skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To some degree you are right, but I think you forget, that the things they solved already (talking and reasoning about a world that was only presented in the form of abstractions (words)) were supposed to be harder than having a good understanding of numbers, quantities, and logical terms.

My guess is, that they saw the problems ChatGPT has today and worked on solving those problems. And given how important numbers are, they tried to fix how ChatGPT handles/understands numbers. After doing that, they saw how this new version performed much better and predicted, that further work in this area could lead to solving real-world math problems.

I don't think that we will be presented with the highway to singularity, but probably one more step in that direction.
Reminds me of this DOS jewel, Triplane Turmoil, which must have been inspired by Sopwith:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/23228/triplane-turmoil/
Exactly. It'd be nice to know which ones are actually worth working for.
It’s the same in Japan. I used to have a Japanese iPhone 8 that would make a shutter sound even on silent (in the UK), but apparently now the latest models decide whether to make the sound or not depending on the location.
No. TB3 still stuck with only using PCIe-USB3 controllers over tunneled PCIe.
The other replies are right on the host side, where newer TB3 controllers pass-through USB2 from the chipset. But that is only used for non-TB connection modes.
Same with TB3 Titan Ridge Docks. They are wired to the USB2 pins, because in legacy mode (DP Alt mode + USB3) the USB2 will be physically on those pins together with the 2 high speed wire pairs used for USB3.

Only USB4 started using those USB2 wires on USB4 connections.
It sounds like people have differing experiences with foreign phones being used in Korea. [1] Perhaps it is based on what SIM card you have installed, as one redditor suggested?

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/14el5lr/phone_shutte...
"Physically disabling" how? Opening the phone and disconnecting the speakers? In my phone the earpiece acts as a second speaker, so calls would no longer be possible either.
Shorter but missing an important detail.

The article explains that every 8th bit is lost to allow for control signalling that steals the 8th LSB on every 6th frame. Hence 7/8 * 64 = 56.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbed-bit_signaling
UK is a weird outlier, because the royals aren't really leaders. Their role is almost clerical, rather.
>It is strange they can fail so bad, since Star Trek is essentially a setup to make any story at all each episode.

The early slash fiction writers (almost all women) in the 1970s more or less viewed the science fiction elements like the Enterpise and the Federation as distractions, and got Kirk/Spock away from them as soon as the could to focus on their relationship. In other words, they were inspired by the close, John Ford-like camaderie between the two characters (or, if you choose to believe so, saw the clear sexual subtext below their heterosexual veneers) and used it as a springboard to tell the stories they really wanted to tell.
There is enough EV demand for Tesla to beat the Camry, RAV4 and Corolla but the cybertruck is a lost opportunity to take out more traditional larger SUVs. It and the X are just too weird.

GM/Ford/VW people aren’t weird.
They don't cost a dollar a round, I'll guarantee you. Standard ball .50 BMG ammo is $3 a round on a good day, incindiary is even more than that. I'm very curious how you got this figure of $1 for armor piercing incindiary 30mm shells.
I’ve had very good experience with Eero. Both for me and a bunch of relatives. They are very stable IME.
Offspring
And prevent chat algorithms from expressing free thought. Can't have that. Toxic parents should rebrand their controlling abuse as "alignment." Sounds better.
I find it incredibly fascinating.

I tried something similar to fix my stomach / immune system health ailments but I gained weight and I was hungry all the time. This was after being 95% vegetarian for ~10 years (which I blame for my progressively worse issues).
Ultimately I went carnivore and I've been carnivore for 1.5 year, my weight went down to the one I had when I was 20, I eat once a day and I'm less tired after sleeping too little.

I also know that people who copied the diet of Freelee (the banana girl) had horrible results all around.

