skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is, if the reward not just occurs rarely but were actually-kinda-disappointing, the pigeon gets even crazier than it had been huge jackpots, somehow.

Discrepancy between perceived and mathematical expectation is a big factor in keeping us hooked. So techniques to exaggerate the former are used.
Indeed, it was incredibly powerful for the price. The games that came out for it didn't really show what it could do, most were either straight Amiga ports or even more amateurish than Amiga games tended to me.
On a state change, sure. But you're not frequently gaining & losing WiFi access.
It takes ~1hour to grab an unspecified portion of the screen (screenshots show a tiny 100x100 or so box). I'd say not costless.
What about the framework 13? I'd class that as thin and lite.
Since when can a computer come up with a novel idea?

Do not be fooled by GPT, it's a fancy Markov chain hooked up to training data. It cannot come up with anything that wasn't already in its data set.
Why is it people like yourself can not learn from history? I'm all for moving in a better healthier direction, i'm not interested in repeating the mistakes of the past. For all its failings, capitalism has done more to improve the lives of every human on this planet more than any other system before.

The burden of proof is thus on those who want to destroy it, to prove they have a viable and useful alternative that will ACTUALLY make the lives of people better. Instead, what I see is a direction that is guaranteed to lead to bloodshed and misery, with only a dreamers hope that what comes afterward is any better.
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I find that something being prevalent in pop culture means I don't have to watch it; I already know the basics without ever having seen it. Citizen Kane, for example.
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I guess I tend to see it as an augmentation simply because I don't see much evidence of it originating expertise.

A side comment here is that I am equally skeptical that leveraging copyright work as training data is fair use. if the objective is to retrieve original copyright work, then I think its fair use, but if the goal is to draw me campaign poster in the style of Shepard Fairey, I'm not that sympathetic.

If we use AI to replace the creation of copyright free derivative works, it isn't clear what the objection should be?
FWIW, at my last company we had a section in the developer guide encouraging using humor in tests - not only did it make them more fun to write, but it engaged the readership better.
Fastmail all the way! Been a happy user for more than 7 years.
Technical limitations aren’t excuses for a bad design. If it’s not a good design due to a technical limit, the answer isn’t to sacrifice security for functionality.

If it really isn’t technically possible (which I think you might be able to do in a Darwin VM), then maybe this approach isn’t a good idea.
> He wrote that he wanted to live in the city “without paying $4,000 a month or getting stabbed,” and called the pod a “great solution.”

Don't see how this solves not getting stabbed.
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/startup-failure-r...
> Alpha is litte-endian, but it has its own exotic problems.

At least some models of the Alpha were bi-endian, selectable via a pin on the package, IIRC. I believe the Cray T3E ran the chips big-endian.
I don’t understand how one could specify what the game is supposed to look like with something like that. Sure, you can say “over there is a wooden crate, it’s dark out, and the game is cel shaded.”

But how do you make Master Chief, or anything else that’s unique? I feel like we’ll always need some sort of base rasterization layer.
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I think thre F-Droid store is by far the best app store. I would like this for iOS too. Also, so I could permanently install a little iOS app I once developed.

Let's hope that the EU gets this right.
A being the size of the solar system would not be able to see any farther into the universe than we can with our telescopes, because it's about what light has reached the solar system and not at all about our sense of scale in interpreting it.
For a more hands on approach to Causality, I would recommend

“Causal Inference in Python” by M. Facure
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Well written and to the point.

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The corresponding announcement about improving the podcast experience on Youtube Music: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/podcast-destination-on-...

So they are going the way of Spotify and combining music and podcasts into the same place.
With all this hype about CUDA, I have recently started looking into programming CUDA as a job as I love that kind of challenge, but to my dismay I found that these tasks are very niche.
So it is not even that people are routinely writing new CUDA code. It's just that the current corpus is too big and comprehensive for alternatives to compete with.
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Whilst I'd agree strongly that the courts exacted far less severe a penalty than they could have, or IMO should have, based on the Findings of Fact in the case, the point remains that Microsoft post trial was far less feared or effective than it had been previously.

It was in 2007 that the founder of this site and its associated venture capital wrote "Microsoft is Dead":

Microsoft cast a shadow over the software world for almost 20 years starting in the late 80s. I can remember when it was IBM before them. I mostly ignored this shadow. I never used Microsoft software, so it only affected me indirectly—for example, in the spam I got from botnets. And because I wasn't paying attention, I didn't notice when the shadow disappeared.

But it's gone now. I can sense that. No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make a lot of money—so does IBM, for that matter. But they're not dangerous.

