skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. I stand corrected about a god specifically but I stand by the idea that there needs to be a strong supernatural narrative. If there is no god, there needs to be some kind of future reward for accepting a low rank in current society. Buddhism provides a nirvana/afterlife narrative to justify why people should accept/embrace suffering in the current life so it serves the same purpose as a god.
Perhaps a change in employment statistics? If a large cohort retires in a narrow window of time then numbers may spike until they all age out of the usual range.
And then maybe someday design reconfigurable - probably modular - semiconductor fabrication facilities and capabilities to produce the AI EDA chip design(s)?
this is an interesting project. curious what made you want to build it?
When I see things I like this, I immediately want them. But then I realize I would probably boot it a few times and put it to rest. I have many computing devices I don't use.

If we were to gift this in the most optimum way for a person who would actually put this machine into service...who would that be? What criteria make this the correct solution?
IIT-K conducts artificial rain test through cloud seeding
It's this kind of attitude that's why we can't have nice things, though.

A service is offered for free, with no documented limits or restrictions, so you push the service to its breaking point... Just to see what happens?
You're 100% right, I got the doctor rush to prescribe treatment on this when I was 24. Was never enough

Finally instilled some healthy habits by 32, namely no excessively large meals and no eating big meals ~3 hours before bed and it magically disappeared.

I just had my first bout in a while yesterday - 2 smalls pizza is still 2 pizzas folks!
OP was questioning whether Landau’s method of identifying the most gifted students actually selected for successful physicists:

“It makes me wonder of the 43 students who passed, how many achieved significant breakthroughs or Nobel prizes?”

So yes, it is selection bias by definition, but the point is that the method of selection worked. Most other professors at the most prestigious schools in the world could only dream of advising anything close to Landau’s academic descendants.
Jesus Christ. What we are seeing is decade long failure to integrate the children of people who were integral to building the french economy.
Yeah we're sort of just debating the implied definition of something left purposefully vague, but I don't read this particular essay as an investment thesis thing at all. His motivating examples are pretty much all musicians and theoreticians there's no investing in those things. To some extent those examples are metaphorical of course, and I'm certain he is thinking of at least some entrepreneurs as having done "great work". But I still take the essay more at face value that it isn't primarily focused on the kind of wildly lucrative "great work" that makes a good investment.
Well, all time stamps are rounded or floored to the nearest second (or millisecond, or micro, or...) because you only have a finite amount of space to store them — you always have infinitely many time stamps mapping to each Unix second.

This means you can just adjust the mapping around the leap second. A naive implementation might have those two real-life seconds tick twice as fast to take only one Unix second. Or you could have the whole day’s seconds tick 86401/86400 times as fast, etc. In terms of the mapping from continuous time to discrete time, this is just as fine as the non-leap-second case.
Microsoft’s azure docs repo has 1.1M commits, and it’s many gigabytes big. I made the mistake of trying to clone it to fix an issue in the docs I ran into. Ended up just editing it on GitHub because fuck that.

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs
There could be a simple reporting function with a click of a button, type what's needed, then admin checks these reports from a simple page and take action. Way faster than sending an email from an email client, then opening it in another client, then going back to the website, login, check that specific issue with the copy/pasted links because it is in the email not in the reporting system.

This is not 1990. All forum platforms have this function. (bb, vbulletin, discourse, etc.) I can't even understand why this is being discussed. :)
Latest edition is remarkably good. It's my recommendation for anyone wanting to start diving into algorithms.
I would get fired because my director wouldn't like me passing the chain of command.

Such is the stupidity of middle management.
Executive Compensation – Andreessen Horowitz
Ha the burden of proof is on those who think software should be a factory side, because it hasn’t worked for software yet, after many years, a lot of MBAs and a lot of snake oil.
Agreed. IMO, the government should strategically move government offices to smaller towns, to both encourage those towns to grow while freeing up space in bigger cities for private enterprise. Historically, many small towns have grown into cities this way. For example Denver, and of course Ottawa.
They seemed fairly surprised by the fact it happened, and let it go on for some time. Which strongly suggests they hadn’t considered such a load test on their own. If I had a budget/head count, I’d at minimum put out a feeler for a QA role.
>4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.

I don't know the whole situation, but it sounds like RedHat has created additional licensing terms for their GPL covered software, which would fall foul of 4 above, meaning that RedHat itself may not use any or distribute any of the GPL software it currently distributes?
The great speed referred to for some in this article was estimated at 250mph. For someone in 1897 that might have just been shorthand for incomprehensibly fast. These accounts feel a lot more similar to the navy pilot accounts of the pill/cigar shaped craft they’ve been tracking, which are also capable of a rapid change in speed along a new vector.
60Hz video looks super weird to me. Looks like it's running in like 2x FF, but everything syncs up with 1x audio. Watching The Hobbit when it came out was a horrible experience.

