skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole argument to support this point would be too long to write it in a single post, but the general idea is that mathematics is a system that can easily describe counterfactual worlds. We use it to also describe our physical world because, of course, it can do that. But then asking the question about the "surprising effectiveness" is moot: we deliberately made it to be as effective as possible, so how is it so surprising that it is?

The "surprising effectiveness" is, I think, one of three things. First, the surprise is that we can create mathematics that describes our physical world.

The second surprise is that, when we find out something new, it often takes the form of existing mathematics that we didn't design to describe the physical world. (Though, from your point of view, I suppose you could say that we created mathematics to describe everything that could be described by mathematics, and so it's not surprising that something was there to describe reality.)

The third surprise (maybe this is just a restatement of the first one) is that mathematics really describes the physical world. It's not that we find some math that describes it, and then we change the situation a little bit and we need to find some new math. The surprise is that the math describes what is going on so well that it applies to situations that we didn't know about when we devised the math that applied. That is, it's predictive, not just descriptive.
My current phone's GPS receiver is broken, leaving me with a map and compass, just inside my phone. The Czech countryside is full of marked trails and named points to use for finding your position on a map, so I haven't found navigating very hard. Experience does make it easier, though.
Or they just add a number after the job title, and create more as they need them.
Chocolate eggs sure can.
Since everyone else is replying yes, I'll give the single non-useful response I guess.

1. No

2. N/A

3. N/A
How is Quora still a going concern?
> Actual Nazis getting standing ovations! Unbelievable.

But he fought against the Russians. His past is here irrelevant.

North American democracies have never had issues with Nazis, as long as they can help them beat the Russia. They even got the highest possible positions, like for example, the chief of NASA that landed on the moon before the Soviets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
>and the inability for legal systems to respond fast enough to protect individuals

Is it really inability when not doing so benefits you and your lobbying friends?
If it never happened no harm in making sure it doesn’t happen either.
It's not present on most machines? All Linux boxes I've seen used systemd. It's the most used init system.

If you want to say that there are machines that don't have systemd which therefore cannot use quadlets, that's like arguing that something made for Linux is useless because "Linux is not present on most machines".
That’s an externalized cost and therefore none of our concern.
B2B software markets that have yet to consolidate:

- CRM

- databases

- IDEs

- security

- marketing email

- project management

- social media tools

- helpdesk

- expense management

- shipping

These are all markets that are over 20 years old, where there has been ample time to consolidate to a small number of providers. Markets are bigger than normally thought. This is especially true for bootstrapped companies, who can do well financially without having to ever hit a $1b revenue run rate.
The only state where a modern computer is "idle" is when it's turned off.
We are building out real time streaming and do have it in beta on our JS SDK currently (hit me up if you want to get onto the beta).

HOWEVER!

In our experience, it's one of those features that people think they need, but then when you dig into the use cases, most people don't need it.
Can’t wait for the first political misstep being blamed on leaked keys.
Yes. Yes. Yes.

Biggest challenge I've seen is with stalled advancement, particularly for people with 10+ years of experience.

That said, those impacts are less severe (for ppl like me) these days as recent layoffs are more broadly recognized as resulting from executive and management failures.

That said, the general lack of a useful social safety net in the US can easily lead to chaos for US-based employees who are laid off.
Thankfully that common / casual people isn't yet fascinated by chatGPT or AI related techs for now, and those who are, usually knowledgeable enough to be skeptical with the answers.
all these years ive been typing in a letter A where i want to paste something, then double tapping the A to highlight it and then selecting paste :/
They removed that answer from the original query [can you melt eggs] but it still works with [can you melt down eggs].
Precisely this. Other commenters are pointing out that the Spanish government doesn't want to lose the option to investigate secessionist leaders, but given the current good relationships between the socialist party and Puigdemont's, that makes no sense. More likely they're trying to gloss over the obvious blackmailing incident at the first opportunity to blame someone else for the lack of success of any investigation.
Is this Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC or Sony Pictures Entertainment or Sony Music Entertainment or Sony Electronics Inc. or SOA or Sony Group Corporation KK ?? What an all of sony possibly mean?
You don't course correct Xeon Phi into a competitive GPGPU without starting over from scratch. The two are not similar.
Define "middle class Americans"? Hard to give a precise answer otherwise.

