skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we assert that some topic can’t be discussed with plain prose, then the only logical conclusion is that you can’t discuss the topic at all.

Please bear in mind that mathematical notation is a language, and that mathematical formulas are perfectly valid plain prose in that language.

I imagine that some screen readers will fail gracelessly when faced with Chinese script or Hindu as well. Especially if they're not unicode compliant.

But once you hit that threshold you are simply in a battle of dueling accessibility concerns. Not everyone is sighted, but neither does everyone rely on English as a primary language.

Nor should they as the English language was not designed to convey all concepts accurately. It excels mostly in conveying concepts germane to anglophone cultures. And three guesses what concepts are not popularly relevant to your standard anglophone? That's right.. calculus and theoretical physics.

That's not to bash on English as a language. It really is a flexible beast with a far reaching vocabulary. But there literally exists no language that is ideal for encapsulating every single idea under the sun. One must have a way to support many of the most diverse ones at the same time. And modern mathematical notation belongs on that short list along with English.
I mean, you can make that claim about almost anything. It's really a fallacy where anything looks good if the alternative (usually a false dichotomy) is death.
> Doesn't this seem like science-fiction driven psyops?

This whole thing is *way* weirder than anything else I’ve ever experienced in my life.

This certainly could be one giant psy-op, but then we have to wonder why it would go so deep as to have people testify under oath to congress about it and convince the senators to unanimously pass legislation to force disclosure of “non-earth origin” technology to them. What’s the reason to go this deep just to confuse an adversary?

Then again, what if there is something way weirder going on here?

Regardless of what the outcome is, I think everyone should be in support of congress trying to get to the bottom of it.
He only really excelled at creating inhumane structures that only serve to impress the intelligentsia. It's not like you'd ever want to live in his austere glass boxes.
Detroit is going to power 100% of its municipal buildings with solar
This is actually a terrible deal in disguise. According to recent reports (which I don't have on hand at the moment), over 70% of immigrants to Canada are under employed or under utilized. While the federal government controls how many immigrants, the provinces control certification and expert recognition. This means that foreign-trained doctors (as an example) can easily get a federal visa to enter the country, but the province will refuse to recognize their medical training, forcing these skilled immigrants to work low-skill jobs instead. It is not rare to find foreign-trained engineers working as taxi-drivers or for PhD-holders to be slinging coffee.

Unfortunately, I don't think programs like these will have any beneficial impact until Canadian society can fix its abysmally low productivity (and productivity growth) as well as the severe under-utilization of skilled immigrant labor. All this will accomplish is exacerbate the housing crisis in metropolitan areas and further expose Canada's extremely poor economic performance - expected to be the absolute lowest in the OECD in upcoming years.
> Anything smaller than a medium city is incredibly difficult to find and track

Sorry, but we routinely track asteroids that are less than 100 metres in size [0]. We track objects in orbit down to a few cm in size [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_Terrestrial-impact_La...

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debr...
Allow it in what way? My employer allows it and has offered to pay for subscriptions, and we’re not ashamed of using it early and often. The problem is the stupid telephone requirement. It desperately needs enterprise-style access controls.
ZFS has

- redundancy

- striping

- compression

- encryption

- mountpoints

- volumes

- quotas

- snapshots

- send/recv backups

- disk error detection (ECC protects memory only)

All built in with consistent well-documented tooling. No futzing around with lvm mdadm fsck luks fuse fstab etc.
Or bivectors, or k-vectors, or blades…
They are fine with Alpine tbh.
And something that allows to host k8s.
> The Bay Area is definitely not representative of the US as it is far safer overall.

Cherry picking stats doesn’t make it true.

