skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to a sibling comment the abstract claims "a mean absolute error of 0.229 °C". According to wiki the normal temperature window is 36.5–37.5 °C and that of a fever is 37.2-37.7 °C or higher, with variations for both of about 0.5 °C throughout a 24 hour period.

> An early morning temperature higher than 37.2 °C (99.0 °F) or a late afternoon temperature higher than 37.7 °C (99.9 °F) is normally considered a fever, assuming that the temperature is elevated due to a change in the hypothalamus's setpoint.[14] Lower thresholds are sometimes appropriate for elderly people.[14] The normal daily temperature variation is typically 0.5 °C (0.90 °F), but can be greater among people recovering from a fever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_temperature
+1 thank you for the link. this was exactly what I was looking for.
In Switzerland it pretty much works exactly like that.
Yeah, boy is Zulip ugly to me
> This part just made me suspect that the author didn't have a technological background.

Or perhaps the author does have a technical background, which is why they attempted to give a clear yet simple explanation for the non-technical?

People hear cookies are bad, they get pestered by cookie banners, so it makes sense to use cookie as an umbrella term. Their definition of tracking matches the law which is the important part.
How did you go about getting this team in India? My experience is it is exceptionally easy to get a medicore offshore team, but a lot more difficult to find a very high quality team among all the average or poor quality ones.
Italy Plans to Crack Down on E-Scooters
Verbatim, from his diaries.
Asking from curiosity, what is the problem you had with apt? I'm using Debian close to 20 years now, and liked Debian and .deb a lot, more then RPM even.

Honestly, having built some packages and maintaining a derivative provided me more insight than a regular user, but even before that I was using Debian without any problems.

BTW, Ubuntu is not Debian with a different UI. They're pretty different on fundamental things, even.
If they were willing to risk death for it, I'm happy to call them refugees. Even if the conditions were "merely" economic.
According to his aunt: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/titanic-submersible-shahw...
AFAIK yes, neither on RHEL.
There is no official way to do in place upgrades on CentOS stream.
btw this is sarcasm
It's just a frontend framework for building fast, interactive frontends.

If you're interested in seeing what all the fuss is about and have 5-10 minutes to spare, you could start https://svelte.dev/tutorial/basics and get a pretty good sense of it in less than 10 minutes
Does the OP article refer to this specific incident? Or is this a larger phenomenon?
I generally agree (although I'm not sure if the example really illustrates it enough to justify it's length). However, this is an incomplete or misleading view on three counts.

First, it sounds like you're justifyimg immortal behavior, which I think wasn't your intention, but the wording isn't so clear on that. The same argument can be given (and would apply) to saying a concentration camp guard has to do what they do in order to "be good at the job". That is a relevant explanation of an important dynamic at play. It doesn't make it OK.

Second, being a scumbag has a cost (e.g. reputation) even from the cold-hearted and immoral poit of view of disembodied money. Society controls this calculation and is not powerless against it.

Third, disembodied money has no agency. Concretely, the mechanism is a manifestation of diffusion of (moral) responsibility. The board and shareholders are not absolved from moral responsibility by some divine right to make maximum profit on their investment. Neither are they justified in ignoring the responsibility they have by diffusing it, neither by choice nor carelessness and willful ignorance.
> it's about

It's about absolutely nothing at all. You can project whatever you want on pointless questions like that. Whatever you think you're measuring in a candidate by asking them, well, you're not, lol.
Ubuntu PRO is a subscription with 10 year support for Ubuntu main and Universe repos, so more than 10 thousand packages.
It's also much cheaper, and comes with more features like kernel live patching.
You missed Portugal and Germany.
AI to start a 1 on 1 in 3 characters. Great. Ya'll don't do anything at work do you?
He killed 4 people with his negligence. Not someone to remember as a hero.
You might consider fixed-point arithmetic with a 1/10000 scaling.
Linux Kernel: Yet another memory allocator for executable code
Interesting! This was not communicated in the recent Linux video. He made it seem it was disassembled and then those exact parts boxed up.
You're right, my memory on that was faulty. Thanks for the correction!
>> there will be little to no regular use by non-enterprise customers anymore if they keep this up.

