skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love when people decode data like this.

I am curious about the postage codes used in Sweden since 2021. Instead of buying physical postage stamps, you can buy a code online. It is meant to be written on the envelope in the place where you'd normally place a stamp. It has 4 x 3 symbols all are numbers or upper case letters.

Looks like this:

A X X 2
T T 2 Y
3 M 3 5

I assume some letters are omitted for clarity, like I vs 1. And presumably, there is error correction built in. I imagine the error rate from writing by hand and OCR-ing them is quite high.

I wonder if there is anything interesting in there like a time stamp, or if it is just a serial number.
> Like, why are there two different paradigms for text communication in Teams? A Teams team is a threading conversation, but there is also unthreaded chat?

This drives me nuts. Teams UX is a joke, at least on mac.
I mentioned in a previous post that I worked in the consulting department at BigTech. When I need some advice or a sanity check about something I am implementing, I reach out to the team responsible for the service (ie S3, Lambda, etc) if I’m doing something novel or if I find a reproducible bug.

I could care less about titles. Especially knowing that the levels have nothing to do with technical capabilities passed an L4 to L5.
lmao, big name AAA names saying, please dont rate us against this, they have 400 people and 7 years!

Then diablo4 credits almost 10k people in making it, and although a fun game, feels like its basically still in beta with all the basic features its missing.
My bet here is that lockdowns, while originally intended to "flatten the curve" (and that was a good idea), turned out unexpectedly effective and appeared to reduce infection rates so quickly, especially in the beginning when people were very afraid and lockdown rules were strictly adhered to, that someone got an idea of just resolving the problem altogether by doing "lockdown to elimination", until it became evident that you can't lock down every country in the world unless you threaten/use nukes, and shutting down travel indefinitely is also not possible, and the whole thing became a charade.

Lesson learned for the liberals is to listen to those on the right at least from time to time. If they sometimes behave like idiots it doesn't mean they really are. Republicans got it right on the Covid question.
Dunno, I go on walks and evenings out with the SO.
Agreed, I've been playing Dave The Diver which on the surface is a gloried flash/mobile game but it has so much personality and depth it draws you in.

I try AAA games on Xbox Game Pass once in a while and I really don't get why they pump this stuff out without recruiting some talent to design it. It's almost worse than big budget Hollywood sometimes.
I love their components page and modular system.
With article components any one can create a clean, responsible blog or landing pages.
As a non profesional it's a perfects system for me.
I agree with you, but I think a majority of users are fine with being on one ecosystem, as long as it is convenient. iCloud Keychain works on Windows and Chrome using an extension provided by Apple. It is possible to login using passkeys on another device outside of the ecosystem by using QR codes.
makes sense - I ultimately need to train the weights so was focusing on GPTQ, I'll try out ggml and see if the latency is better. I have some flexibility on whether I run inference/training on the same model instance. What context length were you using? I was maxing ~2048 tokens, which may also explain the apparent latency.
Great. If have you a question i'm here!
They're used to make very compact sets when the number of possible items is relatively small.
Asianometry made a couple of recent videos on rare earth elements. They aren't that rare but the concentration is so low and they are always mixed in with other elements so it takes a lot of processing.

China‘s Iron Grip on the Rare Earth Magnet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpKcbg30e4

A Semiconductor Rare Earths Problem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caEsW5h3dhA
In the Netherlands we have Rijksoverheid sans
https://www.rijkshuisstijl.nl/publiek/modules/product/Digita...
> and Francis Crick co-discovering the structure of DNA

wouldn't that be Chemistry, not Physics?
Basically, yes. The fact that Apple and Google are still reasonably evenly fighting in the mobile market means that the rules are laxer for them than they are for MS who has far more dominant position in office suites.

That is why MS got under fire for IE but Safari got free pass. The degree of market control is critical aspect here.
> Is it really multiple factor auth if you're using the same device for the password and automatically filling in the token

No it's not, but plenty of services force MFA, even if the user doesn't want it. And in those scenarios it seems perfectly reasonable to store the 2FA token in a password manager. For some things (frankly most things) 2FA isn't critical as long as you have a high-quality password.

I would also point out that given that most people:

1. Have 2FA codes on their phone (either as SMS or TOTP)

2. Have their password manager installed on their phone (if they use one)

Then in many ways the phone (something easily lost!) becomes a single point of failure anyway.
"Pretty" landing page but dear god I'm so lost, I started scrolling and nothing happened. It says almost nothing using a full page.
Threaded conversation applies to both. I want it for both. Why don’t you?
FDA approves AstraZeneca, Sanofi RSV shot for infants, toddlers
Have an LLM document-QA app in production with a local model and Haystack.

