skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have vivid memory of walking into the HQ of the first DX, it was my first experience of an FPS safe zone/hub area. Something felt very freeing about it, and now in later life I realized that it was being given full agency in a game. No constant combat or objective. From a hub you have the agency and breathing room to wander and explore the world building, and a good immersive sim gives you lots to find and do while you wander.
The aggregator uses lots of users existing accounts with their real logins. Using appletv again for an example, it wants to check prepend’s specific Hulu, Netflix, hbo, Disney, etc to see new episodes and whatnot related to my specific account.

So it has a real login and, presumably, access to some api from the streamer. But a smaller company that didn’t pay for access could also just login as my accounts and scrape info.
Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor
So does NVIDIA, ASML, & TSMC and/or the US Government have any plans on what happens when litho-less technology becomes mainstream?

Kind of makes the CHIPS Act funding also irrelevant if you don't need those sorts of fabs anymore since AI accelerators can all be made in these new types of photonic systems
94% grid-to-battery efficiency, according to this article on the SAE J2954 standard.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1130055_wireless-ev-cha...
Because they make more money by charging Apple and others.

Why be reasonable when you can be unreasonable and make more money.
Literally, innocent until proven guilty. The bank is worried about indemnification, eg civil judgments, which are more akin to 50.1% proof. Criminal judgrments are more 99.9% presumed guilt.

This is the difference.
I'm a doctor (ICU) who also does some IT stuff for work (nothing complex, mainly writing small web apps). I really enjoy writing stuff where you know the requirements, make all the decisions, write the code and maintain it. However, doing this has allowed me to get some exposure to what bigger projects with lots of moving parts, data sources, stakeholders, regulatory requirements etc look like - and it's seriously hard work. Nothing like "coding, the hobby".

I guess this commonly occurs in many fields at a certain level of seniority - the "managing a large system involving many people" aspect can dominate the domain-specific part, be it software engineering, accounting, manufacturing etc. As such I'm really glad I chose medicine rather than SWE (even though I've been writing and loving code for >35 years, and it was a real toss-up when I went to uni) because:

1. You can still stay very hands on, even as a senior clinician, especially procedurally.

2. If you so choose, there's a lot of variety in what you find yourself doing as a doctor (my mix looks like making clinical decisions / talking to patients / families / doing procedures / performing and interpreting ultrasound / going to other hospitals to retrieve super sick patients and bringing them back in ambulances / mentoring / teaching / coding / managing a clinical service / etc - but there are lots of other options too). I'm not sure if this kind of variety is as easy to arrange as a SWE? (though I suspect I'm about to be corrected, thanks in advance.) Variety is quite important if you're easily bored, which is a common problem for bright people.

3. Although AI is coming to all fields, I do think the impact will look more like "better tools", rather than "job replacement", or "vast reduction in number of people needed", for longer in medicine (at least in my area). As a breadwinner this is a not inconsequential consideration.

Hope you find the career you love, and that it leverages the work and study you've already done in some way.
If you have cash, gold, or whatever, they’d have to find them first, so you’d have a chance.

If everyone is using gov’t e-currency, you’d not have that option.
it can take a long time to sync files home if they are large enough/your connection is slow
Now I’m questioning my knowledge. Have you found ways to configure other unix machines so they don’t wipe /tmp on boot?
Time and physical commitment. And probably the idea of job security if I'm being honest.
Very well done. Took a brief glance through your series and seems to cover most of the important deets.
For a side project I'm using a fine-tuned vicuna-13b. I'm using to generate search queries from natural language, and it outperforms all other open-source models at deep intent recognition.
It's interesting that I go through life completely devoid of concepts of winning and loosing. Of course, I play a game here and there, chess or something, and that does involve winning or losing but it's so inconsequential that I could say I can neglect winning or losing.
Well articulated. Thanks.
This is only possible because of the incredible levels of concentration and consolidation across industries.

And I wonder if when checking your competitors price on real-time just require a few software engineers to keep a price crawler, it wouldn't make it easy to create some kind of emerging cartel-like behavior without the need for any kind of explicit coordination.
> At some point some software engineer had to sit down, look at it, and say, "looks good to ship to production"

Only true if you replace "software engineer" with "person". Just because someone was paid to build it doesn't mean they thought it was a good idea or ready.
All fun and games until your system reboots in the middle of a temporary project
T-10 minutes, Shenzhou crewed mission
Fintable offers the service but it only interfaces with Airtable. You can easily download a csv from there, or use the Airtable API. It's not for those who don't want their data in the cloud, but I've found the service to be pretty good.
The goal is privacy, but the side effect is that you appear exactly as any spam/scraping bot out there. So website owners block this scenario and are fine that it'll likely exclude a minority of visitors who try to browse the web with maximum privacy.
4-core 1.8GHz，8 native ethernet ports | LS1046A series ARM core board is based on NXP's LS1046A high-performance 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 quad-core processor.
People like to party and have a good time. We're all human. So what?