SF-proper is one of the worst urban areas in the US. Maybe only topped by Philly.
But also

> Call of Duty players spending more than 70 percent of their time on Call of Duty spent an average of 296 hours on the franchise

That’s less than an hour per day, and that includes the actual hardcore CoD nolifers. Somehow I think that “people who spend 100 % of their playtime on CoD” are most likely some busy parents who barely manage to squeeze a few rounds of CoD with friends into their week.
The document says otherwise. As gasoline is slightly compressible, seawater is admitted in the float during the dive, increasing negative buoyancy, and increasing the rate of descent. So, to control the rate of decent, some ballast is released during diving too.
Youtube takes down HISTORY videos plenty of the time, and I do find that stupid, but that's not an argument for violating their right to choose who to associate with.

Youtube is actively hostile to the creators I watch, but that doesn't mean they should be legally compelled to broadcast any and all content that someone uploads. They are well within their right to control the narrative that exists on their private platform.

This is just like how elon is well within his right to control the narrative on Twitter now, and make it a safe haven for right wing trolls. I don't like that, but you won't see me advocating ending his right to freely run his business. That's authoritarian. Nobody puts a gun to my head to use twitter, so I don't use it.

There are multiple alternative video platforms out there, including small ones started by the edutainment youtubers and there is nothing preventing all the right wing youtubers from starting their own system. Hell, Nebula was literally using a white label private video distribution platform for a long time! All they have to do is sign a check and they can run their own youtube!
Abnormal octopus behavior during sleep: Possible cephalopod nightmares?
It would be a pyrrhic victory for you even if you prove it wasn't you that was downloading it. Your name is going to be in court documents associated with prosecution over csam or other illegal materials. This information will be easily found. If you're the first case of it's kind, you will also have to deal with whatever tales the media spins about this. If you're somewhere like Florida, you might end up with your photo next to a label of 'pedophile' being plastered publicly.

A lot of people will simply see the headline, assume you're guilty and treat you as such. And a lot of people are willing to treat those they think are pedophiles very very badly (there was a case recently where a murderer serving life in jail killed his pedophile cellmate) Anyone that knows about this incident will probably never allow you to be around kids unattended, regardless of your innocence. You will be a social pariah.

Innocent until proven guilty had to be enshrined in law because most people will treat you guilty until proven innocent, and they don't have much concern about forgetting the 'proven innocent' bit.
I understand your concern but at around the same period as this expedition it was routine to flush ships bunker tanks in maintenance docks now and again - probably a few tonnes each time. I grew up on a spit of land between two estuaries and I can remember the globs of bunker oil and the slight film on the water.

I suspect that the Trieste itself added little to the general mess.
Russian commander who may have known about Wagner rebellion is arrested: report
correlation is not causation. I don't think it's very surprising that caring deeply about the product leads to better job performance. I also don't think it's very surprising that caring deeply about the product makes it easier for management to mistreat workers. They're not the same thing though.
Tesla prepares to support third-party apps – Tesla App Store coming?
The RAM being "on unit" has no impact here. It just requires the CPU & GPU to share an IOMMU & share the memory bus. Whether or not that RAM is soldered or not is totally irrelevant.

Laptops have had unified memory for a ~decade as a result, but once you go to a discreet GPU instead of integrated then there's no feasible way to share the IOMMU & memory bus, at which point it's not practical. And then up-gradable graphics or just 400W GPUs like the 3090/4090 behemoths are incompatible without extreme cost.
When I was 18 I used to be crazy good at EA's NHL. Sadly it was before internet gaming or I would have been super awesome. I was spending 8-10 hours a day playing, beating the computer at the hardest level 20-0 with 2-minute periods. No one I knew would play me. It's such a shame that when I really needed internet gaming it wasn't a thing and now it's a thing I like story games.
> you won't see a hint of region anywhere.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/learning/data-location/

Hint Hint description
wnam Western North America
enam Eastern North America
weur Western Europe
eeur Eastern Europe
apac Asia-Pacific

There is no free lunch here. This is always a game of information theory and physics at the end.
> They actually abstract the easy, boring part away, but they run with their tail between their legs as soon as the issue becomes interesting.

