skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree in that this is who he always was, but he's also deliberately going out his way to publicly appeal to certain types of people.
The gulf between the hardware of 2013 and 2023 is huge. Modern GPUs are probably close to ~100x faster for ML (thanks to the use of mixed precision math and hardware level optimizations for that usecase) than the Titan, which was the best consumer NVIDIA GPU you could buy at the time in 2013. Not to mention the huge change in the ML software landscape, tensorflow and pytorch didn't exist back then.
Assuming the author is US-based, you would need to find US-based defamers, then drag them into court. And winning defamation suit in the US is insanely hard. It is much easier in the UK. Oh, and she needs to pay the lawyers for their work.
Because West just decided to do it out of the blue and not in response to full scale invasion of the biggest country in Europe.
> especially EVs as the competitions is catching up.

I want to ask "are they though?".

A while ago Tesla slashed prices by close to 10% for some models, which caused quite a stir and weird statements from their competitors, like "we won't be doing the same because we care about resale value".

As it stands their offerings are roughly on par in pricing to non-premium brands offering the same(or less) features.

Their only real competition in terms of pricing are Chinese brands, who have ample capital to play the race-to-the-bottom game.
Software development definitely needs more ideology, principles, and ethics. When talented hackers get behind a project united on these matters great and interesting features occur spontaneously
Manjaro? It could not have been a worse choice
3 years probation for a set of actions that resulted in a loss of life.

I'm always aghast at this, we call things that happen on the road "accidents" as if it's "oops, I killed you, sorry". The language of reporting isn't on the drivers "car killed pedestrian", rather than "driver killed pedestrian".

The deaths by vehicles is astonishing, last year in the USA 42,795 people died in road traffic incidents ( https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crash-death-est... ), in the UK the number is 1,695 ( https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua... ).

In the USA alone, that's 117 people per day.

Virtually no-one who owned the set of decisions that led to those deaths face any consequence of any kind... for ending someone's life.

When the article says "Getting behind the wheel of a car is a serious responsibility"... there are no real consequences for the individuals involved for their choices, and choices should have consequences.

Driving too fast in rural areas, not paying attention, not keeping your car in good repair, being under the influence... these are all choices, and choices should have consequences.

The consequences should be significant enough that they disincentivise that behaviour in everyone else, which means never being able to drive again, jail time, significant and meaningful financial penalties (with a large portion paid to the victims family).

3y probation, as an outlier exceptional example of consequences, shows the priority is on vehicle use rather than people's lives.
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Many years ago we discovered that hard drives can be run in RAID configuration to avoid failure wiping out data.

Bad drive runs happen. They’ve been happing a LOOONG time. If it’s important, dupe or raid.

Otherwise, expect to lose the data. It’s just a matter of time.

Lots of film and audio gear has a double recording option for just this reason.

I’m sorry the author has to relearn this lesson the hard way!
Second recommendation Fastmail here.

And DavX5 because I don't want my calendar to be a tab in email.
That's perfectly reasonable IMO.

If you just need to checkout the last branch you can also `git checkout -`
I’m curious if there is a user segment truly interested in this feature/product and what their use case is. Naively this feels like a situation of “why on earth would you do this?”
Nice open clone of the "Escape Velocity" series of games.

Fun to play, but sadly the main story imho isn't quite as good as in the originals. It's way better in terms of playability on modern systems though.
It's a cool project indeed but just don't get your hopes up. It remains a tinkerer's toy, like Linux on the desktop perpetually always being behind, then Linux on the mobile might be worse by an order of magnitude.
This sounds interesting indeed. Upvoted!
They'd be selling to humans of course?

Humans who wouldn't be allowed to use the discovery of room temperature superconductors for anything other than whatever little gimmick the company found out they could sell.
> The existence of alternative explanations isn’t a proof the proposed explanation isn’t true.

But it's proof that the proposed explanation is not a bulletproof proof... Because it could also be any other alternative effect.

That's literally the whole point of it...
They really should just rename the site CapitalistNews or AntiHackerNews or MiddleManagementNews or PMTechNews.

Man, y'all are gonna be so mad when you find out some people work on OSS projects for fun or ideological reasons.

Again, a sentiment that needs repeating far too often here, not everything is about, or for, you.
Common in tech: “95% of our users wont care if we make the product worse by…”
Some of the dewrapping constructs can get a bit gnarly looking when there is something wrapped in a wrapper in a wrapper sort of thing. But it's probably largely author-dependant and you could write the same code more readably.
I think keeping progress back in a vital field is bad. Sue me.
Linux is amazing what you can do with it. You can implement things in a day that you simply couldn't afford otherwise. And it's probably a 100-1000 times less reliable than systems architected around actual RTOS's.
I mentioned that because reducing CO2 is the only known and proven way to solve climate as for now. Research? Sure. But let's not claim we don't know what to do and use that as a reason to wait until the hypothetical research results are in to do anything.
This can all be figured out. The only real requirements are careful discipline and a commitment to getting the user experience right.

