skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The main distinction as far as I understand is tenure / not-tenure, everything else is just window dressing. Is Senior Lecturer when they're awarded tenure in the UK?

The UK abolished academic tenure in 1988. So nowadays nobody gets tenure in the UK.

In the 21st century, “tenure” is primarily a North American concept (US and Canada), the rest of the English-speaking world doesn’t have it

The main point of tenure in the US is once you’ve got it, you now can’t be fired without reasonable cause. In many other countries, that’s not a special perk for academics, it is a standard aspect of employment law for all non-temporary employees - making the whole idea of “tenure” rather meaningless
Finger binary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_binary :

> Finger binary is a system for counting and displaying binary numbers on the fingers of either or both hands. Each finger represents one binary digit or bit. This allows counting from zero to 31 using the fingers of one hand, or 1023 using both: that is, up to 2**5−1 or 2**10−1 respectively.

- "How to count to 1000 on two hands" by 3blue1brown https://youtu.be/1SMmc9gQmHQ

- "Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - Scientific American" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/polynesian-people...

What is the comparative value of radixes like Binary, Octal, andHexadecimal compared to Decimal (radix 10)?

Perhaps a radix like eπI would be more useful; though some amost-mystic physicists do tend to radix 9: "nonary" (which is actually ~ also radix-3).

List of numeral systems >
By culture / time period, By type of notation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems :

> Numeral systems are classified here as to whether they use positional notation (also known as place-value notation), and further categorized by radix or base.
but it is not pulled out of thin air, they list a bunch of case studies in TFA. If you don't like their numbers/stories, here is a recent quote from the World Bank on Nigeria:

> This, it said, translates into growth per capita of 0.2 per cent in 2023 and 0.4 per cent in 2024–25, which is insufficient to reduce extreme poverty in the country.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/business-news/592952...

that country grows by a Rwanda every couple of years. Sure it will probably slow down the population growth by mid- or end of this century. But the economy is not keeping up for them to get out of poverty.
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this, this is such a fantastic idea! It will be so much more convenient to use midjourney from now on!
This is precisely what abstractions are meant to solve. If you’re needing to think about something “anyway”, then it’s a leaky abstraction.
Learning more than one base system, like learning more than one language, can only benefit the learner. Is learning binary, octal, and hexadecimal a hindrance? No, it's generally quite beneficial to understanding and offers many insights that are easily missed in base 10. Humans use a ton of different number systems and scales for all sorts of things, from time, to distance, weight, thickness, angles, and more. None of these things harm the learner.
Well, sure, the window was very specific to visit multiple planets, but Jupiter was the first stop. Similar Earth-Jupiter configuration happens every year.
Fair enough.

Discrimination ("RMS should go because he's a white male") cannot be fought with more discrimination ("minorities never contributed to free software"), I agree on that wholeheartedly.
'completed server systems' maybe? Something that makes it clear it is a complete computing device, not just the core component of one.
Efficiency [1] in the form of reduced delta-v requirements [2]. The “yellow book” assessment study report probably has even more details [3].

[1] https://theconversation.com/the-much-anticipated-juice-missi...

[2] https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/mar2012/presentations/Friday/5...

[3] https://sci.esa.int/web/juice/-/49837-juice-assessment-study...
In the mid-2000s I built a pretty large webhosting company entirely on Intel servers bought off Ebay. They had really high build quality and were less idiosyncratic than Dell or Compaq/HP. (I never had to deal with weird management consoles or drivers.) And were a lot cheaper.
I like to imagine there's a couple of these still in use. :)
If I understood correctly, the OpenAssistant team wants to open-source their community built RLHF dataset.

On the other hand, if you're being cheeky, I bet there's a way to datamine from websites like ShareGPT and profit off shared ChatGPT <> User interactions.
What? I'm confuesed.
What the hell does it have to do with “low-resource computers”? Are you using a feature phone or what? Otherwise I can honestly can’t see how your hardware would be the bottleneck (I assume your problem is compile times).

Rust’s compiler is slightly slower than many other languages (as it simply does more), but it’s not a significant degree where you would need some monster machine..
GPT AI Scaling: How much bigger (and better) can LLMs get in the 2020's?
When i'm searching for point to poligon. This is a mistake of course, there are no results. And when using the alternative search engines they correct me. So for me this solution is currently a no go.
ReVanced is the successor. It patches your existing YouTube app. For me it still works flawlessly.
I believe that you'll find the plenty of people complaining about both of them. Speaking as one of those people. The sideshows have woken me up at night on a couple occasions.
You mean atom moving?

I just move atoms until the program I desire is on the computer.
There does not appear to be officially. No RSS feed is declared in the main index page metadata, and adding /feed to the URL doesn't work as it does with "newsletter" pages.

