skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty charming analogy and it would be perfect some 15 years ago; nowadays adblocking extensions are more like a personal bodyguards that fend off all the leafleters and shady individuals in trentch coat and dark glasses who follow you.
Which makes it a curve fitting exercise. They didn't match anything - they changed all the parameters to match the historical dataset, and then declared that now the future prediction is correct.

Give it 20 more years, they can "recalibrate" again and find another imminent collapse: any model with enough free parameters can match any input you like.
Hilarious the dudes getting je banned are accusing the government of being a dictatorhip but their podcasts are based off their defense of an attempted coup by à wanna be dictator...

And people are defending their right to encourage en entice people to fight against the elected government in place...

Free speech absolutists are a joke. And they are mostly Americans. And they often ignore the fact that even in America there are limits on speech.

It's just libertarian non sens. They want to say and encourage the worst shit and not face the consequences... Having a forum and being able to reech hundreds of thoudands of people like these clowns. There are and should be responsabilies and consequences for not meeting those resposibilities.
Usually everything except HTTP/HTTPS is blocked
and HTTPS is MIMed and traffic analyzed by some network security product
Then fence it in and have it be as little of it as possible and as obvious as possible when it can happen.
Yes, but for telephone networks the network is indistinguishable from the product. Now we’ve got the internet, which allows you to address an IP anywhere in the world whatever its ISP and above that we have services. I’d argue that its a better situation to be in, whatever the competitive issues that arise (eg, see the digital markets act).
"which BASIC" is the first question the article answers.

Turns out it was Dartmouth BASIC, much simpler than the ones on C64, CPC, XL/XE or a ZX.
Not good which is very understandable. You are not supposed to use the output as final image. Find a good propt/seed by iterating quickly. Then go for higher step count to render a higher quality image.
Dream-Talk: Realistic Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Generation
> So workers is California never switch jobs and all work at the same company until retirement?

The opposite, here in CA you can switch jobs at will because noncompetes are illegal. That's the primary reason I can't imagine working anywhere else.
I respect that you've commented. It was something I upvoted. I checked through my upvoted submissions at the time and could no longer find it which was a first for me as either would expect it to have been flagged or deleted but shown.

I remember being a little shocked when it was on the front page and shortly after was not. I've checked again from <4 months. Wonder if anyone else can recall the URL - I just remember it was a collective scholarly opinion with condemnation on the situation, it may not have been from opinionjuris but the article was very similar.
These laws in the EU countries that apply them are usually stating that the compensation has to be reasonable in regards to the salary the employee is normally getting and the potential loss of money created by the non-compete close so no, one dollar won't work.

Also the non-compete clause need to actually protect some company knowledge, a non-compete clause on a bus driver will never be enforceable, regardless on how much extra the company pays.
All true, and high def broadcasts didn't begin in the continental US until 1998.
I see a lot of people mentioning "bad habits" but nobody saying what they are.
Could you elaborate on that?
Yep their bias is clearly on display we can Atleast give them that but them not gobong5the details of what the accusations are just comes off as dishonest...

Hard to take seriously. As these free speech absolutist activists usualy are...
Back in the day, XS4ALL, a Dutch internet provider had exactly this feature. They provided ssh access via port 80. It saved me a couple of time while I was traveling and the only way to get internet access was via hotel WiFi, which blocked everything except port 80. If anybody from XS4ALL is reading this... Thanks!
When I got my initial initials rating, home flight simulation was of low quality and I didn’t spend any time on it. Things were a little more advanced when I did my instrument rating. It was all good practice but doing holding pattern entries from different courses relative to the hold was invaluable in improving my situational awareness and confidence. Definite plus in staying ahead of the aircraft on instrument approach procedures.
I agree with this. At some point, around 2000-2005 or so, it seems internet pivoted from being protocol-driven to becoming service-driven. For example, I remember a protocol FOAF, "friend of a friend" that tried to build a social network using protocols amd contracts. It got nowhere. This must have been before Facebook was born. It is easy to compare in retrospect. Protocols are losing out.
It says it's available if you're using a Google account that has downloaded the app in the past. If you open it in incognito, it gives 404.
C became dominat, because UNIX was a free beer OS, with source tapes and a book to come along for the ride (Lion's commentary).

Had UNIX been as expensive as VMS, or System/370, with a commercial license, no university would have cared to port UNIX, and focus on the systems language used to develop it (post-UNIX V5).

As for its performance myth, regarding 1980's C compilers.

"Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We were making so much good progress on optimizations and transformations. We were getting rid of just one nice problem after another. When C came out, at one of the SIGPLAN compiler conferences, there was a debate between Steve Johnson from Bell Labs, who was supporting C, and one of our people, Bill Harrison, who was working on a project that I had at that time supporting automatic optimization...The nubbin of the debate was Steve's defense of not having to build optimizers anymore because the programmer would take care of it. That it was really a programmer's issue.... Seibel: Do you think C is a reasonable language if they had restricted its use to operating-system kernels? Allen: Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve. By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are ... basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities."

-- Fran Allen interview, Excerpted from: Peter Seibel. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
The United states did overthrow Allende. They financed the putchists, organised them, wrote their propaganda, trained them how to torture.

We know it as a fact because the whole CIA archives have been declassified.

You are a revisionist on the same scale as holocaust deniers.
Paperless-ngx: open-source document management system
People start with “simple website” and after prototype they expect to see “Facebook or google” like website.

No no no. You get what you pay for should be the motto.
Enlightenment 0.26 Released with Various Improvements
This is not correct. Banks don't use your deposits and loan money to someone else. However, I still think you should not support evil banks for many other reasons.

When banks create a loan, they create new money. They put the loan on the asset side of their balance sheet and create the same amount of liabilities due to the receive of that loan.
Tracking Openness of Instruction-Tuned LLMs
I assume there will be a blog post from the beeper team explaining what happened any moment now...
Companies don't usually announce performance related firings publicly on Linkedin.
Building a Marble Clock – Pt. 3 – it works [video]
I’ve already made the same argument you just made here in a previous thread on the topic. My post here was intended to relay that argument without endorsing it (a difficult thing to do without being explicit).
Hmm! Looks great.
No, and it's not planned (otter tries to avoid additional pressure on gc if possible, but that's not always possible). And I'm extremely frustrated that I had to include bigcache and fastcache in these benchmarks, since many people don't know the differences at all and just focus on performance and other metrics. Especially since bigcache and fastcache will only have an advantage when storing a huge number of items (well over 10 million). So I'll probably just add a P.S. in the README about it.
I am not familiar with the story, what's your pitch for the book (without spoilers)?
Are you sure it's obvious? I have parents that are always joking and what they transmitted me is to hate everything, in my experience people tend to hate the traits they grow up with and to which they're continuously exposed, as I hear often "Who did he take it from?"
As someone who took EECS and used many old electronics books, you don't need anything newer than probably 1980 to have great electronics knowledge.

If you're interested in Analog (designing transistors in Cadence) and Digital design (making your own CPU in Verilog / VHDL), newer materials make sense because of improvements to processes for analog and FPGA capabilites for digital.

For discrete electronics projects (learning about all the components and their uses) and understanding circuit design etc, anything old is as good as anything new.
The cartographer's website has a bunch more stuff from him and some better photos of the map itself:

https://www.antonthomasart.com/the-north-american-continent....
Whatever people it is C for low level coding, in reality are compiler specific language extensions, not available on ISO C.

All languages can have such specific extensions and many do.
I just meant that the linked post was published in 2013 ("Published: June 6th, 2013").
I never understood the point of layering an RPC protocol on top of HTTP; HTTP is already itself a request/response protocol and can be used for RPC out of the box.

Whether it's HTTP 1, 2 or 3, it doesn't really make a difference. The evolutions of that protocol are themselves somewhat dubious, and designed to exploit things you wouldn't need in an RPC setting -- they're really designed for the open Internet, not a local service.
Gliders or ultralights are a great way to get your head around the way the aircraft moves and what you feel when it does.

Being a stickler is one of those cultural things that never makes it into the entertainment world. So much more planning goes into even the simplest flight that the sims mostly handwave. I play IL2 a lot and it's funny seeing the missions generate weather that would have grounded early aircraft full stop.
Russia may attempt to attack Europe next winter
This is so useful in India where several cafe hotspots allow only 80 and 443. Currently I use gotty, but I'll give SSH over HTTPS a try.
Terse and wordy would be opposites. Dense means thick with verbiage like a forest thick with foliage.
No, the claim was:

> The constitution of United States, in the first Amendment prohibits certain speech

It does no such thing. It prohibits Congress from making laws that abridge the freedom of speech. Congress is not required to make any laws constraining speech, even if it is allowed to, and the First Amendment itself does not prohibit any speech.
I find other people tedious. Too much keeping up with the Joneses. Too many, what Taleb calls, "village-intrigues".

The descriptions of intentional friend-making in this article sound like hell to me.

Give me some stand-up comedy, and an HN-sourced long-form article on some ancient discovery, and I'm good.
How does the narration work, is it automatically generated? For a year now I have a long commute and listen to audiobooks. However I find the narration vary wildly in quality and think oftentimes text-to-speech might actually be better
> You generate a five character string where one character is a dash – YouTube will autocomplete those URLs and spit out a matching video if one exists.

