skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Entrepreneurs come from families with money"

https://fortune.com/2015/07/17/entrepreneurs-family-money/
The vast majority of gov jobs are very low skill and effort so of course they like degrees. It's a checkbox they can fall back on to say the person is "qualified."
Like tonight's Perseid Meteor Shower
> Why does a Guatemalan immigrant add more value to American society than a sixth generation Appalachian?

Who’s saying the Guatemala adds MORE value ?

They can add the same value as an Appalachian and still be a win for the country

> Are the Chinese sitting around saying “what we need to improve this country is a bunch of non-Chinese.” Are Indians saying that? Japanese?

The Chinese are saying they want more people

The Japanese certainly want more people too
How do you personally use Nix on a project, any tips? Do you use flakes? What are first steps/basic scaffolding? I am eager to get into Nix but not ready to go full on (I'm also on Mac but some devs may be on Linux)

Is it possible with complex projects like based on Electron? Is it reasonable to use Nix in Docker (eg. I am on Mac but want to build it like it's on CI)?
Don't use the feature then, no? Just like ppl that want pristine google play experience will not use sideloading
> By what avenue?!

Leveraging everything you had and bought MSFT when it went public. Or AMZN. Or Bitcoin. Or Apple. As the value of the stock increased, buy more on margin.

Of course, this is risky. Note I mentioned a willingness to take risks.
"In this hypothetical it is not a privacy violation under ... PHIPA (Ontario, Canada) as consent would not be required."

That is not categorically true, PHIPA requires research ethics board to review research disclosures to determine if consent is required. So what is "too much" information that might violate privacy under Ontario law is a moving target, as our ability to violate privacy with less and less information progresses the standard should be more and more restrictive.

Research use of course does not mean that the data needs to be public, as in my example, and raw data is often not made public. In your example it was, if that same database were created today I am confident the ethics board enlisted to review the disclosure would disallow it.
Same here. I feel like I need to be lobotomized to work with XTree style. Long live Norton Commander style. But I guess the other camp feels the same about NC.
Using Zeitwerk Outside Rails
I think we all have our own aha moments with things like this. I thought like you until I really dug in and set up Home Manager as well. My moment, and maybe this means nothing to you, was when I realized I could reference any package in a config file without even “installing” it. So it’s no longer that I have config files in Git somewhere, and then also a list of all the packages I need to install somewhere else; the config files themselves pull in the packages they need by virtue of referencing them. There are a million other things, but that’s when I was like, “Okay, I’m actually gonna do this.”
Not sure if everything is correct, seems a bit too easy -

Let y be the horizontal width of the bottom-left-most rectangle, and x be the horizontal width of each of the rectangles directly adjacent on the right to the first one, so that the rectangle marked at the top right as having a vertical width of 3 now has a horizontal width of x + y.

Then, the area of each rectangle is 3x + 3y, as all rectangles have the same area.

It follows that the vertical width of the bottom-left-most rectangle is (3x + 3y)/y, and that the vertical width of each of the two stacked rectangles is (3x + 3y)/x.

Note now that the stacked rectangles have the same horizontal width, and therefore must have the same vertical width. Thus, the vertical width of the bottom-left-most rectangle must be 2 times the vertical width of each of these stacked rectangles, so (3x + 3y)/y = 2*(3x + 3y)/x.

From this, we get 1/y = 2/x (noting that 3x + 3y cannot be be zero), so x = 2y.

This means that the vertical width of the bottom-left-most rectangle is then (3(2y) + 3y)/y = (6y + 3y)/y = 9y/y = 9.

Therefore, the entire left side width is 3 + 9, or 12 units. Since the overall shape is a square, the entire square's area must be 144 square units.
Anyone remember an extension for System 7 that put Oscar the Grouch in your trash can?

