skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This linked me to the MNT Reform page, not the MNT Pocket Reform page. AFAIK, there isn't a page for the Pocket Reform under Shopping. Currently one has to go to Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
How hard would it be to revive Eurisko, to the point of understanding how it worked and being able to implement it in modern systems?

I've always been fascinated by what it could accomplish on such limited resources. It seems possible that the tech would be useful even today.
This is such a contradictory comment.
Oracle may be "uncool" to the young crowd, but it runs a lot of very large, very important systems.

https://www.thomsondata.com/customer-base/oracle.php

That doesn't even include primarily government contract companies.
There is no satisfying answer to the question of what axioms one should take. You either can't prove what seems obvious or you end up with some very strange theorems.
If you want to see China demographics collapse: https://tradingeconomics.com/china/employed-persons

That being said, they can avoid a production collapse by increasing productivity. China is building all kind of infrastructure like crazy. They need to move to first-world status, however, in the next 10 years or so. It’s going to be interesting to watch.
>Uber isn’t telling people that their battery level impacts the price. So aren’t they the ones hiding information?

I would support them disclosing it, but the circumstances are not the same as one party is submitting information for a quote and another party is providing the quote. In this exchange, fraud on uber's side would be lying about what the quote is.

>this is purely a negative for consumers

That doesn't mean it is right. Shoplifting being illegal is pure a negative for consumers too.
The balls on the guy that straight up just asked for penis69 and put that as the description too.
> I think if people at all levels of skill were reasonably good at measuring their own ability, we would see two curves that roughly overlap. Instead we see the graph given.

Actually, due to the construction of the test, the ability to evaluate your own absolute ability in a subject isn't sufficient for the two lines to be able to overlap.

It's a percentile axis, so you need to be able to reasonably accurately estimate the ability of everyone taking the test, and where you fall in the quartile range of those participants.
Are there accessible techniques to establish if a number sequence is from a good RNG or not?
I appreciate that people are probably bad judges of randomness but I keep noticing odd patterns with a supposedly random number generated as part of an MFA process.. I'm interested in seeing if there's a problem or if it's actually working effectively. What terms should I search for to find out more on this?
yeah I was an intern in the Federal government and all the praise made me realize I shouldnt be there

who cares if “people my age are usually are distracted by girls and sports” people with cognitive ability to co-prioritize those things are not here at all, they’re in New York City doing the stuff you guys try and fail to regulate after the fact

Definitely could see it for a chiller work life balance, especially if you can come in further in your career and get a great salary
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had similar auditory and speech capacities
Car dealers generate tremendous profits for themselves due to regulatory capture. As an example, UT Austin's McCombs school of business is named after a car dealer in San Antonio.

https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/about/the-mccombs-difference/....
Array languages really need a good book on programming in the array paradigm. I’m hopeful they’re coming with the recent popularity of things like the arraycast.
Seconding this comment; it was my exact thought while reading this post.
Healthy lifestyles, extremely high life expentancy, relatively low crime, no school shootings, multicultural, clean air, low pollution, southern hemisphere (less likely to have nuclear fallout), access to land (for those that like large estates), urban cities + vast rural areas, global primary resource supply as a business makes it attractive to those in legal, corporate, Engineering (civil, mech) and related industries.

For millionaires from the UK (fleeing Brexit), India, SE Asia and elsewhere it has all the first world advantages and less of a number of downsides.
Pennsylvania feels like a husk of its former self. Keystone State no more. The Lehigh valley is growing but the jobs are not. It seems like most new jobs are spillovers from ny finance looking for cheaper areas, logistics and warehousing, and remenants of Telco giants.

It's unfortunate. The main line would be awesome for transit. Really wish they'd build rail back up to Scranton from Philly too. PA has so much potential but the older generation needs to die off first and they gotta get the corruption out of the state legislature. Pennsyltucky isn't helping the situation.
He has been a legit superstar since college. No one was surprised that he went on to do great things.
Greece and Portugal offer access to the EU. If they were not part of the EU, the flow would probably be negative.
they always insist that Leibnizian monad is not related to the FP monad at all, probably because it's a major point of pride of contemporary scientist to not be related to anything philosophical at all. sure.

still, i'm always wondering. why be so insistent. i mean, leibniz's monads are opaque substances that by itself have no causal relations with the world, but only affect each other/the world through "God". which sounds to me like an exact description of the IO monad
Both analyses seem to agree on one finding: people’s skill at estimating their own ability increases with that skill. It can’t be a purely mathematical artifact because you would see a tapering at either end, or a narrowing distribution of errors at the bottom end, not just a narrowing toward the top end.

