skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1600/wk is hella a lot.

How often are you on call.. the whole week Mo-Su?
It may also have been flagged simply because pg tweeting yet again about Musk is one of the least interesting submissions possible.
> That’s not how this works, anywhere: the burden of proof, of presenting facts, is on those who say “yes”.

What? Why? If this were true, you could:

1. Take the claim you want to assert

2. Claim the negation of the claim is false (the "no").

3. If anyone asks for facts, just say the burden of proof is on them to show the negation is true.
Perhaps some AI they run believes that waiting in line at midnight is the fun part of the iPhone experience
I just quit . God bless me
Oh yeah, picking up a 45 (20kg) in each hand with a pinch and loading the bar with that grip has been part of my exercise routine for years.
"For example, in Democracy, you settle disputes by voting, where the majority wins, and the rest don't get their way. This ability to settle disputes without violence, is what makes us civil and what makes society a society. Without it (such as with communism), you are in complete anarchy, where raw might/ability (eg successful violence/persuasion) is the only thing there is left to settle disputes. Thus, those who wield it typically end up becoming the "authority", and is why over time, communism/anarchy will naturally change into one of the other forms of government."

In the US only 50% of the population votes. The church doesn't pay taxes but lobbies the gov via proxies. Rich people definitely have more rights than the others. Just because they fight in court doesn't mean it's not called violence. Rich people are the authority in the US. They decide what you watch, what you buy and where you can spend your money. Just because they work for corporations doesn't mean there isn't a hierarchy. Rich people own America and they behavior of it's citizens, because they shape the contexts in which you live. They also own the rest of the world via Hollywood.
Donald Triplett was autism’s “case 1”
That's deeply unfortunate. Still, I rest my case. There's a difference between using PII for the agreed-upon service and sharing/selling it to third parties for a profit. If a free service can't be sustainable by properly using the information, then it should either charge or be abundantly clear about how data is used, allowing for "right to forget" and whatnot. It's not like a service has the right to exist if the matter comes down to consumers. Given that snooping inside peoples' homes is generally unacceptable, I posit that having access to peoples' searches, browsing history, locations, etc. should also be strictly curtailed unless it is necessary. Naturally that falls on the government to enforce.
What's funny is that in the internal Microsoft Store you could buy a boxed copy of SQL Server Enterprise Edition for next to nothing, but a Microsoft Teddy Bear cost a fortune. I used all my Microsoft Dollars on stupid toys from the store. Their teddy bears were the softest ever. I lost them to First Wife in the divorce.
Why would I want to run my terminal inside the browser?
"Hungarian Notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques; use it! Due to the sheer volume of source code contaminated by this idiom nothing can kill a maintenance engineer faster than a well planned Hungarian Notation attack."

https://cs.fit.edu/~kgallagher/Schtick/How%20To%20Write%20Un...
> I like that you call it the string theory of math. It’s a more modern way of saying “abstract nonsense”.

The sociological analogy is a decent one - they're both ambitious sub-fields of little interest to the average practitioner, with a handful of committed opponents and a wildly overgrown internet hatedom - but their positions in their respective disciplines aren't remotely similar.

String theory is a physical theory like any other: pick a spacetime, fill it with dynamical objects, impose some symmetries, and away you go. Category theory, at its most ambitious, wants to be a setting for doing ordinary mathematics in: it belongs in the same general grouping as set theory and higher order logic, not calculus or linear algebra.
Appreciate the feedback grounded in personal experience, thanks!
I was just looking into Adsense, and it does seem like a poor option for the reasons you mentioned: too much effort for too little return, not to mention the ugliness.

I'm glad you see some value in this! Based on the feedback I'm getting here, I have plans for some short-term wins that I can execute within the week, and beyond. I'm hopeful they can bare some fruit, or just add more value.

For now in the middle term, a few carefully positioned affiliate marketing links may be the way.
lead paint. there's still a ton of it around. most of it is covered by other paint, but when it chips, you still get exposure (and kids absolutely will eat paint flakes). also fun tip: if you want to get out of a lease early, you can ask your landlord to do a test for lead paint. if the building is >50 years old, the landlord is unlikely to want to take the risk of $10000s of renovation or having to disclose the lead to future tenants
US don't need to manufacture ALL, because US have strong enough friendship with countries, manufacture most important parts.

You may don't know, but except Taiwan, ALL top CPUs manufacturing in G7 countries.

For RAM and Flash things are worse, more than 50% manufacturing in China/Hong Kong, but they are not so vital important, you could imagine, you could just buy computer with half RAM/SSD size.
"The 'boot-menu' key varies according to brand of computer."