They are slowing transforming RHEL to become the new AIX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX).
> It means you're using a material that's been vetted over decades in life-critical applications in harsh conditions by expert engineers all over the world.

If I start using a screwdriver to hammer in nails, it doesn't matter how many expert engineers use screwdrivers. I'm using it for a purpose it is unfit for.

Just because it's aircraft grade doesn't mean that it is (or isn't) suitable for building a submarine.
Poor behavior by one party does not excuse bad behavior by another.
Can I plug myself? :)

I run an indie app business where overall I make more than what I used to make working a FAANG job [1]

[1] https://fadel.io/
> free to do whatever the hell they want to do with their own lives

Is that entirely true? In a scenario like this they're going to incur tremendous costs borne by others in search and recovery, and potentially put rescue personnel in harm's way. Modulo these things being used as useful exercise and training for the military.
The world is a big place. In Montreal and Toronto, and imo many airports, Taxis are better. They come faster and more reliably, I have a real person to deal with, none of uber's bullshit, and the car and driver are no different. I'm sure it's possible to find places where this isn't true. When uber first came out, it was head and shoulders above taxis though.
People have to sign those waivers very often for significantly less risky activities like going ziplining, so let's not pretend signing a waiver is the same as actual informed consent.
El Ninos tend to be associated with above average global temperatures. Combine that with global warming and they tend to break the record for hottest year more often than not. So yeah. They stand out as something to pay attention to for people who care.
Did you use the right command for your npm version? Did the installer work? Or did something go wrong with `npm run dev`?
it definitely could. unreal engine doesn’t seem to prioritize high performance, nor does the fortnite dev team.

in fortnite competitive play, as soon as too many players are in the same part of the world, client and server performance goes south fast. in typical casual play, this never happens. in competitive play, it always happens.

i’m exploring gamedev out of curiosity for this exact discussion. the metric i’m trying to optimize for is minimum frame rate[1]. frame rate is top left, min on left, average on right. video is 120 fps.

i’m not sure yet what’s possible in varying scenarios of complexity, but there is definitely room for improvement!

most interesting so far is how fast physx is. graphics are the bottleneck, not physics.

1. https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/world_building.mp4
I got one of these immediately after ordering something from Apple. Since I work in the industry, I contacted friends who can do something about it. I’m surprised at how long it took UPS to go public with this. It’s very obviously their fault and they are still not being truthful about the cause.

I would encourage anyone who sues large companies for a living to consider putting together a class action suit. I have received dozens of these high quality phishing attacks ever since that original Apple purchase. Doubtless many people have fallen for the attack and provided banking information to the attacker since that time.
Obligatory comment for the few who do not know: nothing was Elizabethan slang for vagina, which makes the title of Much Ado About Nothing funny (https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jun/05/much-ado-abo...).

Hamlet also has the same pun:

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?

Ophelia: No, my lord.

Hamlet: I mean, my head upon your lap?

Ophelia: Ay, my lord.

Hamlet: Do you think I meant country matters?

Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord.

Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.

Ophelia: What is, my lord?

Hamlet: Nothing.

Hamlet means country as in cuntry.

My high school English teacher never pointed these out!
Up the road from here a new city has formed for about a week. Its population is roughly twice that of the City of Bath, which is close by. It's not actually in Glastonbury but on a farm near the village of Pilton which is way closer to Shepton Mallet than Glasto.

However, the Isle of Avalon () n that is in Glastonbury and let's face it "Shepton Mallet" doesn't really cut it for a festy name! Pilton isn't too bad for a name but Glasto does have a Tor and some proper oddness. There is a bloke on the main road in Glasto at the moment, dressed up as Merlin who is blessing everyone who passes through. Nice sentiment.