This is the biggest offense, IMO. It's not just that ORMs are a leaky abstraction, it's that they're just a bad abstraction--leaky or not. We don't really need an abstraction to make easy things easier, and we certainly don't need/want an abstraction that makes hard things even harder!

There's a famous quote that always comes to mind when I encounter stuff like this. I've seen it attributed to several people, so I'm not positive, but I think it was from Larry Wall: "Make easy things easy and hard things possible."
I've happy about the recent stabilization of WebGPU in Chrome, and excited for the rest of the browsers to follow suit.

I wanted to start experimenting with it, and attempted to do so with Deno (which is what I've been developing in the past few projects), and I'm sad to find out that they recently removed WebGPU from its interface due to slower start up times and larger binary sizes [0][1] :/ I hope they re-enable it soon so that I don't have to mess around with tsc and webpack again...

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76561043/deno-bundle-pro...
[1] https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/18094
if Terrence Williams is getting 10 years for defrauding the NBA curious what they will get
It's less dangerous, but some of the flammability is inherent in the chemicals withing the battery, and how they'll react to oxygen or water.

Let's say that you were able to magically disassemble a cellphone battery into its constituent elements and compounds, made rods out of each, and then sealed each rod in a zip-lock bag in a vacuum chamber.

The resulting collection of zip-lock bags is still something you wouldn't want to keep on a shelf somewhere, e.g. https://youtu.be/Vxqe_ZOwsHs shows how elemental lithium reacts.
> When editing, one needs to convey to users when it's safe to close the app without a risk of data loss.

Wouldn't it be better to put up a warning dialog if the user tries to close the app when there's still state to be saved?
Why aren’t there more successful education startups?
Yeah, I've also noticed that sharpies aren't effective for this. Scanners scan with 256 levels of black, so this can be enhanced to bring out the inked over characters. Some solutions:

1. use a grease pencil. The grease is opaque.

2. scan in monochrome black & white, and turn up the sensitivity of the scan.

3. use MS-Paint to draw a filled rectangle over it.

4. black tape
In the context of the article, the author is talking about Indie games. Normally those feature simple but well-crafted graphics and mechanics. Many of the genres biggest hits have been made by individuals or very small teams. Some examples are 2D platformers with some kind of ingenious twist. Making a platformer in 2023 is not very difficult, but making a good one is.

I’ve had an idea for a strategy game I’ve wanted to make for years, but a big reason I haven’t started it has been how much tuning of the mechanics I will need to do, and a distrust of my attention span being able to slog through that process. However the game I have planned, while doable by one person, is a much larger scale than some of the most famous and influential indie games
I'd guess not publicly published, but it wasn't "internal" in the usual sense because it was found on confidential documents Sony was sharing with publishers. I'd hope they weren't giving publishers inaccurate data based on a biased employee survey so I assumed they'd use the easiest technical means of getting accurate numbers available to them, which would be polling nearby bluetooth devices.

Other ways they might get that kind of data would be collecting it from data brokers, or by analysis of PS5 player's conversations/in game chats and messages.
Absolutely.

This is also my use case where I have GBs of data in S3 as Parquet and a small CSV file that I have to join them to.

And DuckDB reads CSVs and Parquet and SQLite and others. I can join all these heterogeneous data types in a single SQL statement and have the assurance that it’ll be done correctly.

I believe clickhouse-local can do the same.
I did go to a private high school that had better security, but that required driving further, which probably more than negated the safety benefits.
It seemed exciting to me! Maybe gatekeeping technical knowledge is not something we want to do...
I've started enjoying in-person shopping more lately. It's a way to get out of my WFH bubble and feel that I can get in and out of the stores in about the same time as shopping online with Amazon.

