skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, because "close enough" requires a tolerably good model of multi-body orbital mechanics. Of course, you don't have to be able to model a three-body system perfectly because that's often impossible, but you've still got to be close enough for the cold gas thrusters to make up the difference.
Yes, this is one of the avenues that I've chased down a bit.

One problem is termcap/terminfo itself. The definition has expanded greatly over time, and documentation is poor to non-existent. In many cases termcap/terminfo has been implicitly extended to support ncurses specifically. And like you say, everyone just sort of assumes ANSI/xterm -- nobody has `PS1="$(tput setaf 3)\w $(tput setaf 0) $", you just hard-code the codes.

The last time I chased the rabbit down this hole I got mired in TTY-land and was not able to dig myself out. Too many insane layers, and before you know it you're writing code to emulate serial connections in a vain attempt to make things work without burning the whole world down.

Both (n)vim and tmux have internal TTY emulation as well which makes things even crazier; I think vim uses libvterm and tmux has one internally hand-coded. It's a mess.
The NY Times tried to as well. Fortunately everyone criticized them for it
The “beauty” of contracting for the gov’t - if you know how to play the game - is that their internal management and incentive structure is usually so screwed up (and will never get better) that manipulating the customer is easy and lucrative.

If you know how to do it without being indicted anyway.

Constant back and forth change orders, pointless delays to serve constantly changing stakeholders, constant demos with no real product, no one in the customer with any power who has experience to call BS on timelines or delivery, etc.

And if done correctly, everyone in the ‘customer’ is simultaneously happy and angry and so it’s easy to deflect blame and point fingers back into their own org.

Or so I’ve heard from folks who are involved. I try to avoid it like a plague, the BS I deal with hurts my soul enough already.
I’m saying that absurd wealth is exactly that: absurd. Wealth, especially extreme wealth, is to a large extend self perpetuating and not reliant on individual performance and relies instead on redistribution from below to exist. As such it should be taxed out of existence. My personal preference for that would be a very high inheritance tax, including on trusts and foundations, because it retains a decent motivation for wealth creation and allows to pass on a large number of intangible benefits (education, etc) to one’s children.
They should do a sequel to the Social Network starring the same actor who played the twins in that one for this chapter of their life.
And how were the police “extra-judicially maintaining the status quo” here?

Cops being pricks to teenagers happens everywhere, from small
towns to urban centers or suburbs.
As a civic technologist currently contracting, I feel like more Americans should know that procurement rules all but prevent federal offices from doing their own software development and that most of it is, as you wrote, subsubsubcontracted.
You can, but you might be better off just using AUCTex if you are emacs anyway.

YMMV with use case, obviously.
> There are issues, but they're probably outweighed by the benefits of not having your currency under political control.

But with the downside of having your currency under control of the Federal Reserve, which makes decisions based on conditions in the US, not Argentina.
Surprised no one mentioned Linux Mint's Webapp Manager:

https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager

Should be in more distros. Allows some basic tweaking of profiles and supports more than just Firefox (unfortunately not qutebrowser, though).
Tools are just that. Tools. They can not make up for poor management and mediocre leadership.

My experience has been (read: anecdotal), companies that had little or no pre-pandemic experience with remote workers continue to struggle with the idea. They - like this question? - assumed that Slack is some sort of panacea. These outfits have made little to no adjustment in management and leadership styles based on the switch to that tool (and little if any IRL meeting).

Remote will never be in-person, and vice versa. They each have different "features". That said, people are people. Going days, maybe even weeks, without a random ping from your manager, "Hey, let's grab a coffee and Zoom for 10 minutes" isn't Slack or Zoom's fault.

As it's said: A fool with a tool is still a fool.
But stable solutions are what the Trisolarans want to escape to, so while they're not how you become Trisolarans, they're definitely a way to be targeted by them.

Edit: While we're discussing the Remembrance of Earth's Past series, there are few books I have more mixed feelings about. On the one hand, it had many fascinating ideas. While trying to avoid spoilers, the dark forest theorem is far too plausible, the Swordholder gambit is well done, the first encounter with the Trisolaran teardrop probe was really well done, the 2D weapon was legitimately terrifying, the curvature drives' effect on spacetime was a nice twist, I could go on. On the other hand there were a lot of things that just didn't gel. The apathy of the humans after the end of the Deterrence Era, a lot of human reactions to events (could just be cultural though?) and why does the sun have a crust?! Argh.
Whether Toyota will pivot to EV or not doesnt matter. This is solar all over again. The Chinese EV market absolutely dominates any EV markets in the world. BYD alone would make Tesla look like just Porche vs Toyota. I forsee Tesla will just fizzled out. Their solar already gone. Their cybertruck is a joke. Their sales in China after so many years with advantage of tech and factory still dwarfed by almost every other EVs in China. Now imagine those Chinese EVs are Huawei and let loose.
Any sufficiently advanced type system necessarily becomes Turing complete because type systems generalize to full compile time programming
AFAIK that usage traces back to the 1990s TV show "Quantum Leap", in which the protagonist would travel in space & time to a new place each episode.

