skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For your first question, I don't know for sure but we called these "counting problems" when I worked with lattice models in protein structure prediction. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_protein for context and we spent a lot of time eliminating solutions that were identical after rotation, and self-intersections (there's a suprising amount of exciting math associated with determining if a chain specified using local angles intersects with itself in absolute 3-space.
It’s naive to think that social engineering is so successful due to a lack of training, and that training will thwart it.

My old boss and I were recently laid off because my company (Livingston International) has been doing massive layoffs, because the company has been losing clients and money over repeated phishing attacks. We always shat on the assumed tech-illiterate person or persons responsible for us now having to sign in multiple times per DAY with MFA. Right before we left he mentioned this suspicious email he got the other day… and he clicked on it. It was one of those internal “we got you! Be careful next time!” emails. Come on man.
Probably should have clarified, the goal of the project was to generate a valid track
And many CEOs run multiple companies and is part of several boards of other companies.
Why is it suddenly unethical for a mid level, much less paid employee to do so?
I was required to upload a selfie of myself with my genuine name and username scribbled on a piece of paper. I quickly closed the page and never tried again.
If you infiltrate a system and see sshd.core in the filesystem, you're not going to snarf that up?
I meant forever in the literal sense.

Then we won't have to deal with these bro scientists anymore.
Poor funding, demographics, crime, academic underperformance.

There isn’t a consistent factor, just a combination of the above. Teacher pay and conditions are also worse in state schools.
I kind of wish Microsoft would make "MicrosoftLegacy" for repos like this one, so we can see all of the old things they've open sourced.

The real thing I wish they could / would open source is that old pinball game.
Kedi masada.

In Turkish if you say kedi you mean the cat. The copula is in the third person is conveyed by an empty word at the end of a sentence.

Masada bir kedi var.

There is a cat on the table. A cat is on the table. A cat is said as one cat = bir kedi.

*Bir kedi masada.

Doesn’t work. This says a cat on the table. It’s an ellipsis.
When you're remote, you can work wherever you want including HCOL locations. You'll also be able to work with better engineers since you'll be pulling from the global talent pool and not just that within commuting distance of some office.
“Radical centrism“ (rejecting this dichotomy) are failures that either can't go beyond the crank armchair or which languish in political parties that are about piecemeal reforms (some Green parties).

Simply produce something better than this dichotomy. But apparently that is too hard.
>> Familiarizing myself with TikTok or whatever the kids are into these days would fill me with dread.

You don't need to. Don't give them devices until they're 16, and then implement the built in parental controls that come on every smartphone. When they are 18 and can buy their own, they can do what they want. I'm guessing your actual issue isn't familiarizing yourself with TikTok etc, but is instead facing conflict. I'm not saying it would be easy but pretending the above isn't a workable solution is self-deception.
There isn't really anything else just like it. The cRPG genre is the closest you'll get, but they are usually more combat focused. Baldur's Gate 3 just came out and is very good. Detroit: Become Human is another great story game and was recommended to me by someone who also enjoyed DE.
Seconded. The new feed is simply awful in every respect.
But that also exists in the AI world. It’s called „fine tuning“: a LLM trained on a big general dataset can learn special knowledge with little effort.

I’d guess it’s exactly the same with humans: a human that received good general education can quickly learn specific things like C.
If the CEOs based their decision on these sort of posts I seriously have to question their leadership ability. I think the main reason why we see management in favor of RTO is because in my experience WFH exposed how little contribution comes from management.

In my experience many managers (at all levels) like to make the "informal rounds" where they go around the office and have chats with everyone to see what they are doing (instead of e.g. Looking at tickets or waiting for the weekly meeting). That mostly stopped with WFH, so suddenly many in management felt like they are not working anymore. The thing is this absence was often helping the engineers etc to be more productive.
Oh I mixed it up with Hipchat for some reason. Turns out Hipchat's not even the same company.
Good one, I certainly managed to forget this and had "1" firmly etched in my brain.
> Lenin himself actually uses the term to describe the USSR, seeing it as a necessary transitional step from (normal) capitalism to a socialist system:

More accurately, from the actual existing system in the territories which became the Soviet Union, which were not a developed capitalist system (the prinary point of departure in Leninism from Marxism is bypassing market capitalist development as a prerequisite).

> Noam Chomksy is using the term "state capitalism" to describe a USSR that is much later in its history, or a USSR that is a thing of the past.

Its a fairly standard critique, which Chomsky did not originate, among non-Leninist socialists that Leninism and similar systems get stuck in state capitalism, even if the intent might notionally be to be transitional, in practice it never is (except in things like the Chinese example, where the transition is to not-exclusively-state capitalism, rather than something more like socialism.)
If it's training on the same data that it generates, there's no new information being added into the system. You'd be reinforcing everything that it already gets right and wrong, which would lead to zero improvement.