I'd argue that Amazon is benefiting from more people working remotely and is not as much enabling people to be home more. Even without online shopping I'd still prefer remote work.
Even on vacation it could probably be more than a normal 1 month subscription.
The open-source tool to simplify your ML model deployments
Gocardless to Cut 15% of Workforce
I can. Just zoom in a bit.
>An impressive 4,183.8 kilometers (2,599.7 miles) without refueling.

this distance reminds me of the Cannonball Run from Red Ball Garage in Manhattan to Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, which is about 2,900 miles. I don't think anyone's done a Honda Monkey Cannonball Run yet
OP was clearly being sarcastic, but I'm not convinced that this isn't how Microsoft et al actually see things. Latency is hard and not core to how they see the world, so might as well not invest in it. In reality, it's very important, but we're fine as long as we can ignore reality.
I don't remember any cases of 68K software performing better on 68K macs than under emulation on PPC ones - parts of MacOS were still 68K code running under emulation until past the point booting MacOS on 68K was no longer possible.

The same was true for x86 - by the time Apple started selling x86 machines, the x86's were so much faster than even G5's it was hard to notice any slowdown.

And, while I assume there are uses in which some x86 MacPros still perform better than their ARM counterparts (1.5 TB of RAM must help), those are far and in-between.
CommaVQ: Dataset of 100k Driving Videos
> Eden is fast. Crazy fast, in fact, if you look at the size of the monorepo.

You’re measuring the wrong thing. The user actions are slow and take several seconds to complete usually. No one gives a shit how big the repo is. They care how long their operation takes.
Related: one of the fake cancer cures that James Randi (“The Amazing Randi”) debunked didn’t have very good test results in December when a particular person would take vacation. She was very Christian and took the whole month off to prep for Christmas. She also felt that faking test data was ethical because in her heart of hearts she wanted the cure to work. When Randi showed that the data was faked in all months except when she was on vacation.
I agree. There's entirely too much animation all around, and notifications are a plague. But at least you can (usually) make it all stop.
smartphones are optimized for selfies thus the lens is super flat. Any photo I try to take at a distance looks awful, and moon photos are even worse. You'd be better off taking these pictures with a 1960's film camera with an actual lens. Not only did standard cameras have 4.5k resolution (35mm) but the lens allows you to zoom in!

And get this 70mm cameras are equivalent to 18k.
Ballast is dropped during both descent and assent. The linked document explains how the gasoline used for buoyancy is significantly compressible and becomes denser as the bathyscaphe descends. If no ballast was dropped during descent the rate of descent would continue to increase due to the feedback mechanism of increased pressure, leading to increased compression, leading to increased density.
The guy who runs the strange parts YouTube channel suffered a severe concussion and found some treatment that seems to have helped.

I would definitely do some research on this, but these are the people who helped him:

https://www.cognitivefxusa.com
https://neuraleffects.com
I think the argument is that it can't just be correlations because then we get stuck in the framework of the world looks as if things were going on before humans existed without being able to say that's true. Realists want to be able to say there are fossils in the ground because dinosaurs really did exist before us and not just that it appears that way to humans. Thus the speculative part of how to define reality in a way that isn't just correlated to our experiences.
ICANN’s “Policy Wash” of the .NET Registry Agreement [pdf]
Can't disagree with this, but I don't think "it's a management problem" precludes
"it has something to do with remote work". Management at my company can't handle remote work. Some other companies seem to have similar problems. Maybe shareholders could fire leadership but that has major risks too. Safest bet is probably just to force everyone to rto.
Wikipedia is correct, AFAICT.

The probability of 1 trillion UUIDs having a collision is,

def birthday_collision(n, m):
return 1 - math.e ** (-((n -1) * n) / (2 * m))

In : birthday_collision(1_000_000_000_000, 2 ** 122)
Out: 9.403589018575076e-14

That number is roughly the approximation given in Wikipedia.