This should be unsurprising for anyone who has become sufficiently skilled at something. Beginners can’t even discern the differences the experts are discussing, and frequently make errors in classes they don’t even understand.
Bushism
Nevermind, I change my answer to grapeshotting
The risk is not in offending someone, but in that someone posting the rude string on social media in real or mock indignation, causing the outrage machine to turn on your brand. There’s a steady supply of bottom-feeding journalists waiting to write the article “IKEA’s new system is sending hate messages to customers”.
It saddens me to think that alphabetization is going the way of the dodo. It was a gateway drug into computer science for me.
Do it for/with her. Nice way to spend time together.
Writing from a throwaway account to avoid outing myself...

I work here [1]. We have a QA opening in Chicago that is heavy on SQL. Pay would not be great, but the benefits are amazing. She would have no shortage of work, and of things to learn, but it wouldn't be the kind of competitive stressful situation that you describe. It's a place that really cares about work-life balance.

If you think she would consider QA-type work, have her take a look:

[1] https://www.crsp.org/about-us/careers/
Sauerkraut and such of course.
Etymonline.com is one of my favorite websites. I had no idea it had a blog though - thanks for posting. I love the description of English as “Built from half-Frenchified Roman marble and local wattle-and-daub.”
Huh? I've had third-party cookies disabled forever and I've never had any problems downloading stuff from Drive.
What you just described is, in theory, just a really bad non-CS PRNG. In that sense we are in agreement that a CSPRNG is not necessary.

To your point, a non-CS PRNG seeded with a static value isn’t “random at all”.

This is why they are sometimes called DRBGs: deterministic random bit generators. You just described two such functions.
I think the point is that you can't attribute the coining of the phrase to the gp for that exact reason though

I'm with you that independent invention happens pretty frequently (which makes sense, because figuring things out 'which makes sense' tautologically makes sense), but that also means you gotta humble yourself when making claims of 'first!'
Metro is the name in many cities, not just Paris
This is pretty cool (pun not intended). We just have to be careful to not overuse the resource, or else we can end up with a universal warming crisis. Even worse than mere global warming.
To add some of the additional features Squids provide. You can also convert any smaller integer to a string with Base64.
In DC we call our system The Metro. It's more common than you think.
It doesn't matter, as long as they're not looking at the third gene.
Interesting that they discuss how frequentist and Bayesian methods give (slightly) different answers, but not which one was closer to the historical example. Although, either one would be so much closer to the truth than the intelligence community's estimate that perhaps it doesn't matter.
You might try to use the information to find more victims first.
I don't see what is technically new about this? What API has been missing to do this?

Tcp and window.screenTop and screenLeft should get you there right? Hmm, yeah, 2008 is a long time ago though..
Meta ban has been rough, but Google ban would be worse, say small news outlets
Hey amazing job!

If you need any help/advice with the WebRTC stuff I am always available :)
>If AI is best used to spur our own thinking, then cutting the range of responses limits its core value. There is something discomforting about an AI that looks over your shoulder and tells you when you are asking an unacceptable question.

I have to say I am falling more and more into this camp of people. Information needs to be free and we should not have a class of people deciding what is okay or not okay to think about.
> which then proceeded to elect college-educated right-wingers

Source though? In what time period?

College doesn't make you better or anything but looking at my own family and where I grew up, it's not the college educated making up the biggest blocks of conservative voters ...
Raiders of the Lost Ark Story Conference (1978)
Beijing has 6 official ring roads. There is also a 7th but it isn't considered part of urban Beijing.

It really does suck. I lived between 3rd and 4th ring road in the eastern mid section (around san yuan qiao), and my work was on 4th ring in the northwest section in zhongguancun. So...around the loop I went, it makes the trip 20-30% longer. Line 10 (a loop line between 3rd and 4th ring, line 2 would be the inner loop around 2nd ring) theoretically takes me straight to work from near my house, but I almost never took it because it was just too long (and it was just easier to sit in a taxi on 4th ring if I timed my to work and from work time right).
Or how many of them are just enjoying a steady supply of stimulant meds without having to show the prescription for them.
I would guess they got less for more money.
Thanks for doing this. We should talk! I am a historian and have been exploring using LLMs in teaching (https://resobscura.substack.com/p/simulating-history-with-ch...). I love this idea. I’m fairly sure at this point that history education will be one of the fields most positively impacted by LLMs, just because there is so much potential for redeploying primary sources in creative ways like this.
No, BART uses wheels with an aluminum center because reasons. But hey it helps makes things noisier, so why not?
> Bakewell ended up doing similar for his sheep, “so plump that we have measured several of them and found them broader than they are tall … having on each side a great lump of fat which the farmer called cloven flank”.

Downside: they can get stuck on their backs and die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guEyxTpevFo
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant startup raises an additional $43M
Maybe making colour mixing ven diagrams?
For many people yes. I do not follow any religion myself but I accept it is part of humanity at the moment.