“I love it because it’s trash!”
Yeah, well, such safe avenues don't lead to making a billion.
You can't run x86 Linux quickly on macOS. What you can do is to run ARM Linux quickly on macOS and run x86 programs inside of that Linux with Rosetta quickly.
Luck will never find the person living in his mom's basement playing video games and griping about inequity.
GraphQL Queries and Mutations
The article, as usual, is terrible. I think this paper is more about figuring out the optimal step sizes.
The quintessential semantic use of <b> is for typographically offsetting key words in a longer text, like how 5th Edition D&D adventures do when referencing a monster that has a stat block in the Monster Manual. It’s not strength of voice, but it has meaning that the text be emboldened.
“ Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
> Though jokes on them, the more I am told that being right is wrong the stronger I become at voting right.

You're entitled to vote how you want, of course, but taking disagreement as evidence of being correct generally isn't sound logic.

> (I also fully expect this comment to also get flagged.)

I think we can do better, claims of persecution are just as tiresome as groupthink.
Or SETI@Home
2020 M1 Air here, still running strong and will soon hit 3 years (bought the day it launched).

So strong that despite finding the 15 inch air appealing just in terms of screen real estate, this current laptop doesn't feel dated. Especially since work provided me with an intel macbook pro with great spec but .. just doesn't compare with the exception of remote monitor count.
I truly doubt driverless vehicle obstruction will matter in an event like that.

Uncontrolled lithium battery fires throughout the city from EVs on the other hand..
nix run github:DeterminateSystems/flake-checker

What's the Niv equivalent of this?
> The US was established by colonizers and settlers and enslaved people, not immigrants.

Let’s hope we get immigrants and not colonizers or settlers then
Basically none of the rich people I know came from more than middle class parents. A couple came to America with nothing but a suitcase.
How is H going to explode out in space?
Buying the right lottery ticket is the closest chance to this being accurate. If you look at the percentages in social strata and honestly evaluate the logistical and cultural paths most people would have to access billionaire-level opportunity, it's apparent that American meritocracy at the upper echelons is a fucking joke.
I remember him from the 2nd hand copy of C++ Primer I bought from someone when I was interviewing for C++ jobs back in the late 90s. It was a little over my head at the time - C++ for dummies was where I was at!

Anyway, rest in peace Stanley. (Also kind of surprised there was no news about his passing in tech circles or HN until after a year - was he not as active perhaps, the last edition for C++ primer was in 2012?)
Alternatives: ranger, nnn, lf, mc
Yeah, Silverblue is pretty great. But Nix and Silverblue both require changes to your workflow. I like Nix more, but I don’t think one is objectively better.
This describes 32 bit CPU. As opposite to V8, SpiderMonkey, Mozilla’s JS engine, uses 64 bit words and NaN boxing, even on a 32 bit CPU, to represent a generic JS thing.
Or you are liable to go broke thinking your site can make money with only the "lovely strategies" without the "dark patterns".
I say the same thing about Directory Opus.
> I am not sure you can label Mexico "Third World".

I’m pretty sure you can say it’s a Third World country
I've heard complaints about other alternative computing approaches in that they rely on the assumption of arbitrarily precise measurements, which ends up being impossible or taking an extreme amount of time due to the way the physics of measurement works. Could you explain a bit why this is different?
If the black community is going to be persuaded by 4chan that "it is ok to be white" is a racist message that just suggests a mis-step by the leadership in the black community. The longer they tilt at the windmill the more silly they'll look.

If somehow that poll is picking up a real opinion then Adams has a point. That sort of racism has no place in modern society, it is acceptable to have any skin colour. And it is acceptable to assert that any skin colour is ok to have.

Which, coincidentally, is exactly the debate dynamic that Adams was likely trying to set up. The slogan is just too inoffensive and reasonable to complain about. The people trying to get worked up about it are just going to look bad.
Gamut – The Idea Editor
As named, the extensions called ‘Apple’s secret extension’ are not standard, they are Apple specific and it’s not just ‘tweak the semantics’, it’s custom and only turned on for Rosetta 2 because otherwise they would cause unexpected results for software expediting normal ARM behavior.
> A simple baseline would be competency.

You mean some arbitrary assumption about competency and the threats the populace faces.

