skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did it make you stop asking co-workers for help?

i mean, in many circumstances, we absolutely stop asking them...

when i ask a trustworthy human a question, they will absolutely tell me if it is out their depths. they understand their own limits on around the subject and say so. and if they understand a little, they’ll help point towards people who would be a better authority on the subject.

that’s basic level human connection stuff.

if someone confidently gives you the wrong answer, refuses to know their own limits, and repeatedly leads you astray you don’t trust them after this do you?
Not official as in it doesn't come from the Raspberry Pi people, but official as in it's what everyone who wants UEFI uses.

https://github.com/pftf/RPi4

Sending Pi 5s to people who're going to review them before the release makes sense, but of course it'd have been nice if they sent them to people who contribute important pieces of the ecosystem, too.
The way you handle inconsistent failures IRL is the same way you handle it in software:

Run a hundred instances of the test. Measure the failure rate. Make the change. Re-measure.

In bash it might be a for loop running the test a hundred times, in person it might getting a hundred phones.
Wouldn't you use jax.disable_jit() for that?
The issue isn't that they were compromised in 2021. The issue is that they didn't purge their systems and the key/backdoor created then are still available after 2 freaking years.

I'm not surprised, it's Microsoft after all. They lied about their data security to win bids in health market, only to let everybody down after a year when they finally understood the cost to secure that particular data were too high for them.
Right, but the question is whether SolarWinds was owned due to an MS vuln.

A quick scan of a summary of the SolarWinds story suggests that's not the case, but it's possible that the article I read glossed over too much.
Are you seriously claiming that plastic lenses are higher quality and longer lasting than glass lenses? Plastic lenses scratch very easily; glass lenses don't. Also, I don't need to write a white paper or do a study to maintain that spring hinges are cheap compared to the barrel hinges. I've seen so many of the spring hinges break on glasses people had bought less than a year ago. They are demonstrably low quality.
Also see FDR...
Not sure about gold in the really long-term. There is some data but those comparisons are quite difficult and often flawed. For example, the amount of work you can buy per unit weight of gold might very well be down noticeably from the middle ages.

Bitcoin we can come back to in another 150 years or so.
I never consciously click on Quora links. Yet, I very often end-up there because I clicked something without checking what it is, and their SEO is extremely effective.

It never helps either, so I go back. And I don't think any ad pass through my ad-blocker. But I'm not very surprised by the ads there being useful.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was so confused why this was happening on only one of my machines.
If they do that sort of thing, it may violate the definition of the contractor status for tax purposes, and you may be reclassified as an employee.
I think this is a bit off. I don't think the GOP in the Senate can stop California from appointing Feinstein's replacement, or keep them from being admitted to the Senate. They can keep the replacement from being appointed to the Judiciary Committee, but that is not an inherent right for senators from California.
I know how you might make money. You build a game. Maybe its fun and ripe for mods like minecraft. Open source it under GPL. Build a community of hackers/gamers who want to learn and collaborate. Have an awesome collection of mods for your game. Once you build a name for yourself, take donations or release a new game or talk at conferences.
s/don’t/aren’t allowed to
Feels like you're moving the goalposts. Article doesn't mention anything about monitoring the screen remotely. You could rephrase it as "if you hire a consultant with the expectation that they will attend in person 3 days a week, do you expect to be able to verify that is happening?"
"vanishingly rare"

I once bought a cheap Bluetooth dongle from China. Its MAC address was 11:11:11:11:11:11
Obviously there are now a lot of bluetooth dongles in the wild with the same MAC address.
The SumUp Decision Making Framework
I kinda wish Apple and Google would work on this first-run case. It's especially bad when you buy a new phone and set it up on-the-go, only to find the battery is dead before all the apps have even installed. Not a great experience.

They could do all the app installs and setup on a virtualized iphone in the cloud, and then just copy over all the already-configured apps.
lol exactly, especially on Twitter. Who's in charge of branding here? dril?
Ha! The hex/exe patch! Had to do the same thing. This issue also sent me down the path of downloading cutter and trying to reverse engineering/interpret the .exe.
A little bit more than 20 years ago the Italian mafia acquired seven bars of enriched uranium from the failed government of Zaire that General Atomics sold them. It caused a bit of a stir at the time but now I can’t find any information in the event except a Guardian article so I have no idea how that got resolved. There haven’t been any dirty bombs so I assume they never managed to sell it to MENA terrorists.
Lol, awesome fragmede. The program has some defects though.

The username, of which the comments it is looking for, is hardcoded into the code. The standard convention for CLI tools, is to create a .rc file, like .hn_reply_notifierrc and save some configuration in there.

