity to meet the high guideline, not the minimal guideline.”

So, it seems any increase in exercise comes from those already doing it doing more of it.
When was this? People have been moaning about Windows for over 30 years. If you just go by headlines, Windows has been getting worse and less capable with absolutely no improvement, and there are people who (probably on this site) unironically think Windows is worse now than it was in the Windows 3.1 days.
It definitely has a performance impact, and sometimes there are crash/other glitches in proton not present on windows.

I also have much, much less time than I did as a teenager, so I can only stomach console gaming at this point. Games need to Just Work.
A lot more of this kind of tongue kissing going on I suspect
https://i.imgur.com/w85Pwzb.gifv
For bluetooth issues pipewire may be a magic bullet. It was for me.