Won't this mess up stats though? It's like a lake monster randomly swapping an untagged fish with tagged fish as you catch them.
If you're referring to the 1.71m = 5.6 feet. It's technically correct but confusing, 5.6' != 5'6".
Here's his website: https://www.antonthomasart.com/

South Asia and Australasia: https://www.antonthomasart.com/south-asia.html

North America: https://www.antonthomasart.com/the-north-american-continent....

World: https://www.antonthomasart.com/wild-world.html
> Someday I ought to reexamine the problem, and redesign a new, clean solution from scratch. I don't know when I might get enough free time to start on such a project. Text files may be obsolete by then.

One can always hope... but I think there will still be plenty of text files to parse in the year 2033... or 2123.
I’m not familiar with what you’re referring to, but I’d guess it has to do with some academic breakthrough in transformers. But that wasn’t something they productized, was it?

The comment I replied to seemed to be lamenting Google falling behind in the market, talking about closed models and Bard. My point is that Google doesn’t have much of a track record of homegrown invention that they’ve successfully brought to market.

That doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t have good R&D, but that can be a lot like a university: all sorts of cool ideas and interesting discoveries, but it doesn’t necessarily translate directly into something useful.
If you can't recover, perhaps. But when it causes more unrecoverable states (e.g. because handling the case requires a massive refactor to satisfy the borrow checker, so you just panic...) it's another issue.

Even ignoring that, not everything is a security sensitive internet application. In plenty of cases trundling on with a corrupt state in production is superior, particularly since many corrupt states are benign (particularly randomly occurring ones, rather than attacker produced ones). E.g. is it better for the software driving your Christmas lights to potentially glitch for a moment and display the wrong colors or to just shut down (/get stuck, depending on the design)?

> as rust makes it mandatory to handle error cases to some degree

"handle" often just means panic, and in cases where security isn't a concern and there isn't any persistent data to corrupt crashing may already be the worst thing that could happen. So you might have that the C-written program would have correctly handled the case but due to rust's effort front loading it just doesn't get handled. ... but even if the C-written program handled it wrong it would be worse than the rust code that panicked (for some applications) and quite possibly better.

I've experienced rust sometimes normalizes intentionally writing code that is effectively if()elif()elif()else{abort();} as a result of the a culture of panic being 'safe' and making other choices require more upfront effort.

For Firefox which is generally security critical I fully agree that panicing is better than being corrupt. But we'd be assuming facts not in evidence if we assume that the panics would actually be bad states if that code were written in C++, it's possible that some of them would have been correctly handled but for the extra effort rust required up front. In firefox the tradeoff for more defects in exchange for being safer is still probably a good one. But one can't be in denial of this possibility if one is to minimize the cost of rust, apply it to where it's most applicable, etc.

> How are exceptions less safe or less clear?

Potentially! It depends on the culture of their use. They have a highly non-local effect, so some particular weird exception happens in library of library code of a sort that is completely incomprehensible to the code 20 steps back up the stack. And not just incomprehensible, but unknowable since the called code could be changed later and add exceptions that the caller couldn't have known of. The control flow diverts away for an invisible and potentially unknowable reason. For that reason many places have varrious rules about exceptions, including sometimes prohibiting them entirely.

Of course it can be used well and safely too with care.

But so can "goto fail; ... fail:...". And code that could locally handle an error case by unwidindign itself and e.g. giving an empty result probably ought to do so rather than bubble up any one of thirteen different exception states that may be differently mishandled. (or at least the better choice between the approaches isn't something that can be correctly answered by a maxim or anything less than case specific judgement)
laughs in European... side loading is coming

Merry X-mas
I realise US driving lessons are rather different from driving lessons around here. Around here, the goal of driving lessons is (basically) to reduce cognitive load so that you can spend attention on what's happening outside. A steer, pedals, and stick setup would already help enormously with this. Once the student reaches minimal automation, there's no bearing real-world experience though.

So, basically, your argument makes a strong case that simulation is excellent for absolute beginners.
That's because it's mimicking Delphi, which was mimicking Visual Basic (the first one). Just like Eclipse was one of the first of its kind.

People hate changes, even the slightest UI color changes are booed down. I can imagine redoing Lazarus to look like IntelliJ IDEA would be a lot of work that would be frowned upon (though I love IDEA... but I myself find it not tempting at all to switch to their "new UI" which copies VS Code and hides away my most frequently used features behind submenus and pictures, like I can't read ;-) (old man yelling at clouds)).
> Not it’s not. They have already disappeared. Modern industrial farming has little to do with what people have been doing there for millennia. You can blame tractors, fertilizers, pesticides etc. for destroying traditional farming communities.

