skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a Linux BDFL that everyone refers to for any disputes. He can't be there forever unfortunately. Who knows how Linux will be 10 or 20 years without him.
FTC Says Microsoft Leaked Its Own Xbox Plans
Single-Dose Psilocybin Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder
Is it worse for a hundred billion corp to be off by a dollar than for a hundred million corp to be off by a third of a penny?
Does it matter to you how you got there, or do you only care about the result? If the former - chatGPT is not creative (but maybe we aren't either) - if the latter - ChatGPT is (but so can be a very simple dumb code if it runs for long enough).

I could write a program that will generate all possible programs of given size one by one and run that program till the internal memory state starts repeating. I start with programs with memory size N, let's say 10 bytes, generate and run all of them, then go to N+1 and so on.

Given enough time and memory - that program will write every possible batch computer program smaller than K and solve every possible problem of Kolmogorov complexity ~K.

Assume we have a computer fast enough for this to be practical. Is my program creative? It just bruteforces programming. But eventually it will get the result you want.

Creativity isn't well defined without specifying the hardware, time and memory constraints.
> Men's ratings of women follow the same principle. Practically everything does.

The OKCupid data doesn't bear this out. Men's ratings of women's attractiveness is fairly symmetric. Women's ratings of men's attractiveness is highly skewed and unrealistic.

This asymmetry is a fundamental law of online dating, as inescapable as gravity. If you were genuinely ignorant of this ... I really don't know what to say.

>And I'm telling you, from the female side of the exchange, it takes nearly nothing to be in the top 20% of profiles (could be done in 10 mins of thoughtful effort) and even less to be in the top 20% of conversations (keep pants zipped).

Of all the guys you swipe right on, what percentage are below 5'9?
You can call it out "hey you just made that up. Think hard and give me a real answer"

I don't know if "think hard" does anything but it seems to work and if I was the one making chatgpt I'd certainly have configurable keywords like that to tweak the generation settings - mostly so I could skate by on cheaper queries 90+% of the time and then have a fix when they fail
It is good that they kept the classical crypto along. However, the general tendency towards quantum-resistant cryptography leaves me puzzled. From my perspective as a physics PhD graduate, I firmly believe that a quantum computer capable of breaking public key crypto will never be built. This is because as you add more qubits, there's increased interference between them due to the additional connections required.

It's similar to how FM radio works: there's a main frequency and several sidebands. When you adjust the tuner to pick up a station, you're essentially "interacting" with the corresponding station. But if there are too many stations, you may no longer be able to hear the music, and as a result, there would be only a static noise present.

This leads me to a somewhat cynical conspiracy. Imagine the moment when a curios government agency realises that building a quantum computer for this purpose is a futile endeavor. Instead of admitting this, they could perpetuate the idea that its construction is just around the corner. Then, act as a wolf in sheep’s skin and introduce everyone to quantum-resistant solutions, which are unfortunate to have secret hidden backdoors by having done more advanced research on them. Has anyone thought about this?
Copyright Holders in Italy Granted Power to Block IPs Without Judicial Oversight
in Italy after the unanimous approval of law 93/2023 (https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2023/07/24/23G00103/sg), copyright holders will be able to force all Italian internet providers to block access to a certain ip and/or internet domain, the penalty to those who refuse is a hefty fine, all internet providers within 30 minutes of the blocking request will have to confirm that they have blocked the resource to avoid more hefty fines.

This law will give enormous power to private companies, since all blocking requests ARE NOT SUPERVISED BY HUMANS, no judge or law enforcement will have to confirm the blocking, anyone who owns copyrighted content will be able to access a ticket platform (https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-shield-insane-iptv-blocking-system-revealed-and-easily-located-230819/) and enter a new ip and/or domain to be blocked (all internet providers will have to handle the ticket in maximum 30 minutes and confirm the blocking).

There is currently no whitelisting system to prevent critical services from being blocked by mistake, there is great concern among industry experts in Italy about the consequences of these blocks, already in Austria a similar law was rolled back (https://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-blocking-banned-after-anti-piracy-court-order-hit-cloudflare-230811/) since several times blocks have been issued against CDNs.