Right I have a hard time remembering the bios keys, let alone the boot menu ones too, but yes this is better on foreign machines, and if you can't or don't want to permanently set the boot order.
on the symbolics it was literally (create-window)
Elon killing the Blue Check was extremely funny, mostly because it went from an indicator of notability to an indicator that a person is going to talk about crypto scams or the Jewish Question.
Your memory of config file nightmares (I had them too) is a decade old now. X11 works without config for the vast majority of users. Yes it took a while to get there, but it's been there for a good while now and not really anything for Wayland to point at as a differentiator.
Kind of everywhere if you watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAB5FG4bXI&t=800s
Classic RISC "load/store" architectures don't even have register-memory ops either besides load and store.

x86, as wonderfully CISC-y as it is, has register-memory and memory-memory ops with various fun addressing modes.
Yeah I think tire particulates fall back to the ground quickly. They're not the same kind of thing as 2-stroke exhaust
The AI doesn't care that it's one pixel away from death.

That said, I could see some highly-skilled players (like those who do speedruns) showing off their precision and adopting a similar "scare the audience" style for a new genre of competition.
It's a good thing you asked. The industry standard is four times your base salary rate and double the time back in PTO. That rate goes up 10x per child in your household.

Everyone understands this to be the standard, and if they try to give you less you should quit or find out that your house is a cellular dead zone.
> Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty.

It's not clear that capitalism was a necessary component of globalisation or the progress of technology, both of which are adequate to explain any benefits capitalism might claim.

What is clear is how many billions capitalism has kept in poverty while the top 1% get absurdly rich. 10 men had more wealth than 3.1 billion people in 2021[1]. The US, supposed beacon of capitalism, can't even provide housing, healthcare, or education for its people, despite having the largest GDP of any country in the world. You claim capitalism a success, but the only way you can do that is by turning a blind eye to the capitalism's total failures.

> Even China, who is communist in name, only started experiencing high economic growth once Deng Xiao Ping started reforming the state to be more market oriented, ie capitalism-lite.

You claim China has experienced economic growth: who in China has experienced that? Capitalists love to lump everyone in a country together in their measures of economic growth as if everyone is benefiting, but that's not the case.

And the thing is, I'm not even a communist, per se. But I sure as hell am against a few lucky capitalists getting fat off the labor of billions of people.

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/inequality-kills
What are angel investors and why are they called so?
Sure, Cossacks flooded themselves.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. The product looks interesting. I'll give it a try.
I give my teams 1.5 - 2x time in lieu and jump in whenever relief or backup is needed.
Those people weren't assholes and successful at the same time, it happened in different phases of their lives.

(I think it's notable Steve Jobs's largest business successes happened after he got married.)
I've never taken a technical writing class but I did work on school newspapers and also took English classes that involved writing.
Xbox didn't fit in with anything else they were doing, but now look.
Not only this is architectural specific (needs BIOS to map a specific constant range of memory), but this will cause a lot of software interrupts. Interrupts, like exceptions, are _bad_.

In UEFI you have VESA Video Mode to handle most of the annoying mode selection stuff and GOP to handle...memory mapped framebuffer in linear address, so that you can just write directly to the framebuffer to push your pixel...that's even simpler.

You want double or triple buffering? Just make another memory buffer with the same dimension and strides, and recursively push each level of buffer up on render, easy.
Thanks!! I'm happy it made it.
PRP seems pretty real and penis stretching is "jelqing" and pumps are pretty common.
You assume warnings reach users. Some people miss emails. Fewer miss a service going offline. Keeping data after shutdown is a good backup.
Kreato Linux: Tinkerers Distribution
Very much WIP, have been working on it for almost 2 years.
What do you think?
> It started working poorly when X clients started rendering everything locally in the client and simply pushing pixels to the display server.

Which means it works poorly for modern apps. Modern apps use the GPU for client-side rendering.

And it absolutely worked poorly even in the 90s. It was virtually impossible to run X apps over anything but a fast local LAN. That's what "Broadway"/LBX was about. It was kind of a failure.

RDP has been a better networked display protocol than X for a couple decades now. Let's not fool ourselves that X isn't obsolete on every axis.
This isn’t self-evident and “Period.” isn’t an argument.
When I was a starting professional programmer in the early 90s I had 3 books on my desk. The K&R C book, a book on BIOS/DOS and interrupts and a book on Assembler. That's was all the knowledge that I needed at that time to do my work.
Show HN: How to Backup Azure SQL Server Databases (.bacpac) to Google Cloud SQL
After decades of hearing about Apple only being kept afloat by their indoctrinated, rabid fan base (whose numbers curiously appeared to grow exponentially with each passing year), Apple “always” making sales only by ad spots and not word of mouth is certainly a hot take.
Usually week rotations but it varied heavily between teams.
I’m glad these blogs are still available but I wish they’d assign an intern to fix the internal links.
Good point. Telling how xR device good is one of the most difficult thing for consumer market. Trying is the only way but it's annoying to setup. Let's see how Apple solves this.
Ok, hah hah. Some of us are managers and need to actually do the negotiations to bring fairness to the job. If you have a way to broker this with the owners of companies that isn't indignant, please help me out.

