skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software is also unusual in being invented from scratch in living memory. Nobody knows how to do this flawlessly yet, and the few serious attempts (e.g., seL4) have taken stunning levels of time and effort.

In 1350, people were dying of the plague, and doctors didn’t know how to treat them. That sucks, but medicine wouldn’t exist if they couldn’t have kept trying and failing. That’s where we are.
Turning a masters degree into a pay bump is straightforward. But reading books won't get you hired at a new job or even get you a raise at most places.
Sadly it's not named after the Nickieben Bourbaki who lives at 1 River Road in West Newbury, and spent a year working on a cattle ranch in Wyoming[1].

1: https://dreamsongs.com/Nickieben.html
> Context: Galileo was the first person to see with his own eyes with his first of the kind self-made telescope the moons that are today known as Galilean moons and recognized them as the satellites of Jupiter in March 1610.

Which was not evidence for heliocentrism.

In the early 1600s there were seven models floating around: Heraclidean (geo-heliocentric), Ptolemaic, Copernican (heliocentric, pure circles with lots of epicycles), Gilbertian, Tychonic, Ursine, Keplerian.

Newton, in his Principia (1687), did not use calculus to present his Universal Graviation: rather it was carefully structured in Aristotelian form, with axioms and deductive logic. Kepler's laws can be deduced from principles. Still no coriollis or parallax.

The first inkling of the Earth's motion comes in 1728 when James Bradley detects stellar aberration in γ-Draconis. In 1791 Giovanni Guglielmini finds a 4 mm Coriolis deflection over a 29 m drop, thus providing empirical evidence of rotation. In 1806 Giuseppi Calandrelli publishes "Ozzervatione e riflessione sulla paralasse annua dall’alfa della Lira," reporting parallax in α-Lyrae. So parallax, the chief evidence for the Earth's motion came 250+ years after Galileo.

Stellar parallax was considered since at least Aristotle, as he mentions in his On the Heavens (II.14), and since it is not observed then it is reasonable to conclude that there is no motion (it took several thousand years to develop instruments to actually measure it).

Galileo's chief problems were (a) he was an egotistical jackass, and (b) he had no evidence for what he was claiming to be true. He was allowed to put forward the Copernican model "suppositionally", i.e., as an hypothesis, and "not absolutely". The latter of which, (b), Galileo admitted in his first deposition (12 April 1633): it was concluded that his book put forward the idea 'absolutely', which is where his conviction comes from.

By the late 1600s most folks had switched over to the Keplerian model: not necessarily because they thought it was what was actually happening in reality, but probably because it made the math easier.

For a good timeline of events, see (recently late) Michael F. Flynn's "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown":

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...

Daniel Whitten's "Matters of Faith and Morals Ex Suppositione" is also an interesting read.
I always thought it was important mostly for food preservation.
The struggle itself is a clue, nobody takes time out of their day to defend Apple and PRISM on the Internet. Opsec needs enhancement.
Once you think you're at parity, it would also be instructive to try to use differential fuzzing with a compiler (where the fuzzer is synthesizing valid programs to compile) to look for inconsistencies.
The M3 Pro and Max get virtually identical results in battery tests, e.g. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/macbook-pro-m3-and-m3-max-bat.... The Pro may be a perfectly fine machine, but Apple didn't remove cores to increase battery life; they did it to lower costs and upsell the Max.
Shouldn’t that be \u2621 ? On mobile so I can’t test it myself atm
You know what else turns a folder into a website? Installing nginx from your distro repositories. Then every folder beneath the www dir is a website. I'm not joking around. Files in folders is really the best way to make websites.
> Outlining the need for the research, the authors suggested that better DNA sequencing could help the police identify suspects in cases. “A clear knowledge of the genetic variation is important for understanding the origin and demographic history of the ethnicity of the populations in Xinjiang … [which] may offer an investigative lead for the police.”

