skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends more on the game at hand - proton, the tech itself is absolutely amazing and can sometimes run windows apps faster than they would run on windows itself. But video drivers have glitches, strange use cases, etc, so certain games may require extensive tweaking, or even more rarely won’t work even with that.

Steam makes most of the configuration seamless, though.
Masayoshi Son is desperately needing to make some smart choices after making some of the biggest investment blunders in history through the Vision Fund... I agree this one is the way to play it safe with what could be the best investment in his life.
Possibly a dumb question: can the tension between the two rates simply be resolved because one method measures an old historical rate and one method measures the current rate, and it’s been dropping over time? Or are they both measuring the same time periods?

(I assume it’s not that simple, but it’s very hard for me to understand and reason about data that involves looking back in time and space simultaneously)
This was certainly a real problem, as was the whole IMF rescue business in the 70s, but not across the whole postwar period. More could have been done with the oil wealth than turn it into a real estate boom, for example.

Realistically the UK gave up sea power status sometime during WW2 when we were massively outbuilt by the US, and the collapse of imperialism as a ""business model"" took care of the rest by making us fall back on our own resources rather than simply taking them.
I'm kind of confused what the use case of this would be.

So it's essentially saving you the trouble of having to put code into an "int main()" and putting declarations before it?

And then attempt to run the code after every line you type. Are there other examples of REPLs that work like this rather than all the state of execution being held in the REPL like I imagine Python does do it?

Can it Tab-complete identifiers I introduce in it? Actually, I suppose it's a single 115 LoC bash script, and I really don't mean to dunk on it, it's a neat little experiment. It just kinda made me wonder what REPLs are made for, for the first time. :D

Like I imagine a very basic "interactive" coding session (for any language) could also be achieved by having an editor open and saving after each line, or having that done automatically, and then in another terminal some script watches for those changes and compiles/interprets/runs it.

A REPL like python's is more like... having a debugger attached to your program, but it just sits at a breakpoint and let's you tell it what code to run next, and you can inspect variable contents and such.

Seems like languages that compile to machine code don't work all that well for REPLing, eh.
We have this 5,800 line long shell script that does our testing. The framework records the exit code. They started logging the exit code to a dashboard.

So now line 2 is exit 0.
Google Books Ngram Viewer shows 'digital rights management' taking off around 1996.

It's close though. An annoying clash that can't be fixed now.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=digital+rights...
I've mentioned it before on this forum, but before I was a software developer I spent over 10 years as a land surveyor.

I mention that because it involves a lot of road layout and roadside work setting control points, &c. I used to find so many empty flasks of booze, empty syringes, and empty pill bottles in the weeds on the side of the road that drivers had thrown out the windows of their vehicles. Even in some rural areas this was the case.

The point is that there's still a lot of Americans driving impaired. There's a certain amount of risk involved in operating or riding in a vehicle even if you are stone cold sober. You never know if other drivers are impaired until it's too late.
CyberChef has been my go to for a while for this sort of stuff. Easy to use GUI, can stack multiple commands fairly easily.

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
I was interviewed once, so I came to their office and they had part of interview by remote key team members, they have never showed up. The local team said not to worry, this happens, come again tomorrow. Thank you but no thank you.
It ceases to be a good measure: it captured your preferences properly prior to becoming a target.
Consultants who get teens into sororities: “I told her: your TikToks are cringe”
I'm interested in the style guide point about using non-gendered pronouns for LLMs - if I were to write a style guide, I would say, "use the gender appropriate for the persona designed by the company," for example Siri-the-llm would be "she" but ChatGPT or Sydney would be "it," a male persona llm would be "he," an explicitly nonbinary one would be "they," etc. Respect the company's style guide etc.

But I can see the potential for harm in over-humanizing by a news outlet. I'd be interested to hear what their decision-making process was for this point, if it was obvious or if they went back and forth, what arguments they had for which direction, etc.
good == honest in this context
Can Guyana Avoid the Oil Curse?
Ask HN: Weird Acid Leak in My Glove Box; Could It Be Lithium Battery?
I keep some documents and cords in my glove box. Recently I also bought the Travlog Battery Jump Starter [1], a 2500 Amp 12-Volt lithium battery, and kept it there for use in emergencies.

Yesterday I took the Jump Starter out to use for charging some electronics, and I noticed a funny smell on my hands. Didn't think much of it. I put the Jump Starter back after use.

This morning, driving to work, I opened the glove box while stopped, and saw something shocking: My thick HDMI cable was stripped to the wire, almost severed in two, with bits of plastic and wire strewn in the there. What to make of it, was it some animal that got there and chewed it up? It seemed more like acid damage to me. And then I remembered the jump starter and the smell on my hands, and wondered if it leaked. But when I inspect it, there are no obvious signs of damage or leakage.