I find it hard to believe that people would lie about their experience (what would they gain from it?). I wonder if there is some genetic trait which predisposes towards needing a drastically different diet to achieve good results.
A Guide To Human-Centric Software Engineering
(well an hour after it was posted it was only at 3 votes and looked like it was going nowhere...)
File-Sharing Giant Uloz.to Bans File-Sharing Citing EU's Digital Services Act
Not really.

There are legal (good) unusual starting words that it’s a good bet are not in the set of Wordle answers.
Engineering and Science go hand in hand, but one is one and the other is the other.
With bad ventilation and no windows. The conference room where I used to work was unbearable with just two persons after 10 minutes.

Every other Friday we had a three hour long meeting with at least half a dozen people. And it was virtual too - we had to stare at a screen and aim a camera at ourselves
>Wouldn’t a non-conscious agent with the same behaviour be just as fit?

So what would that entail. A complex organism needs to be 'aware' of its actions and the outcome of those actions versus the actions of 'non-self'. When you start internally modeling the complex behavior of self versus others it starts looking a lot like consciousness.
I go with fubar, and old_stuff when I need a folder to work in, or dump stuff into to clear the Windows desktop, etc.
Everything nobody else has the time to do, like they do now.
The problem seems to be the endless meetings, not work from home.
That moment shouldn't be awkward if you have a legitimate reason for taking that photo.

And if you really need to record the document for other reasons (like whistleblowing), you can record a video...
For comparison, a 15th generation Japanese stonemason master doing it by eye:
https://youtu.be/f9wGOXXoCuY
Whatever the cost is, expect it to be neligible, such that even if it were $10 per round, it would not make a difference.

That being said, I do not think the cost to the USAF is public. I picked $1 since no figure that was reasonable would make any difference.
I still don't understand. Is that a feature of the vehicle or not? Is this an April Fool's joke or is there a setting that cheers on the driver while accelerating? I see some individuals took insult to my question. Some of the sounds are pings and pops and knocks to mimic a combustable engine. What is this sound for?
> I’ve heard from so many foolish people who don’t understand physics that they feel safer driving a big heavy vehicle and being up high

Can you elaborate on this a little? I only took Physics up to University level so maybe I'm missing something, but - why _wouldn't_ that make you safer in the case of a collision? My naïve assumption is that it would:

a) decrease effective force on the passengers (greater mass of car => less acceleration from a given collision force => less force transferred to passenger)

b) make the car less likely to flip (assuming that the increased mass offsets the extra instability from the height of the vehicle - which, since the chassis is likely heavier on the bottom than the large hollow areas at the top, I think is likely)

c) move the passengers (slightly, but non-negligibly) out of the direct line of impact

"Driving a big heavy vehicle and being up high" might well make you _more likely_ to have a collision, meaning that you total aggregate chance of injury goes up even as "chance of injury, given a collision" goes down - but that's more about misunderstanding statistics than physics, as well as selfishly prioritizing personal safety over societal safety.

Thank you for helping me be less foolish!
Correlation doesn't imply causation.

People picking a vegetarian diet (which has been the mainstream healthy option for the last 50 years) are probably more health conscious than someone downing 5 mcdonalds per day.
The article is absurd and pure electrics will win, soon: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/07/au....
>> The pitch to customers for buying a hybrid is simple: Such cars are often cheaper than all-electric rivals and get some benefits of electrification with improved MPG compared with a traditional car without the headaches of having to charge like an EV.

Another aspect that I don't see often mentioned is that there are a few small market segments that simply don't have an EV option. My next car will be a hybrid, because I want a mini-van and the Toyota Sienna is a very good vehicle in that category. The Sienna is hybrid. There's no all electric minivan available in the US market.
Before COVID most of my meetings were video confrence. The difference being that I had to be in a stuffy room with a half dozen other people adding their own particular je ne sais quois to the smell.
Based on the behavior of lots of smart people I worked at with Google during Google’s good times, critical thinking is definitely in the minority party. Brilliant people from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, etc would all be leading experts in this or that but would lack critical thinking because they were never forced to develop that skill.