Having an undo command is likely the most leveraged thing by far the git developers can do to make new users unafraid of it. Screw up somehow? Just undo.
Yes but it works and that can’t be missed or understated.
> All the reverser is is a couple of hydraulically operated clamshells that close over the exhaust stream forcing it to the side rather than back.

Clamshell and bucket type thrust reversal systems are one way of achieving reversal. The latter are mostly seen on low-bypass turbofans. Large high-bypass engines often use a cold-stream reversal “cascading” system that is more complicated and includes both shunting of the exhaust vector and blocking air intake into the combustion stage. You’ll see this in action on engines where the rear cowling slides backwards to uncover the cascading vanes.
I swam those a lot.
I vastly prefer using the open, close, read and write system calls. They are actually extremely easy to work with, easier than stdio functions. No buffering unless you explicitly add it: when you write data out, you know it's been written. Sizes are always known so you can actually implement proper memory and string structures in C literally from the ground up. They just return a negated errno constant to signal errors which means there's no brain damage like thread local global errno variables anywhere in your code. It's such a good feeling.

Buffering is the only real reason to build on top of those system calls. I wrote a very simple read buffer for my language's parser. It just sort of appeared organically
during development. Haven't bothered to buffer writes.
>e.g. anti-circumvention laws that prohibit a competitor from achieving compatibility by bypassing remote attestation

I have a feeling you are misunderstanding remote attestation. Unless you are suggesting an Android competitor should harvest the keys from Play certified android phones and inject them into their own phones. Remote attestation does not affect the compatibility of software running on the system. It affects the ability of a third party server from being able to tell if your phone is running software the server trusts. If an app chooses to support only Play certified devices you will need to convince them that is worth supporting your phones too and you may need to provide your own remote attestation API. Perhaps support can be made easier if there was an intermediate API that wrapped a bunch of other remote attestation APIs and made it easier for apps to decide which they trust as opposed to needing to spend extra engineering time in adding support.
If you have a jailbroken Kindle, I highly recommend using https://github.com/gutenye/syncthing-kindle - no need to plug into your computer anymore.
I’ve been half assedly following this, not understanding a single word in the papers that keep coming out, not understanding the musings of enthusiasts and professionals

and it looks like I know just as much that its a nothing burger, with maybe some sliver of novelty

we dont have a superconductor, as expected
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Oh if it was up to me, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be able to keep affordable life saving treatments out of the public's hand through state enforced monopolies either. It's not like I'm all in favour of patents except in the field of superconductors...
Especially as it only runs until November.
Tbf for a static website without crazy levels of traffic, a weeks worth of groceries is probably more than hosting costs for a year.
That’s why I personally only listen to the opinions of people with handles like "Planck54", "The1965PhysicsNobel" or "EconNobel94" on hackernews.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

N.B. I also tried to find some noteworthy Fields medal winner, but refrained since it appears I don’t know any of them, and that the committee’s choices and motivations have been subject to controversy [0].

[0]: https://www.science.org/content/article/fields-medal-was-nev...
Almost all good things (books, software, music, movies) get pirated. If nobody pirates yours (even as time passes) this is a very negative signal - chances are nobody wants it and nobody finds it worth sharing (or almost nobody just knows it exists). And the pirates mostly are people who would never buy anyway so this is not really a material loss. Some of them even pay once they find the book worth it and once their budget permits. I tend to buy paperback copies of books I have found online and actually read, and I have hard time resisting temptation to share books I've bought digitally as great books feel like they would make the world a better place if more people would read them :-)
When I began building bikes 10 years ago, Sheldon's site was already like an old book in the library.

It was a reference for older topics, such as recently when I needed to understand the internal workings of a Sturmey Archer hub to fix one.

However, it hasn't been of much help for the new developments from the past 15 years since his passing.

While less organized and sometimes messy, YouTube and many other sites can answer any bike mechanic question. Even ChatGPT generally provides good answers
In a sense you're right - it's not an electron that jumps around, the electron is its quantum amplitude wavefunction. Until you measure it, that is what you need to calculate the details of and time evolution of and interactions with.

And there can be electron wavefunctions that are macroscopically distributed for sure.