Anyway, I'd like to think that somewhere in the 90 odd stages in this year's Glasto, a Mellotron is wheezing and whining somewhere! The sound they produce is so lovely. Everyone else will be using a synth of some sort, probably on a laptop but it won't ever sound quite like a Mello ... well it will because modern gear can emulate a Mello and other old stuff rather well, for me. I don't buy cables costing £lol

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() Before the Somerset levels were drained in the C16ish, Glasto Tor was an island as were several other raised bits of villages - eg Muchelney abbey was an island too. On the levels the older buildings are built on mounds for obvious reasons. Ill advised modern housing estates get flooded.
That puts a new spin on a “brittle unit test”
I like to review this:

https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check...

hn discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20914236
It requires root to use, if someone has root they’ve already owned your system anyway.
New Relic Grok: The first GenAI observability assistant
This is great, thanks. For anyone who might take a recommendation, the 1993 "Much Ado" is, indeed, excellent. It's a play filled with joie de vivre and the movie reflects that. Featuring an unexpected Don John. Then the 2012 Much Ado is one of the better things Joss Whedon did.
Titanic Sub Disaster
Not sure if Red Hat will be able to fix this. This is not Red Hat but IBM. If IBM could fix problems like this, they wouldn't have been declining in the past decade.
If you're in California you can opt-out of all sale of your personal data on LexisNexus here: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request#california

In theory, it's a one-step process, though we'll see. Also if you request information they send it to you over snail-mail.
I really dislike the `fill_array.c ` vs `fill_array_out_of_order.c ` example. While it's showing the effects of spatial locality, it's misattributing the performance delta to the CPU L1/L2 cache.

The problem is that it's filling an array in freshly allocated memory. While you might expect `malloc(NUMBER)` to give your process a crap ton of space in your RAM, that's far from the truth. First of all, glibc will just translate that into an `mmap`, and even if it didn't, the Linux kernel still wouldn't allocate the whole buffer due to "optimistic memory allocation." Instead, you'll receive ownership of this chunk of virtual memory, but you won't actually allocate anything at first. Only when you dirty each page will it actually allocate the backing physical memory. And even then, the Kernel has various heuristics to preemptively page in memory that it thinks you're going to use soon.

I'm sure the author was aware that the example was more nuanced than just "muh CPU cache", but reducing spatial locality to just "muh CPU cache" for the article's sake does a disservice to the reader.
They do have microSD, at least[0]. I feel like full-size SD cards are a bit more niche than they used to be (mostly DSLRs?). But there's no stopping someone designing and manufacturing a full-size SD card reader if there's enough demand to warrant it.

[0] https://frame.work/products/microsd-expansion-card
There is a kind of charm to AI Hallucinations. To confidently talk nonsense.
Tell me you've never heard of text embeddings without telling me you've never heard of text embeddings.

The neural net you describe lacks memory. Memory, fundamentally, is a box with inputs and outputs. If you add it to your robot, and train the NN to use it, the robot may just be able to learn enough to be useful.

This setup is of course limited by NN's capability to use that memory I/O to alter its outputs in sensible and useful ways. Until recently, I don't think anyone would fault you for believing this capability is extremely limited, as NN's can't do anything that even begins to resemble reasoning. But this was then, and now things are different - as clearly demonstrated by GPT-4.

I mention text embeddings not because they're particularly optimal for the learning robot, but because they're a direct demonstration that it's now trivial to marry a sophisticated, (quasi-)reasoning-capable NN with a form of generic memory that can efficiently store anything the NN can work with, and which that NN can effectively search for the things it needs. You can verify the effectiveness of this on your own, for cheap, with GPT-4 and a vector database of your choice.