The placement of the ellipsis in the quote ("Xinjiang … [which] may offer") is highly misleading: it implies that the authors stated that "understanding the origin and demographic history of the ethnicity of the populations in Xinjiang" is itself "what may offer an investigative lead for the police". The full quote from the redacted article [1] shows that this is simply a misrepresentation: the authors were talking about AIMs (ancestry informative markers), whose forensic applications are well-known and routinely pointed out in forensics papers. (E.g. from an unrelated forensics paper: "Ancestry informative markers (AIMs) are used in forensic genetics to infer biogeographical ancestry (BGA) of individuals and may also have a prominent role in future police and identification investigations" (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2020.0096...))

Also downplayed/omitted from the news report: (i) The article is published in Forensic Science International: Genetics, a journal explicitly "dedicated to the applications of genetics in the administration of justice" [2]; (ii) The lead "Chinese" author is a Uyghur, with a Ph.D. in forensic genetics from the University of Copenhagen; (iii) the use of genetic forensics is a global practice important in solving major cases like the Golden State Killer and the Boston Strangler.

[1] https://www.fsigenetics.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1872-4973%28...

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15751467
All this sounds right!

If money is no object, and you don't need a laptop, and you want a suggestion, then I'd say the M2 Ultra / Studio is the way to go. If money is still no object and you need a laptop, M3 with maxed RAM.

I have a 300GB/s M3 and a 400 GB/s M1 with more RAM, and generally the LLM difference is minimal; the extra RAM is helpful though.

If you want to try some stuff out, and don't anticipate running an LLM more than 10 hours a week, lambda labs or together.ai will save you a lot of money. :)
Adding "fiber" in the results (and changing "carbs" to "net carbs") would help.

I never understood the motive of highlighting "added sugar" though. Who cares if it's considered "added" or not? I recently was browsing the cranberry juice section at a grocery store, and without going into detail, it was obvious that some brands are gaming the definition of "added". Also, many natural sugar sources have unhealthy levels of sugar. Perhaps a metric like sugar density or caloric density would be more useful.
> Other tricks include putting it in the freezer before cooking it or microwaving it for 30 seconds before fully cooking. Both of these help to remove water from the tofu, making it firmer and easier to work with.

I typically buy the extra firm variety for stir-fry, and I'll cut a corner off the package and press out the water before dicing it. I'll have to try the microwave trick next time. The "burn it" advice is on point. You really have to boil out the water before it really starts cooking.
"Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. There's been a lot of talk about websites tracking users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. But owning the browser puts Google, Apple and Microsoft in a position where they don't even need those tricks. We need to use browsers that are independent, and right now that means Firefox."

Firefox is not independent. It is financed by Google and all web search queries on Firefox go to Google by default.

Mozilla has stated over and over that the web "must" have advertising. Sometimes advertising and privacy are incompatible. But to Mozilla, who is totally reliant on Google to survive, the two are _always_ compatible.

"Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data."

Where is this information coming from? The people who wrote Chrome for Google previously worked for Mozilla.

The annual salary of the CEO of Mozilla is over $600 million. How is Mozilla making this money. Donations?

Perhaps it is coming from sales of advertising services performed by their business partner, Google.

Browser vendors do not need to "sell personal data" in order to profit. For example, Google, Apple and Microsoft can sell advertising services.

Mozilla might be one of the few if only examples of a browser vendor selling personal data. Mozilla gets paid for sending search queries to Google.
It’s based on an older book.
Is the M3 Ultra laptop coming anytime soon?
This is one of those casers where statistics aren't your friend.

The statistics don't matter if your child dies because your vehicle is one of those that wouldn't have passed the safety tests.

If they're fudging to pass safety tests, then there's most definitely people whose lives have been affected by it.
Gahh.. you're spot on! Ty!

https://imgur.com/a/phiJZkP
Area

Task

Event

Message

Contact

Reference

Item

Location

Blueprint

Log

IMO, the above entity 'types' are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive categories (any concept or thing you can think of fits neatly into only one, and they should never be conflated or confused with each other). I think it is important to keep their identities very clear and very separate.