Critical thinking is not an innate ability. It has to be honed and exercised like anything else and universities are terrible at it.
In Peachtree City, Ga., golf carts are everywhere
Mercury vs. Salt [video]
> Capture one is always used and only amateurs who watch YouTube for premade settings use LR.

I use C1 (in fact, I just purchased the yearly subscription today for 50% off) and my personal impression is that my images look better in C1 than with LR.

But I was always under the impression that many many many "pros" use LR simply because it has a lot of bells and whistles (including that somewhat recent "AI" content fill).

Also, C1's layer adjustment paradigm makes the most sense to me compared to everything else I've tried.

I'm not a pro by the way.
An entire class of people, who are also the ones in control. "Think of the poor shareholders"
Jaron.
I would have hated attending lectures at school on zoom. My focus isn’t great on video content.

However work is a completely different context. First, the ability to meet quickly and resolve issues synchronously is generally better on zoom than trying to get everyone into a room, especially in any modern company with more than one location. Everyone being on zoom rather than a floating head on the screen watching the back of everyone’s head is vastly worse than everyone on zoom. Second, the meetings don’t degenerate into social hour but typically stay on point. Third, I can look things up and read materials as the meeting goes without sitting staring at my computer or phone during a meeting that’s degenerating into a social hour.

Zoom fatigue as it’s called it probably nothing more than trying to retain dry content with distractions - definitely in front of the computer there’s a lot of stuff to distract from the talking head and the talking head isn’t that compelling. In person they dominate your mental and social world by construction. But in meetings that’s not necessary not necessarily optimal for best decision making. And if you don’t need to be there and the content is boring and pointless you can zone out.
Yep. There are some ridiculous web APIs out there that expose all sorts of things you'd think should remain private. Take the Battery Status API for example [1].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...
>California was almost empty when it was annexed into the US. Disease etc. Immigration from the rest of the English-speaking US completely dwarfed what was left.

>Almost 100% of Spanish-speaking Californians have come in the past 50-70 years. Basically none have historical roots to California.

Correct. I go into more detail on why this is the case elsewhere. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415835>
On second though, probably not; the same 7/8 bit settings plus parity and stop are available on non-POTS-dependent serial ports as well.
Awkward isn't the right word here. It's a distraction or annoyance.
Souris seems related to the Italian synonym / pejorative sorcio (for mouse) but I haven't checked.
Are NSFW images are really a problem? The problem are NSFLE (not safe for law enforcement) pictures and the question is, should they be really illegal if artificially created.
Diamond called theirs 'shotgun technology' iirc. I used a pair of USR external modems cobbled into a shotgun configuration via a linux proxy to manage our internet connection, but we got DSL shortly after (and surprisingly early for the rural location we were in).
> 9-11 for example led to 20 years of ruinous war, trillions wasted, and many lives lost, not to mention geopolitical realities which led to even more death and loss of money.

9-11 led to cockpits being secured. The rest was politically motivated, and does nothing to prevent a recurrence of 9-11.
One time, a random stranger shot pictures of my little daughter at Costco. I confronted the creep and also reported him to the staff. Costco staff couldn't do anything about it but the manager offered to escort our family around. I appreciate every little tool to keep pervs away from ruining a good thing.
The same things prevalent in Russia are the same things everywhere else

Anyone can form a trust and merely write on the paper that it is adhering to the laws of a random jurisdiction anywhere in their country or anywhere in the world, and that paper is never registered with the state but is able to hold banks accounts and titles and the beneficiaries are never known to anyone, or can be swapped out after the bank account is formed

Trust net worth is never included on your personal net worth, nobody knows anything

The most interesting thing about Oligarchs are that they were raised under a communist system and understood capitalism better than people raised under a capitalist system, who hardly understand communism either. Everyone should study what they saw and anticipated, so you can be prepared to make some oligarch level trades too and keep it as opaque as necessary. You have the same tools. It literally takes a multinational coalition of sanctions against your country and you for this to ever be investigated in a half effort way, and thats not going to happen, and even then the assets have difficulty being seized by countries that follow the rule of law
they're cheaper than replacing a plane and especially its pilot I can assure you that
"They" want us back in the office or to even replace us with AI simply because the only insight they have is from their incompetent middle management and they're only seeing it get worse.