There used to be a swingers club in Portland. Last I heard it was shut down but maybe they reopened, Ron Jeremy was part owner. Members only, but membership could be purchased at the door. Mostly regular people as far as I could tell from the one time I went.

I've met several polyamorous people in the Northwest and the Midwest. It's not that unusual.
That solution just shows how bad the US tax system is, and most in Europe won't pass this (because it's already prefilled by their tax agencies or automatically witheld from their salaries).
Subscribe to CT logs for your domain, and you will know if this ever happens, from LE or from any oher authority. Such attack is a very big deal, if this happens this will only happen once, whichever hole is used will be closed. And if this does not happen, you can be rest assured your TLS is safe.

Meanwhile if DNSSEC's vision is ever fully realized, you will lose that control entirely. There is no CT there, and even if it was build somehow it will be useless as it has no "teeth".
All the DX soundtracks are great, I listen to them while working pretty often.
I'm pretty sure this was (is?) the idea behind Sam Altman's creepy "World Coin" which IIRC basically involves stamping your retina on a federated blockchain with Microsoft controlling the supernodes.
To be honest, I indeed find that her attitude towards particle physicists goes beyond her usual sarcasm.

Being cold and sarcastic is her style, no one is spared, including herself. You may or may not like this style, I personally like it, but for particle physics it borders on hate. I mean, her arguments have merit, that's why I posted that but it is true that it makes me a bit uncomfortable. Personal reasons? Conflict of interest? Something irrational? Or maybe particle physics are indeed villains, I mean, the LHC makes a pretty good not-so-secret lair :)
I like this approach - We use python for our backend and the things I miss the most from other languages are the protected/public/private keywords (Java), single-line `if condition: return` statements (js, ruby, etc.), and npm/yarn/package.json (js). I miss types too but it feels unfair to complain about that with Python.
I am not sure you have read what I said. Already public companies were giving away stock options as far as 15-20 years ago. 100% of them had successful exit.
In a gold rush, the way to make money is to sell shovels. NVidia is the ultimate shovel seller for AI with decades of investment (see CUDA).
Working with a team in India just plain sucks. Here are the top reasons why;
- Timezone diff is brutal. I either have to take meetings late at night, or else I’m waiting up 24-hours for a response to any requests.
The documentation requirements suck. The team would only do what is in the docs and nothing else. I’d end up with wonky solutions and shot code.
The inability to deliver bad news. The team would never say no or would not deliver bad news. Issued deadlines were a common occurrence.

What I learned is that you get what you pay for. So, I could get smart developers in India if I’m willing to pay more. However, a good dev in India costs the same as a good dev in LATAM. at that point why would I deal with the TZ BS?
Deputizing payment processors to curb money laundering sounds good on paper. The issue is that the payment processors ban and deny processing for random, computer generated reasons. Their decision is unappealable even if you’re in the right and are selling perfectly legal items.

Normally, if the government suspects you of money laundering, they build a case and bring it to court. The burden of proof is on them to prove you’re laundering money or selling illegal goods. Here, they found a way to not only lessen their work load by deputizing private companies, but also affectively gave payment processors a moat and impunity to decide what people can and cannot sell everywhere.

Visa and MC are well within their rights to deny any person for any reason, but the government should have their own processing network. My gut is saying this will never happen since Visa/MC would lobby heavily against it. Even if one is created, expect it to be neutered.
What makes you think I’m okay with any of it?

You might also want to look up ‘exigent circumstances’ and ‘parallel construction’.
This paper is my favorite introduction to compilers, it's short and hands-on, goes from compiling a primitive program that does nothing but returns a single integer to a full-blown implementation of a real programming language in 24 small steps: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf

There is a book-length expansion of this paper that goes into more detail: https://github.com/IUCompilerCourse/Essentials-of-Compilatio...
In Clojure (and I’m pretty sure Scheme), ! and ? are not sigils in the sense that they’re special syntax like, say, @ (which is a reader macro), or @ and @@ in Ruby: they just tend to be used by convention. ! and ? are no different than a or b.

You can read more about the Clojure reader here: https://clojure.org/reference/reader
This.

In the last year I've found over $80 in cash mostly blowing about in parking lots! I attribute that to inflation: $1 just isn't what it once was and people are unwilling to chase small bills. My wife jokes that money seeks me out.

Once while driving I saw a man in an oncoming car throw cash, credit cards and a woman's pocketbook out the window on a two-way road - that really pissed me off.

I stopped, retrieved what I could and gave it all to the police [the perpetrator's car never stopped and was long gone]. The owner was a middle-eastern woman (from the drivers license et al) and almost undoubtedly the act was one performed in anger.

