skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the reason described is true (AI will replace human translators), then Duolingo’s often nonsensical example sentences in certain language courses will probably become even worse. Or perhaps it’s the other way around… but right now some language courses like Finnish are full of what feels like bad-AI generated texts. “Icelandic pony is a Viking” sort of stuff (I did not make that up)
SQL Server has something very similar[1]. It works quite well in my experience.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/h...
What is the "big layoff"? 10 people? A hundred? A thousand? What percentage of total employees is it? Is there any reason to believe that they were "replaced by AI" vs just being a standard layoff like for the rest of the tech industry?

We need a better source for this than a random Reddit self post before bringing out the pitchforks.
#nostalgia - damn. i had one of these when i was ~ 8
enjoyed many fun days playing "sky-jaguar" and other cartridge-based games.
As a Brit I can not associate a single positive outcome to us leaving the EU. Not saying one doesn't exist but to me, personally, I can't. Many probably feel this way so they blame all the big issues we have like prices and immigration on Brexit. Is there direct causation here? Not sure, maybe. Either way I suspect we will end up joining again just might take a decade or two.

Edit: one positive this year was us becoming part of the Horizon programme.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_...
I was living there for the vote. Only one coworker was pro-Brexit and the morning after we asked him to list what it is he thought they gained. Each item (control over immigration, control over trade, control over labor, etc etc) were things the UK already had control over. He said, and I'll never forget his expression, "Oh. I hadn't realized that"
> that system doesn't even give you the benefit of being sound

I have hated parts of the TS type system with passion but this is the first time I'm hearing about unsoundness. Would you mind elaborating?
And it allows applications to display a PDF with an A4 page at 100% to have exactly the size of an A4 paper.
Don't worry, I wasn't thinking it's some get out of jail free loophole :)
If you don't use Facebook regularly, the feed will be bad. They use almost no data older than 90 days
As sure as the sun rises in the East, "Suburban Moms (and Dads) Get Suckered By Over-Promised Sales Projections" is the headline that will never go away (see LulaRoe, MonaVie, just about any other MLM scam, not to mention other over-hyped franchises like Quiznos).

At the same time, though, the franchisees had plenty of greed of their own. The article states "They also say it promised them the ability to run businesses as investors rather than as hands-on managers." If your only contribution to a business is giving it money, you are essentially always better sticking that money in the stock market. If you have some special talent, skill, connections, etc. that you can leverage, sure, go for it. But the idea that you can beat the market with no special benefit that you bring to the table is a fantasy as old as capitalism.
Wasn't this always the case, but is it now more apparent because we can find the same product on AliExpress?
Some meds require the person picking up to show ID, and they record the ID, so maybe?
SuperFreezZ App Stopper
Yeah it totally makes sense. I'm wondering about the "I'm not sure if..." part of your comment though.
Oh my lord surely you know Disney has no copyright on Snow White...
Fair use, probably. How many news pieces have you read that amount to, "The New York Times reports..." followed by a summary of the Times' article? It's not illegal to use copyrighted works at a source, as inspiration, or to guide style.
It's kind of funny, I don't really see psychedelics as "drugs" in the same way that you wouldn't view coffee as a drug. I don't think SW engineers are, for example, known for taking meth or heroin, so I'd definitely call the group fairly "drug free".

I'd think (based on nothing but my experience) that your average nurse might have higher likelihood of taking hard drugs than an average SWE :)
Highly configurable, safe, extremely stable, very low latency, high performance and throughput and even realtime if one need or want. Pipewire put an end to the mess was the confusing ballet of pulseaudio and Jack and everything else is maturing nicely. These characteristics put (desktop) Linux on a position that the competition simply can't beat.

They may have had a head start because of very popular and critical software that is un-portable, but the technical superiority is on our side.

AFAIK, there have been some professional successful DAWs for Linux and I can only think it will grow over time.

I saw people using OBS with a few USB cameras with reasonable quality making good quality webcasts and I'm sure that is also doable in the DAW-land. The future seems bright for musicians and recorders who can now be free from proprietary software and build a reasonable good studio at home using non-imorally-priced hardware.
If you regurgitate the paywalled article verbatim, as a service, for customers, then yes, you infringed. If you didn't, and you didn't build a system that has some probability of doing so, then no, you didn't. How is this so hard to understand.
But then we had a chance to reverse it in 2017 and 2019 and failed to.
You can also use pv as you would use cat, e.g.

pv file.tar.gz.part1 file.tar.gz.part2 | tar -x -z

Just like cat, pv used this way will stream out the concatenation of the passed-in file paths; but it will also add up the sizes of these files and use them to calculate the total stream size, i.e. the divisor for its displayed progress percentage.
Mods, how much of this shit do I have to flag before you take action.
> That sounds like the answer summary is “Yes”. ;)

Practically speaking digital computers are so fast that the simulation of analog is more or less the same. In gaming we run entire physics simulations and they are so fast they appear as analog. And these are for real time simulations. We can run simulations slower and at resolution beyond what's possible with analog.

