skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I clicked the link and read that. It wasn’t actually very relevant and did not help me understand the original article. I eventually figured it out on my own by, yes, examining the two examples they gave and proving to myself how it works. The article has a bad explanation.

Untouchable numbers are a very simple idea. Any elementary school student who knows about divisors and prime numbers can have it explained to them in about ten minutes. The Wikipedia page for the article should be pitched so that a layman can understand it.

I understand that if you’re writing a cookbook, you have to decide if you’re pitching it first time chefs who need “how to boil water” explained to them or professional chefs who just need references for some ratios. What serves one audience wastes the time of the other. If you want to know how init works, you probably already know what Unix is. If you’re looking up a particular species of mushrooms, you probably know how genii and species work.

Untouchable numbers is a simple concept. It should not be pitched at professionals first. It should start with an explanation that a middle schooler can understand and then move on to advanced explanations in later sections.
AI Image Generators Make Bias Worse [video]
Why should I, the developer go out of my way to accommodate people going out of their way (by installing an adblocker/script blocker) to break my app? If you're going out of your way to create a non-standard execution environment, any breakages is on you.
Same story here. But I recently moved to Tide prompt. It's pure fish and really amazingly fast.
On the contrary, it's the people who haven't done advanced studies of mathematics that tend to be confused/wowed by the popular mysticism surrounding it.

There is also a certain type that leans into that mysticism for personal gain, which IMHO is irresponsible and promotes the myth that mathematics is inaccessible.
> python

Typing? Get off my lawn.
No you’re fine, timing just happened to be at an odd moment, but TF generally has become the new standard and IMO has greatly improved our ability to deliver. I also worked with cloud formation in the past using a custom Python framework. Making changes was MUCH more involved and keeping track of breaking changes was very difficult. TF solves a lot of problems with tracking state and adding new components.
? The size of the pipe does not change, the substance in it does not get much more denser or faster.. I just don't see it. Maybe in combination with a turn towards public transport as ride & drive..
You can even! Just gotta put a little leg work in.

AdGuard and Hush for ad blocking, both free.

VLC for video, has built in ftp server which makes loading your pirated videos on super easy.

foobar2000 for music. Hands down the best music player, also has ftp support for easily loading all your favorite pirated music.

Bitwarden for password/totp management.

Joplin for notes (free). GoodNotes for pdf/sketchnotes (not free but worth it imho)
From a user perspective, I'm going to have to disagree. You have it backward.

Atari 2600 you were playing something like Pole Position. Gran Turismo 4 was released on PS2. Gran Turismo 7 for PS5.

What improved from Gran Turismo 4 until 7? Model detail? Better grass and reflections? Some improved physics simulation? It looks great, don't get me wrong, but it isn't a massive improvement in user experience for 23 years of development.

VR racing could be a riot. Maybe VR is that leap forward, but VR is another tech we've been trying to get going since the 80s.
This Instagram AI-model makes $10M a year
Who is Lil Miquela and what sets her apart?

Lil Miquela is a virtual influencer, a creation of the American AI company Brud, boasting 3.5+ million followers on TikTok and 2.8+ million on Instagram. Importantly, she is not a real individual.

Despite her virtual existence, Lil Miquela has crossed into the realm of reality, collaborating in advertising campaigns with real-world models like Bella Hadid and prominently featuring in Samsung's #teamgalaxy initiative in 2019, reportedly amassing earnings exceeding $10 million.

Why the shift towards virtual influencers in the corporate world?

Corporations are increasingly embracing virtual influencers for their marketing endeavors. According to Ted Murphy, the founder of influencer marketing firm IZEA, virtual influencers offer an array of creative opportunities and adaptability. They can be present in multiple locations simultaneously, converse in various languages, and even undergo transformations, rendering them exceptionally versatile for diverse marketing strategies.
Union relationships are always secret? News to me. Taft-Hartley even has:

> Sec. 211. (a) For the guidance and information of interested representatives of employers, employees, and the general public, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor shall maintain a file of copies of all available collective bargaining agreements and other available agreements and actions thereunder settling or adjusting labor disputes. Such file shall be open to inspection under appropriate conditions prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, except that no specific information submitted in confidence shall be disclosed. - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-8190/uslm/COMPS-81...

These are generally available from https://www.dol.gov/agencies/olms/regs/compliance/cba . Here's one such so-called "secret" agreement for "General Motors Corporation and International Union, United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) (2003)" at https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/81116

So by your definition, the members of that union are not colluding.

Labor providers and labor consumers are not rivals, and they do not compete with each other.

You need to demonstrate how it is an "unfair market advantage". Simply saying it is so it not enough. It could be a fair market advantage.

"workers are rivals who are competing to sell labor to the market"

Ohh, that a funny one. You've just claimed that all trade associations are a form of collusion too.