I.e., Task =/= Message and I think a system that recognises that is usually better (but, each to their own).
I'll never understand why China spent so much time and money finding the perfect remote karst for radio astronomy and then built a radio-loud amusement park around it.

>FAST is also receiving an enormous amount of weak radio frequency interference(RFI). Machine learning techniques were used to mitigate the RFI collected by FAST. This observation served as a test observation and it demonstrated that the majority of RFI was filtered out by the machine learning algorithm and the signal ranking pipeline called Nebula is also compatible with the observational data generated from FAST.
So can we assume the M3 Max offered little benefit because the workloads couldn’t use the cores?

Or the tasks maybe finished so fast that it didn’t make a difference in real world usage?
I have never understood why all my Desi relations were gaga for this movie. All the American born ones roll their eyes without fail.
Electric Mandates Have California Truckers Charging Overtime
No paywall: https://archive.is/lip17

>A second haul started around noon—and that was it for the day. In a diesel truck, Mr. Ramos said, he could have made six hauls. But even the second one required another visit to the charging station—33 miles out of his way, and another hour and a half of charging. A diesel semi can fuel up in 15 minutes and then drive 1,000 miles—a round trip from Los Angeles to Reno, Nev.—before needing to refuel.

How is this going to work exactly? 2/3 less hauls And that's before the mandate. We had logistic issues with far less trucking problems than that.
> The UK’s net EU budget contribution in 2014 was £9.8 billion

the state’s budget contribution. aka taxes and other income of the state.

> Meanwhile the UK exported $276 billion worth of good to the EU more than half of its total

not the UK, not the state. the opposite. the private sector.
> Until this is part of state education

State sex education has been saturating youth in all the sex related artificial interventions while treating self-control as unrealistic at best and religious nonsense at worst. When do you think we’ll get an eruption of stoic self denial virtue from the state?
Now how do I serve my micro service from here? Just drop in a js, py or rb file :-)

What if I drop in a tf file?
Thank you! I was looking into doing something like this myself, but hadn't taken much effort yet to figure it out.

Backstory: I've been using Joplin as my primary note taking system / personal information manager for a few years. While I'm generally happy with it, I do wish I could just use the filesystem itself rather than an abstraction layer on top of it, as I'd love to be able to perform bulk operations using standard *nix tools, and perform versioning with git. Since I'm using Hugo for my personal homepage and looking to use it with a few other projects, I find myself doing a lot of copypasta between when an idea becomes enough of a "thing" to warrant becoming a post or page. I think something like this could help me bridge that gap.
It is long debunked that you need to do that with every meal provided your daily diet is properly varied.
Thumbs up for Fushia Dunlop - she introduced me to sichuan dan-dan noodles.

My current favorite is the 'Made with Lau' channel. A retired Cantonese chef who teaches the techniques he mastered over the years in his restaurant in the US.
Start with his oldest uploaded videos for the good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/@MadeWithLau
This is only tangentially related, but I'm curious how other companies typically balance their endpoint management and security software with developer productivity.

The company I work for is now running 5+ background services on their developer laptops, both Mac and Windows. Endpoint management, priviledge escalation interception, TLS interception and inspection, anti-malware, and VPN clients.

This combination heavily impacts performance. You can see these services chewing up CPU and I/O performance while doing anything on the machines, and developers have complained about random lockups and hitches.

I understand security is necessary, especially with the increase in things like ransomware and IP theft, but have other companies found better ways to provide this security without impacting developer productivity as much?
An interlinked documentation system, usually with some form of backlinking
Annette Wagner oral history [pdf]
I didn't realize that all my point of sale purchases were sold as marketing data, now I do.
Keyboard Builders' Digest
I'm referring to an outside certified audit of your code. You can make it look worse for yourself with rebases/squash merges but assuming you are working legitimately those would tend to obscure your work in realtime. What you as a developer would want is to be able to mirror your code changes along with the change requests.
The year the Australian Dream died
Exactly who are we supposed to believe? Anonymous intel officials which the ISP denies, or what Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said a few months ago.