However, by poking around in my browser debugger's XHR calls, it only took me a few hours to write a translator from Substack's (not-publicly-supported) JSON-based browser API to RSS.
Is that relevant to real-world use? You mention Python in TFA - I'm no expert but I believe it does string interning, and caches the results of string hashes, which would suggest real-world performance should be constant over time in both cases.
From what I've seen, the biggest role of a manager is interfacing with other parts of the business (i.e. other managers) and actually coming up with what the team should be working on, and how it will fit with what other parts of the business (i.e. teams managed by the other managers) are working on. This is the hard part - it's so easy to just go and build the wrong thing for a couple of years. Managing the internals and the actual work of the team are, in comparison, relatively straightforward part of the job.
This is cool! Though if you need to use it, it's a possible sign that your institution hasn't enabled Security Key support.

Duo is able to support FIDO-compatible security keys, but it is something that has to be enabled by the institution's Duo admin (typically someone in an IT Security office). Once that's enabled, you can use something like a Yubikey, a Feitan key, or another FIDO-compatible key.

If you're using Duo in a situation where FIDO doesn't work (like SSH), and you have to use push or a code, it's possible to enroll a Yubikey in Duo with the Yubico OTP method. That's more labor-intensive, as it requires configuring one of the Yubikey's authentication slots, but it works everywhere.

That being said, I'm gonna let coworkers know about this!
It’s pretty reasonable to argue that were these things written again, less than 100% of it would be in C[++]. It’d also pretty reasonable to argue that that percentage will be even smaller 5 years from now.
I would've gone with "prebuilt servers" or "rackmounted servers". Those are of course simplifications, but would make it a bit clearer that it's referring to specific server hardware and not servers entirely.
I've been trying to counter that effect by saying "have you heard about the pendulum model?" and showing that article to as many people in influential positions as possible.
> Okay, seriously, what system would actually create more cards here, some command economy where gaming is allocated a higher value than other activities? How does the company know how many fabs to buy/lease to prepare?

I don't claim to have a solution that benefits everyone, but at least personally I prefer actual people having GPUs to have fun with them over some miners polluting the environment for a ponzi scheme with them that brings benefit to no one but a select very few.

> I don't see a lot of value in some censorship system that makes that enforceable. Should books not have been invented until we developed a technology to make it impossible to say mean things?

The Nazi crap was just the cherry on the cake. It just speaks volumes about just what kind of ideological toxicity was freely allowed to spread. Or, to use an older analogy, when a Nazi walks into a bar and isn't kicked out, well guess what you have? A Nazi bar.
d’oh, I kind of speculated that this pattern might be possible to apply to WAL above without having read far enough down to see it was implemented in WAL2. Though I mentioned RCU the hot/cold partitions were something I was also thinking of.

I wonder if this could be further extended to better support concurrent writes. Depending on the implementation, with wal2 readers may be reading from both hot and cold files without blocking. So this may potentially be extendable to read from two hot files, or two hot files and two cold files.
Very true. I think many people don't realize how uncomfortable phone screens are because they are just used to it and love the portability.

The day I tried HoloLens I quickly saw there is much more potential in that tech than many thing.

A 360deg screen that you can take anywhere with you and that can give you a true field of depth / 3d view. When the devices will perform well enough and be portable enough, this will become huge.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

Sections C through F. I'm unsure of relevant case law, it may be untested, but it's part of the charges against Julian Assange.
When I was in school (90s-00s, MI public school), we didn't have to memorize times tables at all. They taught us a bunch of different methods in succession and told us to use whichever we found easiest.
Using a memory unsafe language in a situation where it's not strictly necessary is in my opinion not justifiable at all. It's the leading cause for security issues by some measures[1], incredibly hard to reason about and hard to debug. Honestly unless you have a really, really, good reason not to, use a managed language. If that isn't good enough and you want to be fancy use Rust and only if you've exhausted everything else start writing C.

[1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
Thankfully I don't have to.
This will be a good reason for more people to use public transport!
Mine started after an unnecessarily prescribed dosage of gabepentin. It's supposed to go away in a few weeks after withdrawal, but 3 months later, I still have it.
> They refused to report on the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Because reporting on bullshit doesn't make you balanced. Balance isn't being in the middle of extremes, especially when the mainstream of politics in America for one party has gone off the rails.
I wish it were unhinged.

Sadly there are a whole bunch of people who self describe with that term (or its translation), and whose demonstrative behaviour matches the label to the greatest extent they can get away with.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and wears a badge saying "I'm a duck", why should I treat it as anything other than an actual duck?
Both on Desktop & Mobile.
I used to love C for its simplicity. There was just no surprises, and the limited feature set enforced a certain programming style that also happens to run very well on modern CPUs.