The Orange Growers of Florida - made of rivals! - get together to promote Florida Oranges so are colluding to take market away from Californian orange growers. Well clutch my pearls!

You also think Microsoft is colluding with HCL, Accenture, TCS, and Chinasoft because Microsoft has negotiated a preferred status with them to find contract workers, rather than be open to the entire market of possible contract workers.

If it makes you feel better, think of the union as a co-op owned labor provider who made a multi-year contract with a company as the exclusive provider of a certain type of labor. Would that be "collusion"?

> when these workers agree not to compete

You've confused two different issues. 1) "workers are rivals who are competing to sell labor to the market" refers to all people who could be hired. Most of these people are not in a union, as we clearly see when the company hires scabs.

2) "A union occurs when these workers agree not to compete" generally refers to the people already working for a company. At least, I have not heard of a union started by people who were not employed and decided to use collective action to improve the market salary rate. Thus, they are not in the same market as #1.

The union for #2 acts as a single economic actor, just like you interpret the company as a single economic actor even though many managers may be involved ("collude") in setting new salary levels.
In a way this story is uplifting - that $500 stolen from a donation box on a climbing route is so surprising and infrequent for it to make international news. It’s something I’ve always loved about the outdoors/adventure communities: in general you can trust folks more than normal to not steal from your tent, ignore calls for help, or screw your over so they can have a better time.
Britain’s failed experiment in boosting low-wage sectors
How can students ever know the truth when history is written by the victors? :)

While similar, I believe revisionist history is different than llm hallucination, but hard to say which is more dangerous. I guess it depends on the content. I suspect an llm won't jail you for questioning it, just happily hallucinate an apology and new answer :)
Agree. Moar of this kind of thing plz.
They should name it EPCOT or Fordlandia.
> Using the stronger form emits stronger instructions that have a bigger performance impact.

I mean, I don’t think that's true in this case. Both forms generate the same instruction on x86 (lock cmpxchg for both). Godbolt: https://godbolt.org/z/vcMK9j6WP (And it appears to be identical on ARM64 as well.)

> If you’re using this kind of thing, it’s specifically because performance really matters and you want to avoid that synchronized compare and exchange that a mutex uses.

A full fence is not any less expensive than a seq-cst cmpxchg.

Do you have any idea why Java is missing acq-rel cmpxchg? I know they are late to the reasonable memory model party but it seems like an odd choice not to just import the C++ memory model wholesale. It's proved to be a decent model in practice!
The UK is becoming a third world country at a rapid pace, don't you worry.
I had a very similar situation when I moved not too long ago.

I couldn't arrange for gas service before I moved into my home because the gas company's web site would only accept Google-blessed addresses.

I had to actually move in, and then go down to the gas company office with a copy of my lease to prove the address exists.

Strange, since at some time in the past the gas company payed many thousands of dollars to run gas service down my street. But, like in most big organizations, I suspect the web people and the company data people don't talk to one another.
Years ago there was a guy with one of those "Humvee-like" Hummer truck who would park this huge thing in a narrow residential street. Here's the streetview of the actual street (sans Humvee): https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4485729,5.4735559,3a,75y,171...

It stuck out ridiculously far, cars had trouble passing, and I wouldn't be surprised some slightly wider cars ended up being "stuck" there.
mRNA and Why It Matters
Linus Sebastian addresses error handling and ethics in a new video
Both are mutually heavily dependent on China and India economically and politically, so it makes perfect sense that they were included. Most of the countries added are those where at least 2 of the BRICS are coexisting economically or politically.
20.88*24=501.12
It's one thing to rob someone, it's quite another to ask for five bob to get out of the way.
Kind of interesting that at that location it'll get fed from UC Davis grads more than UC Berkeley.
Frankly, it's clear that you haven't studied mathematics in any real depth.

Everything can be described (read: approximated, modeled) in mathematical terms; that's the whole point! That doesn't mean mathematical objects and processes must exist independently of those descriptions.
Somehow reminds me of Constellation Software.
> The fact that climate science was evolving 40 years ago is used to discount all the articles from the 70s that said we were entering a new ice age.

The cooling predictions were that if levels of particulate pollution, which causes cooling, continued rising they way they were their cooling effect would be larger than the warming effect of greenhouse gases.

We responded to the particulate pollution problem by massively reducing particulate emissions. With particulates no longer a significant factor the models of those that had predicted ice ages predicted warming.
>Third party scripts are blocked or just fail to load all the time

What's your strategy for dealing with jquery not getting loaded?

>APIs change suddenly, etc.

That's going to be an issue regardless of you check whether the script is loaded or not.
This has shades of RoboCop, 1 & 2.

But it will probably end up being far more like the city in Demolition Man. Bland, no surprises, no swearing, etc.
What cruftware? STM32 will run your code right away after reset clears[0].

