skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always impressed how direct the relationship between profit and mathematics/physics/electronics is in HFT. It feels like a marker of civilizational advancement – it's not enough abstraction to just have fungible means of payment and slices of enterprises, not enough to have instruments derived from these, not even enough to have the ability to trade from afar using electricity. At this point there's value even in making the trades as close to instant as possible. Is it _good_? That's what I don't know – in some way it seems more divorced from reality than the engineering of F1, in another it seems more grounded
Also from what I've heard about Mastodon, running it is surprisingly resource intensive, for whatever reason the server doesn't seem to be very efficient.

I wonder if this has the same issue.
I wouldn't say it's quite that bad. The simplified characters are a lot older than the CCP and are often used in handwriting all over the Sinosphere. The traditional characters are still sometimes used in West Taiwan for things like shop signs.
I'll bet against that. What were the stakes again?
Without active authentication, you can copy the electronic data from one valid passport to a cloned document. As far as I know, AA is not widely implemented and passports have ~10 year lifespans.
> I don't think it really makes sense to count consumable items

On the other hand if I count something it is more likely to be consumable item, so I have track of what is missing. Why bother with other stuff? That sounds like opposite of minimalism.
tu quoque
On individual nodes I keep data in specific directories away from the OS. I rsync those directories to a machine that acts like a NAS. That machine uses rsnapshot to have multiple file level diffs uses hardlinks to save space on dupe files. I back that up to multiple external SSD USB drives. I have one drive in my vehicle. Encryption is just plain dm-crypt with non default cipher/hash, no LUKS headers.
That doesn't sound like French government at all. Plus that'd be monumentally impractical for them (have you seen how big France is -and how inaccessible parts of it can be?). The reputation of the tax office is that the tiniest of inconveniences is more than enough to prevent them from doing something.

Oh and there's the surprisingly little known fact that French citizens torched most of the cars and half of the government departments, including Police stations, in Paris (and Marseille, and Lille, and Toulouse, and ...) on a regular basis for 5 years now. And I bet the recent pension reform is going to make that worse, not better.

Government employees physically inspecting anything will result in large scale battles with the public these days. So I would like to add: they won't physically inspect these pools for the simple reason that nobody wants to get killed working for the tax agency in France, and that's exactly what will happen if they go out and physically check.
I cannot find install images without systemd and with sysvinit.

Do I miss something?
I recall Yelp's onboarding to be the best I've encountered anywhere. Some highlights:
- Before Day 1 I received a pleasant email on my personal account that walked me through Day 1: simple things like getting a badge, finding my team, etc was stress free as a result.
- There was a "space camp" presentation to give me a high level overview of the technology and culture, as well as step by step instructions guiding me through my first commit and first deployment (both of which are expected within the first week)
- I was assigned a dedicated mentor on my team. I'm someone who often wants to "figure it out" on my own as a response to my "asking for help" anxiety. Having someone assigned to answer my questions and who micro managed me through the first couple weeks (in a good way) really helped me get up to speed much faster.
- Always a (expensed) team lunch to welcome in a new hire.

Anyways, I'm now in the "remote till I die" camp and I have been struggling to translate this into a remote first company. It can be challenging to make a new remote team member feel comfortable, productive, and "safe" without that physical presence.
The dev of Apollo at least has stated a lack of interest in doing that. He said he wants to build products, not grow a company.
I must say, there is no written media that I know of that pleases me. Of course, it doesn't mean they don't exist.

I much prefer the treatment from some YouTubers, such as Sabine Hossenfelder (to name just one).

It's far from dry, she has a wicked sense of humour, she tries her best to be impartial (and sometimes fails), and makes it clear when something she says is her opinion.

PBS also has a ton of good content.

Of course, all these actually require the viewer to make an effort, but if you're not ready to do that, then a poorly written clickbait article is likely to do more harm than good anyways.
My point was more that none of what they removed seemed particularly objectionable.
I'd say it's an example of misphrased questions that people will intuitively make sense of, and thus produce strictly incorrect answer.