But the C standard library is just awful. It's so inconsistent and full of quirks you just have to know. Like how some string functions allow you to specify a size, while others don't. And how strtok keeps track of an internal state and behaves differently on subsequent calls.

I wish there was a language that as simple and limited as C, but with modern (and portable) functions for things like strings, networking, graphics and so on.
If I wanted to do that I'd use PgVector, since I use Postgres for just about everything. There'd need to be a really good reason to go with a specialized DB.
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All true. But assets typically aren't paid for with cash, so if you want to keep that train rolling, inflation is probably necessary.
I doubt it, even NSA is against C. Guess they got tired of all the null pointer vulnerabilities.
Is that so? That's good to hear, learning some self defence is such an important skill. If it ends up in romance too, I reckon that's a double win!
No, it didn’t. Covid relief was funded by a huge debt / inflation bubble in the west and people simply went without in the less developed world.
>According to the maxim of relation (or relevance), a cooperative speaker should not convey any information that is not relevant in the context of the utterance

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-97...
I would take this a step farther and argue that being exposed to different numeral systems expands your understanding of math, similar to how different programming languages expands your understanding of software, or how different unit systems (e.g. natural units [1]) expands your understanding of science.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units
It would really be funny if this were ChatGPT itself asking these questions
> BBC clearly meets certain definitions of "state controlled".

I disagree with that. Every media is under pressure of influencing forces and sometimes mistakes are made, but throwing out the baby with the bath water and classifying the BBC as "state controlled" is clearly unjustified.
I wonder what the predictions are like. When it finally gets to Jupiter, eight years from now, do we know now where the moons will be ? To what accuracy ?
French counting numbers are also still partly 20-based, as are danish and welsh. It's said it's a remnant of an earlier common numerical system. It's then even possible that human languages came from a common origin with a 20-based system, and some kept it.
> Drones are loud, and it can't be avoided (they need to move air to provide lift, and doing so creates vibration - I.e noise).

I think owls disprove that theory. If it can’t be avoided to create noise for flight then how do they do it? After all they create lift, yet somehow avoid being as noisy as an equivalent size or weight drone would.
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Good for practicing human interactions though
> I founded ClariNet, the world's first internet based business, am Chairman Emeritus of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a fellow of the Foresight Institute. My current passion is self-driving vehicles and robots. I worked on Google's car team in its early years and am an advisor and/or investor for car OEMs and many of the top startups in robocars, sensors, delivery robots and even some flying cars. Plus AR/VR and software. I am founding faculty and computing chair for Singularity University, and I write, consult and speak on robocar technology around the globe.

(Emphasis added)

This doesn't sound like the bio of a person who gives a fair shake at AVs. This sounds like a person who is quite literally invested in the success of AVs and is using the Forbes platform to lend legitimacy to his opinions.

To be fair, it also sounds like the bio of a person who's quite knowledgeable about AVs. But I'd rather get my commentary about AVs from somebody who doesn't have a financial interest in their success.
If you look at something like LangChain[0], it supports/recommends splitting larger documents into smaller chunks. In this way, when doing something like semantic search you can get the specific paragraph/section that holds the closest relevance, rather than having to read the entire document again (think of a 100 page PDF).

https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/indexes/text_...
Meltdown/Spectre pulled back the curtain and revealed just how much magic is going on with modern CPUs.
which methods did you learn
No way. How much did this guy get paid by big tech? Accelerate this tech and open it up (open-source).
I tested the most common frequency reported with a tone generator app, and 8000 Hz indeed seems to match my tinnitus.

More surprisingly though, the tinnitus _also_ disappears (but only for about 10 to 20 seconds) when I stop the tone generator.
Save the date. If all goes right, expected arrival 2031.
It’s comical how he changed his mind about the BBC as soon as NPR stood up to his bullying, and in the same breath is now tweeting “defund NPR”

The self proclaimed champion of free speech wants to silence media channels that hurt his feelings.

The fact that he can not appreciate the irony about this is just sad for humanity.
My childhood is not that far away. Favorite toys were my plushies and action figures, which I'd used to roleplay big fights while voicing every single character. Also really loved Playmobil(is this an european thing, or do y'all also have Playmobil?). Matchbox and Hot Wheels were also used a lot. Basically, I think I just really liked to roleplay. Maybe because I grew up as an only child, so I had to come up with different characters on my own to entertain myself :)

Then, one day, I was gifted a computer. That's the day I almost completely stopped playing with toys :)
depression and shyness are not the same, get drunk and go act stupid like everybody else
Ok, show me the owl silently towing a few cases of beer and I'll take that into account ;)

Edit: OK, on reread this is far more snarky than is deserved. Sorry!