The way your program is configured, the next user will have to recompile the code with the new username. That's a big no-no!

It is so much fun to use GPT that way, that i cannot resist but generate my own program, and i will share with you on github the resulting code, alongside with the GPT conversation.
I don’t disagree with your point about those things being a problem, but I think GP’s interpretation of this article is correct:

> This power goes to the core of journalism’s public service, namely its capacity and obligation to artfully, eloquently, and intentionally use language to create and debate the ground truths that anchor shared social realities.

They are upset at being potentially replaced as one of the “few powerful” who get to create fundamental truths. These authors seem to really think controlling thought is the job, which seems pretty anti-freedom to me.
He doesn't have to be. Tech luminaries who can understand compromise will figure out what will practically work after listening to him rant. The world still needs raving mad prophets like him to help us understand where the poles are.
Does anyone know any more good resources for designing an MMO architecture? Would love to do a MMO as a side project but a bit daunted by the unknown of architecture development.
GPT4 sees, speaks andsurfs, Cloudflare AI on GPUs, Mistral 7B
I agree. I love modelling state machines in node-based systems, and I think user interfaces could be fine in node-based editors (I’ve never tried, but they’re already node-based internally and they seem well-suited in the same way state machines are). But I’d hate to model something like a flow of concurrent tasks with retries and exponential back offs or something where the visual queues don’t seem like they’d be obvious and the editor couldn’t (as far as I can imagine) offer useful simulation or testing tools.

It could be a failure of my imagination. I’ve designed similar things though, and these weird cases (especially temporal cases) become extremely hard to represent more universally. I suppose you could offer a “timeline” to indicate how things would behave on a time scale, but even that… I just don’t know.

It also seems key to have a node-based editor work with one language or a set which map together extremely well.
Flexible routes = unpredictable.

Flexible capacity = attempts at over optimization = not trusting that capacity will be there = unpredictable.

Shared infrastructure with roads and following road laws = all the inconvenience of traffic jams.

Flexible routes may be nice on a multi-year timetable but still runs into the jam issues above.

So if we are going to build dedicated lanes with special signal crossings and high capacity to encourage a large population to use it, let's make it as efficient as possible - a rail track is much more efficient than tires, and electricity is better than directly burning fuel, and delivering electricity through rail is better than battery.
Never heard of it and not surprised.
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lol parroting what they say on social media.

Very interesting way you put that and sorta gets to the heart of the matter.

To me it doesn't even make sense, like, why would I get my information on social media. I'm telling you what I've seen on Reddit. But you went to what people say other places. Which is clearly how a lot of you are getting your information.

And ya, I've seen the receipts. I've got some receipts of my own.
Cancer is no joke even when the prognosis is good. He will be in my prayers, even though he’d probably find that silly.
Lots of things could happen. Gamma Ray bombardment sterilisation of the solar system for example. That's the set up for the main plot of Greg Egan's "Diaspora".

But since neither becoming a Gleisner Robot nor Polis Citizenship are possible for me it's futile to spend time worrying about a nearby Gamma Ray burst. If it happens I would likely die instantly, but even if not there's no reason to plan for that.

I care about contingency planning a great deal but it makes no sense to plan for events which are both extremely unlikely and very difficult to successfully ameliorate.
Could you add a bit more context here? What sort of engineer and approved by whom?
People in this thread seem to be focusing on whether or not a company can track attendance; of course it can, that's not the story. The more interesting thing about this story is that Amazon said it would only track aggregate, anonymized statistics, but it has been revealed (in a shocking twist) that they were lying to their employees and the public about it.
Riiiight.

So would you agree with the statement that all attempts failed?

You see, you're mockingly presenting me as simply going "never happened therefore can't happen". I would say that you're the extreme opposite where you're going "what happened doesn't matter, we learned nothing from it".

You know, we can reason about the future past the data...? There's a reason why communism failed all attempts. That reason is something which apparently you're missing, but I'm using to support my prediction that it can't work.
Software has a "built on top of" problem. When you're doing construction, you can either re-use an existing building and all its existing components, or upgrade a few components inside the building, or you can knock it down and build from scratch. Software doesn't do this. Instead it takes the lead pipes, CAT-3 wires, horsehair insulation, and single-glazed windows, and installs them in a new skyscraper. We keep reusing and building on top of shitty old tech from decades ago because it's easier than inventing something better (PVC, CAT-6, blown insulation, triple-glazing), or we're avoiding making some old standard obsolete because some old buildings still use it and the landlords don't wanna pay for upgrades. So we get a working skyscraper, but for some reason we still need to train new engineers on horsehair insulation.
We didn't accept "it's just indexing" when Windows Vista laptops slowed down after fresh installs and we shouldn't accept it now on phones.