At this point, a prototype of a learning robot seems possible to implement by a combination of some image2text model, converting camera feeds to a description of what the robot "sees", some code (not even ML model, just regular code) to convert other sensory inputs into a higher-level textual description, an embedding model and a vector database to remember all that, GPT-4 for filtering, combining and summarizing inputs to be remembered, evaluating current situations, generating plans, perhaps even control outputs - all chained together by small amount of glue code (which GPT-4 will likely be able to write for you).

Will it work? There is no obvious reason why it shouldn't. We'll know soon enough - I expect a paper describing this to show up within next 6 months, if it hadn't already. It's too easy an experiment to make. Will it work well? Probably not at first. And it'll definitely be slow and expensive to run. But those are problems we know can be solved by throwing money at engineers and entrepreneurs.
Let's say that I fell for the "Twitter hustle bros" spiel, and after a lot of trying, it eventually worked out.

It was hard AF, but eventually I managed to get a 1 person business running, one that doesn't rob me of my time and I have several flywheels in action now that generate decent income (I won't shill, you can check my profile if you're curious).
Seeing who is in the channel is the big difference. It's one thing to just phone someone up, potentially disturbing them from whatever they were doing and suddenly demanding their attention through a ring. It's another thing to see they're in an open communication space and hop in to join impromptu. There's significantly less social friction involved.
No. But they’d be doing it less. Hence the 300% to 800% figure. If everyone permanently stopped comparing their own lives to the lives of others, happiness would increase INF%
Oh Lord, SRB in the Almeida’s Richard II was a chore, good at despair but the play was pared down and confusing instead of challenging.
>How I read safety/dosing would be standardized weight/volume/concentration of the drug and not the idea of prohibiting sales over a certain amount per person per day. Which as you say would just turn in to a secondary market.

Exactly.

The idea isn't to limit access or consumption, but rather (as totalconfusion correctly noted) to ensure quality and dosage standards (as the US already does for prescription drugs as well as all the US states with legalized cannabis), as well as ingredient lists and other disclosures.

The specific regulations might vary (e.g., dosage accuracy/precision would likely be significantly more stringent for fentanyl than for cannabis).

My apologies for not being as clear about that as I could have been. I hope I've done better this time.

Edit: Fixed typo.
I mean it's like reading Beethoven or Mozart's music sheet. Some people can appreciate its music just from reading that but most people can only know its geniuses when it's played.
It's not that people disagree about which approach is more effective, it's about whether the person cares more about theory or practice (or in what balance, people are not binary). The theory hat doesn't like practice, and says "theory improves practice" as a fig leaf. The practice hat doesn't like theory, and says "practice improves theory" as a fig leaf.

Of course both are important at a global scale. But one person can focus on one side and make an contribution.
It's not clear to me from Google that IQ tests are timed. Some sections of some tests are. I don't think any test is like "For question 4, you get 10 points for answering within 2 seconds, 5 points within 4 seconds, and 0 after." A time limit on the test could just be to keep you from accidentally measuring conscientiousness in people who are willing to spend 10 hours to get everything right.

That said I'm pretty sure reaction time and "clock speed" are part of intelligence, just correlated well enough that you don't need a reflex test added onto the paper test.
I work at a Department of Energy facility as a contractor. Our DOE facility rep was a Navy Nuke, and gave me a copy of this book. I agree that it is fantastic. And it’s written in a gripping narrative style, so it reads more like a novel and less like conventional non-fiction.
Worth noting also that roughly half of oxygen in the atmosphere comes from the ocean, the large majority of which comes from plankton. The same type of plankton that bloom from iron.

Scientists have been investigating whether manually spreading iron dust over the ocean can be an effective way to undo the damage that our rapidly rising ocean acidity is doing to our oxygen supply
For the most part, the kernel doesn't provide generic string processing helpers. Most helpers are there to form the basis for specific eBPF integration points (the majority are packet and socket handling tools).