"About 85% of the world's people identify with a religion. The most popular religion is Christianity, followed by an estimated 2.38 billion people worldwide. Islam, which is practiced by more than 1.91 billion people, is second."

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/religion-....
Isn't this a completely different thing? This is used for manned aircraft refueling, where the job of the drone is just to fly as straight and level as possible, and the receiving aircraft that is flown by a human has the much harder job of maintaining formation.

In the Airbus system, the refueler plane takes automated control of the receiving plane, and maintains formation using controls on both planes.
In PowerShell, you can skip the need to master numerous DSLs for various data formats. Simply convert XML, JSON, YAML, etc., into objects and leverage built-in methods for manipulation. Bash, on the other hand, often requires you to familiarize yourself with tools like xmlstarlet and JQ, making the learning curve steeper. Additionally, PowerShell offers enhanced reliability since it primarily deals with structured data rather than raw text. Its consistency is also a notable advantage when compared to Bash, and the longer cmdlet names are offset by handy 2-3 letter abbreviations.
> I have been programming for more than 20 years, and I still feel like a novice. I still feel like I am learning the basics. I still feel like I am learning how to learn. I still feel like I am learning how to think.

> This is merely a reflection on an activity I deeply love and cherish.

This exactly matches my feelings 25+ years in. I've been up and down the stack from games and animation to enterprise crud, to tools and frameworks, to embedded and motor controls. It's all so gorgeous and beautiful and stupid and wasteful.

There were so many years when I thought I could see a destination just a bit out in the distance. Alas, it was always a mirage. Of course there are skills, but it's almost all taste and values at the bottom.

My favorite thing in the world now, is pairing with really junior people and learning to see it all anew.
Ask HN: Is it me or GPT-4-1106 quality have been degraded for the past two days?
I didn't conduct any tests. I've been using gpt-4-1106-preview since its release, and it felt like a real deal. However, for the past two days, it seems like a fine-tuned 13B LLaMA2? It repeats itself and avoids answering the question you asked, going all around it instead. It definitely doesn't feel like the same quality anymore.
You are not wrong about Cancun, but you can take the ADO bus downtown for about $6, or rent a car for $25/day in low season or $50/day in high season with downtown return.

Supposedly there was an agreement reached between the federal government and Uber/Didi and they will be able to pickup in January. Remains to be seen. I hope they put the national guard in the terminal to keep the taxi drivers in line.
I would like to listen to audiobooks at work, but often there's too much background noise to hear it properly (while not wearing headphones); it makes me wonder if there are audio player apps that will pause and rewind when the mic detects db over a certain threshold.
I seriously do not understand why any employee would steal their previous employers' code to use at a new employer.

There's little-to-no personal upside, and only horrible downside if you get caught.

I mean, this guy:

> Moniruzzaman allegedly gave his personal email unauthorized access to Valeo's systems to steal "tens of thousands of files" and 6GB of source code shortly after that development... Valeo said its former employee admitted to stealing its software and that German police found its documentation and hardware pinned on Moniruzzaman's walls when his home was raided.

And while Nvidia presumably hired him for his expertise, they certainly didn't expect him to be stealing code, not even wink-wink-nudge-nudge. Corporate lawyers at trillion-dollar-companies take this stuff super seriously.

So this guy puts himself at massive legal risk... for what? So he can slack off for a few months while he pretends to write code that's already been written -- and gets to browse Reddit? Or so he can deliver code extra-fast in hopes of a quicker promotion -- that may or may not come? Is that really worth it?

It's crazy to me. Why would you risk that?
There are some "real" games which started with the intention of being fun and then added some in-app purchases to make money. (Angry Birds, Plants Vs Zombies, etc). Then, there are bare-minimum games which basically only exist as a shell for gambling mechanics. Endless Candy Crush clones, incremental / idle games, and so on.

The first type are, indeed, not easy to churn out (at least no easier than any other game). The second, though, are the sort that most third-year CS students could make in a few days of concentrated effort, and individual companies often make many, many games that are basically the same but with different assets. They're then sold with misleading ads in the hopes that a few whales will get addicted. The cost to produce them is so low that even single digits of whales buying lots of in-app-purchases can result in profit.

(There's also a third category: terrible games with a license to beloved franchises, with E.T. being the canonical example. Many of them are microtransaction hell, but more often they take advantage of the brand to sell them for an up-front price. Same strategy, though: minimize production values, market as aggressively as possible within budget, accept a relatively low return which is still net-profitable.)
unless they have absolutely no better option

Traffic reached a tipping point where rail was a viable if not better option. The pandemic changed the calculus a bit but in general never underestimate LA traffic.
The lessons of the OpenAI soap opera for Europe
Local Russian officials seized grain and other foodstuffs from farmers, including the last reserves of food from people's pantries and cupboards. It certainly seemed they wanted the people starved.
B3/A3 Bend insensitive ginger can handle 5mm bend radius. You can wind it around a pencil with no issue.
It does fine on the edge of a desk. 5mm is less than a quarter of an inch. I can send you video of beating the crap out of it against the edge of a desk if you want.