"Now, seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells "CBS News Sunday Morning" the balloon wasn't spying. "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon," he said."

"After the Navy raised the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic, technical experts discovered the balloon's sensors had never been activated while over the Continental United States. "

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre-secret-behind-china...
No clue if I'm typical, but I almost never use the favorites feature. I see I did twice last year, and that was ten years after I joined.
The best trick I use for it is to marinade it, then dry it out in the oven, then rehydrate it with more marinade. You get far deeper flavor/seasoning penetration.
Sure, it operates on an over allocation pattern. If you try to use most of the RAM, the system will begin compressing blocks of memory and will eventually begin swapping them to super fast NVMe storage. This may be fine for desktop productivity apps and web browsing, but will make the system feel sluggish when flipping between unrelated contexts.
Nobody outside Japan would care because it's a separate company and a domestic brand. You probably haven't heard of Daihatsu Tanto or Mira.
12,000 builds? Sure maybe the build time distribution is non-normal, but the sample statistic probably is approximately normal with that many builds.
smaller companies often will do 1 of 2 things, both for the same reason.

1. They'll over-adhere to regulatory compliance/security

2. They'll under-adhere to regulatory compliance/security.

It's often done for the same reason: ignorance. It's a question of culture/personality, do they play scared or fast and loose?

often times smaller companies don't have the money or the time to develop the expertise they need in the regulations, hence why they make guesses and over or under adjust.

One of the reasons I dislike "security" people so much is that they often turn into a combination of

1. no real idea what they're doing

2. a tendency to over-adhere, and

3. a belief that security automatically always trumps other concerns.
Dot Selection looks neat, no pipeline operator needed. Enables extension functions a la Kotlin too.
I think it was C++ and Perl in the early 2000s, afaik.
That's single user wiki but you can have a high performance multi-user wiki (kind of) with TinaCMS and Docusaurus namely Tinasaurus [1].

[1] Tinasaurus:

https://github.com/tinacms/tinasaurus
"Enhanced optical conductivity and many-body effects in strongly-driven photo-excited semi-metallic graphite" (2023)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43191-5 :

> Abstract: The excitation of quasi-particles near the extrema of the electronic band structure is a gateway to electronic phase transitions in condensed matter. In a many-body system, quasi-particle dynamics are strongly influenced by the electronic single-particle structure and have been extensively studied in the weak optical excitation regime. Yet, under strong optical excitation, where light fields coherently drive carriers, the dynamics of many-body interactions that can lead to new quantum phases remain largely unresolved. Here, we induce such a highly non-equilibrium many-body state through strong optical excitation of charge carriers near the van Hove singularity in graphite. We investigate the system’s evolution into a strongly-driven photo-excited state with attosecond soft X-ray core-level spectroscopy. We find an enhancement of the optical conductivity of nearly ten times the quantum conductivity and pinpoint it to carrier excitations in flat bands. This interaction regime is robust against carrier-carrier interaction with coherent optical phonons acting as an attractive force reminiscent of superconductivity. The strongly-driven non-equilibrium state is markedly different from the single-particle structure and macroscopic conductivity and is a consequence of the non-adiabatic many-body state.
As a member of eastern EU block, I sometimes look at avg. salary in China (114029.00 CNY/Year per [tradingeconomics](https://tradingeconomics.com/china/wages)) and wonder when will they earn more (though the wages are basically incomparable due to different taxes). It won't take a long time.