Excellent documentation, great support (on Discord, unfortunately). Exploring Agents now.
I used to feel the same way about kiosks, POS terminals, etc. but… if you have an organization whose bread & butter is C# desktop apps and Windows development and they’re looking for, say, qty 10 units, you’ll have a really hard time justifying the training and NRE costs to do anything but Windows.

I 100% agree that it’s not the technically optimal solution. But don’t discount the idea that, given an existing set of people and skills, it can definitely be the local optima organizationally.
If performance is genuinely a concern? JVM/Golang and Clickhouse.
This is from a conservative - right wing propaganda outlet.

That being said, what happened in 1957-58 doesn't really apply here. First, population density wasn't nearly what it was today. It was the land of single-family homes and automobiles, not high-rises, dense air travel and public transit.

Secondly, the lockdowns were necessary to prevent the healthcare system from collapsing. Rate-limiting the illness with lockdowns and other NPIs allowed hospitals to remain functional and adapt to the crisis. In Italy at the onset of the pandemic, the Italian healthcare system dealt with collapse and rationing of care, with physicians choosing which people to treat and who to leave to die.
> The problem is that it doesn't foster a culture of collaboration, it becomes a competition around who is leading the high impact projects

That’s definitely not true in my org and I haven’t seen that when reaching out to other departments.

Anyone who has been in corporate America for awhile knows that you can’t get anything done without building relationships
But that seems unrelated to Microsoft in the corporate world?
CEO pay has been increasing far faster than wages for their employees since the 1970s and they're "underpaid"?
I guess this information is too generic and obvious to be of any use to the Russians, but you'd think the head of an intelligence agency could be a bit more discreet about active agents. This is Carry On level stuff: https://youtu.be/nYk7icb-6QY?t=36
It would be interesting to compare this to the average voter age per state as well. The I suspect correlation between weight and voting tendency might be bridged by age.
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Extraordinary fossil captures a mammal biting a dinosaur
That is very naive. What employers want more of is workers that can be exploited for more labor at lower cost, and no workers are more exploitable than those under threat of deportation if they lose their job.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2022/05/3...
I thought that had been fixed, by ordering the registrars not to allow problem domains (e.g. domain must be entirely in Cyrillic+Numbers or not at all), though Wikipedia says this isn't yet the case for .com. I'm not sure if that's up-to-date though.

Pretending I work for asdf.com, I could register аsdf.com (Cyrillic а) and maybe αsdf.com (Greek α) as a precaution.

But "xn--sdf-5cd.com" and "xn--sdf-nxc.com" both show as unavailable for registration.

Something like asclf.com (all ASCII) could be mistaken in some circumstances.
Now, this may be naïve or uninformed, but...

Shouldn't it be possible to take that slurry and deliberately dry it out much faster, possibly even including a step that separates the products to some extent for separate processing or storage? If it were being dried out in a sealed processing facility, rather than a pond open to the air (and wildlife), the toxic dust wouldn't be a problem—indeed, it would be the end goal. Turn it to dust, compress the dust into something you can seal in a jar or whatever and then store the sealed jar. Or potentially even sell it; I bet some of these toxic byproducts would actually be something someone else wants for their own industrial processes.

Obviously even if it's possible, this isn't done because it would be more expensive—but if we, say, were more concerned with health and safety than profits, couldn't this be much less time-consuming and risky to the local water table than just letting it sit for decades or centuries?
We have teams and zoom. My outlook has three different buttons - new zoom meeting, new teams meeting, and new meeting.

Maybe your system admins just suck?
I feel like there is very likely some precedents for this (or at least some close examples) that other countries have implemented similar to this, I wonder if any of these folks have looked into it. Wish US elected officials would look at how ideas fared in other places more often. "Pull their heads out of their asses" would be the less cordial phrasing there.
In practice, how would this work? A requirement that they only use index funds? But then wouldn't that bias them to support the companies that are the major movers in that index? Indexes are often heavily weighted to a small subset after all.

TBH, it seems like an idea that sounds good on the surface but has practical issues in implementation that would make it irrelevant
Ah, the lowest-common-denominator argument for why your code is crap. That is the reason that Python code has become what PHP was 10 years ago: The mark of projects to avoid at all cost.
i thought this was for actual candy and got excited for minute when i saw there was a free tier
Not sure they are unequivocally good — maybe if we had the option between electric cars, and no cars, no cars might be preferable. But that is not the world we live in. Among the options we actually have, electric cars seem to be one of the least bad picks.
Nobody has lost interest, the language maintainers have been pushing on this problem for years. Scroll back through Niko's blog posts and see how many of them are related to improving async: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/

The reason that progress appears slow is because the next steps for async improvement have required extending the type system, and doing that properly (making sure not to introduce unsoundness) required a massive overhaul to the type checker, and forming an entire new team solely dedicated to the verification of the type system. Here's the most recent update on that work: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/07/17/trait-syst...
Yes, although if you have a few million and access to a daily MRI you can even heal a PCL this way. See the Connor McDavid documentary "Whatever it Takes".