First analog would be limited by noise. So there's a limit with resolution here. Digital offers virtually unlimited resolution by using symbols to represent numbers. The advantage of analog here is that at the highest resolution of simulation possible with analog it will be faster than digital. That's all.

>We definitely do know how to build analog computers that have function calls.

No. A function call involves a stack and saving context onto that stack. An analog computer is a function in itself. There is no "call". I neglected to mention the "delay" from input to output as one replyer mentioned but that's just details. That would be the closest thing to memory since the delay means your accessing a result from the past.
Why can't you send ships from France back to France without the EU?
I really like using Slurm, the documentation is great (https://slurm.schedmd.com) and the model is pretty straightforward, at least for the mostly-single-node jobs I used it for.

You can launch a job(s) via command-line, config in Bash comments, REST APIs, linking to their library, and I think a few more ways.

I found it pretty easy to setup and admin. Scaling in the cloud was way less developed when I used it, so I just hacked in a simple script that allowed scaling up and down based on the job queue size.

What do you like better and for what use-case? Mine was for a group of researchers training models, and the feature I desired most was an approximately fair distribution of resources (cores, GPU hours, etc.).
It's not about the response after it happened, it's about whether you should set decades of foreign policy based on a single vote with a small margin.
> special access for the elite.

I think that this is about property rights, the news industry has been gutted in the last 30 years, a lot of content creators (journalists) have lost their livings. The ones that are left are going to lose their livings if the content they generate is rendered valueless because there is no way of protecting that value.

In terms of special access, think about your shoes. They are nice, but only you are allowed to use them. This is not fair. You are the elite...

This goes to difficult places.
Do you have a reason to doubt their methodology? Pollsters working for news organizations with an editorial point of view still produce accurate poll. In the US, Fox News, which I think can be fairly characterized as an arm of the Republican Party, produces high quality polls that are not reflective of their overall orientation.
Well some of the voters. 17 million people voted leave out of the UKs 67 million population.

I went on a couple of marches to ask for a second vote where it was clearer what the deal is but apparently it's only real democracy if you don't know which option you are voting for.

I rather doubt that if people had had the choice between how things were and the current hard brexit with lorry queues for extensive paperwork to export anything to Europe that leave would have won.
thanks so much for your feedback - I'm going to add a note on which letters are vowels :)
I was referring to a societal inflection point, not any one person - of course there are individual counterexamples.

I consider Vonnegut cynical but not dystopian in most cases (Player Piano being a notable exception)
“You elected us to make tough, sometimes unpopular decisions. We’ll take this under advisement, but until important details are worked out this cannot be immediately acted upon responsibly.”

There’s a reason the resolution was non-binding. Maybe an act this big should have required 2/3 majority.
Fixing campaign finance is a separate issue from the particular scenario that played out. I don't see how that's controversial or confusing.

As I said, this seems like a particularly relevant and influential example, considering that it affected a close election.
“You have 47 tabs open, are you sure you wish to close your web browser”

Good enough for something g as inconsequential as pressing alt-f4, but not for ripping away the birthright and citizenship of tens of millions of people.
Students are humans. LLMs are not. Machine "learning" is a metaphor, not what's actually happening. Stop anthropomorphizing, and show some loyalty to your species.
Oh didn't know this.
Require more than a simple majority for a change that would change the entire working mode of the countries economy?

And while we’re at it, make it illegal for politicians to spread baseless misinformation? If you say something you have to back it up.
What are these? Last I saw, UK economy is projected to do better than EU
Well, maybe try not to pay your health insurance as a freelancer and the insurance company promptly disowns you and you are at the same spot as uninsured US folks immediately. In Germany. Just because fees are hidden from you doesn't mean they aren't there and a failure to pay them results in similar consequences to US.
Kinda. Also Spanish nurses and doctors left, too.

And immigration, of people of any colour, is at all time high.
I think the insight here is that garbage is garbage and the generational hypothesis holds for DB trees as well.

So if we track and treat young nodes specially, we can then promote a subset of them into the permanent tree and dispose of the rest. Per the hypothesis, nodes in the permanent tree will also die, but at a lower rate.
Duolingo really fell off the map for me for two reasons:

1. They moved away from community built language courses to ones built by “experts.” To be honest, I think the “expert” ones are much worse. The phrases seem more robotic and the structure… what structure is this?