Obviously, people rephrase the question into : is there more chance that she's a feminist or that she isn't ?
Not really, think of it like a... CPU emulator? Ish? You have registers as variables in the program. If you have register a1 and you are at an instruction adding 1 to it, it will add 1 to the variable representing a1. So on and so forth.

This works because, well, memory operations are mostly(all?) a CPU does so this "core" takes the program and does the same kind of memory operations the silicon would do, only in SW.
The newly released, expensive, hated and bug-ridden system here in Norway ("helseplattformen") is by Epic, written in MUMPS/caché.

So yeah, be worried.
In human society its arguable that fashion is a tool of communication. At least thats how I have to justify it to myself because I hate being forced to participate in it but we all are constantly being judged on how we look.
Saidit seems like a direct clone that has some (limited) traction. /r/drama's Reddit knockoff just for themselves (at least I think it's just for themselves) looks to be larger, though (rdrama.net).

It seems even a slight amount of required effort is too much for most people to go to another platform. Which should probably tell you something about the quality of online content these days.
UK hobbyist stuns math world with 'amazing' new shapes
tildes.net feels like a better potential alternative to reddit. People have been raising privacy issue with lemmy.
Also known as "draw the rest of the owl"
Half the Linux distris? I've once counted on Distrowatch. When you go by number of distris there it's more like 80% are Debian based.

If you go also by how much those distris are used it's even like 9x% of the stuff running out there is Debian based.

There are almost no independent distris. You have Arch, you have SUSE, you have RedHat and a few clones, you have Gentoo. But more or less everything else is Debian based.
But what percentage of each are the users that provide Reddit’s core value?

A small subset of users provide most of the content and most importantly the moderation.

This feels a lot like Twitter trying to tax their power users when they provided the content the masses came to Twitter to read (and see ads)
For me Ubuntu has been the most stable distro. I probably won't move, since I want an up-to-date system that stays out of my way
My tiny workshop contains a greater number of hand tools than the number of items this guy owns. I suspect that the person who made the fancy shoes worked in a larger workshop. Not everyone types for a living.
Welcome to Moloch. Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
"Evil people" is a broader category than military opponents.
Why does it have to be NK? Why would adversaries respect IP in the first place? Makes zero sense. I would expect a rational actor to put out some PR about integrity and such, but otherwise, sounds like a narrative that should only appeal to naive children
SHE.
The two elder sisters kept the two younger ones alive.
They knew what to eat in the jungle and used some of the randomly dropped emergency kits.
https://archive.is/Zd0ha
To add some context, Voat soared in popularity as Reddit closed down some hate-focused subreddits such as /r/fatpeoplehate. Predictably, when your user base is made up of almost exclusively people who are fleeing Reddit because Reddit wouldn't let them hate people loudly enough, things go downhill, especially if you're positioning yourself as a "free speech absolutist" alternative with lax moderation policies.

I'm hopeful that Reddit alternatives which get popular now are getting an influx of more moderate users, who are fed up with Reddit's management's terrible treatment of developers (and overall bad direction lately with the redesign and pushing website users to use the app and generally chasing profit over all else). Sort of like how Mastodon got an influx of mostly decent users who are fed up with how Twitter is being run by an incompetent chud.

EDIT: But to be clear, what these Reddit alternatives are trying to do is still extremely difficult. They have a better starting-point than Voat, so I give them better chances to not end up as cesspools, but nothing is certain.
Phrasing this in terms of probability seems very weird in the first place.
The bookworm apt repository is in the final state, so Bookworm is released for those with existing Debian installations who can just do a search/replace of "bullseye" to "bookworm" in their apt.sources file, and run apt dist-upgrade.
It will get worse now that the NC Supreme Court has overturned its previous decision that partisan gerrymanders were illegal.