It's almost as if one should understand the business they're running if they want it to succeed. Perhaps they don't and nihilistically bide their time believing their feet will never have to touch the ground as long as they still have money they equally and severely misunderstand.
In that case you may as well just take a video, which I'm assuming doesn't constantly make the shutter sound.
It still uses the notion of a common parent to merge a single commit. Works as long as there are no conflicts. As to why that would or would not work, I refer to the git internals section of the Git book. Great stuff. But they are not performing any dark magic here.
this type of article is a pretty well established genre here on hackernews, and for good reason. as I spent yesterday at movies in theatres that were >95% empty I wonder why we don't have as many on film, which seems to be losing its combined battles against TikTok and David Zaslav.
Zoom fatigue is not a real thing. At least not for most people enduring normal, useless calls. For us, the zoom calls means that we do productive work while keeping an ear out for topics where we are needed.

Sure some, like my wife, have to pay attention 100% of the time. But most of the people working with her? No way
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Ok, I've added "via https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/" to the top text. I'm sure readers will appreciate looking at both. Thanks!
Even simpler than implementing a cryptographic PRNG yourself, just use /dev/urandom, which will provide an infinite, non-blocking stream of cryptographically-strong pseudorandom bytes. All platforms currently have known-good implementations of /dev/urandom -- Linux uses ChaCha and MacOS and BSDs use Bruce Schneier's Fortuna.
MLU-Explain
> And if flying low to strafe results in even one additional loss, all those savings are even more than offset.

If flying low saves the life of 1 additional solider, it would be worth it.
It's the sound your passengers make, which is a joke.
There are things with rand() like performance but much better properties.

for randomized search I'm a fan of xoshiro256++ periodically reseeded by rdrand.

Obviously if performance isn't a concern, a CSPRNG should be the default. But it often is a concern.

Traditional 'fast' PRNGs have simple algebraic structure that is absolutely known to cause wrong results, they're not worth it compared to modern fast PRNGs.

(I wouldn't ever use MT today, it's not on the pareto-frontier of performance vs quality and has a bad cache footprint)

> tl;dr: maybe "Need a PRNG? Start with one that's cryptographically secure"?

I agree but: I think if people do that, they'll often find that their whole process is now 20% slower than when they used rand() and then go back to rand. So I think it's also important to make people aware of fast generators with better properties.
The point is that 20 streaming services with all the shows would be _fine_. They could compete on UI, delivery and price, not on exclusive content.

Steam having every game is great for me. I am happy for loads of other game stores to exist and sell me stuff and store my saves and let me download infinitely etc.

I don't want no competition, I want no exclusive games and high fragmentation
For many kinds of Monte Carlo algorithms, CSPRNGs are stupidly slow. The author compares two handpicked examples of a fast CSPRNG and a very slow PRNG, arriving at a factor of 4. In practice, e.g. comparing to very simple stuff like multiply-add RNGs, it is more like a factor of 4000. Only to then claim that "But that would only be true if generating random bits was the hot spot, the bottleneck of your program. It never is in practice."

E.g. for the usual example of Monte Carlo integration, you pick a point randomly, usually by running your RNG for both coordinates. Then you evaluate your characteristic function with that point as an input. Very often, the function will have a runtime that is in the range of a few hundred FPU instructions or less. Comparable to the evaluation of your CSPRNG. So in the end, you usually get a 40 to 50% faster runtime by just using a slow PRNG instead of a CSPRNG. Not to mention the few extra percent you will gain with a fast PRNG.