Yes, government invariably could do a better job of protecting people, and the US government in particular could do a better job of protecting people. However, even with the US government, if you were to systematically dismantle it, there'd be FAR more deaths.

Take your example of mass shootings, do you really think there'd be fewer if there were no regulations, no police, no public emergency response systems, no import restrictions, no safety restrictions, no military, etc.?
> By this definition, the USA are a third world country then.

Not even close
If you think this is pessimistic, the worst is yet to come. The AI/ML genie is out of the bottle and the s/n ratio is only going to get worse.

>Of course, this can’t go on forever. Eventually people abandon those polluted streams. That’s what will happen after the Age of Information crashes.

No, this Age of "Information" (for want of a better word) has changed the meaning of language itself (and hence our thoughts themselves) so that words like "Truth", "Trust", "Information", "Right/Wrong" etc. no longer mean what they used to. Everything is in the service of Power and Money. Think of it as "Newspeak" in a different form and amplified beyond belief. Everything has changed/will change further and the sane/rational amongst us will just have to find ways to cope with it.
I clicked because I thought they were defining LLM developer as "someone training LLMs", but instead they define it as "someone integrating LLMs into their application".

If you also had the same initial thought as me, this is an excellent article - https://blog.eleuther.ai/transformer-math/ .
This problem is even simpler if you notice that the rectangle made up of yellow + green + pink is just 3x the area of the orange rectangle, by definition.

Since these two rectangles share the same width, the combined rectangle must have 3x the height of the orange one, making the height of the yellow rectangle 9.

This gives a side length of 12 and an area of 144.
Doesn’t mean it was autonomous, a lot of those Waymo vehicles still have drivers in them.
Nvidia Announces a H100 144GB HBM3e Model and Anticipated Business Model Shift
Stellarators difficult to build? The construction of Wendelstein 7-X [pdf]
Orbstack does not seem to run Windows.
There's one weird thing that I've noticed with Daft Punk's The Brainwasher, my brain has two different interpretations for the main loop offset:

If starting here, I hear a loop that starts with fast notes and then has a silence.
(warning: loud) https://youtu.be/RdVEQbWjaTE?t=91

If starting a few seconds earlier, the previous melody seems to fuse with the part that starts at 1:30, and it sounds different, like a bit slower.
(warning: loud) https://youtu.be/RdVEQbWjaTE?t=80

Not sure if that makes sense, hopefully some one else also hears both versions! I'm assuming it may have to do with interpreting the last note of the loop as part of the next one, but it could be something else too. It really is a brainwash :P
"I didn't knew it would make up disease" — The doctor at court who used DoctorGPT
> This doesn't feel right to me when the article points out the problem is a failure of Mexican government and citizens to properly address the problem.

Cleaning up Imperial Beach is very low on the Mexican government’s priorities
Parisians will certainly disagree: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/paris-only-skyscra...
Look at the median incomes throughout the us, then look at the living expenses, and honestly consider whether speculative investing would be even remotely feasible, or even a morally defensible financial strategy with other people relying on you? Not being put into a position where other people rely on you— elderly parents, relative's children, etc— is pretty lucky in most socio-economic sections in our country.
Is it inconceivable that despite the government providing protection from enemies, foreign and domestic, that we still don't live in a risk free society?
I only use utm to run chrome for testing because when run natively with selenium it steals the window focus all the time. I want the test to run while I'm coding and also see and interact with it.
I mean how right were they? There's hundreds if not thousands of cases of people "going against the grain" and then dying of Covid. People did die because someone wanted to spread some ignorant ideas about what they thought of the pandemic.
I have a completely absurd way to use python to approximate the integer solution. Right answer achieved via hopes and prayers:

from PIL import Image
from math import ceil
given=3
def is_orange(p):
return 200 <= p[0] <= 255 and 100 <= p[1] <= 170 and 0 <= p[2] <= 50
img = Image.open("p9-problem.png")
w, h = img.size
o = (sum(is_orange(img.getpixel((w // 2, y))) for y in range(h)))
T = (sum(p[:3] != (p[0], p[0], p[0]) for p in (img.getpixel((w // 2, i)) for i in range(h))))
L = ceil((T/o)*given)
print(L**2)