As a software developer I find it easy to come up with good explanations for things like these, but as an end user, I don't care. My photos are searchable but I don't think I've ever used that feature, I wouldn't want my phone to get hot and waste battery life indexing a picture of a funny tree I took five years ago. Do that stuff while charging overnight, and keep thermals under control while you do it. You don't need a fancy neural processor to detect that I leave my device plugged in at 100% every night, maybe make use of that obvious excess of downtime and processing power.
Sigma is a huge supplier to the sciences; you can (with 40,000 pages of DEA approval) get just any chemical overnighted to you. For instance, you can order a Methamphetamine/Cocaine/Heroin solution (all in acetonitrile):

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/cerillian/m025
I’m not replying to the article. I’m replying to a specific comment. Monitoring remotely is as close as I could get to “following the plumber around”.
> If you've ever tried to play a game on the iPhone/doing something else CPU/GPU heavy while outside in the sun on a hot day

good excuse to put down the phone and enjoy the sun :)
As drug use rises in Japan, government eyes prevention plans
Recently, somebody had asked me to automate the build process of FreeRDP for Windows x64 via GitHub Actions.
Spent almost 2 full days making it work.
That guy seems to have ghosted me.
Anybody wants it? mail: hello [at] amo [dot] fyi
I feel it's because the main draw of Erlang/Elixir and the BEAM, was scalability. Since the time Elixir was introduced, the Cloud system vendors have developed many solid alternative answers to the scalability question, with products that don't even require developers to learn a new language.

The soft-realtime and failover concepts that Erlang/Elixir champions are still features that are unmatched elsewhere though. I have less experience with Phoenix, but writing a WebSocket server in Elixir with Erlang's Cowboy feels like the best possible way to write a WebSocket server. In fact, in that context (which is admittedly narrow), I think Elixir might be the best possible tool available for WebSocket server programming. Even if it's only used on a single machine.

I also see the Elixir team making efforts to push into the ML space.
If they can develop a user friendly solution to Distributed Model Training, based on OTP semantics, I can imagine Elixir pulling some attention away from Python.

But tbf, to get the most out of the Elixir, you need to learn a little about OTP, which is very different. In fact, while I won't go as far to say learning Erlang is a prerequisite to learning Elixir, it helps alot, and that can be intimidating.

And if you're doing webdev work, then Elixir would mean that you also have to manage / maintain your own servers too.
Then there's the niche status of all BEAM languages, but that's the 'network effect' I guess.
Which Companies Own the Most Satellites?
Yes so that is the hub case (2nd half of my comment) -- clients will RST each others' connections then. Unless you are MAC cloning but not IP cloning.
Well, it's not Thermal Conductivity then.

I just looked it up.

Stainless Steel 15 W/m-K
Titanium 17 W/m-K
Aluminum 210 W/m-K

Effectively, Stainless Steel & Titanium have the same thermal conductivity.

https://www.hardrok.com.au/thermal-activity-in-stainless-ste....
A peek into Argentina’s video game scene
I've targeted developers on FB/IG at high budgets successfully with good ROI attributed to it.
> money supply is one amongst many other factors that we effects price levels

But money supply differs from all those other factors in a key respect: changes in the money supply reflect government manipulation, not any actual change in the economic situation. So price changes due to changes in the money supply are not signaling an actual change in the economic situation that economic actors should respond to by changing their activities. And that means changes in the money supply break the supply and demand system. (And, again, changes in the money supply also are wealth transfers to those who get the newly printed money, which in our current system is the rich--banks and other financial institutions--at the expense of everyone else.)

> 2020 saw the largest expansion of money supply in recent history, and guess where all that money went? Right into the hands of ordinary americans.

Yes, but that was a huge exception to the normal practice. The Fed has been printing money for more than a century, and COVID relief was the first and only time the printed money had gone to ordinary Americans as opposed to financial institutions.

> The fed doesn't print money and hand it out to rich people, you should read up more on how monetary policy functions.

You should learn basic microeconomics. The fact that printing money is a wealth transfer is basic microeconomics. Even the economists that advocate for manipulating the money supply know this; they just don't talk about it because if the average person understood it, it would make manipulating the money supply much less politically acceptable.

> you need to read more about how monetary policy actually works

You need to stop assuming that anyone who disagrees with you must not understand your position.