15% inflation in 2022 was fun, 11% in 2023 even more fun.
As far as I know, healthy at every size was originally a motivating saying to encourage fat people to still eat healthy and exercise, even if they don’t actually lose weight. This on its face makes a ton of sense, otherwise a fat person can just give up entirely which is obviously bad.
there is a perpetual ESG argument that always wins, older computers which are slower use more energy than the new one thats fast. older computers that were top of the line use waaay more energy than the new one that’s fast.
is this happening to anyone else?
Debian and Ubuntu will let you do this, too. Pop_OS may have patched it out downstream, adding an additional barrier before you can uninstall 'essential' packages since Linus Sebastian unintentionally blew away X11 (in the face of a very dire warning, which he ignored) on camera.

Idr how this is handled on RPM-based distros, but on Debian it is part of the standard procedure for crossgrades.

(More impressive than this sort of flexibility, imo, is how NixOS and GuixSD sidestep this problem altogether.)
You can punish car companies by buying used. It's much more sensible on your pocketbook too. And if your used vehicle's old enough, the automaker won't track your driving, in-car conversations, cell phone use, etc. Really the only possible downside is reliability but a full rebuild for engine and tranny is probably, at most, a sixth the cost of a new car.
Also, the original premise of this entire argument, OP's post:

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"My content is mine"

How much of your education and upbringing did you get for free? You were brought up and educated by society to be in the fortunate position of being a content creator. You are now suggesting that you owe nothing back to society in return.

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This person is stating that you OWE society something back for what you were given "for free"

First off, my stance: yes copyright is a monetization scheme. Good, I'm glad. That's what I'm after as a creator.

1. Education isn't free, if this person is referring to the State. I'm assuming it is an American as this discussion is about Copyright law. Taxation is theft by the government. The DOE is a waste of those stolen funds. The people attending also pay taxes. It isn't "free".

2. Even if education is free - let's say given - the person who got it for free received a gift. They are under no obligation to do anything with that gift.

3. I already stated that actions have consequences and laws have enforcers. A responsible person takes responsibility for their actions. A victim blames others. Either way, they both face the consequences of their actions (or not) with or without laws. I'm not sure how "no obligations" has translated to "no consequences" or "no responsibility" in your mind.

4. Cooperation, yes sure. Words yeah, participation yep. I never stated any of the things you're attempting to put in my mouth. This is why I don't like humans, as I stated earlier. They're manipulative without cause (or perhaps with cause in this case?). I said I'm under no obligation to anyone etc. within the context of the original comment. But yes, I'll play the game and take it deeper: I'm under no obligation period. But actions have consequences as I stated before you tried to play gotcha.

5. "If the world collectively stops caring about the importance of educating the next generation on the basis that they themselves got theirs?" Another thing I never implied or stated.

I just wanted to reply again now that I have more time. I could go on but its a waste. Stop trying to gotcha me.

I'm under no obligation to society to do anything. I choose to play nice because it is beneficial to me. What if everyone thought like me? Who knows, I don't fantasize about such things.
A Look Back on NFTs: Where Are They Now?
I’m a SublimeText die hard!

I do regularly try VSCode to see what I’m missing.

VS Code has great remote editing that I do use.

However, on my M1 Pro 16”, VS Code is noticeable laggier than sublime Text!

Just clicking on a file in the side bar and waiting for text to appear has lag. Many non-nerdy people might think it’s instant, but I can see the lag clearly! LOL

For my tastes the VS Code UI is cluttered and generally feels slow. The extensions are great but also a nightmare of updates and alerts of things broken.

If it’s your thing, you can use CoPilot in Sublime Text through a plugin that actually works really well!

I’m on the fence about CoPilots benefits though.

Sometimes I’ll flick over to VS Code to use the chat copilot if I need an answer for an API call etc….

If I had to stick with one, I’m sticking with Sublime Text.
>represent statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.

Isn't this data dredging? Don't you define the test parameters in advance, and then it's either significant or not? The p-value doesn't represent the "strength" of significance.