Think about how many ways this could be tricked.... :)
When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon
Right, a simple sanity check on the rects would have shown my mistake.
Yeah, I think we're talking past each other. Sorry.
Where you are born is a matter of luck, and not just in governance. You can directly correlate success in the US to the zip code you were born into.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/learning/how-much-has-you...
My mother is American. Her parents met during ww2 in Brazil, where my grandfather was stationed. So maybe it was a lie that permeated those involved with the war at the time. I accused her of spreading fake news this morning after reading this and she couldn’t recall where she had heard it.

I just asked my wife, who is from Hong Kong, if she had heard this as a child and she said she had not. Her grandparents were really young during the war and Brits and Cantonese were pretty segregated until after ww2, so it might make sense that this didn’t reach her family.
Its virtual... but passthrough, I would like to see something thats virtual but runs on pure cpu x86 or arm, do not care how slow.
What a weird defense; Grant Ave/North Beach is nowhere near Outside Lands (in Golden Gate Park).
Is there any good place to track all updates related to LLMs?
LLM and opensource llm is iterating fast. Finetuning, pretrain, RLHF and all new libraries that support relevant features. Is there a place that we can find all newest updates?
how many people have been convicted under these sections in the last decade

i'm guessing less than 5

it's true that federal prosecutors have the freedom to prosecute local cops without themselves becoming unemployable, in a way that non-federal prosecutors do not
Well, you could make the argument that during the 2000-2020s the US was at war with undeveloped countries that definitely had no chance of dethroning the US technologically; this is different because China is in a position to do just that.
> I wonder if a whitespace <div> with a right aria-label could fit the bill.

Aria-label only works on interactive elements. I believe except the div has a `role`, screenreaders will ignore the label.
> have you spent thousands of dollars out of your own pocket for the tools

Yes, but it is not my job. I would estimate my tool's at around $5000 or so. Collected over a little under 2 decades of riding.

> Do you have to maintain a commercial brick and mortar

No. But a Japanese bike shop has the same tools and brains as the stealership and charges half as much.

It's well known dealers upcharge for everything. If you don't believe me, find the best 3rd party shop in town and simply compare hourly rates. You may even ask them to itemize a modestly challenging job (CV boots for a car, maybe) that would need a skyjack. I would bet dollars to donuts the dealer price is 1.5x-2x more.

"Special" motorcycles (e.g. euro motorcycles in America) are NOTORIOUS for absurd dealer upcharges. It wasn't until ECUs started becoming smart that this was a problem. I could service a 90s-0x's BMW, for example, for pennies on the dollar to BMW's specification in my own garage. This is why Right To Repair is so important. Car dealers are the tip of the spear in the fight against it because they lose quite literally millions because of people like me. It's one of the reasons I will never own an EV as long as I live. They are (especially Tesla's) money printers on 4 wheels for the dealer.

My Triumph, for example, has no fundamental reason I need to plug in and tell the ECU I bled my ABS. No reason AT ALL. They do this because if you do the work yourself they can still charge you an hour (~200 dollars) to plug their tool in, re-enable your ABS, and give you a finger wag about doing work yourself. This is the John Deere-ization of consumer vehicles. This isn't unique to Triumph. Many consumer brand cars have the same problems. They even build in anti-tampers (such as the oil filter I had to literally break into pieces to remove). Modern vehicles are hostile to the consumer. The auto lobbies would tell you this is because the "advanced technology" but in reality it's used exactly like John Deere does. That is, to screw the consumer out of every single penny for even the most modest of trivialities.
That you cite this as the alternative shows the limits of your perspective.
We got it the same day! I coded >100k LoC (the whole core of the OKcontract codebase) solely on that machine, without any external screen.

Working flawlessly since day 1.
I'm overall intrigued by SimpleX and I'd be excited to see it undergo a proper audit. Even if the "no IDs" thing is more of a gimmick than a useful feature, a competitor to Signal would be great given the direction it appears to be heading.