Who knows what happened? Did she spend too much or kiss the wrong man? Personally I hope she did both and, after that incident, dumped the guy. Nonetheless the story also sounds like a good starting scene in a movie!
Carbon capture is not going to get us out of this.

If you have a problem that is caused mainly by over-consumption but your approach is to just wait for a sort of tech-hail mary to come; it's a logically flawed approach. It seems more reasonable to me to stop the cycle of consumption, then focus on making our industries "green" and increment consumption insofar the levels are within the margins of what we deem acceptable.

I mean, think of how we treat obesity, you don't just send people to surgery right away (and good thing there is surgery at all) it's a lifestyle change.

Now. I think most governments actually kind of take the approach you propose, and so I totally agree with you that please no; let's not do that because it's obviously not working for curbing climate change.

In the french citizen's convention for the climate there were several measures proposed for France to reach its 1.5C goal. Although I have some criticism to the practical implementation of the convention (not at all with the fundamental idea, which I think is definitely the way forward) it reached very interesting results. Now, it's not "the socialists" that hijacked the implementation of these proposals but the corporations through lobbying and conservative politicians that completely neutered the proposal. This is what's happening in reality, friend, not whatever fantasy you have in your head about a red scare.
Abstraction if necessary but not necessarily abstraction.
whats is the best way to get access to the better sites? i've been on IPT for years with great ratio but no idea where to even begin to look for getting into top tier ones
Right so looking at the paper here and the proposed mechanism, it looks like basically they've built a plate-less super-capacitor.

In short; a normal capacitor is two conductive plates with a dielectric separator. In a super-capacitor you have an electrolyte and a porous membrane which can absorb it to allow the ions to build up an even bigger charge separation layer.

It seems like what happens here is that their porous material does the same thing, but the "charge" is the incidental charge on the ambient humidity in the air. The nano-pores are basically small enough that you make the likelihood of a being able to strip that charge from a collision very high, and thus get a current as you discharge the capacitor.

Which answers one of my questions: no this doesn't actually remove humidity from the air, so that's disappointing but expected.

But my second question is whether what they've really found is a new class of super-capacitor separator materials - since you'd get a lot more current if you intentionally jammed a lot of charged ions into close-proximity. Or at least a mechanism by which these can be optimized.
> human intentionality that goes into some choices

Many choices are made at design time to make the right tradeoffs between complexity, speed, etc.

But with AI-designed things, complexity is no longer an issue as long as the AI understands it, and you no longer need to think too much about speed - just implement 100 different designs and pick the one which does best on a set of benchmarks also designed by the AI.
Maybe tongue in cheek but that’s not exactly accurate — the government auctions off operating bands and the FCC enforces it. Not like we could enter into the space today by buying antennas, mounting them to your garage and setting up some services.
I was shocked for the same reasons. Did the author of the comment not see it's so blatantly racist?
S.E.A. Chinese here. It definitely exists. Any countering of this via individualism is small, with emotional guilt & baggage primarily being used to reinforce obedience towards the family hierarchy, along with the occasional slap/beating for disobedience/talkback.
This was a far more comprehensive answer than I expected to my skepticism. If nothing else, I'm very excited to see how it pans out in practice and what the ergonomics are like.
I think that is his point. At most places I've worked at in my almost 15 years of experience, a senior title is not a title based on time but based on goal setting. Some places do that better than others for sure, but it's not just a magic you hit 7 years now you are a senior. A senior engineer in 3 years??? That's a SWE who is still taking baby steps in my experience.
I'd argue that he was already catching a glimpse of the engineer trap that is a machine you can spend all your time playing with "engineering" in plain sight because there's no physical waste byproduct for everyone to see is clearly happening.

What amount of "software engineering" actually ship in products that see the light of day? How many "real job" programs have been written that were executed in production for longer than it took to implement them?

There's an endless mountain of wasted "work" in this field. The computer provides this infinite engineering puzzle and IMNSHO it largely serves as a huge mental effort sink depriving the rest of society of bright minds that could be doing something far more productive.

Software folks are regularly burning endless hours on effort to make something nobody knows ever existed six months later.

How many major projects has Google alone funded development of then terminated?
> payout laws to be written in such a way that "eventually" you'll "probabilistically" hit your payout targets.

This is exactly how they are written. Except, there is no specific payout target (this game must payout 92% of wagers), there is a mandated minimum, any game which exceeds the minimum is lawful. Note the word "theoretical" in each of these:

New Jersey Admin Code 13:69E-1.28A: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each slot machine game which requires a wager shall have a theoretical return to player (RTP) equal to or greater than 83 percent.