It's not a problem with games, though. Even if 60 fps was quite rare to achieve for 3D games 20+ years ago. I was usually happy if I could get stable 20-30 fps.
Sure, but I don’t see any of them even pretending to be a C replacement.

I wonder if in several thousands year, mankind will have managed to get rid of C.
Why "paperwork trajectories" instead of "disease trajectories" per the title in the link?

(Just curious about the difference.)

Link to paper:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.27.449937v3
Even here on HN, even when it isn’t a mistake, basically any thread that mentions nvidia essentially devolves into “Linus said fuck nvidia”. It’s effectively a thought-terminating cliche and it poisons almost every GPU discussion.

It’s really not just the Linus thing either. Every time AMD does anything anti-consumer people feel the need to temper it with praise about all the good they’ve done, and give them every benefit of the doubt about “maybe this isn’t true, maybe they had a good reason, etc” while every single thing nvidia does is viewed through the most negative and malicious possible lens.

It’s pretty clearly some variety of splitting plus parasocial attachment, AMD is “the good one” and nvidia is the bad one.

Anyway, it just sucks because it poisons discourse. How many posts did we get into this thread before the “Linus said fuck nvidia” canard came out? Zero, they opened right up with the thought-terminating cliche. It gets old after the 10,000th time.
I think Red Hat was fully in the right and that the internet drama around their decision reeks of privilege. If you want the sources, go get them, they're in Stream but Red Hat won't be gift wrapping it for shops competing to offer support.

They've been, and continue to be, fantastic stewards of the Linux ecosystem. I use many of their inventions today on my Linux workstation and my experience would be decidedly worse without. I am grateful for their continued pledge to OSS: it's so much further ahead of any other big tech company with their revenue, you'd think they were the loonies.

Most companies are doing a mix of OSS and closed source with OSS the core that's dressed up in proprietary services you can't do without. It's the Microsoft strategy, the Docker strategy, the VMware strategy, and on and on and on until most conference showfloors are ghastly apparitions of OSS fun with the real party in their "special sauce".

When Red Hat buys a company's tech stack, they take the time to open source all of its components.

We are truly living in the most insane times of privilege when we blow up in the most petulant outrage for a company saying, "here's the sources, you prep it if you want to sell it".

Rocky and AlmaLinux are not ethical paragons here, in the least.
Those have been desktop parts, not laptop parts.
Agreed. I’ve definitely already noticed a significant decline in comment quality here since the Reddit debacle.
I Tried Making a Stronger Chess Engine
Trying to improve an old chess bot by experimenting with various interesting techniques.
You can play (or watch) the bot on lichess: https://lichess.org/@/CodingAdventure...
This is a sequel to:

https://youtu.be/U4ogK0MIzqk
I had such a fantastic time with DSP. Has some clunkiness which will hopefully be refined with time, but absolute blast in going from nothing to dominating a star. Count me as one of those people who see zero need for the game to incorporate the upcoming combat/enemy mechanic.
The site really needs some videos showing it in action, and how it differs from a regular editor or word processor. The screenshots give a tantalizing clue, but I'm left wondering how it actually works from a practical perspective.

Also, I use Word 2010. Will it really integrate with that?
Maps and Watercolor Drawings Record José Naranja’s Travels with Fantastic Detail
https://archive.is/pYowX
Songfacts.com Is a Teapot
If you can get the address to resolve at all, songfacts.com seems to have a bit of an identity crisis - can't recall the last time I actually saw a well-known website return HTTP status code 418!
At a previous job where I had to deal with this stuff, I was able to make the case for an “update task” every six or twelve months, where we’d update all of the dependencies, change the config files that needed to be changed, etc.

This would require a full-regression test, but this employer was in the business of doing these fairly frequently since they were super risk averse, and so adding another full regression test that only happened every six months or so was no big deal.

We’d update a ton of stuff, inevitably break some obscure feature when used in IE11 (which at the time, they still supported), so we’d add a polyfill or chuck a dependency through babel and problem solved. Then nothing for 6–12 more months.

This was annoying, but not nearly as annoying as taking inventory at a grocery store or dealing with bad customers at a restaurant. It’s just work, and we were paid to do it.
The entire country can't live in the GTA, it would be better to spread things out a bit more. But who wants to move to places like Saskatchewan?
Assuming it's correct, I think this answer explains it well: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31996121/283879

Basically, yes it may write snapshots per-file (never per-commit) locally but there is a separate routine to transparently repack the whole thing with deltas.
I am curious who or why this narrative is being pushed.
This reminds me of a famous Bill Gates quote [0]:

> Gates described speaking to a segregated audience at a recent business seminar in Saudi Arabia.