That said, it's common to use large models to generate synthetic training data for training other smaller models. In this way, we're able to transfer knowledge from one model to another.
I'll be up front and admit I failed combinatorics once (by far my least-strong math), but I'd start researching in the chemical compound enumeration space.

It's a similar problem (restricted attachment points, 3d double-counting).

E.g. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/237998/p%C3%B3lya-s...
A few years ago I wrote a little about how we might harness something like this to preserve user generated content when the platform collapses.

https://blog.eutopian.io/beating-the-samson-option/
_All_ deposited money is created from a loan. Trace it back through the system (assuming you can) and you get to a loan creating a deposit.
While I agree that the housing market is significantly "planned", it's also not centrally planned. Zoning is determined by local citizens, which tend to have the opposite incentives to responsible growth, housing prices, and infrastructure costs. Also, the thing that make many housing decisions work is infrastructure, which is handled through entirely different mechanisms.

>If we let the market build enough homes to meet the demand, an apartment would be incredibly affordable.

I'm not entirely convinced that just letting builders "build more" is going to solve the issue. The reality is that companies are only going to build what they can sell and/or lease at a level that makes it profitable for them to build it. The three factors are then land value, materials, and labor costs. Materials and labor are a separate thing, so you're effectively saying that changes in zoning would decrease the land value. At this point, I'm not really sure that you'd see that impact. In many of the cities and areas where you'd want more density, the land values are already quite high, and it's unlikely that bringing in that density would decrease the land value.

What you're banking on is more housing increasing competition and bringing prices down, which would be unlikely to happen, mainly because of how long it would take to go from an empty lot to "ready-to-move-in" apartments. At best it would slow down double digit rent increases, which would obviously be a benefit, but it wouldn't suddenly make housing affordable.

From my perspective, we need to incentivize the building of affordable housing, rather than investor driven product. An investor driven product is going to try and have higher end finishes, novel floor plans, and other amenities to distinguish it from the market to maximize rents and valuations. Affordable housing can be built with normal finishes, reproducible floor plans, and comparable amenities. That's what will keep the cost down for the other two factors, material and labor, so that the end result is something that's affordable. The biggest problem is that no one in commercial real estate really likes building this kind of product, unless it's in an area without much direct competition.
I'm interested in clicking your link just not through a shortener. Perhaps just my own bias but figured I'd surface that reaction here. Much more useful to see the domain I'll end up on.
I understand the idea behind this page (and I really liked it), but the title made me think of more a "philosophical" question... do any webpage exists if nobody visits it?

If the page is a static HTML you could say that yes, it exists in the webserver as a file. But what about dynamic webpages.

The frontpage of New York Times (I guess it is generated dynamically from a database)... does it exists if no one access NYT? Do any dynamic webpage exists if no one requests it? Being available and ready to be requested doesn't mean the webpage exists... does it?
> The only option as it stands is privatising the NHS

So we have a shortage of doctors, nurses and hospital places.

Currently the state keeps a lid on costs because it sets the wages of about 1 million people nationally (more or less, its complicated, but doctors are paid in grades, and those levels are nominally set nationally, same with nurses, however scotland, wales and NI have some level of independence.)

We have huge pent up demand (7 million people on the waiting list)

And we have a limited and shrinking skilled workforce.

It takes a good 12 years to train a doctor. 6 to train a nurse.

what do you think will happen to wages when the whole thing is privatised?

Yeah, so privatising healthcare isn't going to make things cheaper. especially as the NHS is pretty cheap per head by EU standards.
Can you explain what you mean by John McCain discovering there is no will to fix it? Have always admired him but I'm unaware of his efforts to change, outside of voting for ACA and admitting Obama is a decent man.
Yes, meals are just one of the many expenses.
I’m sure there’s exceptions. Come on, are you really telling me if you saw the number 10.000 you would think $10? 10.00 or 10,00 fine. But 10.000?
I don't think it's theirs to publish. Also, the version bundled with Windows was apparently just a demo. The full game had more tables.
Fascinating to see old-school automation meet new robotics more and more.
2014.

> These are the same files originally shared at the Computer History Museum on March 25th, 2014 [1] and are being (re)published in this repo to make them easier to find.

[1] http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-early-...
I know what the article about, but the comments of the post are full of unrelated new-car-hate, at least that's what I saw.
Well, not exactly that, but check out https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball .
Curious how long this page has been up for at this point. Since 2015?
this needs [2019] in the title
DSG are wonderful but an added complexity for the sake of what? Shaving 0.5sec 0-60mph? Saving the hassle of slow traffic driving? Both can be fixed by learning to drive.
RLHF and LLM Evaluations [video]
Agreed that taxation is atrocious. But the problem isn't taxation per-se but who pays the taxes.