0. https://github.com/cpq/bare-metal-programming-guide
Challenges in Finding a Universal Product Manager
You don’t need to regularly pay off your credit cards to improve your score; you merely need to make the payments on time and not have too high a utilization ratio.
Cheaper cards with more memory that work at least well enough for the games available. Its been easier to get AMD cards for a while now. More options in stock, more consistently; at least to my casual observations.
Is it just me, or do other people smell desperately insecure wealthy males?
It’s true. Large eink displays get expensive really fast.

I went with a 7.5 inch display for the eink calendar / smart display that I am selling.

I am definitely feeling the limitations, but there is still a lot you can do at that size.

Have a look: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...

And maybe once the business grows, I’ll have the volumes needed to get better prices on the bigger displays.
>If we're going to be trusting some random guy's binaries, I think we are in the right to demand that it is byte-for-byte reproducible on commodity hardware without having to reverse-engineer the build process and figure out which nightly version of the compiler is being used to compile this binary blob that will be run everywhere.

David Tolnay is not a random guy.
Of course they could have used Gtk from Objective-C, it is a C superset after all. However it'd be the same as using Gtk from C and the point of using Vala was to use a higher level language which understands the gobject object system and works with its memory management so they wont have to care about it.

I have used Vala a bit some years ago to make a Gtk program and it was MUCH easier using it than using Gtk from C directly, so i can understand why they went with it.
That very much depends. There is a ton of shallow fiber and a well placed shovel would cut right through. I've worked with a company that sells software to manage infrastructure and the amount of stuff in the ground is pretty impressive.

Personal experience: 380V feed 40 cm down (too shallow, but: old cable), sewage shallower than that because the main pipe was itself too shallow and this was an old vacuum system (newer ones are usually positive pressure). Stuff also doesn't always stay at the depth at which it is buried and sometimes there are repairs which end up less deep than you'd really like to have them because you don't want to dig up a bunch of stuff around it as well.

I'd be very wary of sticking a shovel into the ground in a city without having access to the relevant data. Keep in mind that you may be held liable for any damage.
Yes please! From your comment (maybe not intentionally?) this sounds like a bad thing. But for inhabitants being able to have stricter rules is a blessing.

Ideally that would work like with the countries: different cities have dramatically different sets of rules and compete for citizens. Private ownership allows for much more flexibility here.
Anything that reports to credit bureaus counts.

Also I am always surprised when people don't treat CC expenses as they would cash...

CC interest has always been intolerably high to me. I totally get emergencies and now I am out money. I don't get rolling balances when that costs you like 2% per month.
UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more
The entire point of this library is to provide more granular info (individual CPU names, OS kernel versions, build numbers, etc). Platform provides some info, but I feel that making a more approachable and feature rich library for system info is important.

Take this example: just the other day, I was trying to write a simple Python script for Fedora but could not find an easy way to find the Fedora version - I had to manually parse /etc/os-release. This library is supposed to alleviate problems like those and, in doing so, make checking hardware specs and OS versions easier.

The other problem is that platform does not return easily parsable output. This is supposed to provide standarized output across OSes.

This code is in alpha and does not have some of the features that platform has... but those features are coming soon :D
This blog post isn't insightful and doesn't even manage to present a consistent case against IDEs, and boils down to a sequence of weak strawmen. Describing a IDE's job as making it easier to type is pure nonsense and fails to even acknowledge what a IDE is and what it adds beyond text editors. In the very least, IDEs make it easy to navigate projects and run searches for things like source files or symbols, with the latter supporting types of searches not available in pure text searches such as finding where a function of a particular subclass is called.

This sort of article fall into a fallacy trap which is failing to understand what "integrated" in "IDE" means, and proceeds to fail to address what exactly is integrated.
roop was largely maintained by henryruhs, but he wasn't the repo owner. Roop's repo owner decided to shut it down, and FaceFusion is the continuation.
Without knowing the details of Apple's offering in particular, often there is "no interest" only in the way that overdraft charges and/or insufficient balance fees are not labeled as interest...

And even if you do manage to pay everything on time, on average you're better off with a credit card (pay after 30-60 days, i.e. 45 days average, and get at least 1.5% cashback vs. pay in four installments over 6 weeks, i.e. 3 weeks average, and get no cashback).

Merchant fees for BNPL are also higher than they are for credit cards, as far as I know.

> As another example, it allows you to purchase a new laptop while selling your old one, such that you don’t hVe time without one at all.

You can do the same with a credit card – you'll have at the very least 30 days to do so without paying a cent of interest. For most BNPLs, the first installment is due immediately at the time of purchase.
UX design patterns for loading
In Linux kernel context, you could plausibly prevent write stalls (other than NMIs) by masking interrupts for the write section. I guess there are some seriously slow NMIs though and we would prefer something that worked well despite those.
Only because it is in pre release and not yet available to the general public. Apple isn't a fountain of free money. Of course they will collect on loans.