As a NC resident, I strongly expect that the current legislature will quickly draw districts to ensure their ability to maintain a super-majority in both houses of the state gov.
Just to expand upon this further. I am also deeply frustrated that my application for API access to GPT4 appears to have been a whisper into the void, meanwhile Sam Altman's buddies or people with the Tech-Good-Ol-Boy connections have gotten a multi-month head-start on any commercial applications. That's not a fair and level playing field. Is that really what we want to cement in with regulation??
Tim O’Reilly: How I failed (2013)
I’ve found Copilot to be most helpful when working with unfamiliar code. Even when it’s slightly wrong, it does an amazing job of landing me in the right place.

A simple example. If I’m using a library, like datefns, I can describe what I’m looking to do, copilot will find the correct method for me, but might reference the wrong local variable. This is even more helpful when a library has a bunch of similar APIs (parse, parseUTC, parseISO, etc, etc).

It also really helps with the under documented prep work you might need to do. Some libraries have really poor default configurations and setup documentation. They require non-obvious setup that can be hard to track down in documentation. Copilot does an amazing job of getting you in the ballpark. Even if it’s missing settings, it become incredibly clear how a library intends for me to use it.
Ransomware scum hit Japanese pharma giant Eisai Group
are you saying that Ukrainians want more than to just not be invaded?
Spoken as someone living alone
Sam Altman is either running for US government soon, or is looking for some post in the UN. just look up how many heads of government he has visited last month
The question isn’t if 2 year olds are intelligent it’s if dogs are of comparable intelligence to a human 2 year old. They are.

> As for language, the average dog can learn 165 words, including signals, and the "super dogs" (those in the top 20 percent of dog intelligence) can learn 250 words, Coren says. "The upper limit of dogs' ability to learn language is partly based on a study of a border collie named Rico who showed knowledge of 200 spoken words and demonstrated 'fast-track learning,' which scientists believed to be found only in humans and language learning apes," Coren said.

> Dogs can also count up to four or five, said Coren. And they have a basic understanding of arithmetic and will notice errors in simple computations, such as 1+1=1 or 1+1=3.

> Four studies he examined looked how dogs solve spatial problems by modeling human or other dogs' behavior using a barrier type problem. Through observation, Coren said, dogs can learn the location of valued items (treats), better routes in the environment (the fastest way to a favorite chair), how to operate mechanisms (such as latches and simple machines) and the meaning of words and symbolic concepts (sometimes by simply listening to people speak and watching their actions).

> During play, dogs are capable of deliberately trying to deceive other dogs and people in order to get rewards, said Coren. "And they are nearly as successful in deceiving humans as humans are in deceiving dogs."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810025241.h...
Are you using the Privacy Pass extension?

While it's supposed to reduce captchas and things like that, I found it to be causing some checks to fail. I disabled it and stopped having issues with CF.
Imagine an AI that instead finds potential infrastructure problems riddled across the country. Buildings, bridges, roads, you name it. Then the AI priorities them into a queue and generates cost/resource estimates for repairs. Thereby helping the government improve the livelihood of its constituents!

Or wait, imagine if the AI were finding all the rivers and lakes that corporations are dumping trash, chemicals, and other waste products into!

Right? Right? Surely they'd do that with this great technology!
(All humans have those. New York already fought for their legal right to public anatomy, too.)

Are there higher resolution test images for ML? Maybe something inanimate that can't be judged and thus can't go to heavem anyway.

sklearn.datasets.load_iris, load_digits, :
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/toy_dataset.html

Sklearn.datasets sample images has an image of a flower but not a USA!:
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/loading_other_datas...