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/bpf-helpers.7.html
This is just it, I don't fear LLM's - that are a really cool technology that once you understand their utility are really cool. I fear how others will use them not understanding their limitations.
First off: I think this is a really silly set of weeds we've gotten into. Trying to eyeball an effect of an intervention from a time series is "what not to do in statistics 101." It's massive confounded: underlying student demographics have massively shifted

But if we're going to do it: If you increase the amount of effort spent "teaching to the tests" over the span of 2000-2010, and spot a rise in scores over that time and then a fall in older students' performance, then it sure looks like you've prioritized a short term gain.

> "if they are teaching to the tests, they are doing a bad job at that."

Well, test scores are massively higher than 1978, the first year that we have real data for. At the same time, it's not too obvious to me that we're really doing massively better than 1978. In which case: what are we measuring? What are we spending all this precious instructional time and effort on?
That's good to hear! Maybe they'll take cue from TEX[0] and source their TP modules from Lenovo, so that they feel the same.

[0]https://tex.com.tw
Aahh, you're probably talking about Tom Mahood's: The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans. They were in Death Valley NP.

An epic and gripping tale for sure. It made quite an impression on me as I was joining my local SAR team.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
No. Only NAT is slower to any real degree.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/26149994
Because you can deliver a better product, faster, with Svelte. The total cost of development goes down, as the productivity is better, bugs per lines less, total lines of code less.
Just to clarify, we (Gitea) are not crypto shillers, the linked post explicitly mentions not creating some scamcoin.
Beyond that, we also haven't looked further into it as it became increasingly clear it was unwanted.

I'm unsure about the wording on Wikipedia, but I don't recall Lunny ever trying to take all the credit, just that he was an early and frequent committer.
Red Hat adds to the open source projects, they didn't write them from scratch (in most cases). Using freely provided software and building your business on it is perfectly acceptable, whether it's us using Red Hat's sources or Red Hat using the Linux Kernel sources and hundreds to thousands of other open source projects. We extend the OS where it doesn't fit our needs, and submit patches and feedback and bugs to both Red Hat through a subscription for a system we have for just that purpose, as well as to the upstream projects RHEL is based on, just as Red Hat contributes to the upstream projects.

So yes, I made that comparison. If you think a company using a RHEL derivative product is freeloading, I'm not sure how you can believe Red Hat isn't also freeloading on the open source community, but feel free to explain you position.

I, for one, think neither is freeloading, but just making use of the open source community to provide extra value for ourselves and our customers.
Ah, I am one of those the tprefer to reduce complexity and prefer higher level programming. Such a person likes Python, for example :-)
> There were similar discussions when the CentOS Stream thing was announced and Red Hat didn't change course so I'd guess they're not going to back off this change either.

True, and it's likely nothing will change this time too. But if there's no outrage at all and nobody tries, we guarantee nothing changes and probably invite further encroachment.
If you prefer, you can glue them into place and then they're just fixed, unchangeable ports. That would be incredibly silly to do, but if you're so against the idea of something that can be swapped out...
While it’s been 15 years I used to work in telco. Everyday I reminded myself that my software needed to work because someone might need to call 911, or make an equally important call.
'just below the surface' -> already at very impressive pressures and given the complex shape of their hulls absolute marvels of engineering. 240 meters below isn't 'just below the surface', that's pretty deep. That the ocean is much deeper is a simple fact but that should not diminish your appreciation for the differences between a 'regular' submarine and a deep sea vessel. Which is also why the latter tend to be extremely simple geometric shapes for the pressure vessel because of the stresses they are subjected to. Ball shape preferred, then cylinder. Something with angles in it would fail for sure.
Their response reeks of being AI generated. Your sarcasm is quite obvious!
My kids seem to do just fine playing it on their Switch Lites, so I'm not sure where you get that impression.
> What I can’t get my head around are nuclear bombers, which largely seem to be for posturing

Posturing is super important, strategically, though. Also, nuclear-capable bombers double as conventional bombers, so there’s that.