Paying ~40% taxes at 100k, effectively ending up with 60k, which considering the current cost of living, insane rent crisis and general inflation, is a major problem.

Paying ~40% taxes on a few millions? I think that's fair and isn't going to inconvenience anyone or put them in a precarious situation.
Not just "open-source", but actual MIT-licensed (aka Expat-licensed) Free Software:

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/LICENSE.md

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat

Huh. Was not expecting that. Nice.

Edit: Of course they won't actually mention Free Software, because they don't want to acknowledge Free Software. smh
Only the route exists until visited. Only then does the page exist.
The comment reminds of a story I heard as a kid where some famous eexperimental physicist wanted to test a new theoretical member of his lab by giving him an extremely complicated shape and asked him to determine the volume.

Several days and derivations later, the theorist reports the volume, after which the experimentalist tosses the shape into a volumetric flask and determines the volume by looking at the difference in flask volume levels. (I am unable to track this story down to its original)
"Spheres"

Have look at the pic in the article, not exactly polished ball bearings.

Those would be easy to ignore and nature makes plenty of more spherical rocks. Most rivers have shores with better looking "spheres".
Pay for it, employ monkeys to stare at it, raise lots of JIRA tickets and generally live in a state of misery.
On the subject of weird stuff on a URL, here is a prime dog: https://geonnave.github.io/primg/#17976931348623159077293051...
> I'd add that underlying all that / in addition to that is the fear that people aren't putting their jobs first.

I'm a terrible manager. I openly admit that "real life" comes first, and constantly remind people on my team that it should for them, too. Only you know what you want and need, and the company will do what's best for itself, so it's only fair that you do the same for yourself.
Ask HN: Best course(s) to fill education gaps?
Long story short, I am a self-thought developer and have made a good career for myself (12 years now), but I feel like I'm missing out on things I would have learned in college.

I'm almost 40 now, and I've thought about doing something like WGU or something to get a degree, but I really don't want to lose my nights since I enjoy spending time with my kids.

On top of the usual lack of deep knowledge about "Data Structures & Algorithms", I'm wanting to learn linear algebra and discrete mathematics.

Is anyone aware of any MOOCs or micro-degrees that would cover these topics? I want to get into some data analysis too with a side project, but I want to have a better foundation in math first before I go into that direction...
In other words, kill them before they kill you.

You know the funny thing about those terrorist violence stats is that a lot of them seemed to cut off around 1974. I noticed that a few years ago. Then I did some digging and it turns out that the cutoff just magically happens to be "just right" for excluding a lot of far-left Weather Underground bombings.

The thumb has been on the scale to discount violence like the Berkley Bike Lock basher. Or, wasn't there a right wing figure punched, sans provocation, right there on video, and the judge threw that one out? I don't track those guys so I don't recall the name, but I do recall the outcome.
> Arrogance does not disprove earnest belief.

I'm not saying I'm absolutely positively 100% sure that he intentionally shills for Russia, but consider that he has been in Russia for quite some time now but only got the passport after he started tweeting from pro-Russian angle.

> But many others said similar things.

Yeah, but I kinda expected more from him than "US bad, then Russia must be good".

> Did he say anything about the war in 18 months?

I'm not aware of anything after his initial "okay, I won't talk about it anymore since you ghouls are concern-trolling me after I got this one wrong", but I'm not really tracking his hot takes on social media anymore. I think he recently switched to well-articulated and insightful commentaries on US preparing to attack China or something...
If you have to resort to "they're just lying because" as an argument, you should probably just shut up.
Wifi chip can wake the phone up just fine via a WoL packet, or by pattern matching for any packet content.

Also nobody forbids apps from just waking the phone periodically to perform any actions, incl. making a notification.
From some ethical standpoint, it's absolutely fine to engineer some creature for slavery, as long as you make it ugly and forbid anyone from discovering how many chromosomes it has, and life can be much better than it is now. (Reference work of fiction omitted to prevent spoilers)
I can vouch that it has been up at least that long.
He doesn't. One of his previous attempts to go from Florida to New York ended after he drifted 30 miles south of where he started.
Voted into power by the Tory party membership, not the general electorship.

The problem Truss had was she was ignoring advice from the experts and proceeding based on faith. They couldn't weather the storm, they had already run aground and were about to break up on the rocks.
Don't worry, Russia isn't in any position for this high-tech research. Anyone who's been anywhere close to capable of doing this work has left since 2014 or 2022.

China is a bigger risk factor, but it's not like they would care about the direction of western ethics anyway.
http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/4d1c39a4a366b09f65e17a935aefde...
Anyone understand why there is Xenix.asm in there?
Behind the Scenes of Starfield
These messages are backed up regularly using third party servers.