I'd love to make this the reality, but it's just not.
You may be interested in the field of embedded programming.
> Instead english spent soooo much time on fiction.

Respectfully, I think this is a vital part of any English education—the more you read, the better your writing becomes. Conversely, it's very difficult to become a proficient writer without becoming a proficient reader first, and for school-aged children, fiction is both the most accessible point of entry (although good nonfiction can capture kids' imaginations, too) and a great way to cultivate analytical skills.
"They do something with FFT for bin packing." The whole article could have been that sentence.
Unfortunately we’ve been bitten by influx operation issues a few times before. We adopted influxDB long time ago and always had to deal with breaking changes for each upgrade and every time we had an issue their answer would be: upgrade the latest version and see if it continues.

Then recently they made a change to Telegraf that broke all our data collection because they changed the environment variable replacer and their Jsonnet parser broke.

Now this. Shutting down a region without brownouts and only emails is not operationally acceptable.

We’ve moved on from influxDB for a while and only rely on telegraf now.
Interactive WebTV was the future.
You can still program today without using an IDE. Just ask any Vim or Emacs user.
> Don't let this happen to you.

What can you really do if they lie in the interview?
Watching old videos from the time like the Computer Chronicles, I'm pretty surprised how many people were running OpenStep on Intel hardware. It seems like it really made a dent for a year or two there.

Check out the b roll around 5:43 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_o8gerare0&t=340

And here you can clearly see the login screen on a likely Intel multi core machine, probably from Everex or NCR a similar company
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_o8gerare0&t=284

It's on the right hand side right before they cut it

I've started to notice it a bunch in the 1993/94 timeframe. I had no idea.

Next I'm going to find a bunch of people using A/UX and BeBoxes. My old bank, Washington Mutual, was using OS/2 until like 2003 ... Why not?
No I'm not presupposing some monolithic marketplace, rather just the idea that ideas themselves can be judged and compared - the essence of reason. I think therefore I am. Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I'll move the world.

Self sorting directly supports the dynamic I described, because feel-good terrible memes don't fool everyone uniformly. Look at both political herds - each baited with acknowledgement of specific real problems, and then mostly misdirected into avenues that rage against nonsensical bogeymen. It's utterly anti-productive and often self-harming, but it sure makes the participants feel good.
Yes, it's a heavy paper for a layman and I neither have the expertise to read it nor the opportunity to read it right now. The reading I have done in the past hasn't been clear that problems occur at real-world concentrations, so I was hoping you could clarify if that's the case or not.
> Obviously the models will improve

I mean, to some extent, but isn't reasonable to assume hallucination is a hard problem?

Hallucination shows there's plenty of things they didn't actually learn, and are just good at seeming they learned.

Like, if it gets exponentially harder to train them it's possible the level of hallucination will improve far worse than linearly even.
I've authored quite a bit of book-like content which has been made freely available:

- the Shapeoko wiki (still available on archive.org)

- a couple of articles for TUGboat

- edited a couple of texts on wikibooks trying to make them better

- currently working on https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/

The Venn diagram of folks who don't believe in copyright and those who have actually produced something other folks want to read is quite sparse, excepting the odd manifesto.
Yes, then you should make sure UNICODE is not defined, probably by

#ifdef UNICODE
#error This is written only for ANSI windows.
#endif

Or you can use TCHAR and _T().
Never been paid cash, but some places have provided comp time in varying amounts.

I’ve always given a comp day per week on call so they can recover.

One place had some magical mythical theoretical formula for adding some unspoken amount to your bonus, but it was never broken out.
I wonder what the actual speed difference is. I couldn't find any benchmarks.
However, the root of this thread quotes Meta admitting exactly that.
Apple doesn't want to share even for iPad, as they don't implement multi user feature (except educational usage). I expect that it's same for Vision Pro, and it seems to natural for me. (I argue iPad should support multi user or guest)
An LLM isn’t a human brain and it’s almost always a mistake to think of it as one.

The LLM is more akin to a search engine with a much more advanced interface. If Google published the entirety of a book without having the rights they’d be taken to court too.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying they’re the same, I think there are convincing arguments to be made either way. I just don’t think the comparison to a human brain is the right one.
Pretty sure you answered that in your response.
New rust projects
Our team, led by me and some others, negotiated hard when asked to go on call, that being a material change to our employment contracts at the time.

We ended up with a generous $ stipend per on-call shift, as a % of salary, as well as time off in lieu.

As generous as it sounds, it was an equitable solution in the end, given that we were supporting a multi-million dollar platform that was not fully stable at the time.