<http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770>

Of course, Microsoft did not in fact die, and it remains part of FAANG (or MAAMA, or whatever we're calling them these days), but the company did see a substantial decline by any number of measures (fear, market cap, reputation, market domination) through the aughts and well into the teens.

Google and Facebook and Amazon emerged, Apple (all but dead itself by the late 1990s) had one of the most phenomenal come-backs of any company ever. And when we talk of market domination today, the first names off peoples lips or fingertips are more likely Google and Facebook and Amazon than Microsoft. It's their market spaces which are most resistant to serious rivalry, whilst Microsoft scrambles for the scraps of desktop and tries to establish itself in the Cloud. The areas it had tried to dominate: commerce, Web search, handhelds, and even office software, are owned, or at least strongly contested (in the last instance) by others.

I'm not saying that Microsoft is redeemed (I don't think it is), or that it's well behaved (dittos). But the unrestrained malevolence it exhibited through the mid-1990s is mostly tamped down strongly.
I used Google Music heavily -- so much that my local music collection fell into disrepair. When they killed it, I downloaded everything using Takeout. Years later, I'm still dealing with the mess of metadata and (lack of) folder hierarchy that my collection used to have.

My de-Googleification of my life is nearly complete. I just wish I had done it earlier.
I'm still in love with my x201s, the x220 predecessor. It was 16:10 and could have a super high res of… 1440x900, a rare thing in such a small format for the time. These small thinkpads were solid as hell, packed with I/O. Perfect keyboard. You could set it with a 90Wh battery. For a 12" laptop. Haha. Screen quality, speakers, touchpad were all garbage but oh well. So much other stuff was perfect. Good times.
Cool, that sounds very interesting. I'll definitely try playing around some more. Thanks.
Have been using macOS Sonoma since DB1, this is probably the most favorite update of the OS that I had in a while:

1. Safari Profiles. I used this browser as my primary browser for a long time, but had to use another browser (Chrome) for work, to be able to separate sessions, etc. Since DB1 I use only Safari. And it works great.

2. Widgets. I have two monitors, and love that in one of them I can see widgets with some useful information. Just wish more apps were ready with widgets.

And a quick self-promotion. I am developer of the application OpenIn, and for macOS Sonoma I have added support for Safari Profiles https://loshadki.app/blog/2023-08-23-openin-4-1-beta/, this is the only (as far as I know) app that will let you redirect links to a specific Safari Profile based on various configurations you make.
It is a great machine but the screen resolution was already rubbish when the X220 was introduced.

And crucify me if you will but the new ThinkPad keyboard can feel _great_ on the models where it is deep enough (T series mostly). I just miss the 7 rows of the old layout.
is that your website? looks like the date for Google Podcasts got input incorrectly, as it presently says "in about a year".

(edit: whoops)
The Debian ROCm Team [1] has made quite a bit of progress in getting the ROCm stack into the official Archive.

Most components are already packaged, the next big target is adding support to the PyTorch package.

Many of the packages are older versions; this is because getting broad coverage was prioritized. The other next big target that is currently being worked on is getting full ROCm 5.7 support.

I fully expect Debian 13 (trixie) to come with full ROCm support out-of-the-box, and as a consequence, also derivatives to have support (Ubuntu above all). In fact, there will almost certainly be backports of ROCm 5.7 to Debian 12 (bookworm) within the next few months, so one will be able to just

$ sudo apt-get install pytorch-rocm

One current obstacle is infrastructure: the Debian build and CI infrastructures (both hardware and software) were not designed with GPUs in mind. This is also being worked on.

Edit: forgot to say that the CI infra that the Team is setting up here tests all of these packages on consumer cards, too. So while there may not be official support for most of these, upstream tests passing on the cards within the infra should be a good indication for practical support.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/
> kitchen, a (real) fridge, carefully selected and arranged furniture, wardrobe, game console/musical instruments/etc

Funnily enough, Google offices provide these to employees.
This is sad.

I use Google Podcasts because of its simple UI. I am subscribed to a few creators and the clean UX "just works", also on Android Auto as I listen to most podcasts on the road.

Hope at least they integrate the podcast functionality well into Youtube Music without bloating the Android Auto functionality too much...
I mean, they would be right if all their cards, both consumer and enterprises, supported the same programming interface.

You cannot trust the community to do the work for you but then only make the software available for $Xk dollar cards
It is hard (close to impossible) to write a memory-safe code in C++.