The phrase 'Quantum Leap', then, was popularly taken to mean a large change.

The damage done to the vernacular by that show's title is only exceeded by the damage done to the vernacular by another piece of 1990s popular culture, Alanis Morissette's song 'Ironic'.
Perfectly pulling off an actual MitM attack and then forgetting to renew the certificate is certainly a very German thing :-)
If I was running a state agency and the federal government told me I could just use their system instead of spending my own money I would definitely take on the federal government instead of paying for it. Sometimes the whole "states are their own thing" here in the US goes way too far.
> But even relatively unsuccessful little tyrants (HOA presidents are the perfect example of this) are more than capable of inflicting actual damage on others.

I happen to know someone that accurately fits this description. Fortunately, he galvanized the community into replacing him & reversing his policies.

The local police department is ticked at the guy too because concerned parents keep reporting him for photographing their little kids in the pool, “he is not a pedophile but he has been playing hall monitor too much, trying to gather evidence of townhouse community borderline rule breaking”.

Poor guy, he has so poisoned the discourse that no one will ever take action on his reports.
This is not true at all.

EVs emit such high amounts of EMF that it interferes with AM radio, which is why AM radio doesn't exist in any EVs.
Have you found value out of this? I just consider cash spent as soon as I withdraw it, as far as the budget goes. Tracking small change sounds tedious and seems line it wouldn’t provide value, but so I’m curious to hear if you think differently.
Paywalls are fine on HN, it's even covered in the site FAQ.
The download links are behind email form.

You can use following gist to get the direct links to download packages:

https://gist.github.com/shahnhogan/ac2f4e941a07bc75536a495b1...
I remember at the time there was a "Silicon Valley rides to the rescue" subtext. Though a Silicon Valley person myself, that rubs me the wrong way.

I appreciate the author resisting that framing, and admitting that on that first day, the contribution of the new team was basically to ask "Can we install New Relic on the servers?" The response to that question really illustrates the root of the problem, in my opinion. It's not that the people who built the original healthcare.gov were stupid people. It's that they were operating under constraints and incentives that emphasize rules and compliance over making the whole system work well.
Technically true if you enable it with the @objc flag. However, the documentation suggests that you are only use that when needing to interface with Objective-C code, so it is not how one would use Swift in a pure Swift environment. Swift's primary object model design is much more like C++.
Unfortunately the cost of healthcare.gov has become politicized, but it was extremely, absurdly expensive. Wikipedia says the total cost actually landed somewhere between 1.7b and 2.1b.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov
Wikipedia's notability guidelines have been too tight for a very long time. I remember being flabbergasted that highly popular webcomics couldn't get a wiki article.
If you want a gentler introduction to B, you could spend 5 mins on this, which I created ~5 years ago:

https://www.oppia.org/explore/pepGU0qbyoUm
This was the first episode I watched, and it hit hard enough that I just couldn't do any more of it.
While what happened itself was less than ideal, I'd be curious if there are any more detailed explanations other than this account of what exactly happened, and how the issue was resolved. I'll certainly be on the lookout for more posts in this series.

It's like a little bit like engineering "competency porn", but I enjoy stories like this. I read The Phoenix Project a few years ago, and while it was fictionalized and a heavy handed introduction to Agile and DevOps (I'm a data analyst so it was new to me), I liked it, and would like to read anything similar, if anyone has any recommendations.
Yup, agreed on step 1. Basic autoincrement is perfectly fine, since you pick a random number at query time.
The turning point is that people think the metaverse wasn't going to happen but then they saw the last podcast with Lex and Zuck and then they knew.

Companies are working on things you cannot see yet, so if you want to catch up you need to work on things that they cannot even see yet.

Same goes if you dislike the surveillance era and think this will turn into a dystopian world. Then you must find a solution that no one else sees yet, before they go to market.

No one can argue against better solutions. They just work. You need to beat frictionless design.
Five Theses
1. Things besides “more code” need to happen for a good tech product to be built and released (ideation, quality assurance)

2. The market’s tunnel vision around generative AI tools (more code! more art!) creates an ecosystem-wide effect whereby emphasis and usage of tools for other things is boxed out. People have certainly built a ton of great AI tools for design, documentation, and dev tools — things that suggest bug fixes/refactors as you write, summarize dense onboarding docs, and create test data that looks like production data, for example — and it doesn’t mean companies will use them

3. Focusing on fixing the simple yet time-consuming problem of “more code! where is my more code?!!?” will balloon the responsibilities of these other areas, whose demands can grow exponentially (because complexity can, especially in software products)

4. Companies have thus left themselves with a perfect storm: (a) buckets of new code, (b) smaller “leaner” teams after layoffs (so less density of institutional knowledge), and (c) a drought of investment in tools that actually help with the most difficult parts of releasing good software products

5. They will find (if they haven’t already) that they quickly need to hire people back, this time with AI-related skills that thanks to AI’s newness basically no one has
Because the real ones aren't as provocative as the simulated ones.
Load a random site that is either visually or audibly stimulating
Thanks for that!