So my questions are: Under what circumstances do lithium batteries get damaged and leak? Could it be the heat in the glove box, or the knocking around as I drive? And how do they leak? As far as I know, they don't contain acid, so how come I see signs of acid damage?

I have also read about the danger of Hydrofluoric acid et al in such situations. How concerned should I be?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B6VZZ68R
What your saying sounds like profound next level wisdom and on a very surface level does make sense, but think of this: an org can create a measure that captures the relevant preferences properly, and everyone is quite happy with the results because the team continues or slightly modifies what they’re doing and lifts up the product to lift up the measurement and life is good.

And then over time they start realizing they don’t have to lift up the whole product, but just a small piece to increase the measurement. So they do that and the measurement goes up, but the product doesn’t get better because they’ve found the path of least resistance to raising the measure. This is really the underlying crux of Goodharts Law. So it was a good measure probably until it became a target.

So what is a manager to do? “Capture all [the] preferences properly” as you put it? Probably not because that quickly devolves from measurements to long form status reports, not even measurements, because it’s impossible to capture all dimensions of this with measurements, so one has to reduce the dimensionality a little.

This is a philosophical problem not a technical one. Though your point does seem superficially correct, in practice with real teams the second and third order effects from the measure becoming a target dominate.
the article says that Wu is effectively still on the job, and Wu's own LinkedIn page claims he's still the boss there.

Having myself been part of a joint venture with the Chinese (in the education space), and having a Chinese employee go rogue, I only advise against western firms (even large ones with clout) from engaging in such ventures. The Chinese will take control by any means necessary and bleed you dry from the inside.
> “Spotify killed revenue flow for anyone outside of the publishers and big artists/ players. Spotify basically killed any money coming from the physical distribution”

To the contrary, physical distribution was only available to big artists/players. There was mostly no way for independent artists to get into the record stores.

Streaming (via distributors like DistroKid) made it possible for millions of independent artists to make money from their music.

Source: DistroKid founder here. Hi.
> In Europe there's some geography known as "the alps" which has been used for years this way by the countries surrounding it.

Well, that is hardly solution for Poland.
TIL: Compuserve still exists. I haven't thought about them since dial-up days.

Do these shells never die?
My hypothesis is that a relatively small number of people actually care that much about digital privacy.

People generally prefer convenience over privacy
Thanks for the great answer! I didn't think of friction.

We recently got a picture of our first blackhole, time to snap a picture of a star or a blackhole slurping another star. Would be quite a sight. My Google-fu only returns artists renditions.
This is one of the best presentations of such a complex topic, or any topic for that matter that I've seen in a long time!

To the authors if they happen to find themselves here, I say: bravo!
> It sounds like a profound wisdom and on a very surface level it does make sense, but think of this: if you can assess that a measure is a bad one, this means that you have your own intrinsic preferences, otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell that!

That assumes that the ones working towards a specific KPI are both the ones noticing the metric is bad and that their are noticing it before the negative consequences have destroyed their product / company.

Often when the issue of optimizing to KPI comes up, it seems that exterior people notice the problem but not interior ones, or otherwise the issue is noticed after the fact but not before a meaningful change could be affected.
The nodes that transmit the votes back to the central office are, indeed, much higher value targets than the voting machines. In any case, the voting machine data is preserved, both digitally and in printed form (this last one generated at the end of the voting, before the ballot is locked down for transport), so any discrepancies can be flagged by individuals and parties.

The printed summary is displayed publicly at the voting places and the data is encoded in an easy to copy QR code.
bully broadband “builders” beg for billions, build bupkis.
Seems low. My pihole (and I’m not trying to compare products just mentioning what I use) routinely blocks about 25% and we don’t tend to go to any shady sites.
Having economics degree, I figured this out of evolutionary dynamics theory -- a more sophisticated creature will outplay a less sophisticated (in this case it's an employee with creativity against a manager that just uses KPI).

Later I found out this rule was articulated in mid-XX-century in sociology -- the Goodhart's law: "a metric stops being a good metric as soon as it is used to make decisions".
Northvolt raises $1.2B convertible note from BlackRock
USAF prescribe 500mg-1gram of nicotinic acid for bad backs with ibuprofen.

Take on an empty stomach 30mins before hitting the gym and that was an actual prescription and instruction from a USAF doctor!

It works, I've done 3grams over the course of a day and shifted 15 tonnes of soil using a spade with a bad back. Its better than any painkiller I've ever taken.
> Parking is a problem in a lot of European cities.