this law could conflict with net neutrality directives imposed by the european union, already telecoms regulator "Telekom Control Commission (TKK)" of austria after a series of reports (https://www.rtr.at/TKP/was_wir_tun/telekommunikation/weitere-regulierungsthemen/netzneutralitaet/nn_procedures.de.html) found that blocking ip addresses (for the purpose of preventing access to copyright infringing sites) could violate net neutrality
You can tell the theft thing is an excuse from Apple because they don't do things like allowing you to unlock parts you own, or even buy genuine new parts that definitely stolen without silly restrictions like needing to put in a serial number first and then contact Apple to pair it (this is probably done to make it almost useless for repair shops because they want to push their even more restrictive "independent" repair program)
There's only so many countries that will have a surplus of young workers though, and arguably they're ones with cultures/ethnicities least likely to be readily integrated into Japanese society. And such workers are likely to have better options available as other countries with more of a history of accepting immigrants look to remedy their demographic woes.
I say that as a Westerner with an ambition to spend some time living/working in Japan - but AFAIK the only way it would be possible currently is to legally marry my (Japanese) partner, so most likely we'll go elsewhere.
This didn't age well:

"[Okta] is one of the things that I can put in my toolkit to say, ‘Hey, we're gonna move faster because we have this identity component nailed.

Scott Howitt, CISO, MGM Resorts International"

That's a testimony from Okta's website.
No matter how much you want it to be, YouTube is not a utility. Antitrust law is the right remedy here. Solve this through market competition by breaking up the big companies, not speech stifling regulations.
Those are both treatable and not permanent.
The saltiness is much, much less than in some games (shooters, mobas) but a portion of every playerbase thinks they are the worst one even if they are not.
>but cars/car-centric infrastructure seem like a fundamental mistake

The issue with public transport is the first word, public.

In a developing place, good public transport is a way better option, as it allows people without higher salaries to be able to spend money on other things than transportation, which in turn grows the economy.

However, once a place is developed economically, and people can afford cars, the general desire is to have a form of transport that does not depend on other people. Public transport can be late, you have to deal with inconsiderate people, there are additional weather issues you have to deal with, e.t.c.

Same goes for living in apartments/condos versus having your own piece of land. Apartments of course are the way to go for densely populated areas, but with everything else equal, people generally would prefer to live away from others for very good reasons.

The key to solving transportation is 2 fold.

First, there should be massive investments into autonomous driving from a policy level. I.e standardized systems, hardware, additional infrastructure. We did this for airplanes, no reason it can't be done for cars. Self driving shouldn't be a matter of having to train a neural net to drive from vision alone, having a car follow a path that it can reliably detect from external markers.

The second is way looser regulation on electric bicycles/mopeds and investment into that sector in general. There is HUGE value mismatch on those things. A gas powered scooter is often as expensive as an electric bike ($2-4k for a decent build), and can reach speeds that make it ok on roads, whereas the bike is speed limited for assist, and has way fewer moving parts. $2k more buys you a 300cc motorcycle that is highway worthy. If there are more affordable options for ebikes as well as options with higher power and no speed restrictions, you will have a much wider adoption of them, beyond even the current high market for them. You can pair this with regulation on disallowing car traffic on sectors within cities during certain times.
Multiple AC standards is just fine, so long as all the sockets are physically different so you can't screw up. Electricians are expected to know all the weird rules and get things right, but normal people can't make a mistake so it works.

Almost all US houses have two voltages, but since the sockets are obviously incompatible it all works. I've seen industrial buildings that have more than one grid connection (and in one case they paid extra to ensure the grid connections went to different sub stations)
Perhaps, which is why I phrased it as a question.
As someone who works in Data Science at FAANG - if you look hard enough - there is something questionably wrong in every step of the data funnel.

And that's when I believe people do have a somewhat best effort to maximize profits. There are plenty of people that only care about career progression and think they can get away with lying and cheating their way to the top. They wouldn't believe that if it didn't work sometimes.

These medical studies are also run mainly to maximize profits, also by some career climbers. They are not run virtuously for the betterment of society.

So I would be astounded if they are as reliable as people might like to believe.

Maybe I'm just being grossly skeptical. Actually, I'd feel better if someone could convince me I'm completely unfounded here.
Hey! Thanks for your curiosity. This was news to us too. And I think we spent about a year thinking about this before we swapped for a bigger piggy! :)
I completely fail to understand the anti-theft argument, help me out here.

So the theory is that, once thieves will see you're carrying an Iphone, they won't bother taking it. But why? You're already being mugged, everything that's even remotely valuable will be taken. Why would they let their victims go, just because their valuables are more difficult to flip? "Give me all your valuables - oh wait, that's an iphone, nvm my bad you're free to go" is that the idea here?

And on being less of a target for getting robbed in the first place - you're carrying an expensive af iphone, chances are you can afford to carry a lot of other expensive valuables too. If you're worried about getting robbed, start with not carrying a device that's more expensive than a fridge.