For my wife, it was strict bracing at specified angles with forced stretching to retear the tendon at periodic intervals as it healed. She was on advil and a cryo cuff immediately after injury which really helped. I'd recommend having a cryo cuff on hand or a plan to quickly get one if knee injuries are likely in your future.

Look into red light therapy for ankle, for example: https://a.co/d/7CPLFkl
Oh sure, but that's not necessarily Proton's market - that's what I'm pointing towards. There's a group of folks who are both most likely to use a password manager, and also don't necessarily want that password manager attached to their Google/MSFT/iCloud accounts.
I guess like you can buy -articles- on my local newspaper for your local business, now you can buy -papers- on nature or whatever, must be a case of how much money you paying for the ad

Submarines are pretty easy to detect once you've been here for a while tho http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I remember hearing exactly the same words about jQuery a decade ago. This is bias stacked on comfort using a bandwagon mythology as a qualifier.
AMD EPYC 9754 Benchmarks for the 128-Core Bergamo
As if it would even reach a vote. (Some) Senators (plan) to _propose_ ban ...
David beazley, also known as the Jimi Hendrix of python
A social network that doesn't let me use a social login? Sigh
There are substantial differences in Betterfox compared to Mullvad, Arkenfox, and Librewolf. The latter three use almost the same configs, each with their own minor differences, while Betterfox causes less breakage and is appropriate for everyday use cases — as long as you learn how to apply a user.js.
Because the correct minimum set of people is those who are in the channel when it was shared to the channel… and most people aren’t thinking of possible future information leaks when sharing documents directly into a channel with specific people the document is intended for…

The mismatch makes sense to programmers and IT types who have internalised the “computers are stupider than we make them look” way of thinking… but most normal non computer professionals are probably just thinking “I am sharing this with these people right now.
I dunno. There's a reasonable chance that the SEC might have encountered that sort of activity some other times in its history.
The Military was one of only two institutions with a 50%+ trust rating, according to the poll in the article.
Same experience here, at most I might've run into file attachment issues a handful of times, but otherwise Teams has been flawless for video conferences. Zoom has given me way more trouble than Teams on Windows, Linux and Android devices.
So people should suck at writing Python code for the sake of teamwork? What?
Behind the scenes: How we host Ars Technica, part 1
Asking models to do math is kind of an effecitve way to measure their capabilities, especially in reasoning and abstraction, which are quite important for problem solving.
What about the Peter Principle
I miss reading John Carmack's .plan file.
I love it when people do this "patented secret" thing. Patents are public for very good reason - society protects ideas that are documented publicly so that the public knowledge is improved after the patent expires.
Agreed. I'll look for where I read this... Maybe it was just a paranoid loon on the internet but for some reason I shelved it mentally as trustworthy... Bah don't trust me
"In April, it was reported that Microsoft was considering allowing users to install Office without installing Teams in an effort to appease regulators and avoid additional scrutiny or official investigations by the EC. Similarly, Microsoft was also set to charge different prices for Office with and without Teams integration."

Ummm, we have 365 without a teams subscription and I've pushed it out to users without the teams install as well. Is this not an option in the EU or something?
> Looks like there is a lot of demand

We also don’t know what their capacity is to be fair.
Java marketing in the 90s was more intense and much less organic, since it was totally driven by Sun.
May I ask, what is Erdosian?

As for bullying, I was a "gifted" kid in school, too. I was treated nicely when people wanted help and bullied ruthlessly when they didn't need me.

> their parents would deny them privileges n beat them sometimes if they weren't excellent students

100% agree that this was one of the biggest factors in my bullying. Shame is powerful, and if a child is being shamed for their academic achievements, they will lash out at someone who has what they desire: good grades in this instance.
Amazon is too big. It attracts too many bots and fake reviews. They also have no incentive to remove fake positive removes as it is a conflict of interest for them to sell as many books as possible.
Lo and behold, the patent [1] says:

> [0038] In preparing the xenograft for use, the tendon is surgically dissected and removed from the paratenon (tendon sheath). The tendon is composed mostly of an extra-cellular collagen matrix, which is non-immunogenic. The tendon may therefore require no denaturing (decellularisation) prior to implantation into a mammal. In some embodiments, the tendon may be subjected to a decellularisation process prior to implantation. In removing the cells from the tendon, the immunogenic antibodies within the cells are also removed, thus rendering the tendon non- immunogenic. Methods of decellularisation of tendon tissue are known in the art. Such methods include physical, chemical and enzymatic treatments, wherein the cells within the tendon are lysed, leaving an undamaged extracellular matrix having the same physical and biochemical properties as the natural tissue.