Does this affect security?
Reasoning with Language Model Is Planning with World Model
This is a braindead, Hannah Arendt-level take. Not all violence is made equal. Offensive violence and defensive violence are different. Defense of the innocent is an uncontroversial good thing. Nazism advocates violence against the innocent. That makes violence against Nazis defensive in nature. Which makes violence against Nazis a good thing. Nazism has no such justification for its violence against the innocent. That makes the Nazis rounding up minorities and exterminating them offensive violence, and in case it needs to be said, a bad thing.
Labor markets are not capitalism. A commodity production system using prices for exchange with productive instruments under private ownership is capitalism.

If we define capitalism to mean "anything that supports my argument" then yeah, of course you're right.

> For example, the doctors guild could say that surgery costs a million dollars.

And they would have exactly zero customers and go bankrupt, because another competing doctors guild would do the surgery because they value saving lives over driving luxury cars. Labor market.

> Does that mean that surgeries objectively costs a million dollars?

If you paid it, then it objectively cost that much when you paid it, no?

> But what that regulation looks like isn't objective in any way, and it will shape the prices you will see, so labour prices are subjective.

Yeah, labor prices are subjective. Observed labor, performed at a specific price, performed over a specific time, is objective.

How much labor and what amount of resources and what processes took place to transform those resources for any given product is very much objective. These values might change over time as some labor becomes more costly or resources become more scarce than others, but that doesn't change that there is an objective measurement to what it cost to make some thing. Not some thing that might exist in a day or a week, but some thing that already exists.

You can thump your subjectivity bible all you want, but you're wrong.
Bad examples of what? It doesn't matter why big corporations keep outcompeting small businesses. They simply do. Thus “planned economies” are still a thing, not something “antiquated”.

It doesn't matter if you think that these are caused by impurities in the system.
I know someone who is trying to get $300 out of her engagement ring set. It cost around $5K from Zales and the center stone is I believe 3/4 a carat. It’s a real diamond, but unfortunately the clarity is bad. Not to the naked eye of course, but if you really zoom in, it’s all sorts of bad-looking. Apparently she’d have been better off with a smaller but clearer diamond.
I might be a mediocre developer but I find ChatGPT invaluable for my job. It finds potential problems in my code, suggests solutions, helps with libraries I don’t know about, helps in drafting solutions when given a high level description of the problem. It makes mistakes but I don’t expect it to be perfect. As a non native speaker, it also helps me with my English (didn’t use it for this comment).
> light and dark matter worlds

What does this phrase mean in this context? I may be misreading, but usually "light" and "dark" are euphemisms for "good" and "evil".
> would harm no one but himself.

Is a danger for himself but also to other ships that could crash against that structure. The sea is a busy road and this thing can easily sink a small boat carried by the wind, or crush somebody if carried by a wave onboard of a bigger ship and falling over a worker.

Plus recent spy issues of people mapping sensible locations while pretending to be a lost tourist, that must be addressed.

Saving his life is just the cherry on top. To save the rescue team to risk their lives later is the main goal. The man is an idiot that should know better and respect the sea.
You're speaking as if floating point representations of numbers have zero utility. One approach here could be numerical. An algorithm could work with vectors represented as floating points. Another approach, which depends on the relative angles and lengths of track pieces, may be to encode each piece as an (angle, distance^2) pair. Many angles can give us an exact distance^2 values.
FTA -

Your browser retrieved it from the browser of someone currently viewing this page. You're now a part of the network and someone who loads this page in the future may get it from you!
Why don't you have n+2 track?
The Ship has not sailed. The ship is still on its way to port. Complete internet surveillance is arguably an unstoppable force on the way to shore.

I think when it gets here there is going to be a lot more trouble for cybersecurity experts due to a lack of clear understanding around what is considered legal activity or not from them. Right now the obscurity is something they hide in - they can choose whether or not to reveal they found a vulnerability.

But what if that's not always the case? What if you get "caught" before you are able to show you had no intentions of doing anything malicious?

We can have the trial by fire we usually do, and let a round of innocent people face unjust consequences and use them as martyrs to create new laws - or we can use some foresight and build some legal frameworks in advance that enable researchers to be "by the book" and not worry at all about legal repercussions
If I could pass my ideal version of copyright to the world, this is what I would dream:

1. Copyright is 20-30 years in length, maximum. (We can argue about that.)

2. For computer programs, a copy of all source code, build tools, and final binaries must be supplied in an offline format (maybe a Blu-ray Disc or a few?) to the Library of Congress to store, duplicate, and preserve as needed. This content will then be released on the copyright expiration, and the offline format is meant to render computer hacking ineffective for stealing the work. For software as a service that is continuously improved, new discs must be received yearly.

#2, I think, already has precedent considering the patent system. A patent is meant to describe how to perfectly recreate the patented technology (minus, maybe, a few trade secrets), so why not copyrightable software?