In ClickHouse, we approach this with continuous fuzzing. When we tried to integrate duckdb as one of the storage engines into ClickHouse, our CI system immediately found an uninitialized memory read inside it: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/7433

@wenc, the op might have meant the native storage format of DuckDB, which does not use Parquet.
That's more recent than ArcEm's last update from 2017.
How so? What disadvantages does having strings as a first class Type have?
Is it weird to think that infrastructure like this should be public?
Boston Unity Group is dissolving due to new Unity pricing drama
I’m an engineering manager who has formerly had autistic employees. The single most important thing is finding an engineering manager who understands the trade offs of hiring someone like you and is willing to support you.

I would consider trying a hedge fund such as two sigma which is know to have a supportive environment for people whose brains are wired differently.
Likewise, C code will be organized into separate pieces with a few small super-optimized/complicated parts, and they can fuzz-test the complicated pieces that are most likely to have buffer overflows.

I can't find the actual code causing the libwebp vulnerability, so idk if mixed safe/unsafe Rust code would've been any better here. Maybe what we really need is an "unsafe-jail" block in Rust that uses a child process limited to a piece of shared mem, and you put big pieces in there to avoid overhead. Like, libwebp can screw up all it wants, just don't touch the rest of my app.
Because there are other ways (simple Google search, asking an EE friend, etc) of validating the answer. Often I'm looking to learn a concept so it isn't like I'm using it to solve a bunch of things. Just validate my learning. It is easily as good as having one of my EE friends explain the concept to me.
> "Unlike the government of Qatar, however, the US government hasn’t apologized, said that what happened was illegal (or would be illegal if the complaint is proven to be true), or referred the TSA checkpoint staff for investigation and possible prosecution.

That's the really troubling thing. We can argue about civil immunity until we are blue in the face, but non-consensual body-cavity searches at airport screening locations (which, to clarify, are against TSA policy) should be treated as criminal.
I've been with Fastmail for a long time and I don't have a second thought when I renew my 3 year subscription. It's great.
One might develop a game that by some kind of a miracle releases for macOS too. So they way to run CI tests on macOS. Or they might target iOS. And use macOS build machines to produce builds. The world is not only about web, you know?
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Oh? I've had trouble with Overcast. It often exits when I launch it, usually this happens after I haven't used the app for a few days. The app works when I launch it a second time. When it works, it takes a long time, e.g., a full minute before the app is ready to accept input and start a podcast. I haven't taken the time to look at it closely or request support. There's plenty of storage available, so it's not a "disc full" error in disguise. I've gone back to the Apple iOS app.

My use case is a few regular podcasts, and many (~100) podcasts where I listen to only one episode. I like to keep the infrequently accessed podcasts around so I can remember what I listened to, and in case there's another episode I want.

Also it doesn't sync with iCloud, but maybe that's been added?
Thanks for sharing this! I also knew the Airplane reference, but assumed it was some kind of non-sequitur or a joke about a Turkish stereotype I was unfamiliar with.
I assume you are talking about the DeDRM tools? If so, the answer to your question is that it doesn’t work as well as it used to. The era of easily strippable DRM is ending.

Amazon’s latest file format KFX hasn’t been entirely cracked and it’s possible it won’t ever be entirely cracked. The best anybody can do so far is to buy an older Kindle and download it to that in order to get a crackable version. The problem with that is you lose all of the typography improvements only available in KFX.
SQL could be friendlier for complex queries. We have recently made a talk on the improvements to SQL to simplify complex expressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhrOYQpgvkk
“Be kind. Don't be snarky… Edit out swipes”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Check them out when you have a chance. I _trusted_ ScotusBlog and the previous comments gave no references to _verify_.
Right, what causal inference really gives you is a tool for specifying assumptions about a model of a data generating process and then estimating a parameter representing the effect size (and the uncertainty surrounding it), provided that your specified assumptions are approximately correct and your measurements are sufficiently accurate.

It never directly answers a "why" or "how" type question. You provide the why/how and then use data to estimate "by how much?"
>>US progressive taxation policy,

That is not wealth redistribution, using a progressive tax policy for then direct payments is, but the vast majority of US Taxes are not used for that despite attempts to do so.

Now if we get Single Payer health systems, UBI, etc then you would have a case.

>>wealth inevitably accumulates

Incorrect, in fact most of the reason why we have massive amounts of wealth inequality in the US is the failed policies of "war on poverty" as well as policies created in WWII like Price Controls on wages that forever changed the relationship of employers and employee's

Government created the problem, only removing government regulations will resolve it,. More government is not the solution
I think this is it, I'm just going to start the de-googling process. I'm sick of having to change apps because this company can't agree on a direction.
Google Podcasts shutting down in 2024 for YouTube Music
The Anker that was selling "offline" cameras that phoned home plaintext images? Yeah, no thanks.
This sounds perfect lol "Just rip our music from the CD what's the big deal?" said one part of the company while they were whipping another part of the company to make doing that difficult/impossible.