But as the electron's eventual interaction shape is a point, and never more than one point (even if the wavefunction was a large drumbell shape before!) we can't say that the electron "grows thinner and larger" itself, we have to conclude that there is a thing called a wavefunction (or quantum amplitude) that evolves that is not a point, that can be used to predict where/when the single-point "full electron" interaction with something else might take place.

A quantum weak measurement is a measurement where the object you want to study is allowed to interact with a part of the detector that doesn't immediately reduce everything to a single point interaction. As you correctly note, it does change the shape of the wavefunction, but what you also need to know is that the wavefunction change is not of the electron and the detector-part by themselves - there is a combined wavefunction for the electron + detector-part pair now, with a distribution of amplitudes for their possible states.

It quickly gets intuitively messy but this is the core...
Before reading the article, I imagined myself asking that question, and it was the rude or exasperated version of "What must I do for you?" (to make you stop bugging me). The polite or generous version is "What can I do for you?". I'm lucky enough that I get to ask the latter far more frequently than the former.
It you want to be true doesn't matter either.

> It can get a vehicle from here to there, outside of its light cone. And yet that's not game over.

It's time travel, so game over for causality. You're fixated on the details of how you get there, and it is irreverent.

> if you could find a source of negative mass. It

Word games with imaginary numbers.
They could make a product and sell that product. That would keep the innovation in general out of the public's hands, only giving us access to some product built on it.
Fewer but high quality things? I’m so in.

Central authorities deciding which things? Not so much.
I generally feel that way regarding the log systems I've worked with, specifically since they were some of the first I helped implement and/or design, and thus I'd not consider them high quality. However, what would be better than monitoring logs? Any sort of monitoring I know of looks at logs produced by one system or another... I'm not sure if there is an alternative.
Thank you Shawn.
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It’s the minimum required to pay off their student loans.

/s
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Russian company? Are you kidding me....
I dislike GitHub's UI as much as the next person, but I think it's a bit of a stretch to blame them for the content of a code review.
I'd want to live a four hour walk from work. I wouldn't have to spend a minute in the office, I'd still get paid, and I'd be in great shape too
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> In words like "Xian", for example, the "X" is pronounced close to the english soft "J" sound (like in Jacques)

The sound you're describing is represented as "j" I think.

The closest equivalent I can think of that we have in Indo-European languages is ɕ, or ś.

Source:

https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/pronunciation/T...
FWIW I prefer to not use my real name in discussion threads here, although it is linked in my bio. So if you don't mind please remove it, thanks :)
Being a good person.

Caring for others.
What a great future we’re building.
Green crabs have already invaded Washington and are heading to Alaska. (2022)
Thanks, I think I get about 75% of that.

You seem to be saying that there is no way for DM theories to reproduce mondian dynamics naturally, it's all just about the distribution of DM.

It seems obvious that DM theories have to get the distribution (and how it interacts with itself and/or other things) right to account for the motions we observe in all cases. This seems to be difficult with our current theories, at least to my layman's eye. I see things like superfluid DM proposed, etc.

An ELI would be good to confirm my understanding, if you have time.
Avalonia does Just Work from F#; it even has `dotnet new` templates for F# (https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/avalonia-dotnet-templates).
I had never heard of this OCBC bank, I thought at first it was a small local bank, but it is a rather large Singapore bank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCBC_Bank

among the best rated in the Asian area.

So, presumably, this new "enforced policy" is likely to affect millions of customers (and android devices).
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> I'll let you search for it.

No, you made the existence claim, so the burden of proof is on you:

> regular "anonymous randos" get doxed regularly and the crazies call up an demand they be 'fired', they get threats to their family, friends and livelyhood.

You can't even provide one example? I'll let you search for it. I'm not going to search for unicorns or pots of gold at the end of rainbows.
When I say ideology, I'm referring moreso to both dogma and bruised egos, both of which the GNU project is rife with.

A lot of Hurds continued development is just predicated on "we don't want to admit Linux became a success" rather than any serious principles or ethics. Again, just look at the whole start-stop nature of its development.

I don't disagree that a lot of tech professionals could spare at least some basic regards for the ethics surrounding the software they create, but you're not gonna find that at the GNU project.
This might be off-Topic but is there any good reason not to do code reviews? All the arguments against code reviews I've read so far are either about fast completion times on features and staying "agile" or about developers not wanting to bother to do "non-coding" time.
Very cool app man!
Isn't that essentially what Leslie Benzies is working on with the 'Everywhere' project?
Some of the Raku people think that showing of the most bizarre parts of the language makes it look good for some weird reason.
This "delightful" experience is not just Amazon. Its what happens when large tech. companies play "who blinks first". Apple has a fair share of blame here, with their cut of 30%/15% from digital content they did not help to produce.