On the flipside, the inner cities are much nicer. You have fewer of those seas of concrete just for parking. I wish it was even more so and street parking as well as open lots would just not be a thing. If you really need to come by car, put it in some underground parkade (for $$$). Cities are too dominated by cars. They should be there for people, not the other way around.
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I wish more companies would be able to work with KPIs as _one_ part of the equation, rather than the be all end all. I haven't seen a lot of that :(

In my experience, data driveness quickly leads to an unhealthy focus on short term results - cause that's usually what's most straightforward to measure and impact. What you get is teams hunting local maxima. What's missing is the guts to follow a vision/intuition regardless of what the numbers say, at least some of the time.

It seems hard to accept that we can't measure everything that impacts the long term success of a company, but I don't see why that typically translates to not caring about it altogether.
2023-08-17 : https://archive.is/9aJts
The implications of AI having consciousness seem to assume that this means AI, whatever form it takes, will then be afforded rights and identity markers in ways similar to human beings. The assumption here is that because something can be shown via argument to have consciousness, that means society will re-orient itself to adopt that ethical position.

I actually think the opposite will happen: if an artificial system is ever shown to be conscious, this will instead blow up the entire metaphysical structure that assumes consciousness = rights and usher in a different worldview that separates human beings and "alive" things from machines via something else, most likely biology, being designated "organic."

In other words, if machines are shown to be conscious in some way, the concept of consciousness will probably be considered no longer useful and replaced with something else.
Hmm, apparently that is more demanding for locations than I thought

Though

> The plant takes advantage of the natural steep sand dune landform of eastern Lake Michigan
Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) Died in 2010. His Final Album Is a Family Affair
It’s about the average person not being able to understand what the machine does whereas everyone understands elections on paper. Also just refer to what the ccc has done to any electronic election system that was considered for German elections.
I was a bit surprised that Luxembourg is actually quite a bit bigger than I had thought, especially as I wasn't too far off with the population. In my mind it wasn't SO much bigger than the other small European countries it's often lumped together with. Time to visit, I guess :P
For software devs AI will mostly be a golden goose because they can leverage it to full extend to increase their portfolio of solutions they can sell.

> Tthe contractor they screwed over should charge them x50!!!!

IT already does this after they were outsourced. They build up IT companies that take at least 3 times as much for consultation and you still need to employ local IT that actually implements the solutions. And their wage also doubled as well.
https://archive.is/iFoUe
The questions aren't quite gibberish, but they sure tried hard to make the meaning opaque.

> Lines don't go around things

Sure they do, just not straight lines.

> Draw 3 circles, one inside the other

Yeah not sure what they were aiming for here. This could either mean "two circles with one nested in the other, and also draw a third circle next to it" or "Draw three nested circles". I'm assuming the ambiguity is on purpose so it can always get marked as wrong just in case some savant manages to get everything else right.

> Print the word vote upside down but in the correct order

Words sure do have an internal order. e.g. "eesph" is sheep with a jumbled order. I figure the correct answer here is ʌoʇǝ.

> Draw a line through the two letters that come last in the alphabet

Figure out the letter that comes latest in the alphabet and cross it out. Repeat once for the remaining letters.

Of course doing that entire test flawlessly, let alone in 10 minutes, is absurd.
Debian has already largely caught up with Canonical. Their peak desktop experience is imho 16.04. Unless you need to update every half year, Debian is almost same as LTS Ubuntu, but no snaps.
First the main.tf example with my_bucket and my_configs is bad it's using the same resource names.

Second I run pretty complex metas (for_each, etc) and have never encountered an issue..

Third, using a random string as a bucket name? So we're abstracting the bucket name which will just confuse someone who does aws s3 ls, or looks at s3 in the console? If Ops is dealing with an outage related to s3 they have to go in and figure out what (I assume) tag of someones name is attached to what bucket. It's 5am here and my brain is barely churning, I'm trying to figure out how else you would know whose bucket is whose aside from tagging the bucket "dalton."

I could possibly see if you use the SAME ID for the developer for EVERY object and I could go in and say "Oh, 112345123145 is Dalton and his s3 tstate is in the 112345123145 bucket." But you're randomizing all of them.

Then you do random IDs for namespaces as well.. This feels like an ops nightmare.. It's great if you have devs with the same names I guess.
I've used GroupAdd[1] and GroupActivate to alternate between windows of the same app but it doesn't ignore minimised windows. Maybe you can ignore minimised when adding to the GroupAdd list some how.

[1] https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v1/lib/GroupAdd.htm
Do people still try to do KPI? I haven't worked in an organization that has done that in ages. Its so well known to not work and backfire, its a giant red flag if an organization implements it.
I was responding to " So make the factory, AC, etc... vary the load! " that proposed blackouts as solution.
1. Ahaaa, so this is where Cassidy went when he stopped working on Elementary OS.