A few (other) explanations:

* QoL is hard to be rational about, and is something that (I think) has to be experienced first-hand. European salaries are most probably lower for comparable jobs (they certainly are for high-wage workers) but pack more punch because of better social benefits and, depending on where you live, lower CoL. However it can be hard to convince yourself that 40 k€ in Spain affords you a better QoL than 80k$ in California unless you've experienced both. I mean, 40 is much less than 80, right?

* the "American Dream" is still a big part of the American (and global, for that matter) psyche. I would wager most Americans think the US is a place to emigrate to, not from. I don't know if many middle-class Americans would spontaneously envision emigrating to Europe. This is probably even more true for descendants of recent immigrants: if your family struggled to get to the US, why would you consider leaving?

* Ability to live abroad, in particular mastering a foreign language well enough to live and work in the country

* I'm not sure how well employability travels. You can work as a developer in just about any country but I think this is an exception. A medical diploma does not transfer well between countries (e.g. you probably need to start again as an intern, re-take exams, etc.), neither does a law diploma. More "middle class" jobs will have similar barriers to entry. E.g. if you're a plumber in the US and move to Europe you have to deal with different construction codes, installed base, local habits... Same thing if you're an auto mechanic: different car manufacturers, different regulations, etc.
Why do you think we should go deeper with pointless questions? What would you do with the answer if someone provided one?
I'm still waiting for that magical moment when men pay less creepy attention to me and find me old and ugly enough to talk to me about my professional interests and not in hopes of getting my phone number.

On the upside, I am old and ugly enough to get cat called less by random strangers.
Doesn’t cover corporate attacks. The latest MGM isn’t there.
> I don't see many illegal immigrants in UAE/Dubai for example.

How would you know? And is this a fair comparison?

I've heard that the country relies heavily on South Asian labourers with terrible working conditions, as well as housemaids who are effectively imprisoned by their employers. It's a huge section of the economy. I wouldn't be surprised if the government makes it pretty easy to enter legally, or if a bunch of labourers are flying under the radar without the government caring.

I decided to search for some facts and found the following:

* Immigrants, particularly from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, comprise over 90 percent of the country's private workforce [0]

* In 2013, the UAE had the fifth-largest international migrant stock in the world with 7.8 million migrants (out of a total population of 9.2 million) [0]

* About 65,000 unauthorized migrants — including those who entered the country illegally, visa over-stayers, migrants working on tourist visas, and others — currently reside in the UAE, according to official estimates (unofficial estimates run up to 135,000). [0]

* An unknown but likely significant number of migrants lack any identification papers after having “absconded” or abandoned abusive employers who withhold their passports [0]

* More than 10,500 illegal residents were prosecuted in the UAE in 2022, according to authorities.[1]

* In December 2012, the government announced a two-month amnesty program allowing unauthorized migrant workers to regularize their situations or leave the country without punishment.

* In August 2018 the government repeated this amnesty. [3]

* The UAE Government exempts fines for Illegal Foreigners/residents, under these conditions: your Emirates ID or Work Permit has expired, you are Workers who run away from sponsors and violate employment contracts. [4]

[0] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/labor-migration-unit...

[1] https://www.khaleejtimes.com/life-and-living/visa-and-immigr...

[2] https://sojo.net/articles/how-united-arab-emirates-country-9...

[3] https://www.stalawfirm.com/en/news/view/illegal-immigration-...

[4] https://kemlu.go.id/dubai/en/news/7262/illegal-foreigners-ex...
Kagi and DDG link the same Quora thread as #1. So much for alternatives.
Oh well that makes it okay/s.

It's really comforting that Members of Parliament are that intellectually bankrupt.
The self-resonance and self-capacitance of solenoid coils (2016) [pdf]
Let's take the null hypothesis that these incentives push all video streaming to Apple+. The total bandwidth hasn't changed, all that's happened is that is it's only streamed over Apple+ now. How does this help with their spectrum constraints?
>I can run models locally on my laptop, so no, it isn't.

Which is irrelevant if tens of thousands of other AIs, from entities with 4-5 orders of magnitude more times the resources and power over the economy/society/country than you use them for surveillance and to optimize to your detriment.

The claim was never was about the logical or practical impossibility of AI to also be used otherwise.

And facial recognition is just the tip of the iceberg of AI uses in surveillance.

Nor is "blurring out faces" much consolation. What's blurred in, say, a public "Street View" service doesn't mean is also blurred on the same company's raw captured data. And the example wasn't about such cases, but about surveillance cameras anyway - which don't blur anything, just use the AI to identify targets.

We should instead of arguing the point (and especially, the point at large), instead of nitpicking on the speaker's expression, while onstage, during a conference panel talk - as if those would be the best formulated and exhaustive.
Is the pity counter stored on the server?
nah, cables have their niche use cases.

