skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. There's nothing inherently good about having talent. It's about what the results are from applying the set of various talents you possess.

It could be that the thing that's your third proficiency brings about much more good when applied in earnest than your first proficiency. In the context of your cricket player, they could also be good at advocating for regenerative agriculture in villages full of subsistence farmers. Since in reality you're allowed to apply multiple talents at once, perhaps gaining fame in cricket would make their voice louder and more compelling, thus leading to even better outcomes in regenerative agriculture.

The focus on achievement is of course dominated by those who believe achievement is morally good per se. When it comes to sports these people are mostly selfish fanatics who just want to see something exciting. Occasionally good things can come out of that effort but usually the effects are indirect, e.g., inspiring future generations to try their best or building a platform to tackle more important issues.
While we're talking about terminology, I think both "hallucinate" and "confabulate" are misleading and lead to inappropriate intuitions about how language models work.

Both words imply that there's something erroneous or anomalous happening when an LLM emits incorrect facts, as if the model can be in either a correct or incorrect state. But from a system perspective, there's no difference between the two scenarios: the model is consistently generating the most probable output based on its weights and context. It doesn't sometimes confabulate... it always confabulates.

The concept of "truth" or "falsehood" are something purely external to the model that humans bring when evaluating the output. They aren't part of the model itself.
Less boilerplate code with the new primary constructor in C# 12
The term "climate change" was literally created by conservative activist and Bush pollster Frank Luntz to confuse people about global warming and muddy the waters.

From his Wikipedia article:

> Although Luntz later tried to distance himself from the Bush administration policy, it was his idea that administration communications reframe global warming as climate change since "climate change" was thought to sound less severe.
Airlines have people checking this stuff because of regulations. That's part of the regulations - that you have a compliance department (or several), and you get audited regularly for compliance, and the auditors can ask anything, and you'd better be able to answer, and to prove your answers. Part of the point of regulation is that you start looking, and keep looking, persistently and systematically. You don't just wait for the regulator to find it.

I mean, I've been in medical instruments rather than aviation, and so I've been under the FDA rather than the FAA, but I suspect the level is the same or higher for airlines.
Powerbill tripled, food doubled, taxes steadily increasing. Scrabbling for dollars. My attention is consumed. None to spare for "existential crises".

Is it a conspiracy?
You reminded me the 90's joke: "What is Windows? An 386 emulator for Pentium".
I think we can extract a grain of truth from the bullshit of the final quotation:

> "What Americans really want is the ability to stream, download and customize music playlists to meet their personal preferences," Carpenter said

The carriers who get to decide (for some reason) if the hardware inside your phone gets turned on are also in the business of selling a directly competing product: bandwidth, especially for streaming.
My neighbour's microwave nukes my bluetooth entirely. I have moved to wired everything and life is good finally!
> IT has a responsibility to keep the network secure.

Yes, but TLS inspection is not the solution.

> Google is already experimenting with no Internet access for some employees, and that might be the endgame.

Source? And I'm pretty sure they are not considering disconnecting most of their employees who actually need Internet for their job.
lol yeah. I curled the url in a suspicious email once, to investigate what it was. YOU FAILED THE TEST. ugh...
New cars come out every year, with minor updates, and big updates every 3-10 years ("generation"). I am still pretty happy driving a 2006 car. Maybe phones move toward that, but I like incremental improvement, and I'd be annoyed to buy a phone today which is 4-5 years old if I'm also wanting to keep it for 3-5 years.

Enterprise computers get refreshed every 3-6 years, usually (I'd probably do shorter for most laptops, longer for desktops). Monitors can do 5-10 years. Until they became active electronics, headphones/speakers/microphones which were decades old were fine.

Biggest boost on a lot of new mobile device refresh is getting a new 0-cycle battery and a clean OS install, and for a lot of people, "buy a new one" is the main opportunity for that kind of upgrade.
As I understand it, most modern cars (past 15 years or so) also have the gas/power controlled by the ECU.
I agree with that for the most part. But that's not what was being suggested by the GP.
There are times, when a complete rewrite is warranted; prose, code or otherwise. Yet explicitly putting a due date on knowledge and its pursuits ignores the fact that novel insights may arive- and last well beyond the 'end date' we put on such endeavours.

Firth's, "you shall know a word by the company it keeps" from 1957 and whether meaning resides 'in the text' or in the minds of the reader, prevailed academia at the time, and seemed fairly settled (halfway in between, contextually entangled)[0].

Yet this very premise became the basis of modern NLP half a century later, where yes, a semblance of meaning could be found in just the text itself; you just needed a lot of it to be able to make out the interrelations.

That is to say: 'settled knowledge' today [ed. if there is such a thing] can have a renewed impact tomorrow, and it seems odd to self impose an expiry date on its pursuit because at this moment in time, there seems nothing left to uncover.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Différance
The poster was asking why certain things are omitted and only things the support an argument are surfaced. The reason is it tends to undermine a given narrative. People are convinced of things via narrative. Both good and bad things.

It’s not an oblique criticism of climate change. It’s a comment on why narratives don’t tend to be objective.
Marines temporarily relax dress code due to camouflage shortage
I'll bet you a thousand dollars there will be not even 10 million deaths over current level directly linked to climate change, like drought, heat stroke, etc.
Using Action Policy for a Ruby on Rails App: The Basics
It works well in practice. The DHT protocol includes announce messages that broadcast when new files are shared on BitTorrent. It then includes a "geometric" way to find people who are sharing those files. It doesn't include the files themselves, just the torrents which include a file list and location hashes.

If you listen to BitTorrent's DHT network, you'll build an index of everything shared on BitTorrent (over time), this will include commercial movies and such.
Just tried it. It worked as expected: right-click, copy a link, and it's the link to the source, not Google or a redirect.
Yes but if you were Tabula Rasa you would ship out software features 3x faster with significantly less bugs using dynamic typing than if you used static typing.
Earlier this year I gave a short presentation which gives some context to the work of the IERS https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html
> Global warming is another made up tragedy to distract us from real issues like wars, poverty, wealth disparity, care for the elderly and mentally ill, etc.

Here I am contemplating whether to "waste" my time trying to tell someone on the Internet they're wrong, or just shake my head at the "deluded idiot" (my point of view, it could be wrong) and go on with my day. I wonder what the dangers are of people doing the latter and people walking around confidently with "false beliefs" (again, my point of view, could be wrong)

But you mention wars, don't you notice how weather has had a big effect? For example there was a bad Russian heatwave in 2010 which destroyed grain yields. Food prices all over the world went up, and in north African countries this contributed to the Arab Spring revolutions [1]. Is it just a freak weather event? Can we attribute it to climate change? Can't we accept digging up carbon/methane and burning it creates an atmosphere/planet that slowly becomes inhospitable to humans?

Well, I also want to talk about refugees fleeing crisis countries, but I'm too lazy to look up the citations right now. I contemplated just abandoning this reply because of that. This sounds obnoxious but consider it a gift that someone is still willing to tell you that you might be mistaken, rather than shake their head at what you wrote and walking away unnoticedly.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209472...
there is an app [NextRadio] being proffered to unlock FM module.

the radio is often associated with the modem.

if this is a nonproblematic flip of a setting, the next need is an antenna.

usually wired headphones provide this.

if the headphone jack is discontinued, then you need surgery to get antenna.
How do we go from hell to heaven in education [video]
Spying on your holiday and the AI wars begin
I’m surprised that anyone is shocked by the depths to which Google will sink in order to hoover up more of that delicious data.
The entire biosphere (forests, forest-dwelling animals, ocean life, the crops we grow, us) as well as most human infrastructure rests on an equilibrium so precarious that a couple degrees in mean temperature change is going to have first, second and third order effects we can barely predict. No one and nowhere will be “sheltered” in any broad sense.

Like, increased heat is already causing rails to heat up, forcing railroad delays[1], which will eventually translate into more expensive shipping for everything. And if we start getting Wet Bulb 95 conditions[2] then an afternoon power outage in any American city will lead to a million dead (the homeless will die either way in these conditions).

[1] https://ggwash.org/view/90938/summer-heat-means-longer-amtra...

[2] https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3151/too-h....
> By that logic, wouldn't you conclude you should censor anything that causes people to protest in the streets?

Risks of protest on the street is different from the risks of someone targeting an individual working on the project with violence, isn't it?
https://archive.ph/w1M5L
Like a true HN centrist, I agree with both.

QUIC is really cool technology. It can solve a wide range of problems that aren't necessarily HTTP based.

However, HTTP/3 is using QUIC as a patch over badly designed websites and services.

QUIC doesn't solve the problem, it provides another path around the source of the problems. This blog was written by Akamai, a CDN that makes profits off the problem of "my website is too fat to lose quickly anymore". I don't blame them, they should sezie the opportunity when they can, but their view is obviously biased.

QUIC makes most sense for sites that can optimise it, like the Googles, Cloudflares, and Akamais of the world. For the average website, it's just another technology decision you now need to make when setting up a website.
In an alternate reality there's an equal but opposite HN quarterback:

"Too much! I get sending a message with a small initial fine like 150k plus requiring a compliance plan, but this high amount is a step too far. Prepayment is just the epitome of regulatory capture IMO. Even for selfish reasons a satellite company will strive to keep their satellites minimally functional and safe from any systemic dangers in orbit. But I guess Uncle Sam always has to get his cut."
I would say it depends on the specific role and project, but for most people who write code, likely not.

Coming from a mechanical engineering background, I understood "engineering" as the application of science for problem solving - or, put simply, applied science. Some examples:

1. When a civil engineer applies solid mechanics to select a cross beam.
2. When an electrical engineer applies E&M to design a circuit.
3. When a mechanical engineer applies heat transfer to analyze cooling patterns on a laptop.

Under this definition, most "SWE" work isn't engineering - if anything, it's closer to applied math and logic?

That said, definitions are only useful inasmuch as they allow us to make sense of the world and communicate with others, so I'm not sure this is the most useful question
The alternative is that either browsers will be the only users of QUIC - or that each application is required to bring its own QUIC implementation embedded into the binary.

If ossification was bad if every router and firewall has its own TCP stack, have fun in a world where every app has its own QUIC stack.
She would not be the first academic to be a bit prickly.
No it ain't, those are just an attempt to pass something closed source off as open source.

At least, I haven't seen the authors give their blessing to a
fork of the old version of their software, beyond the text of the license itself. Maybe it hasn't been long enough, but it soon should be.
I think its a combination of pitiful fines aganst large tech companies in the past which actually have been ignored, and the concern over having so much debris in orbit that space travel becomes difficult or impossible. We could literally ground ourselves - its important to remember that things up there won't come down.

While I agree at you that this isnt the adtech buisness staffed by ghouls that see fines as a cost of doing buisness, the idea of adding to space debris is rightfully met with horror, so any amount of money short of compoany-ending will be seen as people getting off lightly
> Open Source support really needs to be normalized in corporate environment

It won't. The only real workaround right now is to simultaneously launch SaaS alongside the FOSS project and monetize that heavily.
Genuine question, do Netflix executives really believe that their biggest hits (Bridgerton, Squid Game, Stranger Things) are worth paying more than $20 a month?

I'm subscribed to the top tier because it is subsidized by my mobile carrier. If they were to raise prices like they did last year, I would cancel my subscription. I don't want to downgrade to lower image and audio quality, and new content is mostly underwhelming.
An OS update does a lot of writes though. Its downloading a several gig file, unpacking lots of tiny files, shuffling them all around etc. Its probably one of the most disk intensive things a phone will do.

And in fact installing the first big OS update was one of the key points on the Nexus 7 that showcased its incredibly fragile storage. So we've definitely seen this happen in the past specifically with OS updates being the straw that killed the camel's back in flash storage performance.

I've experienced it on devices before as well. Play around flashing different ROMs on Android, eventually each flash keeps getting a little slower and a little slower, and suddenly just copying files directly off USB gets incredibly slow and the device becomes nearly unusable. I've seen it happen on a few different devices.
Isn't that what I said in the original comment?

>shareholders/board demand immediate profits rather than future growth -> executives oblige
Louisiana, too, has been suffering the same.
I think this is a perception issue.

Daily (or even monthly) temperature variance doesn't allow you to see the slow but steady increase in the global average. People aware of the impact of the climate crisis probably tend to notice the above-average warm days more than they notice the below-average cold days.

Humans are not thinking machines. We're feeling machines. That's why we need hard data to make good decisions.
When I was 8 I would sometimes watch a Disney VHS tape that had Donald Duck exploring stuff like this. The golden ratio, octaves of sound/music, pythagorean theorem etc. I loved it.
I don't think this is for tracking. If this was just for tracking, there are much simpler and discreet ways to do it (just add a background ping). I think this is to allow intercepting the user if Google determines that the link destination is harmful (eg malware distribution).
> Imagine in your daily life, suddenly a new government entity announces you owe it money.

I understand the impetus to make the story about liberty, but this is not a "new government entity" "suddenly" appearing. Dish is in the business of satellite communications. That field is strictly regulated by the FCC. The company applied for permission before launch, then later applied permission to modify their authorisation, and they themselves reported the discrepancy at the end of mission.

There is nothing "sudden" about this.

> Was there even a trial?

No. There wasn't. To quote from the consent decree: "The Company and the Bureau subsequently engaged in settlement negotiations. To resolve this matter, the Company and the Bureau enter into this Consent Decree and agree to the following terms and conditions." That is to say this is a settlement.

> Or did some guys get together in a room and decide you should just pay them,

Yes. Some "guys" from the bureau and some from the company got together in a room.

> without any consultation?

No. The representatives of the company were in the room. The general counsel of the company signed the consent decree.
We are using thanks.dev (to donate) and they are doing a tiny bit of it, but I have not seen much happening there in the past few months.

Just sending go.mod etc. only looks at the software in the build process which doesn't go far enough.

But I think we're on the same page!
The article discusses those possibilities. It seems this particular aircraft was so old and so extensively modified that the failures started adding up and combining in such unfathomable ways that they actually destroyed the plane. The worn out counterfeit bolts failed to destroy the plane. A shoddily made mount for a turbine generator literally broke but failed to destroy the plane. Both of them interacted at some points but failed to destroy the plane because the pilots turned off the generator in time. Only when they left the generator running for a long time did it interact long enough with the failures in the vertical stabilizer bolts to cause catastrophic aircraft destroying vibrations.

> the FAA officials who played down the danger were not necessarily wrong either

> unapproved parts cause annoying breakdowns and increase maintenance costs, but don’t directly cause crashes, simply because there are very few individual parts on an aircraft which could cause a crash if they fail

> Redundancy in aircraft design largely shields us from the consequences, with the primary exception being very old aircraft like LN-PAA which predate many modern airworthiness requirements.

> Even then, it took multiple unapproved parts in multiple locations, plus inadequate inspections and poor documentation, to actually bring down the plane.

> So much was wrong with LN-PAA that its various faults started to interact in unpredictable ways, creating conditions which no one had foreseen, least of all the pilots, who probably went to their graves without any idea of what had befallen them.
I've had a director explain to me in his serious, biz-school-insight tone that the tech org is a factory for tickets and his job is to run the factory. He would consider "feature factory" a compliment, aspirational.
The Rise of Virtual K-Pop Bands
The Ancient Greeks didn't even think it started with Ancient Greece. Plato believed in Atlantis for example.
Neuralink competitor Precision Neuroscience buys factory to build brain implants
AFAICS mc42 is arguing that we need more watertight arguments for why we need climate change mitigation, so that deniers can't use the holes in our arguments to deny climate change is happening (or anthropogenic)
> Doesn't seem fair does it? Is this about "leaving your chosen office suite" or "leaving Google".

How is it unfair if they allow their own websites which they maintain and develop to have no malware?

> Here's an interesting one. It gets allowed even though the HTTP cert has lapsed.

I doubt any human is going through and vetting every website. It's not a perfect system - I'm sure there will be websites through the cracks.
Not sure if I've told you before, but wanted to let you know that your solar-powered blog posts, in particular your DIY larger LiFePO4 battery, finally helped me understand some stuff about domestic solar that I'd previously failed to grasp.
Asking people to have less, experience less, and do less isn’t an argument that can ever win.

The winning argument is to show how you can consume more energy for less money by using sustainable technology. Cramped trains will rarely win politically but electric cars that go fast and look cool do win.

In essence I believe the only politically viable way to reduce carbon is to engineer and tech our way to systems that reliably do more for less and increase the amount of energy people can consume.
https://github.com/bkahlert/kill-zscaler
You don't need to take it to the molecular level to demonstrate climate change. The fact that ordinary CO2 is opaque to infrared is readily demonstrable by experiment in a classroom. The cause-and-effect from burning hydrocarbons to energy absorption to a warmer environment was explained well over a century ago.

The details of the atmosphere's interaction with the land are more complicated, to be sure. But that's not necessary in order to understand that the theory explains the the observations we've been making of a warming atmosphere. That's not sincere argument; that's goalpost shifting.
That's not the case. There is no LICENSE file in my published extension
Don’t Sleep on the EU’s Digital Markets and Digital Services Act
Yep unfortunately the same still applies with DroidFS. Thanks though.
Im surprised that Hollywood didn’t put anything in
It's my company.
Apart from that: VLC was just one example.
But it's a tool that a chunk of employed people actually need for work.
You could consider it as applied science in that we are dealing with CPUs, we do benchmarks, we build models of things ... but this isn't work that everyone does.

I wouldn't call most SWE work close to applied math or logic. Very few people get to deal with things that are math-adjacent or do applied math in general. Many things are just .. plumbing data.
Might be worth looking at the limiting factors that caused the delay between iPhone (2007) and the advent of Uber, et al.

Then overlay that with the limiting factors for AI/LLMs.

I had a third-party logistics startup in 2007 that I would have loved to turn into Uber for shipping, but it would be at least a few years before the cell networks and ownership of smartphones reached a point where it was possible.

I don't know if there are limiting factors that will delay LLMs potential to disrupt the status quo.
The Navy is rusting, The Marines can't clothe their troops to the standards they want... Is the Air force avoiding crashes by simply not flying?

Just the time to get into a land war in Europe and a sea war in Asia.
Clay tablets and a stylus also less convenient than pen and paper.
You could say f-ck it, if nobody believes us anyways, let's just track the sh-t out of everything then
Or, really, any pre-installed OS from similar sources. Linux/*BSD/MacOS are just more of a rarity as a pre-installed choice, mostly owing to the popularity of Android/Windows.

I suspect iOS, due to Apple's policy of "no external app sources" and other similar decisions, much as HN's audience derides them, as a consequence is most resistant to this sort of a thing.