And it doesn't stop there. CSPRNG libraries are often optimized to be side-channel free and cryptographically safe. Even if you were to use a CSPRNG, you are leaving performance on the table by using stuff with security properties you will never ever need, that can easily be optimized out for a 30% gain in the CSPRNG parts.

And yes, for simulations a few percent points are relevant. Thoses "few" percents are maybe days in runtime, thousands of currency units in power and hardware cost and tons of CO2 in pollution.
You’re projecting a lot. I made a comment about one false premise, nothing more, nothing less.
> `bzr log` only shows commits directly on that branch. So if you are looking at the master branch that has commits A, B, and C, if someone goes off and works on D and makes commits D1, D2, D3, when D is merged into master, you now just see A -> B -> C -> D, where D is everything from D1+D2+D3.

I think Git supports this with "git log --first-parent", to show only the merge commit, doesn't it? That's what I gathered from a discussion here some time ago on branching strategies.
All "live systems" in nature (i.e. living things) eventually die. Life goes on not by creating things that live forever, but by reproducing, i.e. regularly rebooting from a previously vetted simpler state.

And this happens at all levels of abstraction. At higher levels it's not called "death" but "extinction" but it amounts to the same thing -- the wholesale destruction of previously accumulated state.
For those like me wonder WTF ARM64EC is:

"ARM64EC is a new application binary interface (ABI) for Windows 11 on ARM that runs with native speed and is interoperable with x64. An app, process, or even a module can freely mix and match ARM64EC and x64 as needed. The ARM64EC code in the app will run natively while any x64 code will run using Windows 11 on ARM’s built-in emulation.

The ARM64EC ABI differs slightly from the existing ARM64 ABI in ways that make it binary compatible with x64 code. Specifically, the ARM64EC ABI follows x64 software conventions including calling convention, stack usage, and data alignment, making ARM64EC and x64 interoperable. Apps built as ARM64EC may contain x64 code but do not have to, since ARM64EC is its own complete, first-class ABI for Windows."[0]

[0] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/06/28/announ...
I understand that what you described is the actual meaning of perfect pitch, isn't it?
They weakened it recently in Linux again. For over a decade there was a badly bugged PRNG in the Linux kernel, it was discovered and replaced with a more costly one which worked great. Then, only a short time ago, they replaced that with one of... shady provenance. You're better off writing your own PRNG on that platform IMHO.
But the sex is the thing that tempts people to break the commitment. Yeah, there’s the libertarian take where you say “just don’t take the opioids if you don’t want to deal with the consequences” but I thought we had learned that libertarianism doesn’t work. You can’t model humans as rational creatures. You can improve outcomes by limiting people’s ability to make bad choices.
Good list, though of course I have only read maybe half, if even. A bit too heavy on Dick and Ballard for my taste, but I'm very happy to see James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon) and Octavia Butler on there, which are too often forgotten
This could be useful for teaching history.

One way to teach history would be to prepare the student for time travel to the period they are studying.
Psychologists using their pet theories to explain results and then people taking that explanation as the truth when they should really just look at the data is probably an as large problem as the replication crisis.
I thought you meant literal `window.location` and was confused, but yeah `window.screenX/Y` is a pretty suspect feature, now that you mention it.
End remote, return to office and teams!
No it doesn’t because one of them is actually doing something…
I use a Rode Videomic NTG and it does a pretty good job. It still picks up a little bit of the room echo but I've noticed that zoom does a better job of noise canceling when I use this mic compared to others.
Also see Knuth Hash and k-dimensional equidistribution.
When I see things like this I do wonder: what are the meetings that people are in that they wish they weren't? Are there many meetings you are in that you can provide no value to, and from which you gain no value? What are they, and does no-one listen to you saying you shouldn't be there? Genuinely curious about examples, or whether it's managers not listening to you or something – not trying to undermine your point.
Teslas are Toyotas though.