As someone who enjoys reading on my Kindle and as an early Audible customer, the crap in app browsing and purchasing experience was one of the reasons I put off having an iPhone.

After years of complaints, now at least in app Audible books browsing and purchasing works on iPhone, sigh ...

Now having an iPhone, I have simply traded one set of bad experiences for another, as currently the set of bad experiences on an iPhone, is less important than the on an Android.
Some of my thoughts about code review:

See code review as a conversation where both of you can learn something and help each other.

Be nice and be kind.

Being nice means asking questions instead of asserting something, taking a neutral stance without needing to resort to overly critical writing.

Being kind means caring enough to help the person get it right and learn how and why so they can be better next time.

I believe HN can probably come up with some nice guidance for going code reviews.
It reminds me of payola.

Radio stations would get paid to make songs that weren't popular seem more popular than they were so people would blindly buy them. It's the same old snake oil just taken to mass media.

Since both behaviors revolve around profit, you can apply the same means to mediate them. Further, the open plan "user generated content" model has been dying for a while now, the wills of some well moneyed monopolies keep it alive. We will iterate to something much better anyways. Perhaps this is just a force that drives it.
I sardonically think back to when my father (then 60) died almost a decade ago.

My brother (then 25) and I (then 19) assigned ourselves the task of clearing out the porn.

No one else had to see it, you're welcome, Dad.

You don't think about these things until they happen.

P.S. to anyone who hasn't lost someone close: there's a lot of bespoke awkwardness unique to every individual's death
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A wrapper for the Gorm logger which utilizes the sugared logger from [zap].
construction ...
Oh! I thought I'd seen this before, but I was thinking of a Wipeout-specific version - https://phoboslab.org/wipeout/
Does anyone remember VW DieselGate the latest estimate costing VW aprox 30 Billion in fines and buybacks? Company executives, convicted of fraud to increase sales and market share. History repeats itself, now with Tesla knowingly putting out false information on mileage estimates.
OP buried the lede: would a human driver have avoided the victim ? If a human driver would've killed her then this isn't grounds for punishing SDCs.
Reminds me of how Data in Star Trek would say things like "There is a 79.85 probability of success".

I mean, maybe it is possible to assign probabilities to future events that you have never seen before, but somehow I doubt it (with 12.88% likelihood).
”Considered harmful” considered harmful
I personally go by "Carpe Diem", as musician Taylor Swift says.
When I was 16 I made an electric guitar, sort of. Mostly I was interested in making a pickup from scratch. The entire guitar was literal garbage, picture wire, fridge magnet some steel dowel I cut up for the cores. The tensionera were threaded hose clamps cut open. It only had four strings so I tuned it like a ukelele. No frets though, so it sounded bad. Amd the pencil sharpener motor didn't have that much wire so I had to turn the volume way up.

I have been wondering lately what a pickup wound with wire made of lk-99 would sound like. SQUIDs for pickups...
If a product is crap, don't buy it.

Perhaps a real book on real paper is an alternative?
That isn't the point there. It's that we should be thankfuly for text-based tools in general, compared to most other professions' experience of digital collaboration.
As other commenters put in better words, no, not all voters are like that, but the collective results of their voting is a failed coup and more actions again already mentioned in other comments. So whatever was in people's minds, their deeds and their results are what counts in the end. Causes? Internet, bi-partisanship, not creating but heavily amplifying...
Its not only about Cloudflare. All those big companies are very centralized and try to control Internet more and more..

In my opinion battle is kinda over because 99.9% of people want ready to use product not contributing anything (consumers vs prosumers).

What the remaining 0.1% can do? Build your own overlay VPN networks and put services there. Treat Internet just like transport layer. Make mirrors of interesting stuff and put in there. It might grow...
Because the production of lk-99 yields a puddle of mess.

https://twitter.com/MarkTyler81/status/1688736978437898240

LK-99 == alchemy RT SC.
I made a proof of concept drawing program with Rust and wgpu, compiled to wasm to run in your browser: https://plotf.xyz/drawing

The idea is that you can zoom in infinitely with your mousewheel (or two-finger drag).
> Would anything be that different today?

You think today that as a mere mortal it is impossible to reach a human being at any BigTechCo. In 10 years you will remember to the state of today's customer support, and call it the golden age of human interaction - you will have the same garbage interaction with all companies, big or small.

If LLMs were there 10 years, we would have already arrived to that point.
The ISBN could be the bank account. Like a DOI. Or a BTC wallet address. Access/control over it could be transferable.