Regarding your second point, I have it in the shader comments to explore directional blending if at all possible. The problem is a large proportion of the play sessions are on Android devices in LATAM (while conversely most of the feedback is iOS and desktop players in North America) and these things really are going to struggle if more sampling is introduced. Luckily the physical pixels on such devices are small, so the bad side of this shows up far more on desktop machines than on mobile ones. I had a nightmare making screenshots for this post due to everything in the pipeline wanting to resample the images, and I think Medium did so as well at the end.

A few months ago I did extend the dual filtering blur to support bilateral blurs, for the purpose of upscaling masks from neural networks in video conferencing, and using that kind of idea it may be able to generate preprocessed intermediaries that represent the direction so that the net amount of sampling remains low.
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I think it was worked well enough, but after your comment I’m not so sure now. Could it be a os/2 port? Well, I still loved it.
> The crypto SuperBowl ads were a signal that it was about to come crashing down.

Should we short Coca Cola, Nike and Pizza Hut because they too had superbowl ads?

“Has a superbowl ad” doesn’t seem like a great signal to me, other than in retrospect when it’s easy to spot a loser.
These are the trained weights and biases, the training data is unknown in size but could be terabytes… I’ve no idea how to even guess at the size of the training data but that doesn’t all need to in ram at the same time.
That's pretty fascinating. So one has an extremely small and almost negligible chance of influencing the outcome by putting the desired face up before flipping.

I wonder what would happen if the coin was replaced with some ultra pure and uniform coin with smooth (but identifiable) faces, placed in a vacuum chamber, and flipped with a precise machine that exerts the same force every time.
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How about 800M? You just double a 400's result (how much time it took) and that is going to be pretty fare because 800M is more exhausting than 400M but need to have 2 starts compensates the difference.
higher pay and better job security / work-life balance.
There isn't really any advantage of artificially limiting the power of type systems. Yes you shouldn't implement Flappy Bird in a type system... but just don't do that. This is obviously for fun.
Fiction has roots in reality.
I did know that! I also know you can post urls directly.
That lets you subvert checked exceptions, but the sneakily thrown exception will still be thrown and bubble up, not silently ignored.
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My limited understanding of the system is that it is a feature, not a bug.

Both sides of the aisle have patrons that feed at this trough and I doubt we'll ever get consensus better operational insights and less waste and fraud.

Like so many other issues, the only thing holding us back from achieving this is will.
> A still-tight labor market means companies can’t be grouchy when employees call in sick.

Depending on the state, I would say that it is laws that mean companies can't be grouchy when employees call in sick.
Way uglier than a classic pair of Ray-Bans which is what I expected to see when I saw their brand attached to it. Thing looks like a shitty old Thunderbird.
Many people won't see the correction. Many who do will dismiss it as false. Even those who accept that they were fooled will still have lingering doubts.

This particular propaganda war has been going on for decades. The credibility of both sides is poor. The credibility of Hamas is especially bad, which just means that their supporters are already primed to uncritically accept even clear falsehoods.

There's little downside to them for faking evidence. It just reinforces the status quo.
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The kid was incredibly genial and polite for quite a while until the cop started lying and making it clear he was determined to make a false dui arrest.
Good catch! It also reminds me of Apple Hypercards and Xerox NoteCards.
How are those spokespeople not liable for fraud?
> unless there is a warrant provided.

> This element is also difficult in practice. What stops a rogue employee from taking a peek?

More pertinently, a warrant is not a magical guarantor that the surveillance is legitimate (nor can a backdoor be made that only works with a warrant - a warrant is not a technical barrier). If a government is already so anti-privacy that they force all their citizens to use backdoored communication, we can expect warrants to be rubber-stamped. Eventually some secret court will approve a warrant that covers an entire city or country, and it'll be renewed every two years as a routine matter.
I remember hearing or reading a suggestion that many US policing problems would be solved overnight if the law would simply mandate officers to wear dorky uniforms. The “militarized badass in aviators” image attracts the wrong type of people to the job, while a dorky uniform would mean that only those who actually wanted to serve the public would remain. I have no idea if it would work, but I always liked the idea.
This point also highlights the amount of luck that is involved in striking it super-rich. It's not that Bezos was necessarily the "best"; if that were true, the success would be more repeatable (especially given all of the advantages of incumbency/access/wealth/etc). We have decided as a society that we want there to be a small number of lottery winners, rather than a more balanced outcome for everybody.
I don't think POWER ever had a full set of x86 instructions, but I vaguely recall that some chips had a few extra instructions that made emulation easier. The rest would have to be done in software with something like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVM_Lx86
So, someone born on 01-01-50 has the lowest possible number at position 2,562, followed by 01-01-65 at 9,985 and 01-01-78 at 30,081.