I.e., at 1T UUIDs, it hasn't happened. For comparison, the odds of being struck by lighting (over a lifetime) is many orders of magnitude greater:

6.535947712418301e-05
Well, if you consider the accompanying HTML as well as a user mindlessly clicking orange squares as part of the execution, then yes, it is: https://jsfiddle.net/Camilo/eQyBa/
This toll is outrageous and disgusting…
> On console the ram is shared, and moving data to / from ram can be accomplished via onboard streaming hardware. PC lacks this, so they try to load everything in one shot to avoid studders. That's why you see so many games these days that need 12-16gb of vram.

Uh, no? The majority of VRAM data is texture data, and there's absolutely no point or benefit to sharing that with the CPU. So unified vs. not is irrelevant and plays no role.

Also consoles have been (and still absolutely do) stream texture data in regardless. Hell texture pop-in was easily the biggest graphics issue of the outgoing generation of consoles. But even on the current generation 16GB of shared memory is absolutely not enough to contain all the texture & geometry for a modern open world game. It still absolutely streams data, which is why Sony invested so much into texture streaming tech with the PS5 still.
I wouldn’t have done this not because I knew anything about the company but think it’s inherently risky at those depths. But trampoline parks, indoor skydiving, kids school 5k run and ropes course all are wavers I signed that stated there was chance of death for the activity.
Good idea! Adding that as we speak.
Sure. I'm not sure what case you're trying to make. Lack of competition does not mean there is no place for criticism, if the service works for you by all means you should use them if that's the best decision for yourself. These are just my reasons for avoiding a product like Proton Pass from this particular company and why I will migrate away and would not recommend them for users who might be similar to myself.
> I have a need for a good "residential"/"mobile" proxy/VPN service, but I have yet to see a company that I was confident that they were ethically sourcing the servers.

If your willing to manage/self-host it yourself, some ISPs do provide hosting as well, my old ISP provides a VPS at ~$10/mo with a completely clean IP identical to their broadband customers.
Archive link please
"Won't see a hint of region anywhere" is an exaggeration.

Here's the Durable Objects documentation [1]. Don't those "location hints" look like regions?

Also, here's the "Data location" page for Cloudflare D1 [2]. See "available hints" at the bottom.

I think it would be more accurate to say that Cloudflare's architecture is designed around having lots of regions, automatic migrations between them, and no guarantee about which one you'll get. But they're still there.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/durab...

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/learning/data-location/
You're leaving out the fact that the Conservative party is basically identical in structural composition and interests in keeping the housing market bloated. To the point where Pierre stands up in the HoC and goes after Trudeau for BoC rate increases... because his boomer constituency needs Number Go Up because that's their only retirement option after three decades of joint Liberal-Conservative policy.

It's a pyramid scheme, and actually the Cons were even worse for it when they were in power federally, and a huge problem with Ontario right now is precisely the provincial Cons in Ontario.

Same sauce, slightly different flavour.
> Obfuscation doesn't make reverse engineering impossible, only a little more difficult.

Sometimes it works pretty well. It's easy money to wager the community doesn't fully understand iOS from a reverse-engineered best-guess. Especially if their adversary is a multi-trillion dollar company who anticipates reverse engineers.

> Does what exactly?

Violate their venerable "Commitment to Privacy".

> the original claim was "Apple can remotely execute any code they want on your phone at any time."

It is undeniably feasible, yes. They control the modem, have complete ring-zero knowledge and can send arbitrary data to and from your device. That qualifies pretty much everything needed for remote code execution. If they send data to the iPhone that exploits a decoding bug like NSO Group, then feasibly yes you could execute arbitrary programs on the device, using an unmodified OS image. Nevermind just a regularly installed backdoor.

> Which you claim is impossible to know forever, making your belief totally unfalsifiable. How convenient.

I've been wrong before! Let's both hope I've got their character wrong and we get to see the truth someday. Until then we're squabbling over unknowns. It's not my habit to put faith into the unknown, but to each their own.
> I've really been disappointed with gnome on this

I personally can't stand Gnome in a million different ways, but that you can't actually customize it sufficiently is really the core reason why I refuse to use it.