> On one side of an auditorium sat men. On the other side of a large partition was a "sea of black," Gates said _ women in full-length abayas that cover their faces, as required in Saudi Arabia.

> A questioner asked if he thought Saudi Arabia could meet its ambitious goal of becoming one of the world's most competitive economies by 2010, Gates said.

> "I said, 'Well, if you're not fully utilizing half the talent in the country, you're not going to get too close to the top,'" Gates said.

> How did the audience react? "One side loved it," Gates quipped.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/0...
They haven't integrated and they never will. There were leaks showing Amazon's union busting efforts for Whole Foods - the more diverse a city, the less likely locations there were to unionize.
Oh dear, is it still like this? Every time I’ve tried using Mastodon I’ve hit a wall of “Elon Bad” political tribalism.
The ghost of Ramanujan lives on And her name is Cleo
If you don't own the .com, you don't own the name, IMO. There are a ton of good .com brand names put there that are available, you just have to look. A unique name also makes your brand more recognizable, compared to ultra minimalist names like "Max" or "App" or something.
I believe this is placement, not circuit optimization or logic gate programming. Unless there's something creepy like line noise causing bugs or side effects piling up, something like the FDIV bug is unlikely.
I’ve heard that a lot of Shopify sites will have the auto credit card processing disabled for new orders. So that a real person can validate the order before hitting Stripe or whoever with it. Fraud orders are usually easy to spot by shipping addresses and you can get a good sense for it pretty quickly. It isn’t quite chicken sexing!

Maybe the hot take here is that the best way to ruin your own business is to automate credit cards?
RedHat basically said: if you redistribute our code, we’re not going to be your friend anymore. And only our friends can get our latest code.

There is no clause in the GPL that says, “if you get one version of the software, you have the right to all future versions”
I wonder if something like Paddle, LemonSqueezy will protect you in this case.

They are the merchant in that scenario and process refunds / chargebacks. Most likely they will punish you in some way though.
Ah yes, speaking from a country which almost has no native population? (Assuming you are from the U.S.)
“The viral video of a 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk seemingly listening to the policemen who stopped him in the street only to be shot point-blank”

That’s not what the video shows. The kid in the car has a gun pointed at him and drives off, very clearly. He is then shot in the arm.

Nobody is disputing either of the above.

Some people say the officer was dragged but I can’t tell myself.

Video is at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nahel_Merzouk
In France's particular case over half of the underclass are descendants of population movements prior to the second world war. This instance of racial rioting, the largest since 2005, is more analogous to American black-white ghetto-centered race riots than to the popular image of migrant-native tensions.
Anyone willing to comment on their experience of AMD Linux GPU drivers?

Are they good/bad/meh?
Is that your best piece of evidence?
Deliberately trying to create an extreme situation in order to find when/where/how a service breaks is inarguably "abuse" regardless of whether the intent was malign.
gulags were invented by a country professing state atheism
Odd. The wanton stabbing of multiple children in a park in Annecy [1] didn't trigger any sort of us-vs-them reaction. Meanwhile this case, where the officer responsible has already been charged with homicide [2] (and the victim had before tried to speed away, only stopping when forced to by traffic, and again sped away immediately before being shot), is causing nationwide riots. What gives? Why does the stabbing of multiple children barely register, but this case is an explosion?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65841666

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66075798
Ask HN: What are the limits of Quantum-on-Silicon and Photonic computers?
Photonic interactions, electron spin, and electron charge all are used to implement quantum gates and operators.

What the comparative advantages of each approach?
It has a 100% success rate based on my observation. And if we're going to disagree on facts, I'm not sure the point in having any sort of further discussion.
people who like really flat places... or maybe someone who wants to buy a basic $150k house with no mortgage and work remotely.
It is difficult for me to get an accurate picture of what is actually going on from emotional pieces like this one. Where can I read about the facts?
Other commenters noted that many European models have dynamic lights that tie this to GPS location.
This is a cool blog. Just super short ideas as a blog post that be read in under a minute. Thanks for sharing!
They already do incentivize white hat exploit efforts[1]. The author seems to have run afoul of one of their rules[2] by impacting other users, but I don’t think that impact could be knowable without trying.

GitHub could trivially honor the request without changing the incentives or even taking any defensive implementation action, by specifically citing this experiment in the rules and maybe adding some more specific wording to the TOS.

1: https://bounty.github.com/

2: https://bounty.github.com/#rules
I've only ever had one issue related to power delivery while running VR a few years ago. Would not provide enough juice to the GPU and would cause artefacts in the rendering. Other than that though I've had no major issues running relatively modern games over the last 2-3 years with my 5700xt.
Good tip, but it doesn’t even have to be a B2B attack. A sufficiently pissed off customer can order such an attack on a business that wronged them.
No information given about the actual activities ongoing here so I’ll focus on the service providers behaviour directly.