2. We can discuss diversity another day - but what’s not welcome? Literally every screen having to be some new random combination of race, gender, disability, and cultural background. It’s so forced to the point it feels, for lack of a better word, like an indoctrination. I’m not against diversity - but badly handled stuff like this is how you build resentment. If we’re going to have diversity, why not primarily show people who actually speak the language?
The majority of his publicly known 'donations' went to the 'Protect Our Future PAC' [1] which is about "pandemic preparedness and planning."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_Our_Future
Leaving aside the actual or claimed pros and cons of Brexit, I think it required to be bold and break from the status quo to at least have a real go at making it a success.

Instead, it seems that the government decided to keep things as they were as much as possible, which is the sure route to failure.
It was the country rebelling against the city. And it didn't work out, but at least it showed everyone, who is the sovereign..
This attitude, this contempt for "gullible people to 'convince'" - 'convince' in sneer quotes, as if these people are not really 'convinced', rather ideas grow in them like maggots - this attitude lost the referendum.
To be fair, Top Spot in The Netherlands is only 23.5% and there isn't a new government yet. Does the average Nederlander know what bloc each of those 15 parties in the parliament belong to?
Germany is the top dog in the EU. If Britain was still a part of the EU, they would not so easily have been able to support Ukraine and the US in the bombing of Nord Stream 2, and the prospects for the Ukraine War could look much worse than they do
Android should have used HID to have better compatibility with Windows. But I guess the Android developers were on Linux so it wasn't such a big problem for them. Glad it's fixed on Windows now.
Microsoft Edge: AI Browser
> Imagine a scenario where Photoshop would scan images you uploaded for copyright material and then refuse to work if it determined image contained any copyrighted material or characters (even if it was just a fan drawing you did).

YouTube does this. I have many friends that perform classical piano in their spare time. They record themselves playing a piece that's 200+ years old then put it on YouTube where it gets flagged saying some big record label owns the copyright for it because it's similar to a recording they put out.
Honestly, Duolingo is so bad at teaching people a language that I think the language learning community, on the whole, would be better off without the app in business.

Then again, teaching is not really their goal; rather, they'd sell you a language learning game.
and yet, who pays? This is fine if we are going to go full communist - I have no objection personally - but selective appropriation of peoples livelihoods is more full mafia or full feudal.

I don't see that as a step forward.
colorizing seems like real creative work (if done by humans), and restoring can be too. Denoising, IMHO, not so much, and just cutting wouldn't be either.
Not the person you relied too, but it should primarily be the manufacturers fault for pushing a dangerous update without adequate testing. However, if say, the new behaviour got in the news and the owner didn't update to the latest, safe update it could be their fault.
Not really. He gave $40M to democrats and $200k to republicans. [0]

If his aim was to influence crypto policy then he would have donated very differently. It appears he was lobbying for his own political ideology and not just to benefit his crappy company.

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-the-politicians-w...
> By whom?

By the same folks who periodically murder their dissidents who’ve fled to the UK with polonium tea or ricin umbrellas.
> For instance, I have no idea whether or not Brazil has a universal healthcare system, so if the article was about a company in Brazil, such a note would be relevant to me.

The problem with this theory isn't just that it's much more widely known internationally that the US has a private insurance system, it's that that is already implied by the rest of the sentence. US employees getting their healthcare coverage from their employer means that they're not getting it from the government. Specifically calling it out is to make a political point.

> As for this specific article about the Big Three, the statement in question was added by user GoldDragon[1], who was banned for 'sock-puppetry' in 2011 and, by their edit history, appears to have hailed from Ontario, Canada.

This is proving my case. You don't need sock puppets if your modus operandi is to make neutral edits.

And being from Canada doesn't imply non-partisanship -- "the US should have a universal healthcare system" is a common political opinion in Canada.
Assuming you are moving past just the typical nonblocking folded-Clos networksor Little's Law; and want to have a more engineering focus, "Queuing theory" is one discipline you want to dig into.

Queuing theory seems trivial and easy how it is introduced, but it has many open questions.

Performance metrics for a system with random arrival times, independent service times, with k servers (M/G/k) is still an open question as an example.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089571770...

There are actually lots of open problems in queuing theory that one wouldn't expect.
It doesn’t seem that weird, if you are at the tech frontier you must know how bad most of it is.

This seems like a very odd situation. At least in the US, I’m under the impression that enforcing TOS and contracts against children is generally considered, if not impossible, at least riddled with with caveats because kids generally are not considered legally competent to sign contracts. I think (I could be wrong about this, though, layman here), that the parent is often considered “on the hook…,” but I really can’t imagine how that works in this case, where the school is making you let them agree to it. What a mess!
They painted themselves into a corner because just like the Democrats of 2016 (and even now TBH) they really didn't listen to the "plebs" and honestly believes the vote was going to be a landslide to remain. So yes, blame the politicians, but blame them for staying in their echo chambers instead of learning what people actually want. Which in 2016 was a change from the status quo
Slightly smaller wine bottles of course!
What were you getting out of EU regulations? Rules on the curvature of Cucumbers and bananas passed by unelected unaccountable bureaucrats who do not represent your interests but that of the collective?
Beleave: To leave behind, abandon. But pretty sure it should have been "believe". Regardless, I had to double take given the context.
You could just re-pay the subscription fee for unused months?