Mississippi Title 13, Chapter 12, Rule 12.5: Rule 12.5 Minimum Standards For Gaming Devices.
All gaming devices submitted for approval:v(a) Must be electronic in design and operation and must be controlled by a microprocessor or the
equivalent. Microcontrollers are allowed.v(b) Must theoretically pay out a mathematically demonstrable percentage of all amounts wagered, which must not be less than eighty percent (80%) or greater than one hundred percentv(100%) for each wager available for play on the device

Pennsylvania 58 Pa. Code § 461a.7: (a) A slot machine may not be set to pay out less than the theoretical payout percentage, which may not be less than 85%, calculated using the lowest possible wager that could be played for any single play, or equal or exceed 100%, calculated using the highest eligible wager available.
It feels like they’re making too much out of this.

This is nothing new in the Bay Area or anywhere. It’s not a secret society.
Garbage trucks, delivery lorries loading and unloading in crowded places really wear and tear curbs. Have you ever seen pristine curbs in busy places (such as those where this would be practical?). Also very often people misjudge their car's clearance when pulling up and from time to time scrape the curb hard with the bottoms of their cars.

And if it snows, a big snowplough coming through at night with diminished visibility almost invariably ends with torn up curbs. Maybe they plan on doing a lot of maintenance, otherwise this will end up not working.
They think they know. Many times, they're right too, but sometimes they're wrong. That's why evidence and due process are important.
If you’re concerned about records, port forwarding isn’t that relevant. Lookup nat binding records, which is how ISPs keep track of users behind nat.
All the best captchas seem impossible but really aren’t.

The hiding the dice under the arrow though is ridiculous.
I must admit RDR2 stunned me in many ways, but I was still left a little bored. I think for the reason you explained. Occasionally something wild will happen, that fell organically out of the systemic gameplay elements and I will wish the whole game was like that.
Agree on Ruby ivar/cvar sigils. We ran into some nasty variable shadowing, especially with autowiring frameworks, in big Java projects over the years.
Laying the spaghetti out neatly is, I think, the correct level of abstraction. Identify each noodle, separate it, put it in the right place and make sure they’re all in the correct order. You don’t want noodles zig zagging and crossing over each other everywhere. You want nice clean lines of noodles you can easily follow from start to end and as few of them as possible.
"Public universities" means state-run schools. State funding is responsible for their very existence. The state is involved by default.
In my experience, the only person who has a right to tell me what is acceptable to say in public is myself, which is why it's absolutely essential for me to do so with integrity and discretion.

As we start to build trust economies (which really may only be the way forward), we have to start valuing integrity and discretion, or... as you say, all or nothing.

I think this has something to do with Jefferson's "the cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate", and maybe, just maybe why they insisted on educating it. I wish they'd have made it a constitutional right, along with the right to free speech.

(edit: Bing chat says, "It is true that some of the founding fathers, such as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, were strong advocates of public education and believed that it was essential for a democratic society. However, they did not explicitly include it in the Constitution, perhaps because they faced opposition from other delegates who favored state sovereignty or feared federal interference. Or maybe they thought that it was implied by the preamble, which states that one of the purposes of the Constitution is to “promote the general welfare” of the people. In any case, the lack of a clear constitutional right to an education has left room for debate and controversy over the years, and has resulted in significant disparities and inequalities in the quality and accessibility of education across the nation."
Another great example of the genre (although very different setting) was Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Very detailed medieval world (that felt quite historically accurate) and lots of different ways to solve problems.
BGP has its own PKI, the RPKI, so it doesn't need to lean on DNS whereas much of the other Internet systems already leans on DNS so might as well choose DNSSEC.

As with any PKI, the RPKI isn't effective if you don't use it, or if you use it in a merely advisory capacity and then routinely ignore its advice. And as with DNSSEC of course if you actually use this technology and people screw up (which will happen) there are outages, which would not have happened if you used no security technology.

In addition though, RPKI signifies business arrangements and so you can imagine real world policies may vary slightly from what RPKI says. For example, suppose you're a Canadian ISP and Big US ISP A says they're not going to use Long Haul provider X any more from Thursday. Sure enough the RPKI entries for ISP A via provider X expire after Wednesday. As of 00:05 on Thursday, 40% of routes for ISP A on your systems transit provider X. Should you kill those? Your customers would perhaps be pretty angry if the ISP A CEO later clarifies that "obviously" they meant from start of Business Hours. How about at 12:00 midday? How about the Monday after ? What if two months after this announcement, having left these routes in place you discover provider X were hijacking ISP A traffic and this was never merely a mistake, it was leverage ?
Plaid works great, but their API access is too pricey for an individual/small business.
The recently discovered 2D "hat" monotile tiles aperiodically but allows reflections (and must allow reflections to tile?).

The paper discusses a (2D) monotile whose shape will allow an aperiodic tiling without reflections.