The W3C RDF Primer could describe Shape rdfs:Class'es instead of People and their contact information rdfs:Property(s). An Object-Oriented Programming and Linked Data exercise: Arrange these Classes into a hierarchy, according to their features: Shape, Square, Rectangle, Triangle, Quadrilateral, Triangle.
Syncthing all my computers to one and then robocopy on external NAS for cold storage. Repeat once a month.
L3 is profoundly unwise. L3 can disengage at any moment. The attention required of the human in order to drive safely exceeds that required in L2, and is much more difficult to maintain.
Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling technology
Agree. Theres alot of factors involved in buying anything.

So we need to stop acting like we have great wisdom for "Paying more for quality" when in reality status and fashion had as much to do with the purchase as well.
Eh, the "correct" answer seems silly and overly mathematical to me.

The fact is, you can infer things about people based on things you know about people. I can pick a random user on HN, and knowing they're a user of HN, I can say it's probable that they work in technology. We don't need to bring statistics into it and turn it into a math problem.
I wholeheartedly agree with this.

If I’m using an unfamiliar library, I’ll type a comment on what I want to do then start attempting to use the library. Copilot is amazing at getting a close enough solution. I can often skip reading a lot of irrelevant documentation.
Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US Government Azure cloud
A lot of the tech/approaches are already used elsewhere. Some ideas

1. Require university or employer emails to register (Blind uses this). Still post via alias but have a verified root email tied to a person IRL, would really cut down on the trolling and spam and nonsense.. NEETs might be out of luck but, well, their domain is the imageboard and that's not exactly what you want on usenet most of the time..

2. Require some hashcash style calculation to prove the value of a post via computation. Use an algorithm which is ASIC resistant - maybe Ethereum's old PoW?

3. as you mentioned AI - Moderation endpoints, it would be interesting to see if that can be created from LLaMA or such (OpenAI has this available but no reason to become dependent on them). People have mostly been looking at them for generation but as a classifier they also may fit the bill
And the point of the book is that Balkanized geography makes countries more likely to want to adopt free markets whereas big continents will be more likely to adopt authoritarian state control.
When it comes to the US, a lot of people treat "freedom" as a euphemism for war. (see: Team America)

I wonder if "protection" will start becoming a euphemism for surveillance.
Empathy, which is unfortunately but understandably pretty rare in tech. When the engineer lacks empathy for the end user, the human, we end up with terrible UX, unsatisfied specs & reqs, bad software in general.

Never blame the user, the customer - they are always right. If the user is repeatedly doing something "wrong", they're not wrong, the engineer/designer is wrong, and needs to readapt to the what the user sees as right.
I recently tried to cancel Backblaze and wanted to download some of the stuff I’d archived there. The download limits were a bit of a blocker. I re-upped for a year and decided I’ll deal with it over the coarse of a year but something to think about. I could upgrade to increase download limits but didn’t have the mental bandwidth (haha) to deal with it at the time.
He said that in regards to rolling his own version of Reddit. The parent comment proposes instead to repurpose the app as a client for similar but different already existing service.
Other subreddits i guess? This is a good opportunity to change, most subreddits are so old now
Plenty of 2nd hand Macs which can last into 3rd to 5th hands. On non Macs, it is hard to find any matching brands that with closest maybe Thinkpads like those X2XX and X4XX series. Just walk into any laptop repair shops and ask them for opinions. Mac easily ranked highest....I know because I have friends and families working in that business. Also many developers I know even those working in Microsoft use Mac. Mac in general do have best hardware.
Is this a desktop/laptop? You can always run unstable if you think stable is too old (I run unstable on my dev systems, and stable on servers/anything I want to setup and let run). FYI, if you use a Ubuntu LTS release, then unless you always run the latest LTS, the majority of the packages (being in universe) will actually be older than Debian stable (and will always be older then Debian unstable).
Can you link/describe detail on the privacy issues with Lemmy?
All my VMs are Debian. Thanks a lot to everyone involved.
Precision in Technical Communication
Furniture is INSANE!