Even if you’d keep the transactions fees, it would still be quite user friendly.
Yeah, as an expat I am against Brexit as much as any expat could be, but I found the Grauniad's summary of this a bit disingenous. Only 4 of the asked questions had > 50% taking a "Brexit has failed" position.

Still, that's the Grauniad for you these days, and I sort of appreciate it. Spinning up things that are only barely positive news for progressives into actual celebratory takes, in a similar-but-better way to the behavior of right wing/conservative media for several decades.
Copyright has to be abolished for the good of all humanity.
The French refuse to take the migrants back. Under the EU they were forced to take them under some rule or other.
Marketing company brags it can listen in on people's 'whispers' using phones
What would "good" look like for you?
Wow, thanks for sharing this. Do kids react this strongly to being limited to just two streaming services, instead of three? (For reference, my kids are in primary school.)
Those were nice because you would start with floating elements that you'd move around with the mouse until you'd figure out a good layout and then add the anchors at the end and make it all flexible. Delphi was all about having a smooth progression from mockup to prototype to production. Compared to it, current web workflows are outright retarded.
Very interesting. If I try to think back, my first hobby project must have been in 10th grade. At that point I very well nearly memorized the C# part of the MSDN, as well as CLR via C# and some other programmimg books (maybe GoF?) but haven't actually written any code that does anything useful. In 10th grade everyone in our class was doing some sort of ASP.NET project for school and a lot of the other students were having trouble with the data layer and SQL stuff, so I decided to code up an ORM (a thing I knew existed, but haven't actually used) and later a utility library for exposing REST APIs which were both used by most of my classmates. It was a fun project. Later projects included a script that tells you where to live based on your public transit needs, a wordle clone for the original GameBoy, and probably other even less useful stuff.
Literally the grandparent comment talks about how the whole brexit was basically a massive propaganda event, “people’s will” seems like a bit of a stretch.

The Tories knew exactly what they were doing, and how they were doing it, and could have backed out at almost any time. Knowing that they were deliberately misleading people, they arguably should have backed out instead of going ahead with their colossally atrocious decision.

In short: referendum and people’s will kind of requires an informed populace and an informed decision, the Brexit vote was neither of those things. Maybe the only upside was demonstrating to everyone else what a godawful decision it is to self-immolate by leaving the EU is.
This has been a solved problem for several years now.
That bit about resentment sounds more like a "you" problem.
weird how a foundational myth of australia is that we’re a nation of subversive larrikins, when in actuality everyone here is an ultracop

https://twitter.com/tfswebb/status/976299234491121665
> this attitude is exactly how high-class brits managed to lose the brexit vote

Brexit is exactly what the high-class brits wanted. Look at where the campaign funding came from. The people who lost out were working class.
You resent diverse representation in content associated with learning about other cultures?
> I don't think SW engineers are, for example, known for taking meth

Some people think meth means “amphetamine” (although it usually methamphetamine), and there’s a lot of software engineers who take different types of prescribed amphetamines like Adderal and Ritalin.

And don’t even get me started on weed and millenials.
JonTron actually said white supremacist stuff on video, for which he later apologized (why he's not part of Game Grumps anymore).
How elected is David Cameron again?
Ask HN: How to use IP allocation on residential internet?
I have a small IP allocation (/24) and would like to have these routed to my home network/lab. I cannot afford a business-grade connection with BGP etc. so I am looking for advice on the best way to use my IP allocation overlaid on residential internet.
The linked marketing page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231214235444/https://www.cmglo...
No idea - do you know?
Top comment suggests unionizing against AI. That would be like unionizing against the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution. Unions play (and played) an important role in improving working conditions, safety and pay, but they can’t prevent a sector from using core breakthrough technology without risking destroying the business.

I’m stating the obvious but I think this kind of misdirected opposition to the use of AI will present teething problems during this revolution and may result in the disruption or destruction of many businesses. I think the most interesting and at risk area is Hollywood. Big opportunity if you’re an outsider.
Brexit gives the government full control over immigration. The bad news (if you voted Brexit to lower immigration) is that the government wants more immigration...
The actual problem is that citizens get into their head that every immigrant that comes into the country is there to take jobs from citizens when the opposite is the case; immigrants are desired by the country to fill roles citizens don’t want to take.