Affirm for example routinely sells past due debt to collection agencies. Has Apple said they won't do the same?
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted. Look at a map - Solano County literally runs along San Pablo Bay in Vallejo.
I do use them! I just wasn’t using them in a healthy way. I took a picture and am paying them off then plan on using them to pay bills then pay the balance every month. Before I would just swipe the card and make minimum payments and watch as the balance slowly crept up to the max. I starting paying them all off earlier in the year and some of the credit cards immediately did a 10x my credit line, then I thought “why not get a MacBook Pro?” Like I said, on me but credit cards are just a cognitive hazard for me and short circuit my brain (which is what creditors love!)

At least with Affirm or BNPL I know the exact terms and know it’ll be paid off in exactly a year. It’s much easier to reason about for my impulsive brain vs “loan that lasts forever from the credit card company and you pay absurd amounts of interest because you’re dumb”.

My mom declared bankruptcy twice so I’m still doing better than her but it’s hard to get an innate sense of “we don’t have the money for that” growing up in a household where if there was money in the bank it was spent ASAP.

On the bright side there’s more money in my 401(k) than I owe in debt, which is nice. I know the optimal strategy would be “contribute to the match then use the rest to pay off debts then increase” but I just don’t trust myself.

It’s like I’m in an eternal struggle with a rational me and an impulsive shopping spree dopamine seeking me, that just wants immediate gratification. Luckily it seems like with age the rational one is getting stronger.
The ending of the article is weirdly anti-cash
That's like saying Half Moon Bay is in the Bay Area because it's in San Mateo county.
Oh for sure man. What if fascism meant something else, and you were one, and you got punched??? What then???
Almost certainly this. Not just chicken but breading ingredients, the oil they fry them in, probably salt content. Maybe sauces too?

Oil sounds like the likely culprit to me. About a decade ago a bunch of cities, including Chicago, started regulating the types of oil that could be used for frying in restaurants.
They are relatively low-contrast (compared to laser print or black pen on white paper), which may or may not bother you.
I have had this bookmarked for a few years to do as a side project but the acquisition of a new son has put all this aside for the foreseeable future unfortunately, perhaps you can make use of it:

https://alexanderklopping.medium.com/an-updated-daily-front-...

Would strongly recommend using another language than PHP to make it work, but the LLM du jour would probably translate it to any other language for you.

Here was the original post that inspired that one: https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b40...
No, AVs will increase traffic. The only thing that holds traffic back from yet another explosion is that it requires a licensed driver to operate a vehicle. If that requirement goes away there will be much more traffic than there is today. Kids, packages, empty cars sent from one spouse to another...
A used iPhone 8 from 2017 is less than $100. This model runs iOS 16, and is pretty likely to receive security updates even after iOS 17 is released this September. It should remain secure enough for most unbanked transactions.

The iPhone XR (2018) and second generation SE (2020) are also pretty cheap on the secondary market, and will run iOS 17.
also the 'memory wall', remember memory b/w did not grow at pace with moore's law. sure there are ways to mitigate it but that eat into chip budget and reflect when real world performance is calculated.
> Even the expert opinions that Bayesian methods embed as priors -- many of those are subjective priors which are not 100% rational.

Of course ! Like big bang it needs one initial allowable 'miracle' and does not let irrationality creep in through other back doors.

As I mentioned earlier, I choose the formulation that suits the question that needs answering.

Not sure about the 'what works' vs 'analytic correctness'. How would even one know that something works or have a hunch about what may succeed if they have no mental model to base it upon. Often that is implicit and not sharp enough to be quantitative. Bayesian formulation helps in making some of those implicit assumptions explicit.

Other than that I think we mostly agree. For example both the formulations have a notion of a completely defined sample space, the universe of all possible outcomes. That works in a game of gambling. In business often you do not know this set.

Anyhow, nice talking to you. I enjoyed the conversation.
Remote workers are treating their jobs like gig-work
I mean, I'd consider Half Moon Bay as part of the Bay Area, sure.
Games indeed do not use CUDA. I wouldn't say AMD is doing great in gaming GPUs but at least their GPUs work so they're not locked out of the market. AMD tends to give better price/performance.
Interesting that they won’t infer a location from an IP or other information they have.

Right now, Google maps tells me I'm in suburban Atlanta. It's off by more than a thousand miles.
They will also become a magnet for all kinds of protests and movements against the elites/wealthy.
My car, and several of my recent rentals, have had automatic high beams. They’re usually not great about not just blinding people. Turning it off is one of the first things I generally figure out.

That said, yes, high hoods and higher, brighter lights make this a distinction without a difference.