My condolences to everyone who actually had to survive through a robbery. But I doubt it could've been avoided just because your Iphone was currently difficult to sell. People can get robbed regardless of their perceived wealth, it's a happen-stance crime.
Gotta pay to play.
What if the scammers told MGM they could play a game of chance to get their money back?
Terrible headline. The article provides does nothing of the sort, it's just a meandering, musing on the nature of scrolls. It's filler. Lovely magazine prose.
Using lasers and light sails small craft can be accelerated to a noticeable fraction of the speed of light.

We will be sending entire civilizations of nanobots, or at least small artificial organisms.

At 5% of the speed of light, including travel, reproduction & relaunches, a civilization like that at the center of the galaxy will reach the rim in 100,000 years.

At the nano level time effective massively expands. Activity at that scale operates with speeds many magnitudes faster than gargantuan Ent-like beings like us, can easily imagine. :)

It isn’t a journey suitable for humans, and our position here is changing rapidly decade to decade. The galaxy was never going to belong to humans, but hopefully our progeny.

—

Then there is hope from physicists, that harnessing stellar level energy will allow faster than light warp travel. That would let beings cross the vast spaces between galaxies.
You should give the user the option of disabling infinite scroll in the footer
TIL, thanks for the links
I love this part.

In contrast, I barely watch Youtube, so getting premium doesn't make sense and I know that everytime I get an ad Google is getting less money than what I'd need to bid to skip the ad. I'd like to be able to have a money pool to outbid ads that would be shown to me and get a decent experience instead.
> The leader of opposition has also called out lack of evidence.

That is not what he said at all: https://nitter.net/PierrePoilievre/status/170389391532824992...
> In response, India had him assassinated.

Why do people keep saying this like it's a fact? Often it's the same people claiming that the murdered victim in Canada should be presumed innocent of the accusations levelled at him.

In both cases, we should approach the accusations with skepticism.
Lots of comments about issues with dependencies and Graal. I suggest looking into Quarkus. Have had great success with and mandrel (a patched version of Graal for Quarkus). Quarkus focuses on creating Web APIs so wont cover it all but if thats what you want to do its great and builds native images quite easily.
What an asinine no-information comment. If you think you have have something of substance to say on the topic, say that.
Outsmarting AI through human skills – “Best game ever” – short film by K. Deák [video]
Archivists Back Up Nonprofit TV History Museum Before Sony Takedown
This is also the way to do it if you want a number that multiple nodes can edit independently.

When you sync back up, do a big tally at the end, and that's your final number.

(This constitutes a CRDT, and is known as the Positive/Negative Counter).
Very neat. If you ever have the opportunity to visit a steel mill I'd recommend doing so. The scale of the operation and the incredible energy and forces involved are out of this world, it's the closest you'll ever feel to visiting the lap of the gods without seeing a pyramid. I've lived in two 'steel towns', and each of them had their own cadre of thousands of workers who gave those towns a particular atmosphere. It's like an army, everybody has a role in keeping the material flowing and the work product delivered as a continuous stream that you can usually trace back for many decades. The gear can be anything from made a few months ago to 10s of years old and it's all part of an immense machine, parts of which are being replaced or in maintenance all the time.

It's not rare to have factories attached to the factory (typically on the same complex) to produce either tools, materials or special purpose machinery. These can be pretty impressive by themselves. And of course plenty of those use some of the steel that was produced right next door. And then there is the education department. Not content to just hire people and put them to work each steel factory has its own internal education track to ensure that people will be able to work smoothly together and with sufficient knowledge to ensure that the product made will be up to spec.

It looks so simple, a piece of rebar, a pipe or a rail from a railroad. But behind each of them there is an enormous amount of knowledge and process control to a degree that is most impressive.

Seriously: if you have never visited a steel mill, go do it.
> But the search element includes the proper support for accessibility by default, where the ARIA role requires a developer to remember to use it.

The `<search>` element also requires the developer to remember to use it. If the developer omits the `<search>` wrapping from the search elements or replaces it with a `<div>`, it'll still "work" (except accessibility won't be wired up), same as if they omit `role=search` from another tag.

> Plus semantic HTML provides untold assistance for bots, to help them understand the web page — whether that's a search engine bot, machine learning, reader mode, translation engines, or any other computerized system looking to understand the page. Semantic HTML conveys more human meaning to the machines.

I'm failing to see how the human meaning conveyed by a `role=search` attribute isn't completely isomorphic to the meaning conveyed by a `<search>` element.
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Bad news. There’s more censorship since he took over. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfi...
It's just like economics. A small minority is rich, the majority are poor.

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/comparing-income-sex-redist...
One can enter physically a theater and watch a movie without paying quote often. Depending on the timing and staff you may not be confronted for a long time or at all.