> You keep talking about government micromanagement, when the Chips act is the first time in a very long time we've tried anything close to such closely targeted industrial policy.

Read the Code of Federal Regulations provisions that apply to businesses (which is almost all of the code). In a hundred years or so, when you've finished, then come to me and explain to me how that is not a huge amount of government micromanagement.
And there is an additional check: the Senate itself can expel individual members. We elected her, and they didn’t expel her. RIP Senator Feinstein.
Yeah, my 15 Pro was pretty hot that first day, now it's fine.
So, just to offer a few counterpoints there is Tom Leinster’s work on diversity/entropy [1], where people working in mathematical ecology have been happy with his contributions. I’ve also see the Penn robotics group start to use categorical machinery to nail down concepts like bisimulation of dynamical systems and develop a ‘type theory’ for motion plans that has its semantics in a category of dynamical systems [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02113
[2] http://www.tac.mta.ca/tac/volumes/35/45/35-45.pdf

I can’t stress enough that Koditschek group are serious people who are using this stuff because it addresses problems they’ve been grappling with.
This is interesting

>The 2024 GPS Testing for Critical Infrastructure (GET-CI) event is set for the fall of 2024.

>This event provides an opportunity for CI O&O and manufacturers of commercial GPS receivers used in critical infrastructure to perform equipment evaluations in a rarely available live-sky spoofing and jamming environment. For the 2024 GET-CI event, S&T will create a live-sky GPS environment primarily for fixed infrastructure applications but will also support some ground-based mobile applications.
You omitted health. Meat is a package of pre-processed vitamins, minerals and energy sources.

Other than health, taste, tradition, habit and convenience, what has meat ever done for us?
Go a step further, write some company blog posts outlining how to do it yourself. Do a good job, honestly show how easy it is to host your own alternative, you're making the world a better place by doing so.

You want readers to think "that would be easy, maybe I'll do it". They start to believe it's important they have what you're offering and they think they'll do it themselves.

Well, we know how attention spans are these days, if something takes 30 minutes of work it will probably never get done. Most of the people will give up, and a lot of them will buy your hosted service instead because they've already convinced themselves it's important. If it's important enough to someone that they would spend their time on it, they'll spend money on it too. You want people willing to spend time / money on something to have good will towards your company.
I'm very curious what's going on here... Does the EU just have better negotiators? Did someone in the CDC get their pockets lined to accept a higher bid? Is there some law or contract which prevented the CDC from playing hardball?
This is a concern that I hear a lot and it really doesn't impact Elixir projects. You're getting the same thing in different ways thanks to pattern matching.

The defacto pattern matching approach for everything gives every function an interface and you still get strong typing for all of your core types too (numbers, strings, bytes, etc).

You just don't have static typing, but the typing that's there is significantly stronger than dynamic languages and IMO it has the perfect blend of wins from static typing without the flexibility impairments that come with it.
I feel that in the last 20+ years or so, the candidates have seem to forgotten the "appeal to the crazies in the primaries, pivot for the general".

Then again, the whole point of democracy is that the voters will get what they want and get it good and hard.
Our father's shrines are our children's ashtrays.

I'm mentoring a couple guys on my team, both born solidly after the year 2000 by their own anecdotes, building them up as Linux infrastructure engineers. I covet the video cameras we use on our remote meetings, because I can tell when to stop talking about the history by their body language drooping.

I've had a few a-hah moments, using connections to the same history ESR scribbled above, but largely I am finding that regaling the younger people with details from before they were born is not interesting because they were not here for it and have no connection to it.
How is it hard to explain: please put these names in a row from best to worst.
Narrow buses (or long transit vans) in sewer tunnels. Get ‘er done.
> "I could do this 3x cheaper myself"

There is always someone that think they can do it faster and better but happens to never do anything that anybody buys.
I think whether and when during a senatorial term senility starts to set, or accelerates in is also pretty arbitrary.

Picking one number, based on input from experts in psychology and medicine, and applying it to all high-level public trust jobs, and putting it in law in our normal democratic processes would be no more arbitrary than the rule that the President must be at least 35.

I will point out that civilians who want "public trust" positions within the federal government or even as contractors are checked for a range of attributes which may make them potentially unfit for the responsibilities in question. Currently, my understanding is that subsequent to a clearance check, they must sign an agreement to not use substances like marijuana for the duration of their employment. This policy is _also_ not something that Americans voted for. I would argue that Feinstein, who often seemed not to know where she was, or McConnell, who is sometimes unaware that he was making remarks, are far more impaired than someone who occasionally enjoys an edible.