I'm a little put off by parts of their advertising though. Their homepage states Signal can be MITMed given the "operator's servers are compromised", which I don't doubt is true to the extent of the actor stealing, maybe, phone numbers and metadata? But my understanding of Signal's protocol is that a compromised server couldn't intercept _messages_, which is what I feel they're implying.

According to GitHub, their (mono?)repo[1] is split 33% between Haskell, Kotlin, and Swift, which is nice.

[0] https://simplex.chat/docs/protocol/simplex-chat.html

[1] https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/
Instead of that, just build it so it doesn't need training and can autonomously build the next generation of itself.
For one it is making the rather large assumption that the image is to dimension.
The fact that you're using the word "deplorables" kind of gives away your views here. There's room for debate but going for herd immunity would have been utter insanity to be frank. We know how bad uncontrolled Covid would get from places like Italy early in the pandemic and it wasn't pretty. You're basically saying you'd be willing to accept millions more people in the United States dying of this disease so we can maybe get back to a functional economy in 3 months. And the deaths would increase as we ran out of things like ventilators and asthma medication that we're actually shown to be effective treatments. Your view is incredibly callous.
> though I assume some of these are made by OEMs

They are.

The "no, _they're_ the idiots" rivalry between engineer / manufacturing is almost as old as time. A design team almost never gets to just "hand off" the files to the manufacturing side without some amount of issue/fix iteration happening.

It's not just the physical engineering of a device, though. If the $thing that is responsible for QA/Test or even programming keys into $widget goes down, the factory has to stop and that's _expensive_ so you get the guy that designed it out there to fix it _asap_.
You have no idea how much you have going for you that you didn't have to work for.
In the TikTok posted in the thread I doubt that the risk of a crash in that situation is less than without the Cruise stopped in the middle of the road. So more dangerous, not less. How safe it is in another situation is irrelevant to any pedestrian risking getting hit there.
“Adults older than 60 saw about a 42% drop in mortality risk when they walked between 6,000 and 10,000 steps per day, while those younger than 60 saw a roughly 49% reduction when they walked between 7,000 and 13,000 steps per day.”
But then that just circles back to the OP about how they're not really autonomous.
Given the number of possible alternative realities they could have been born into it, I'd strongly suggest luck has already found such people.
It's even possible had they not been born into such an easy existence they might have ultimately done better for themselves ("possible", not likely).
Weeds are frontier plants and create an ecosystem that's viable for more demanding plants. Very few [native] weeds are bad on the whole for the ecosystem that it's part of, and many prevent the destruction of habitats due to climate change, bad soil, human activity.

Many times, those animal habitats have certain habits (poop, eating, etc.) that encourage the ecosystem to thrive. For example, an animal might eat the seeds of a tree and then poop further away from the tree. When the undigested seed inside fecal matter is strategically placed away from the shade of competing trees, it's allowed to grow. But in order for that to even happen, we need what many consider weeds to create healthy fertile soil with a healthy water table (which will dry out and become lower if the ground is bare and dry). A water table that is lower than normal will make it difficult for all but the deepest root growing plants to thrive.

Many weeds will thrive in harsh conditions like that and "prep" the soil for these plants including trees.

And of course, this digresses from the point of the article somewhat. Pollinating insects need plants to pollinate in order to survive. Many weeds are great for this purpose and will allow important pollinators to thrive. Along with urbanization, the temptation is to clear away all these "undesirable" plants - but we're also hurting the pollinators in the process.

It's good to see some research pointing to evidence to what should be common knowledge. Maybe we can convince people to stop making those ridiculous barren lawns and let some native weeds grow [emphasis on native].
fwiw nixpkgs has significantly more packages than arch (including the aur), and those packages are also significantly more up to date. No other repo comes close to nixpkgs in this regard. This has been the case for quite some years now.

https://repology.org/
My guess is that they proved this for a class of target functions, and it's the proof that is novel (novel at least insofar as the chosen distribution of target functions is concerned). Practitioners always knew, but lacked the proof.