So it is decellularisation, they aren't claiming any particular decellularisation method, but it's quite possible they have some particular recipe for decellularisation which works well, and which they are keeping secret.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2019014698A1/en?oq=20179...
This isn't a reason to not support the current effort. Democracy is an iterative process, not a magic wand that you wave to instantly teleport to a flawless system.

This bill is step one. When (not if) it gets circumvented, that's when the next law addressing that problem can be passed.
If you check the article, it’s mostly other developers urging folks to not hold indie and smaller developers to a standard set by 400 developers spending six years working on a title in a genre they have previous success in.
An interesting point: When/If half of the websites deprecate GUI buttons in favor of a do-all chatbot half of the people will forget how to use GUI buttons.
If you cover the entire ocean than that is not an issue.

But meanwhile I think I figured out that such an array would be a major issue because once the locations of the beacons is known, they will effectively turn every passive sonar into active sonar. Therefore it can not provide an asymmetrical informational advantage even if the investment would be asymmetrical.
Sony's been knocking it out of the park with their AAA releases though. The last few they've released (Spider-Man: Miles Morales, God of War: Ragnarok, Returnal, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Horizon: Forbidden West) have all been extremely fun, polished, and devoid of microtransactions.
You might say those are 2 factors, but when it's happily auto-filling passwords and MFA codes automatically, uhh, that's a lot of trust in computer built to run arbitrary code, let alone Javascript etc in a browser environment! Maybe it's 1.5 factor? It's not truly separate. To encourage people to do this with no warning is irresponsible. Variants of timing attacks that can result in arbitrary code execution come out often. Browsers have such a massive attack surface.
Beazley is a mad man, so much fantastic stuff from him. My favorite is probably Ply and Sly as CFG parsers. I didn't even think to check for books he wrote but now I have to go down the rabbit hole.
I feel like this is a great approach for bootstrapped and/or solo founders. Break the idea that some of these markets are huge defensible spaces requiring bootstrapped funding and higher teams.
Reddit and Twitter will be around for a while due to inertia, but it doesn't make sense to be making any new investments there. People have one foot out the door.
As one of the creators, I can recommend https://kreya.app :)
There is 0% reason Nancy Pelosi should be allowed to be one of the best traders in history, it’s nothing but corruption.

Either lawmakers should not be allowed to own stock, or insider trading shouldn’t be a crime, though the latter option is a lot more abusable.
Literature Map – The Tourist Map of Literature
You could also use Tailwind.
Absolutely. We don't have kids tho. A few times a year a game comes up when I have to explain to my wife that I'm going to need some more time for myself for a week, I go less to the gym during that time, maybe I don't go out for the weekend and house chores get left behind a bit. Then I binge something for 30 hours for a week and then dial back
> as long as you do not break the android security model.

AKA as long as you don't give control to the user.
You have to remember where you are. Hacker News is going to have some selection bias on people who _enjoy_ their job. By trying to stay up-to-date on the latest software news, they're probably career driven people.

Imagine how many people who are fully WFH who don't have this attitude. Do you think they're also more "productive" than if they were in an environment that forced them to do their work?
Ultimately it always comes down to a position of "private property is theft, except for mine of which I deserve more."
Can driver implemented with PIO and DMA on the RP2040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE58YisgFeQ

Techalter did a good job describing the fate of a lot of Philips different businesses and product lines.
A bit too much to ask from a user.

It could be split up into easier steps, like adding a pair of 4-digit numbers or multiplying a pair of 1/2 digit numbers.
More reasonable would be a ban on trading, if not ownership. But then again, lawmakers would just advocate positions in favour of their static portfolio.

It does seem better than the status quo of ‘extremely lucky’ returns though.
Are you gonna live off savings?
This mindset is a comfortable position for people to retreat to when they don't want to discuss a situation rationally based on information known at the time but rather want to retroactively push a personal agenda.
The rules change if company is found to have dominant position on the market. Its not rocket science, nor is it matter of opinion.
The lengths that the Rust devs went through to minimize the overhead of async/await is impressive but also horrifying. And unfortunately, async/await certainly isn't a zero-overhead abstraction if you consider ergonomics/learnability. I wonder if it can evolve without breaking backwards compatibility.