A lot has been said by other companies like "your salary should cover that", but I say nuts to that. On-call should be something people actively want to go on. It should be equitable, not forced.
They can be ordered today for approx. $1500, url: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Fractal-Vise_16003185...
> I strongly suspect Apple will either change the alerting behavior, or change the documentation around it.

Which is exactly the point of the submitted blog post: Apple needs to change this. But here in the commentary we have people talking down to the author and others, suggesting they're somehow ignorant and "not using the tools".
I've gone to school in the US, Germany, and Australia. Tests were a major factor in all three places.

But if you'd like to restrict candidates to the IMF's "developed" list, then other countries with well-documented testing cultures include Japan, South Korea, and the UK.
The benefit of the existing scheme is that new works get created, and some of them are even copy-edited and published.

How many texts are created which are explicitly placed in the public domain and from which the authors have made a conscious decision not to profit thereby?
I saw Digger and got excited for a second...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(video_game)
DEVONThink rocks.
> that just means the person who wrote such a summary needs to instead sue for copyright infringement right?

Doesn't need to be a person, could be another AI that wrote the summaries. I see a big problem for copyrights looming on the horizon - LLMs can reword, rewrite or generate input-output pairs using copyrighted data as reference, thus creating clean data for training. AI cleanly separates knowledge from expression. And maybe it should do so just to reduce inconsistencies and PII in organic text.

Copyrights should only be concerned with expression not knowledge, right? Protecting knowledge is the object of patents, and protecting names the object of trademarks. Copyright is only related to expression otherwise it would become too powerful. For example, instead of banning reproduction of this paragraph, it would also cover all its possible paraphrases. That would be like owning an idea, the "*" version, not a unique sequence of words.

Does it even make sense to talk about copyrights when everything can be remade in many ways so easily? Copyright was already suffering greatly since zero cost copying became a thing, now LLMs are dealing the second blow. It's just a fig leaf by now.

If we take a step back, it's all knowledge and language, self replicating memes under an evolutionary force. It's language evolution, or idea evolution. We are just supporting it by acting as language agents, but now LLMs got into the game, so ideas got a new vector of self replication. We want to own this process piece by piece but such a thing might be arrogant and go against the trend. Knowledge wants to be free, it wants to mix and match, travel and evolve. This process looks like biology, it has a will of its own.
If I remember correctly the DEC supplied power supplies were hugely inefficient, and CompuServe redesigned the power supplies since they were using so many of these systems.
Is this going to be used to solve this problem?
I had a heck of a time setting it up to self host myself and I am technically inclined. There was one thing misconfigured by default that took me a few hours to catch. Now I’m trying to figure out why the VM stops responding randomly…free sounded better to me at the time
I think I understand that you want to make it harder for people to report a video to the police, because you believe these people will call in false reports on racial minorities. There will be some people who will not be able to figure out how to get a video of a crime to police because of that change. That is unethical.
Car rental throwing away money?
China-led EV boom in Thailand threatens Japan's grip on key market
The FCC is the LEO authority for the whole planet?
> it doesnt know

Correct, because it only knows the text, not the layout. It will tell you that it appears in Runaround, and that the Laws are "usually presented towards the beginning of the story, in the dialogue between the characters Powell and Donovan".
We self host influxdb, never had this problem.
Most hard drives have a very little known feature called “Advanced Acoustic Management” that allows you to inform the firmware of the drive that you want to prioritize noise over seek speed, and it will gently accelerate and decelerate the moving heads.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_acoustic_managemen...
However, Windows 9X didn't actually support the 16-bit wide-char winapi. Apparently it did actually define the *W functions but they were nearly all just stubs. In 2001 Microsoft retroactively added support for the wide-char API to Windows 9X (according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/35329506/1185152):

> In 2001 Microsoft released an add-on for Windows 9x called the Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which changed the W functions from failing-stubs to thunking proxies which converted the strings back into an 8-bit format and then called the A functions, so programs explicitly using W functions could run on Windows 9x.
Sure, but it works :) (except that one company that had a low quality membrane that leached ionomers, lol). Once plastics have leached off their manufacturing chemicals they really are very benign.

The membranes you mention are permeable, basically, only to water. Salt ions are pretty small - if the membrane blocks salt ions, they're going to block just about any molecule [1].

1. for the most part. You can have a molecule that dissolves in the polymer membrane and therefore gets through. A great example is polymer self-diffusion itself (fairly slow) and very short chains of the polymer (faster). But, generally, polymers don't like to mix with anything but themselves (see Flory-Huggins and DeGennes).
What approach would you use for something like this, where it doesn’t tell you what the issue is? Apple sometimes shows alerts for exceptions for example which contain a stacktrace of where they came from, so I understand in that case if you have some options rather than going in blindly. Here there’s not actually much I see you can do?