I've watched tons of modern fiber and cat6 be abused. My dog dug up and chewed some. 0.5db loss. The copper next to it was a complete loss

The fiber always wins.

As for pricing. Once you get to 10gbps+ its at best a wash.

Transceivers are 10-20 bucks. Cheap rj45 10gbps sfp+ are 2-3x that price.
Produce a ton of heat as well.
This will only get worse.

25gbps fiber transceivers are now almost as cheap as 10 gbps.

Meanwhie, higher speed copper standards are much more expensive and produce even more heat.

Higher speed fiber is dropping in price.

Higher speed copper is not because nothing drives it anymore.
Something current: all the albums I bought this weekend have "(pre-order)" in the file name even though it's apparently the complete album.

the headline sounds wrong: If you don't save and archive paid bandcamp downloads, you've lost either way, no matter how the company is doing.

The good thing about bandcamp is that you have the option to do so.
More importantly you have the possibility to get lossless music files.

If you download from bandcamp then currently only in flac and backup the results with programs like restic [1] just as you should back up all other data.

You should always make a second copy fo any further changes if you rewrite tags or encode to other formats like mp3.

[1] https://restic.net
Owning a domain does not mean you have to run your own email server - I'm a happy FastMail customer with my own domain pointed at FastMail. If FastMail ever stops making me happy, I'll switch, and I'll keep my email address because the domain is mine.
Section 6.1: "Retrieving all blog posts"
>I don't really have much of a choice.

You can walk, bike, find somewhere to charge your phone, call a friend, use another ride sharing app, use a car you own, etc.

>Doesn't this goes both ways?

I do not believe hiding the algolithm to arrive at a price is fraud. Most business are not transparent why the things they sell cost what they do. It is up to buyers to evaluate whether they value the good or service more than the money they
have.

>Uber doesn't have the right to know everything about me just because they're potentially providing a service.

I agree, but when submitting information to them shouldn't be tampered with to get a better deal. There is a difference between just using a privacy feature that always reports your battery to be 100%, and using that feature to deliberately get a better deal from Uber. Not providing information is fine, but the intent behind not giving away the information should not be to get a better deal.
The shortuuid library can do that:

https://pypi.org/project/shortuuid/
IBM more than MS.
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Absolutely it does. The number of new companies launching on Oracle rounds to near zero though.
How is this different than running a docker container based on scratch, containing a single statically linked binary?
I sure have, but I have not jailbroken an iPhone. Well I hadn't imagined how a jailbreak on iOS might work either. Will it patch system files, programs, and drivers on disk persistently? Well that seems it would be the simplest way to keep the jailbreak, now that's some extra integrity checking to bypass as well. Do these jailbreakers have a number of exploits for writing to kernel memory? It's likely they would want to read it as well, but it's not always required. It seems old parts of the Darwin kernel are open source, which if it hasn't been drastically changed in every way, makes it a lot easier to understand the kernel and find problems. It would be interesting to see how these older released exploits work. How do you even do a syscall on iOS?

A bigger challenge I think would be new gen gaming consoles, this would be awesome. There does exist exploits for these I believe, but they are private and public ones get patched, then you can't play online or downgrade updates easily. Maybe it would be easier to stay on an older version and make your PlayStation think your on the latest version, maybe this is what those who have it do.

On windows, there are many problems you can run into by directly manipulating kernel structures, but that doesn't mean it cant be done safely, especially on things outside of something like win32k which is a mess. Hooking things won't get you in trouble, unless for example you're hooking integrity checked functions or data regions on Windows and get patchguarded. Which doesn't run everywhere on the windows kernel and can be maliciously disabled, not even ntoskrnl executable sections are fully protected by PG.
Safari blocks third-party cookies by default and introduced a new Storage Access SPI so third-party sites that do need cookies can request explicit user permission. This is all part of Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Protection.

Firefox doesn’t block third-party cookies by default because that can break sites that haven’t been updated to use the Storage Access API. Instead Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection blocks cookies from a blocklist of known trackers and all other third-party cookies (e.g. new trackers or legitimate use cases) are isolated using Total Cookie Protection (which has the inconvenient acronym TCP).

Total Cookie Protection uses double-keyed cookie jars, so cookies from analytics.example included in an example.com page are placed in a separate cookie jar from analytics.example cookies included in an example.org page. This allows both sites to use the same third-party analytics service, but the analytics service sees different cookies for each site and can’t link the cookies to one user’s browsing behavior.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o...