2. The website has a lot of things, and still it is devoid of almost all information. What are the laptop's specs? How much does it cost? Or is it still just a plan, not reality? (I get it, it's not for me, it's more like OLPC if I read correctly between the lines, but it just makes the price and specs more important). I see some hints that their main target is the US... which sounds weird, at least. Not saying that people in the US doesn't need affordable PC, rather saying that with being the biggest market for ebay and craigslist, possibly used PCs are nowhere in the world are as affordable as in the US. With that said, of course it's their company, and they are free to support any country they want.

What about the OS? I see it has Gnome, but otherwise that's it. Had to look up on distrowatch to find at least a few more sentences about it, beside the overly repeated fact that it won't blow up if you yank the network cable. Still not sure why should anyone use this instead of... any other distro.
Managers lurve to have standard KPIs that they could apply to all engineers (for the purpose of fairness of course) and then be able to rank engineers.

At the same time, they forget that not everyone, not every team is working on the same thing. So the KPI (whatever it is defined to be) is not measuring anything of value.

But a manager will never admit that they are measuring the wrong things. So engineers are stuck with poor practices. Go improve your number of commits even if is meaningless.
Nah, the OP is talking bollocks. The angels I know are all middle/working-class entrepreneurs. There is no upper-class conspiracy holding people back, there just isn't much money. Non-Brits don't really understand that class is not money. Red trousers are closer to farmers than businessmen. If you are British and want to be a tech investor, you go to the US too.
https://archive.is/n1mSf
>It's easy to capture at places that produce lots of CO2.

Not easy enough apparently, the US gov started subsidizing/taxcutting this because there was demand for CO2 in enhanced oil recovery but the price was too high.
Thanks! I was going to ask you on your comment, thanks!
AI's? If the CxO's, wanna-be's, and their Board Members, cronies, and friends actually permitted such rational policies...then 90% of CxO's would have been replaced a century or so ago, by savvy old Executive Assistants wielding Magic 8 Balls.

Rule of thumb: ~95% of upper-level managers are alpha-type primates, in mostly-vanity jobs at the top of the primate social pyramid. They got there by primate-style pyramid climbing. The only legit social function they serve is keeping the rest of the primate pyramid behaving, by occasionally making threatening noises and baring their teeth. But from their own point of view (usually) the rest of they pyramid only exists to validate, serve, and be abused by them.
That's a good point too. The extreme example of this is how Fellini recorded audio separately in the studio, not while filming.
You seem to be conflating AI (in general) and strong AI. They are not the same thing at all. There have been industrial uses of AI techniques (I'm going by the definition from the 1956 Dartmouth workshop) for decades. And what's said in that video is a good example. We take recommendation modules for granted nowadays. They are applied AI.

Disappointing for sure, if you're still waiting for a sentient robot, but they do something we thought was limited to humans back in the day: going to a bookstore, and having the owner tell you "hey, I know you enjoy mystery novels taking place in England, I might have something new for you".
It was attempted/done already though i dont remember their success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83fEtvKVVVw

In general, as a luxembourger, i am intrigued by doing it, though there are several hurdles:
- lots of villages, with gardens you cant walk through
- various highways that are illegal to cross probably, and dangerous, though feasible.
- some big cliffs that are very dangerous. I refer to some of the images in the original post
OpenEBS Jiva/Cstor Performance Benchmarks
Does it? You can perfectly use tabs, just dont mix them up (also a source of Python pains)
I use out-of-the-box defaults for uBO -- would I notice any difference with uBO Lite?
> A election only means something because of the consent of a large number of average people to abdicate their freedom to someone else based on what they feel was a fair process.

Even though paper voting is not perfect and has its own issues it offers several distinct advantages over electronic voting (whether online or offline):

(1) Paper voting and counting is inherently manual process. Therefore, election fraud (ballot tempering, stuffing, etc) is also manual and is hard to scale up.

(2) Because paper ballot fraud at scale involves many people it is harder to hide and easier to uncover and prove.

(3) Because of its simplicity, election observers can go deeper in the paper counting process and in some cases (e.g. Ireland) participate in counting and publish their own numbers providing additional independent confirmation.

(4) Chain of custody of physical objects (paper ballots) is easier to understand for an average people and easier to track for an average election observer.

(5) The last and the most important -- it is easier to audit and explain to skeptical and bitter supporters of the loosing party that it was a fair fight and their loss is legitimate. Without this last point everything else is meaningless no matter how objectively better it is.
I think

Our hard work
by these words guarded
please don't steal

(c) Apple Computer Inc

might have been tested in the Psystar case.

(I personally also find it quite pleasing, esp. compared to the Oracle soup which in my mind fails to resonate as a poem)
Anyone can apply. You'll need to go there in person. I just don't see that as a huge hurdle, but, if you have a medical reason to be unable to be there in person, you can petition the election court. They are extremely reasonable with accommodations that don't create problems for their own tight schedules (remember the logistics are anything but trivial).