Given the meteoric rise of companies charging for services with no support of any type available for consumers other than hoping for traction on social media, how do we legislate to basically enforce some alternative to ‘computer says no, just make a new account and hope it doesnt happen again’. This seems like something consumer protections agencies should be all over.

Australia’s consumer protection body is actually quite active in enforcing our rights when dealing with these sorts of things. Does America not have a similar agency or has it been captured by the companies it’s supposed to regulate?

These companies are collecting sizeable profits and part of the way they’re achieving this is by simply disregarding all the support and engagement processes ‘normal’ businesses have to have claiming their scale makes them impossible. That should just not be an acceptable answer as far as consumer remedies are concerned.
my use has been perfect

in tree, no nvidia bullshit

just works
If a group of individuals migrates to another country, the onus is on that group to integrate into their host country, not the other way around.
A video you can interact with and has its own thoughts, feelings, motivations and such; sure.
Unlike computer code, there is no huge repository of formalized proofs to train a machine learning algorithm on. Furthermore for interactive proof assistants (Coq, Lean, and others), the code saved on disk does not contain any of the intermediate goals, which is necessary for understanding the proof structure.

If machine learning makes inroads into pure mathematics, it will have to be from some sort of reinforcement learning, not supervised learning.
But the next largest legitimate repo is going to be something like 20M commits shy of that, so it seems like it's excellent that GH engineers only just started to care.

It's entirely possible that such a load test has been considered, but deemed non-realistic so not prioritised for some time. If I were running the QA team I'd be annoyed if time were spent on abusive destructive testing than realistic testing that real-world users may experience, especially because load testing like this would have to be on an identical environment to PROD so rather expensive.

It reminds me of that old QA joke:

A QA engineer walks into a bar and orders a beer.
She orders 2 beers.

She orders 0 beers.

She orders -1 beers.

She orders a lizard.

She orders a NULLPTR.

She tries to leave without paying.

Satisfied, she declares the bar ready for business. The first customer comes in an orders a beer. They finish their drink, and then ask where the bathroom is.

The bar explodes.
Which is why I tend to use perplexity AI
If you are being unethical there are a bunch of things you can do.

I would advise targeting people directly, anonymous letters directed to a spouse with accusations of cheating will help prevent executives from travelling and add a lot of personal stress on their lives, all it costs is a stamp. -- this is especially easy if you live in Sweden; since addresses and living arrangements are public info.

Other things you can do is to fabricate something racist and pay for a few hundred bot accounts to follow any mention of the company or product.

I have had both of these happen to me, and my industry is not very competitive nor am I a famous figure.
> I am also curious if there are cultures with a polite probing mechanism which are not humiliating for both parties

I think to some degree, it's supposed to be humiliating in the failure case. The type of confession being discussed here is a "costly social signal". The willingness to bear the humiliation that ensues in the failure case is part of what makes the confession meaningful and a social trope in the first place.

That being said, there's a lots of cultures with established social signals for relationship status. For example, the outdated "Ms" vs "Mrs" distinction, which is present on lots of languages/cultures, engagement rings, certain fashion choices... I guess in "western culture", the solution for probing is "asking someone out a few times". In the failure case, the rejecting party can say "I'd love to but I'm really busy at the moment" a few times and the rejected party takes the hint. I'm not sure this can be any less humiliating, barring some stuff involving cryptography.
I was under the impression that using "nimrod" as an insult was an American thing (reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod#Idiom ). The creator of Nim is European.
I addressed this in another downthread reply. Briefly, I agree. My quibble isn’t with the term “abuse”, only the nature of its intent.
White Americans didn't integrate into Native American cultures, so I don't see your point.
I’m not a crypto evangelist by any means but one thing that I like about crypto is there are no charge backs. I added coinbase and it’s not a huge amount but about 5% of sales go over this. Apple/meta/amazon pay are also some what alternatives because the payment is going through a device that can be physically stolen but harder to do fraud than a virtual credit card.
> the west

> “Dating? I’m not sure, we have only started sleeping together a month ago. They might still be seeing other people.”

This seems specifically American to me, and I think this is a weird thing to most Europeans.
I know that aspartame is an essential amino acid. I read the article. I am discussing a popular side-effect of it as a sweetener in its most well known form, Diet Coke.
The song Party in the USA celebrates making it in America
Pandoc has by far the best org->md conversion.
Common sense, everyone knows it except the white liberal middle class. Why do prison populations group themselves by race and not class?
"On average, LDC applicants (that is, excluding athletes) are stronger than typical applicants. However, the average LDC admit is weaker than the average typical admit, suggesting an admissions advantage for LDC applicants." (p.3 of http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf )