skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we render as a black hole could be that, no:?

The suicide option is ridiculous, but I am happy to entertain it.

Better yet: any physical form of any sufficiently advanced intelligence is immediately recognized as fragile and thus existence is virtualized as fast as possible and thus equivalent to say become electromagnetic in nature.

The electromagnetic space is able to be explored infinitely more with less thermodynamic requirements than meatspace.

Then again...
I’ve noticed that Hacker News is a lot faster than other sites and apps on a bad connection probably because it’s just basic HTML
Lenses make SUCH a difference. A family member asked me to shoot their wedding (no pressure, right?) and since without me it wouldn’t have happened, I agreed. I also rented some L glass for my SLRs, and holy shit was that eye-opening. Turns out that a $2000 lens is objectively better than a $300 lens, who knew?

The clarity, the sharpness, the pop - everything was improved. Good glass is a bigger difference than the body.
Could one become stronger by living in 2g?
Yeah exactly. You would never do an atom level simulation, you would distill the model of whatever you think people are.

And then that would live on in a new environment, becoming something entirely different.
> Uber really is an improvement on pre-Uber traditional taxi

Not in Denmark. It was only ever cheaper for a while, while the investors sank money into choking out competition, which they failed at.

> using an app to reserve a taxi

Unlike in Germany, Uber actually brought apps to taxi companies in Denmark, before Uber got banned.

> making the process and the product reliable, customer-friendly and consistent

Uber was never more reliable or consistent than traditional taxis in Denmark. More friendly, sure, full-time career taxi drivers are more socially distant.

I once waited for an Uber that was “just around the corner”, except the blip on the screen with a name and a picture was just a visualisation, there was no car. The street it was supposedly stuck in traffic on was empty.

The app was simply lying to me, hoping a car would become available before I tried another taxi service.

Hardly an improvement. Just cheaper for reasons that were not possible long-term or fair to the drivers (not sufficiently factoring in the cost and risk of the car).
Yes sorry, I was wrong. The CVE says the opposite, I put an EDIT in the OP.
I didn't say that either. I'm not judging the bias. I'm simply pointing out

- biases are real;

- that 99% of most people are oblivious to that fact;

- that 99% of elites / leadership make make no effort to educate the masses on how biases - in this case specifically the act of voting - impacts discourse;

- that how such a bias decreases compromise (i.e., people won't change their minds) and therefore increases divisiveness;

- that biases are an unavoidable human given which means the addressable problem is the ignorance of such things.

- Conclusion: Individual biases *are* going to have broader societal impact. Ignorance - especially when it's used to manipulate behaviour -is never good for society.

Those are the facts. If you have counter facts, please share. If there's something else outside these facts I welcome the opportunity to move beyond my biases.
Fasting is very important to me. Since I eat a lot.
I do all other things besides calories counting. Thanks
Deterring foxes and badgers with TensorFlow Lite
It's easy to give some generic advice, which may or may not help. Becoming an "expert" (knowing something well, not intended to mean knowing more than the audience) can increase your confidence. The tangential aspect is dealing with "impostor syndrome", which will work against you.

For presentations, there are books and videos to learn from. But what matters is practice, which can be done in safer spaces and smaller groups.

Lastly, this sentence in Steve Jobs's commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 [1] could help:

> "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

Realizing that everything is impermanent, and that whatever you think or others think today may not stay around in a decade or few from now, also helps. It is ok not to be good at presentations or speaking to an audience. Not everyone is cut out to be a great speaker or a good presenter. Focus on your strengths and derive satisfaction from those. Frame this or keep this around in some form: "This too shall pass".

[1]: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/steve-jobs-stanford-com...
I suppose any proxy can be used in combination with https://www.linux.org/docs/man8/tc-netem.html but it is a bit tedious.

Perhaps one of the linked projects can help with it?
What was? The anecdote I said? That was a month ago. Or the Polish experience? That was all before Uber even existed here. I used to take taxis a lot in Warsaw in 2010-2013 and don't recall having any issues.
Even if they knew, what would they do about it? It's not like "the governments" could pull up a Spectre patch out of thin air. There are no mitigations. So what do they gain from knowing if they can't avoid it anyways?
A big factor in buying a "pro" camera is controls. It's really difficult changing the focus in a controlled way while shooting with a phone. While in theory you can imagine Apple giving you API control for that and hooking it with an external focus pulling device, it's still a sub-optimal solution.
I cut sugar too. Sport is a no go for me.
Fasting is nice, saves money and is better for my brain IMHO.
BTW, I know that not everybody can work from home.
All I'm suggesting is that we can move away from the narrative that everybody needs to live and work in London and support other regions - with visas and tax incentives, etc.
I'd never actually thought to get chatgpt to rewrite papers for me, there's some very badly written ones (fully aware that English may not be easy for many people to write in) papers that I have been setting aside for ages.
Sure - in the UK a lot of companies don't offer any other way to pay them, or the way is a lot less convenient(you can pay with your card over the phone and have the order shipped today, or you can send us a cheque and we'll get to it in the next 3-4 weeks).
> Yes. Lakes as a concept exist. There are many examples. What are you proposing?

Rivers from the lakes to unpopulated arid or drought striken parts of the country.

> Okay. Just for the aesthetic value? Or to evaporate it?

To use it to create a fresh water source that will feed a river. The evaporation I perhaps wrongly assumed will become rain somewhere relatively near by? But even without that, my assumption is most arid places were green at some point, re-introducing water will green them up and make them habitable for humans and generate economic activity. Salton sea in california, as disastrous as it is for example, you will see a lot of farms next to it in the middle of the desert!

> Okay. Just for the aesthetic value? Or to evaporate it?
Let me get it straight: you are proposing to pipe the output of wastewater treatment plants to an open basin (also known as artificial lake). Ones whose waste input was generated by humans drinking desalinated water. So your proposal is to desal, consume water, turn it into waste, clean waste, fill lake. Do I understand you well?

Minus the last cleanup part (except for debris). Our "waste" (not trash but toilet waste), can fertilize soil but also st high enough desalination volumes we wouldn't need to recycle water. But to meet the aforementioned need of artificial fresh water generation, we can use our waste. In cities we are already doing this except it mostly just feeds into the ocean or a bigger existing natural river, instead of that, we fill up waste lakes that drain into artificial rivers and now that water and nutrient helps grow plants, farms,etc...

If we make it work, everybody wins. More green, cooler planet, better economy, more housing along artificial river paths, transport,etc...(my original idea was actually to create these rivers next to interstate highways and gradually build high speed rail as well.

Much of the US is empty and unpopulated because there is no fresh water supply or doil that can sustain crops of any kind and we have growing national and planetary crises that might be alleviated by this including jobs,housing, climate, wars over resources,etc...
Quite a bit of hype and drama for something that requires very specific condition to be exploited.
Gosh why didn’t Sony’s attorneys think of that.
Research inherently requires attention and attention is inherently scarce, so unfortunately people do and will compete for attention however they can, metrics or not.
Pretty sure apple makes you sign a paper saying that you agree to the device being wiped.
Also - material science and computation being less advanced, they just built bigger margins of error into everything that required resistance to force etc. Compare to today where everything is done to wafer-thin margins to minimise cost, hence fiascos such as RAAC.
It’s funny how paper patterns vary with geography. Across the Baltic Sea, in Sweden, you can certainly find "millimeterpapper", as we call it, but it’s a bit of a speciality item, and I have rarely, if ever, seen anyone actually use it. Especially now, that all graphs are done on a computer anyway.

On that subject, I’m fascinated by the many special-purpose more-or-less-grid papers there are out there. Yet, whenever I see photos of these papers in use, the user does not seem to have used it for its intended purpose, but simply as a random piece of paper. For example, what is the motivation for the "engineer" paper on this site?
Why a search engine that scans your face is dangerous
Are you using apple silicon? How much RAM do you have, and how many tokens/second with codellama 13b?
The Hard Economics of Selling Web Data
Not really. You can have default values for positional arguments just fine in C#.
One of the problems is that for smaller economies (including Nigeria, below), investing requires local knowledge. A US index fund will roughly track the US economy. The 20 largest local companies in Poland? Not so much.

In other words, it's a place for active trading. Investing in the former Soviet companies at the time of the collapse of communism would have been a bad bet (but reflected in the WIG20). Investing in the startups displacing them? Great bet.

Real estate too. Having Polish land valued at a tiny fraction of German land in 1990 was clearly not long-term sustainable.

My expectation is that the Polish per-capita GDP will reach that of Western powers in at most a decade or two, which gives a natural 4x return over baseline. It's not the astronomical return of post-Soviet era, but it's still large.

In other words, smaller economies are a good place for active trading. I don't do it since if I did without local knowledge, my returns would be similar to the 1x of the WIG20, rather than the 10x of active traders in Poland.
You don't have any pricing on your site, what does it cost? And do you have a video of a typical workflow or something?

As an aside, the scroll on your website stutters pretty badly for me (on Firefox).
I wonder how they're going to tackle LLMs/AI?
Systemic TypeScript
Software like this is always going to be a massive security liability. It doesn't really matter if it's Windows Indexing Services (which has a plugin infrastructure for supporting arbitrary file formats, which is used by well-known secure software like Adobe Reader, other Office programs and also supports a variety of multimedia formats), Gnome's tracker-miner or KDE's Baloo indexer.
Is there anything I can get from a doctor? To stay in shape?
Something easy?
Digma 1.0 is launching: Developer Continuous Feedback for the rest of us
The vision was clear from the beginning: I saw how developers have access to amazing information, courtesy of major advances in observability, but are using very little of that. With a small team, we set out to build a platform that would have one goal: Make all of that raw ‘junk’ data invaluable, and not just after the fact but during development itself!
Making GRID's spreadsheet engine 10% faster
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

– Edsger W. Dijkstra
Great hope for paralyzed people, I hope it not so expensive that its only for a few millionaires
> There are no mitigations

They can use different applications and communication channels to avoid leaking data to hostile governments.
Because it fails to be able to use what it tells you, i.e., cannot apply concepts properly. For me that is a fail at "reasoning". Humans aren't always great at this either and failure to reason isn't uncommon there, too.
You make it sound as if the maintainer team already has a near-complete understanding of the problem in the first hours.
And yet he is(or was) still on the road, so I'm not sure how the rating helped. Or maybe more specifically - if you saw a 4.8 rated driver was coming to get you, would you cancel the booking?
Squid Caching Proxy Security Audit: 55 vulnerabilities and 35 0days
And it WILL be used the right way and the wrong way.
This is correct. One of my two modified cars came from CA at some point and had emissions equipment that was standard there but not on 48 state cars. Removal of it didn't impact emissions and the car actually runs cleaner modified than it did when bone stock. But you see a lot of people here who just assume modified == killing baby penguins with emissions or something. Trust me even the car guys don't like the straight piped VQ revving at the car meets.
Most iPhone users probably use 20% of phone capabilities (each probably a different 20%).

It's about being perceived as the best phone.

Most Lamborghini buyers don't drive it at top speed either.
The EU posted its warning on X/Twitter. Is that good or bad? Or just ironic?
Sounds like more than a name change, it was officially closed and reopened as a "bar and cafe" serving pizza, tapas and coffee: https://www.bristol247.com/food-and-drink/news-food-and-drin...
Because i) not all programs benefit tremendously from -O3 and ii) it adds to the compile time and binary size? It would be great to have some optimization level between -O2 and -O3 so that only portions that have a potential to be improved more than, say, 5% are compiled using -O3. In fact the existence of `#pragma GCC optimize` does suggest that this might be possible today with some heuristics... (Or use PGO, which will have the same effect. But PGO is still a novelty in 2023.)
I'm guessing these small models are not meant to be used for writing whole blocks of code but rather to add more intelligent autocomplete for a few characters ahead, then they could probably provide a bit of help at least. I've had the same experience as you when trying anything locally below 30B parameters.
The beautiful idea of having "free/libre/opensource software" is worth nothing, if there is no code available at all.
A lossy compressed intra-frame codec such as ProRes 422 HQ still gives a lower bitrate.
Cut carbs, do calorie counting (I agree with Tomte, you need to track calorie intake and plan meals to stick to your daily target), and do daily runs or walks, something sustained over a period of time.
It's the old-age disconnect between the marketing, the claims and the actual functionality.

For example, the title claims that it's a file explorer. However, someone in the comments shows that it fails at actually exploring files. Something which even an alpha project would not fail to do considering the claim.

Only when you read through the marketing copy and the comments, you realise that it's a hybrid cloud/local/cross-device Dropbox that creates a view of your files across systems/locations, and only once it's done that, only then can it do the actual file exploring. At least for now.
Woops, yes you're right! Thank you for correcting me!
Welcome to the club. I spent a lot of time thinking why exactly this is surprising and the result improved my hiring game a lot.

So the issue really comes down to the fact that most people do not really have an idea what they are doing. They don't really know what their program is going to do before they actually run it. They don't have a model, an intimate understanding of what is really happening underneath the magic incantation they just laid on the screen. When you can't predict what your program is going to do, you also have a hard time debugging your own code (debugging, after all, is finding out how the program works different in reality from what it should be doing).

When you are this person, a natural tactic is to continuously compile the application and verify it works. You write a function, you check if it works well. If something doesn't work correctly, you know it is most likely code you just wrote, so it makes it easier to fix it. Just keep changing the code you just wrote until it works.

This lets people write code, but there are some huge problems associated. For one, it is very inefficient. Second, it does not work with large sweeping changes -- I many times worked with people who were paralysed by trying to run large refactoring on a code base. Among these types of developers this usually does not happen and rather than keep fixing existing codebase (which requires you to understand the codebase) people will default on rewriting (which is the process they already know).

Third, it does not force you to get better understanding of the application you are working on and the framework you are using. It is a crutch that you never let go of and will forever keep you from being able to run until you do.

Fourth, it hurts ability to design new features and take part in intelligent design discussion.

But most importantly, it leaves a huge trail of bugs. When you write code not knowing what you do, you will generate a huge number of problems, but only fix the ones that presented themselves during testing, deployment or in production.

So now when I hire developers, my coding exercise is specifically designed to, among other things, detect which type of developer you are. If you rely on running the code to tell you what it is doing, you will not pass the interview.

I also thought about causes of this. I think, for the most part, the cause of this is that these people never had a stimulus to learn do better. I did and I am happy for it. Unfortunately, the way people learn is through tutorials and short succinct examples where they are constantly asked to write a short piece of code and then run it to confirm you are still in sync with the tutorial. It is also a natural way of learning a new topic, technology, framework, etc. -- when I learn something new I don't write long pieces of code because I just can't predict what it is going to do. Only through learning I can build my mental model of what the framework does and only then I can achieve the goal of being able to predict what the code does and run for long stretches of time.
Apple costumers get by with Apple's risible video game offerings, which still compromises mostly of waiting lounge pasttime shovelware and glorified slot machines, by buying computers from other manufacters (Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Windows/Linux PCs, Steam, etc.)
There is clumsy which simulates bad network http://jagt.github.io/clumsy/
I'm a big fan of this game. Great job!

I was able to do a consistent 20 seconds per puzzle, I don't know if thats good.
Interesting, could you elaborate a bit more? "Because it fails to be able to use what it tells you" is a bit abstract to my ear.
> Sure, you can use double sided tape, but...

You got it wrong. Camera people LOVE the tapes, look at any picture of a movie shooting behind the scenes and you'll see every camera has 4-5 pink/yellow/green sticky notes on it.

So taping an SSD to your iPhone while shooting a movie it's actually a cool thing. Makes you look authentic "don't give a shit" kind of thing.
Basic HTML isn’t static HTML. The comments and posts for Hacker News still needs to be stored and loaded from a database.
A cross platform file explorer that has a nice UI and plugins is awesome. Many people have more 2 devices runing with different OS. But still, Web techs maybe not a good fit for system tools, for its heavy stack.
Because not every letter is a 500 line, 30 dependency component, in other words
The transfer functions in your (rec.709) color space is non-linear indeed. However, the pixel values you store are in a linear relationship with each other. The difference between values 20 and 21 are the same as the difference between values 120 and 121, assuming an 8bit signal. I.e., the information is the same for all pixels. Further down the chain, these values are then mapped onto a gamma curve, which is non-linear.

What the "log"-spaces are doing is to use a non-linear relationship for the pixel values, as a form of lossy compression. If the signal has to factor through 8bit values, using a compression scheme before it hits the (final) gamma curve is a smart move. If we retain less precision around the low and high pixel values and more precision in the middle, we can get more information from the camera sensor in a certain region. Furthermore, we can map a higher dynamic range. It often looks more pleasing to the eye, because we can tune the setup such that it delivers a lot of precision and detail where our perception works the best.

In short: we are storing (8bit/10bit) pixel values. The interpretation of these values are done in the context of a given color space. In classic (rec.709) color spaces, the storage is linear and then mapped onto a non-linear transfer function. In the "log" spaces, the storage is non-linear and is then mapped onto a non-linear transfer function. In essence we perform lossy compression when we store the pixel in the camera.
I feel more like companies "worried" about disclosure to governments in 24 hours are "worried" less about the 24 hour and more about the disclose part.

Their preferred outcome would be mandatory disclosure within infinity hours.
Affinity Photo will let you export an image into the Photo library directly from the editor. I use it to do minimal edits (a bit of crop, exposure, maybe highlights/shadows) and then go File > Share > Add to Photos. It's a great workflow for a hobby photographer like me and I like that it is a perpetual license. Adobe products will let a pro fly through hundreds of images a day, but this is more than enough for quick edits and dumping the files into iCloud.

They offer a free trial, try it out! (I am not affiliated, just a happy user)

https://store.serif.com/en-gb/checkout/?basket=ed0b917180520...
Your proxy adding latency is a very good idea. I'm wondering what it would be wrote in. Go, so you can integrate it easily on a k8s as a side container or else ? Rust, so it can be performant and at low level ? Nim, so it can be easy to write and performant ?
I think that can't be that difficult to write, but maybe I'm wrong.
I will look into it but I don't promise anything. I think it is a good pet/side project.
As an employer, I’ve had many hundreds of people work in my group over the years, meaning I’ve had scores of people with DUIs.

I run a software shop, not a trucking company or airline. Whether you had a settled DUI in your past doesn’t change your ability to write code now, which is what I’m hiring you for.

Why would I care about an old DUI?

Beats me; I don’t.
And where you you put those subwoofers? Probably in a room of some sort. Thus considering the room as part of the BOM for one but not the other is a bit disingenuous.
I'm confused why plain 'curl' would crash here: the CVE says that

"The target buffer is the heap-based download buffer in libcurl that is reused for SOCKS negotiation before the transfer has started. The size of the buffer is 16kB by default, but can be set to different sizes by the application. The curl tool sets it to 102400 bytes by default - but it sets the buffer size to a smaller size if --limit-rate is set lower than 102400 bytes per second."

I thought with a buffer of 100kB, this bug wouldn't trigger?