That's not how these communities themselves see it. They've adopted this technologies, and they haven't adopted wolves.
Aren't there [proton,] batteries made of Chitosan; Proton-Polymer batteries?
You're somehow speaking as if this isn't already happening, at least per the other comment.

Also, if you think McDonald's is going to change a corporate policy rather than operate a few stores below capacity or even close them down, you have a really skewed view of the relative power of low pay non-union workers...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743949 :

> Potential aerogel application: low-VOC washable waterproof sleeping pads with high R value
Again, non-US western nations have figured this out by providing tenant rights (rent control included in this).

Slumlords can and should be legislated out of existence.

> if the burrito place charges $8 which then increases to $12 with inflation

Where do you think this inflation comes from? If not from uncontrolled rental price increases?
That is mostly because the rockets are small and largely intercepted. The examples you have of modern weapons causing mass casualty events are of weapons with warheads 50+ times the size of those in a Hamas rocket, and there's plenty of examples of comparable unguided weapons causing similar casualties numbers when fired at cities.

Also, you need compare the deaths with the number of rockets that aren't intercepted to get a baseline of effect.
> What incentive is there for the employee to sign a non-compete today that has $0/year compensation for the non-compete duration?

If it's the only way to get a job, that's the incentive. If the whole industry does it, or at least the vast majority, then workers don't have an actual choice.
My worry in this case is not the government it’s the unsecured rooted Android devices will malware.

When I want to have secure conversations I either do IRL or Signal on iOS devices.
> What? Do you have showdead on?

I was joking – "woosh" as I believe the kids say.

And this is why I'd be in favour of a "topic ban".
> Once we have individual tracks to work with, we begin transcription. This is the most resource intensive part of the process. We rely on the Whisper AI transcription model from OpenAI, via WhisperX. The WhisperX project also uses wave2vec2 to provide accurate word-level timestamps, which is important for sentence-level synchronization. The transcription process is fairly standard; the only interesting addition to the process that Storyteller makes is to supply an "initial prompt" to the transcription model, outlining its task as transcribing an audiobook chapter and providing a list of words from the book that don't exist in the English dictionary as hints.

https://smoores.gitlab.io/storyteller/docs/how-it-works/the-...
The Iskander missile has a 1500lb warhead. Compare the number of deaths it causes to the number of deaths a single unguided Israeli bomb causes in Gaza when it hits a populated building, and you will soon realize that the guidance is not the determining factor here, it's just the mass of explosives.
I think he was right to disable the ability for Community Notes to actually report and remove tweets. First, it's a vector for abuse. Second, misinformation is a loaded term and having the context along side the content is more important for an informed public.

Of course anything illegal or against ToS should be removed and only be the purview of Twitter's moderation team (or what's left of it).
Commodore Season's Greetings for the PET
A Merry 8-bit Christmas!

This is a recreation of one of the scenes from the Commodore 64 demo disk, for any Commodore PET.

Download at: https://www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#seasonsgreetings
From Zero to IDE with Emacs and LSP
You provide an audiobook and an ebook and it syncs them.
It's fun to laugh at this, but they made the system we still use. We still cling on to the stupid and useless concept of months. They fixed their stupid calendar. We cling on to it.
That's not enough. You're going to be much less likely to find another rocket scientist job after a couple of years flipping burgers.

Non-competes should have limits of months, and be paid at normal salary rates.
Because these same people agree to absolve you of any debts you accrue if the LLC declares bankruptcy.
maybe a stupid question: what happens to access to other usual https:// pages on the server? How do i get there if whole https traffic goes to ssh?
Or.. just use plain http for those?

that is.. can i only route some the.server/go-to-ssh/ endpoint to ssh, and all other stuff stays and is accessible as is?
Venture Capital and Hedge Funds are similar in the sense of "they both invest money and try to make superior returns". Just like all software is similar since "it uses computation to do useful stuff".

Venture Capital firms rely a lot more on deal flow and network effects. Their focus is usually on early stage private financing. There are certainly hedge funds which also do similar investing, but by and large they don't play a role during the investing process and largely work with public securities and other instruments. This is also why VC and PE industries tend to hire from B schools, and look for backgrounds very different from hedge funds which by and large tend to pick students from more quantitative or scientific disciplines.
Hyperloop, Elon Musk's Pipe Dream, Bites the Dust
What are the property crimes in SF/Bay Area? Just curious.