Does that mean theaters don't really care or obligate consumers to pay?
amazing! Does someone know something like this for yaml? (does not have to be cli)
Thanks for explaining and for your work!

Not sure I have questions, just generally interested in making it easier/lighter weight/built-in to constrain ambient authority (for example, to mitigate supply chain risks), thus have it be done more.

The Polyglot sandfox feels very loosely analogous to Deno per process (and thus subprocess) permissions, though it looks like ISOLATED and UNTRUSTED can limit a bunch of things not possible with Deno.
If I am visiting Twitter once in 3 months, I will still need to pay 1$ per month? if true, then even if I'd like to use Twitter more often, I will quit.
What an idiot.
Why do screens not count?
Findings: In a randomized, placebo-controlled, 6-week trial in 104 adults, a 25-mg dose of psilocybin administered with psychological support was associated with a rapid and sustained antidepressant effect, measured as change in depressive symptom scores, compared with active placebo. No serious treatment-emergent adverse events occurred.

I treated my own depression in the 1970's with magic mushrooms, so this confirms for me that I was onto something. I just wish it hadn't taken 40 more years for the world to catch up.
If they are being stolen it doesn't work.

If the whole part won't be used it will be stripped to components and resold to the same repair shops anyway. Yeah the profit margins will be smaller per phone but they will just steal more.

Apple doesn't want phones fixed because Apple wants to sell more phones, plain and simple. There is no other incentive.
I think it's easier for people to rationalise a simple cut of each sale rather than a fee for each "unique" installation. In the first case you can calculate that percentage easily in a spreadsheet and account for it in your business. In the second case it's totally unknown how to budget for. Should you assume 1, 2, 5 installs per purchase? How much of your revenue does that account for?

People would rather have a higher fee that is certain than a lower but uncertain fee (of course no fee would be best).
Recruitment is open for our first-in-human clinical trial
I had a friend from Singapore whose name was Muk (pronounced muck).

That confused everyone who were sure they heard him wrong, so he went by Mark instead.

Seemed very sensible and made introductions easy.
South Korea is already down to 0.78 https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1163341684/south-korea-fertil...
How often do you start up your IDE a day?
I got explicit sexual images on my facebook scrolling. It felt like 1999.
So, what's the next fork going to be called?

Or has the acquirer somehow plugged Monty's favorite end-run around the acquisition game this time around?
This is a good example of the kind of case study I will point to when someone starts to get cranky with my unyielding principle of putting the entire business inside a single SQL database.

When you have geo replicas and point-in-time restoration capabilities which can synchronously bring 100% of the business back from the dead in a matter of seconds/minutes...

How many $8.4m days before a complete rewrite of all systems would be justified? If you are going to entertain a rewrite, why not use one system to rule them all so you can audit one thing and move on with life?

This industry does not seem like a good fit for non-traditional technology stacks. I'd strongly consider putting my entire casino on a mainframe if I could. Any vendor who indicates a lack of willingness for integration with that tech stack would be instantly disqualified from selection. I feel like this is a really good technology bullshit filter for the kind of industry MGM is operating in. If it's not good enough for Visa or Amex, it's not good enough for a gambling operation.
Excellent, thank you for the response.
> manually make some allocations downward from the top and some allocations upward from the bottom

Incidentally, this is what Knuth does in TeX, if I understand correctly: http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/knuth-pdf/tex/tex.pdf#page=43 (section 116):

> The mem array is divided into two regions that are allocated separately, but the dividing line between these two regions is not fixed; they grow together until finding their “natural” size in a particular job. Locations less than or equal to lo_mem_max are used for storing variable-length records consisting of two or more words each. […] Locations greater than or equal to hi_mem_min are used for storing one-word records…

(Different allocators are used for the two regions and neither seems to be a bump allocator, so it's probably not very relevant to this thread, but I was reminded of it so just sharing…)
It's not the 90s anymore. In the developed world HIV primarily and disproportionately effects IV drug users, not gay men.

In the developing world, it has nothing to do with promiscuity but lack of education and access to preventative measures like condoms and PrEP.
Apple should have a duress system. You have say 48 hours to contact Apple and tell them the change was made under duress--and you do so with the *old* credentials, not the new ones. All changes to your account revert and the phone locks itself to your account once it sees the network.
In my experience most financial firms just use binary floats/doubles

Fixed point decimal if you're lucky (or unlucky, since fixed point sucks)

Arbitrary precision decimal floating point essentially never used
Extremely good point, I don't really game outside of online chess so I can't say that I have a very wide sample pool. TBH the chat I used to see when my brother was playing League blew any chess experience I've had out of the water. I'd almost use a word beyond "salty" for that