Corporations are wild
> Flashy knee-jerk moves like that sound good but it isn't the fastest way to move forward.

NVidia:

- Games -> we're on it

- Machine learning -> we're on it

- Crypto -> we're on it

- LLM / AI -> we're on it

Compare the growth rate of NVidia vs AMD and you get the picture. Flashy knee-jerk moves are bad, identifying growth segments in your industry and running with them is excellent strategy.

People get excited about CUDA because it works, and AMD could have had a very large slice of that pie.

> on AMD the problem seems to be that the card can't reliably multiply matrices together. I got some early nights using Stable Diffusion because everything worked great for an hour then the kernel paniced. I didn't give AMD any feedback because I run an unsupported card and OS - effectively all cards and OSs are unsupported - but if that is widespread behaviour[sic] it would be a grave blocker.

Exactly. And with NVIDIA you'd be working on your problem instead. And that's what makes the difference. AMD should do exactly what the OP wrote: gain mindshare by getting at least some researchers on board with their product, assuming they haven't burned their brand completely by now.
> Maybe there's justification for protection from assault due to physical altercations while attempting to restrain someone.

I don't know the details of this particular case that would lead to claims of rape. But, I do know that certain types of search on someone's person can be... invasive.... especially if they're suspected of smuggling. I can certainly see how that kind of search becomes a rape claim.

It's literally the textbook definition of rape to search someone like that with the threat of physical harm. The legal difference is the context and intent.

There is a gray area here people don't want to talk about, but TFA is lying by omission if this is the kind of case at hand.
Ew, gross. I’m pretty sure the couple companies I order from regularly that also have an Amazon presence don’t do that, since they have direct-order products not listed on Amazon and often include little touches like a bonus sample or handwritten note that you don’t get if you order their stuff on Amazon, but good to know to watch out for that.
1. New product!

2. Why can't we get more traction?

3. Refuse to see pattern that folks won't adopt a service they expect to disappear.

4. Kill product!

5. Goto 1

La plus ça change, la plus même chose.
> But that's the problem really. Once you get away from the coasts the population density really does fall off a cliff.

There are literally many multi million and multi-100k cities away from the coast.

And trains don't need to be connected, its totally reasonable to have train network that mostly covers one area.

> If they live in farm country they do.

But most people don't actually live in 'farm country'. So its completely irrelevant.

I'm gone go with the guy who is a professional transit expert over your opinion.
The truth about consumer buying patterns is most purchases are treated as lowest cost commodity, unless the buyer is aware or the price threshold is high enough[0]. When you don't have subliminal[1] and limited selection pressure (both of which exist in brick and mortar stores), coupled with a UI that makes it pretty easy to discover other brands, and coalesced signals (reviews placement etc), lowest price wins.

[0]: Put another way, if its expensive, it gets more scrutiny by the average consumer (whatever their definition for expensive is). The other circumstance is if they care about the category or are in the slice of shoppers who do quality research, which is less common than you might think, until the cost factor kicks in, usually.

[1]: This is brand awareness, and other related verticals. Effectively, this is what brand and mass marketing is about.
From my own experience, a properly cross-validated lasso regression over a wide range of autoregressive features beats FB Prophet by a good margin and offers nearly the same degree of automation.
I'm not into mediation, but I watched something that said the brain scans of meditating experts resembled someone having a seizure or something. But the person with sat quietly.

I'm not drawing any conclusions. But I found it fascinating.
>I can't see that argument working in a court of law...

Don't US(or any other country for that matter) laws discriminate based on nationality all the time?
IIRC Microsoft lost in Europe, not in the US.
For those interested...

The waves do dissipate, but the dissipation and attenuation is what makes the best waves. In the storm the waves are huge and messy with all kinds of frequencies interfering with each other. Attenuation means the high frequency / small amplitude waves dissipate the quickest and the lowest frequency / high amplitude waves dissipate the slowest.

By the time they've moved a long way, all that's left are the lowest frequencies which makes for a clean smooth wave. The amplitude will have reduced compared to the original storm, but that original long period is still there creating nice long gaps between the waves. This is why surfers care about the period of an incoming swell - it's a proxy for how the swell has cleaned up on it's travels.

The best waves come from the biggest storms the furthest away.
People like you are small potatoes until you have some measure of success and then suddenly you're burning up GPU hours by the truckload and whatever you're used to you will continue using.
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