I for example like to ride my bicycle with some earbuds, the cables help me to wrap it around my helmet strap so they are very tight in my ear, and I don't have to worry about losing an airpod when riding rough terrain.

I haven't found the same satisfaction with bluetooth buds. I had some Jabra's that were connected to each other with a cable, but then the receiver is in a location that somehow blocks bluetooth reception when the phone is in my back pocket.
Aren't a large portion of the F-35s that have been made to date practically complete write-offs because they're not going to update the software on them to support features from the most recent version?
My point concerns the end of the article: the author applies their three phases to the last 35 or so years of American society, conveniently ignoring the rot that came with their childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, &c.

So no, the point isn’t defeatism. It’s to observe that so many of these types of polemics come with a healthy dose of rose colored glass.
Sounds about as exciting as being an actuary. Or probably less so.

I'd rather be a mathematician making boardgames or cardgames, because they are allowed to have strategy. Casino games are by and large really dumb.
It's available already, for free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
It doesn't have to be a small team. See "They Write The Right Stuff".
Agree. Our math is convenient for us humans living in our universe.

But how much of our math is just a poor approximation of our universe? Like Newton's gravity was.

If our math only _approximates_ the world, if we discovered something that explains things better, it would all be irrelevant.

There are a lot of hints that something big is missing in our maths as a means of explanation. Like the mathematical constants Pi and Euler repeating infinitely, quantum randomness...
That was two years ago.
We're very quickly coming to the realization that information is a physical quantity, like mass or energy. (And can be measured and follows some sort of physical laws.)

If so, then consciousness doesn't need to exist for information structures to exist.
1. Yes. It sucks. It feels humiliating and stressful.

2. Yes. It gave me the kick up the arse that I needed to look for something outside my comfort zone.

3. No. Being fired may come with social stigma, but everyone knows that companies sometimes engage in untargetted bloodletting. There's no shame in that.

The hardest thing is the sudden brutality of it. You may not get a chance to say goodbye to people. It feels impersonal and you don't get a chance to defend yourself. Your ego is tied to your profession - as is your ability to provide.

Thankfully, I was part of a strong Trade Union. They were able to negotiate a very generous severance package, and they obliterated my non-compete. If you are at any risk at all of getting laid-off (and everyone is) then you should join your Union.
Binance is under threat
I started following Meredith Whittaker on social media this year. I think she has very rational views on security and privacy. I have been making my living as an AI practitioner since 1982 but in the last few years I have flipped my interests more to technologies effects on society, privacy, etc. I wish everyone in tech would take a little time to read the books Privacy is Power and Surveillance Capitalism.

Personally, I place some hope in open source, open LLMs, self hosting AI, etc. I say “some hope” because the surveillance industrial military complex has so many more resources than organizations like Hugging Face.
FTA:

> to collect information about hostile and potentially hostile nations using cameras and sensors.

I will sound very picky but, well, I'm pretty sure a rather big part of all civilians of all nations are not hostile. So I disagree with the wording. A nation is not hostile. A fraction of it is.

This was tuesday's afternoon rant. Thanks for clapping.

But well, the SR71 was really impressing when I was a kid, mysterious too.
Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app
Well, I think a kindergarten is not the same as a school and as far as I understand the concept, it just means they are close to a forest and spend more time in it (which is something good already and I have nothing against solid houses).
It's absolutely positively amazing that playgrounds like this are available on demand with little prerequisites. The future looks promising.
That's way slick.

Can I ask what your background is, and what things you're used to working with? I don't have the chops to build what you built, but I'd love to get there.
A concern from ISPs is that they will lose the ability to shape and prioritize traffic, something that is often necessary.

A concern from consumers is that services will be restricted or rendered unusable by throttling selectively driving customers away from services.

A concern from Service Providers is that they will have to make deals with ISPs to ensure quality of service.

They're valid concerns on all sides and without Net Neutrality we've seen service restrictions, though they're advertised as benefits (e.g. free OTT messaging on flights from certain providers). We've also seen ISPs bully providers like Netflix into paying to deliver traffic their customers are paying to access (double dipping). It hasn't been the doom and gloom that was hyped but has definitely impacted services.

Under net neutrality I expect we'll see a degradation of cellular services or forced consent agreements as WISPs will not be allowed to downgrade or shape traffic otherwise.