I get what you're saying about the noise per unit weight! Clearly nature has potential ways to improve on the technology, though I have to wonder how much development is necessary until a drone could restock my corner store at the same noise level as a van does.

Overall, my larger concern, which should have been listed first, is that delivery traffic is not the primary cause of traffic on our roads. Eliminating it won't solve our transit issues in cities.
Maybe it will intersect with the year of the Linux desktop :-)
> ask them to write a PR comment

Great prompt!
The art of auto engineering
HTMX should have a way to have JS modify the response before it is inserted/handled.

<div hx-preinsert="myfunc">Old Content</div>
<script> function myfunc(callingElement, serverResponse){
return modified-Server-Response
}

IMO, aside from the fact that such a feature really is needed, the lack thereof pushes people to Marko, Livewire, etc, simply because they need to do add some tiny detail which is available in the JS. Besides that it makes HTMX look like a toy that values purity (no frontend JS) over practicality.

I know there are ways to build a plugin, but do not have the time or headspace to figure it out.
It was an ok question until around 2015 when i started noticing junior-ish candidates blurted out “trie” immediately and proceeded to write very crappy code for it. In short, it got gamed by the lc types into oblivion. I changed my strategy then to ask very simple algo problem (i would explain the algorithm) with ~20 lines of code solution then aggressively rejected candidates who weren’t fluent in their choice of language. Pros were it was immediately obvious in first two minutes if they coded day to day or just copypastad SO, cons were that it probably was biased against the nervous type. Not my fault though the latter group got shafted by the leetcoders
The big advantage would be that you learn to see that there is nothing magical or 'right' of one number base over another. Base 2 has it's uses as does base 10(10). And most computer programmers are familiar with at least one other base besides decimal, and quite a few will be able to use binary, octal and decimal with relative ease. It gets interesting when you go off the beaten path and you re-learn the rules for arithmetic in different bases. In my experience all of this gives you a much better understanding of why decimal is practical and widespread. But it also shows you that it is a convention that won out for both cultural reasons and because it made certain arithmetic easier.

If 10x10 = 100 looks natural to you in decimal then it will still be natural to you if you think of it as 16x16 = 256 when you look at the numbers in their hexadecimal representation. You can only get that kind of fluidity by playing around in different number systems. So I'm perfectly ok with students inventing their own number systems, they are definitely not going to get any dumber on account of having done that.

Growing up with Inches and degrees Fahrenheit is a cultural issue, most of the rest of the world has moved on from there, for reasons that are far more compelling than those that would apply to using a different number base. Those are arbitrary values, whereas all number bases exist regardless of whether we use them or not. Think of the one as cultural baggage and the others as just another part of number theory.
> The times tables, memorized in grade school and fundamental to paper and pencil calculations

Am I the only one who never memorized the times tables as a kid (because I found it boring), and yet today I am far better at mental arithmetics than 99% of people?

eg. If you ask me what 7 times 5 is I have no idea from memory, but I can tell you half of 7 is 3.5 so it's 10 times that. Or 8 times 9 is 80-8. And so on.
Is there a way to move Plasma windows around with the keyboard?

I would love to be able to move the current window around with - say - ctrl+meta+uparrow or something.

I dabbled with KWin scripts and successfully got one working which centers the current window:

https://github.com/no-gravity/kwin-move-window-to-center

Now I couldn't live without this script anymore!

But somehow I was never able to reproduce it for a second script. Everytime I try to make a copy of this one, modify it and add a shortcut - it does not work.

Maybe there is a much easier solution, just using desktop agnostic linux commands?
https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php

In particular https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php?NEAs=on&NE...

This EVEEJ route doesn’t appear to be in the trajectory list, but it’s interesting to explore and see the various windows.
Is it made using the retrieval plugin (https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin) and a custom knowledge base?
> which is a problem as Gemans can't code

What's the factual basis for that claim? I'm German and I can code.
Searching *.exe in Everyting and select all -> 12 779 objects.

With 50MB a piece that would be ~0.5TB.
That is 50% of my system SSD.
At first I'm like "yeah sure, let me do the laundry in the laundry room", but then they're like "we'll need your phone number and email, please accept the terms and conditions, the deposit for card/token/key is 20 EUR, minimum recharge amount is 40 EUR, please enable Bluetooth (no, we're serious you have to enable Bluetooth), happy laundrying!"
I invite you to play around with the code it generates. For example, yesterday I tasked it to generate a gpt-3.5-turbo API client. In the time I needed to get it running I could've wrote it myself. And that's < 100 lines. Don't even get me started on architecture, contextual decisions, clean code etc.