Ive never felt like I was in a more skeezy situation than mattress shopping.
Kagi Search search engine. Unless I’m doing “food near me” type searches, Kagi is 100x better than the garbage heap Google is now.
Then Jetbrains.
Then one of the ProtonMail subscriptions although I only use the mail and sometimes the VPN for streaming. I still use gmail too mostly for junk mail/signups/loyalty programs but I wanted to support an email service that’s not Google and Fastmail wasn’t doing it for me.

Beyond that, if I want cloud stuff I usually am going to put it on DigitalOcean.
> You can't keep the current scheme in a nanosecond precision (2^31 * 10^9 ~= 2^61, so float64 will truncate lower bits).

What integer system do you expect to work well with nanosecond time values? As you just showed, a 64 bit ns value will rollover in O(2^32) seconds, which is already universally considered to be insufficient for an epoch time.

Again, this is splitting hairs. In fact as I see it doubles would be preferable in in that regime, as while you'll be dancing at the edge of their representation capability, they at least won't blow trying to record dates in the 1420's or whatever. You can get as close as is practical without worrying about representation space.
There is an assumption in your statement that every person considers a pet equivalent to a child, in all circumstances, including extreme existential ones.

It may or may not surprise you that is not universal.

I for one admit to being speciest. If I have to choose between my dog and my son I will not be thinking very long.

It is not even remotely hypothetical btw. Most of us, when our dog threatens and bites our child, will get rid of the dog and will not rid of the child.

In my mind either:

1. You did not fully think through and empathize with war situation and mentality. That's possible and even likely and I would not judge for that. E.g. Many Ww2 and Vietnam veterans famously persisted In telling people "you won't understand unless you've been there". that's infuriating and insulting yet true. It is difficult for a person in comfortable situation to empathize with extreme situations.

Or

2. You are not being fully honest (either with yourself or us). I.e. You'd LIKE to think you are kind and giving to pets and don't want to admit that in extreme situation you might make a difficult decision and harm a pet.

Or

3. You genuinely put pets and humans on the same level. That's certainly possible. I would say that when push comes to shove (as opposed to internet theorizing) that would put you in minority. Don't get near my children, especially if you remotely meant your last sentence - which would be TERRIFYING.
The "lxc" command runs lxd, you need to run "lxc-'command'" for actual lxc.
As Shevardnadze clarifies, all they talked about NATO was strictly in the context of German reunification and attempts to take quotes out of context are anarchronistic. What assurances did the USSR need if it had a large nuclear-equipped group of forces in Poland?

And besides that, many years later, but months before former Warsaw Pact countries started official NATO negotiations, NATO and Russia signed a treaty that gave a green light.

So one one side of the conspiracy theory, you have a handful of scraps arranged to look like something, and on the opposing side you have actual written agreements and recollections from key people directly involved in those events.
Hank is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. Hank got a technical degree, and as a student was deeply interested in machine learning and the ethics & philosophy of potential artificial intelligence. He posts a problem on HN where he describes the personality, capabilities, interests, and background of a woman named Linda has and then asks people to reflect on her occupation, politics, and an intersection between the two. Which is more likely?

a) Hank has written us a human interest problem b) Hank has written us a human interest and a probability problem.

I don't think people are simply wrong about the Linda problem, I think they're imprecise about which question they're answering, and more or less think they're answering a question about what chances that Linda is a feminist vs what are the chances she's a bank teller not only using the givens+relevant priors about people but also their priors about what kind of question they're answering. It isn't "no real reasoning", it's just not high resolution enough to be technically correct by the standards of a constructed probability problem.

You can argue LLMs are also not quite high resolution enough and I'd accept that. In my mind the question is what it would take to get some kind of ML software to a place where if you trained it on enough probability problems it would be able to evaluate the Hank problem above, including the issue of whether (a) and (b) are actually independent. ;)
I run Gentoo because I prefer init.rd to what I like to call Systemd/Linux.
Yes, they want to not be invaded now, not invaded in 5 years, in 10 years, etc. No pieredyshka.