If you use full dates, the lowest is 01-01-1978 at 109,223.

Starting with year first, the lowest is 1-12-12 at 79.
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What’s the point of a state of the art AI chip that can’t run large models? It seems problematic to say the least!
I had to find out from my Uber driver that Apple TV

* Was a streaming service with a library that could stream on any smartTV, like Netflix

* Only cost $5/month (I assumed since it was Apple it would cost double what other services cost, as opposed to half)

That said, it doesn't have much I want to watch. Severance and Ted Lasso season 1 are good and what else?
Honest question: Why do you suppose no one at work used this feature, even though the stack was picked for it explicitly?
I've known people who e.g. had justified worries about their children being kidnapped by a noncustodial parent. Someone in that situation doesn't necessarily mind if their neighbor sees their kid playing, but would mind quite a bit if said neighbor posted video of same to social media.
I didn’t say anything about performance. What I said is that it’s untenable for a board to penny-pinch a few million dollars for someone managing orders of magnitude more in resources.

A board gains nothing from pointing to a 2005 Stanford GSB blog post if a CEO they hired runs the company into the ground.

Again, all this to say we should just tax CEOs more and let companies pay what they want.
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They do; have you not seen Terminator? They are already taking over our jobs.
Sure, regulators could have moved faster, but the crypto community was pushing out so much bullshit so quickly that even excellent regulators would be overwhelmed short of an all-out ban which would require enforcement to have any teeth anyway.

And as we are seeing with all the FTX fallout, of course they were giving money to all sides of politicians along the way.

Yes good regulations are needed to prevent this sort of garbage, and I fully support that, but there is still some amount of responsibility on people to distrust "too good to be true" scams especially on new complicated "just trust me bro" schemes. There were tons of people warning against this all along.
> All it took to wire up my garage were some cheap gigabit SFP transceivers (pretty sure I used these ones right here), 40 meters of aqua-clad multimode fiber, and a $75 appointment with a contractor to actually run the fiber.

I'm puzzled as to why someone writing for ArsTechnica would need the contractor to run the fiber. Any idea?

They already said they didn't want to pay to run a conduit and I can't imagine a contractor doing anything at all that involves both a shovel and a fiber run for $75, even 8 years ago.
I couldn't make it through book 2. Book 1 set up some interesting ideas without exploring it too much, and book 2 completely moved on without exploring things, and it was slow, boring, and annoying. I read the wikipedia summary and realized I was much better off forgetting the entire trilogy.
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Once the model is trained, it doesn't need to keep the training data around.

GPT-3 is about 175 billion parameters (though I have no idea how many bits per parameter OpenAI uses at inference-time), and is apparently trained on 45 TB of data[0]

[0] Caution: citation was first hit on google, YMMV — https://www.springboard.com/blog/data-science/machine-learni...
There's a convention of posting previous discussions so people can see previous discussion. If there's no discussion and you think the links themselves are interesting, you can just post the links.
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XMPP has some adoption of channel binding (it could be better, but it's heading in the right direction) which mitigates these kinds of attacks in a different way. It is able to do that because the client and server already share a secret (the user's credentials), unlike most HTTP clients/servers (at least as far as the protocol is concerned).

But SCT validation would indeed be something we should investigate for the ecosystem, it could be beneficial for certain use cases.
+1 for Choosy for macOS.
UK tribunal agrees with Clearview AI – Brit data regulator has no jurisdiction
I'm sure they're trying to do a good job but it's concerning that only the false negatives are visible, what's the false positive rate?
Yes, I agree that "profit is the whole purpose of the business" is oversimplification. This point is well illustrated in "Other People's Money", 1991. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102609/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Really depends on if the federal-level system is better or not than what you have, no?

Sometimes the stars align and the federal government builds a system that is actually nice to use.

But sometimes the system is a steaming pile of shit.
Not entirely crazy. The creater of SQLite has done just that: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
> With a responsibly designed cryptographic protocol

Facilitating mass surveillance of populations is the opposite of 'responsible'. It's what allows tyrannical governments to remain in power.
Apple's control of the app store makes the $1,000 phone more appealing. If they opened up the iPhone to other random app makers, the phone would be less appealing and they wouldn't sell as much.