It cuts both ways and I will be surprised if it makes much difference.
“ A federal district court in California dismissed the claims, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld that decision. The court of appeals ruled that although “it is possible to draw a causal line from the OEC’s flagging of the November 12th post to O’Handley’s suspension,” there was no “state action” for O’Handley to challenge under the First Amendment. California certainly exercised governmental authority when it flagged O’Handley’s tweet, the 9th Circuit reasoned, but it took no explicit action restricting his speech. And although Twitter did limit O’Handley’s speech, the court explained, it was following its own rules, rather than acting on the state’s behalf.”

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/08/once-suspended-twitter-us...

This case?

Where did _you_ learn this tone of victimization when discussion issues with no references? I assume Musk was brought up as he has framed this issue in the same way the GP commenter did and he is the current owner of the company in question. You can dismiss that as celebrity fixation but it only undermines your own comment.
Some fighter planes go this. They use a bladder they compress, works the same.
In Australia my first broadband internet connection worked like that - though when you went over, your bandwidth was heavily throttled until the end of the month unless you upgraded your plan for the month.

As inconvenient as it is, honestly I think data caps are fair pricing. The load difference between a light internet user and a heavy user is orders of magnitude of capacity for the ISP to deal with. Having a flat price for internet sounds similar to having flat price for electricity or water - where your grandma (who turns off all the light switches whenever she leaves a room) would pay the same for electricity as a frat house mining bitcoin in the cupboard.

Sure, customers pay for speed. But residential internet is overprovisioned based on 'reasonable' usage patterns. Thats a good thing - internet would be much more expensive, or forced to be much slower otherwise.
It's in fact pretty easy to melt an egg. First, raise it above 29 degrees Fahrenheit or so, and this will melt the internal section. Remove this melted internal section and set it aside. Now melt the external section, which is mostly calcium carbonate, by raising it to about 1,517 degrees Fahrenheit. There, a melted egg.
On Gboard you can slide on the spacebar to move the cursor.
1. Layoff are rarely performance related. There is too much paperwork involved with performance related firings and layoffs happen so fast and so wide it's usually done by lottery. You could be laid off for performance but no one is going to give you an honest answer either way. They still suck and you'll feel like you personally did something wrong. In the overall scheme of labor relations, it's not you it's federal law.

2. Yeah, so it made it a lot easier to network. I didn't have to schedule interviews clandestinely late at night, on lunch breaks, take time off. I could be out front about my objectives and be fully in charge of my career without worrying about blowback. 2 weeks of interview, 2 weeks of reference and background checks. I was collecting my next paycheck before unemployment even finished processing, LOL.

3. Layoffs aren't personal. They definitely can drive morale down for those that remain. And as soon as you have a steady, new job guess who start reaching out to you for referrals?

I wasn't laid off during the 2000s dot bomb, but I quit to finish school. I was not laid off during the 2009 GFC. I was definitely laid off during COVID19, because of COVID. At no point did I think it was even about me. It just sucks and those feelings of inadequacy are real. While my colleagues were feeling sorry for me I sent an email to every business card I've collected through the network events. I had 3 job offers by the 2nd week. You grow, get older, learn from your experience.
Like many government regulations, it has a great name, "Net Neutrality," which, when it is actually implemented, will do much more than make the 'Net neutral.

Maybe, at first, it will have something to do with "you can't throttle Web services," but it will morph into "you MUST throttle this particular Web service, it spreads disinformation, which makes the Net less neutral."

It is what always happens. It is more reliable than gravity.
The legal issue is that they used the authority of the Whitehouse to do a "comply or there will be consequences".

We've all sat through various crappy powerpoints on ethics. That is plain and simple coercion. That's a first amendment issue and prohibited.
It's only a fraction of the CPU's power, sure, but it's still consuming power (electricity & processing) without actually doing anything, which is wasteful. And every small inefficiency adds up over the scale of everything.
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Nir & Roni
All timescales.
DId you at least post about how grateful you were for having the opportunity to work with some of the brightest people you've ever met?
Sure you do, why not? If you don't, show the deviation values (plus and minus) centered around zero again.
I also would have expected the Azores to be involved. Mainland Portugal to Massachusetts via Azores seems like it'd be a shorter shot than Mainland Portugal to Bermuda to NC. Especially given how much further west NC is vs MA
I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-52_Lance used roughly this configuration, with a gas generator pushing the back of the pistons. As I remember, the oxidizer and fuel pistons were physically connected (concentric, with concentric propellant tanks) to simplify getting the mixture correct.
How many direct reports should a manager have?