skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is more good engineers in China not because it's China, but because in China there is a lot of people who build things. Western world largely doesn't build things any more, especially Europe. And if you don't build, you don't have an environment where good engineers could evolve at all.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/
Are there any alternatives for the Usenet archive? Even if Google says they aren't removing access to that immediately, it's got to be a matter of time before they delete the archives probably as part of a total shutdown of Google Groups.
My understanding is that it is generally under control now, but a couple years ago their processing of paper forms was in fact so backed up that the physical space was over capacity. There was a fair amount of news coverage of this, including photos of the cafeteria in one of their processing centers being packed with paper awaiting processing because there was nowhere else to put it.
At one point they also basically declared paper processing bankruptcy and just told people if they had mailed something and were still waiting for a response to just send it again because the first one was probably a lost cause.
As a kid I was thrilled to meet Lord British at the Apple Fest in Boston (1985, I think?). I told him all about how I loved his game and he said that since I liked it so much why didn't I present at his kiosk?

Later I realized that I was telling him I loved his game which was unreleased and already being copied illegally.

I was pretty obsessed with learning enough Apple IIe assembly to reproduce the tile graphics of ultima but never got close. These days... there's a community dedicated to reverse engineering the source code for Ultima and fixing bugs: https://xu4.sourceforge.net/ and even a team that made a modern Apple IIe Ultima-like (https://www.6502workshop.com/p/nox-archaist.html)

Another thing I realized, playing Nox archaist, is that much of the modern game mechanics already existed at that time: it was key to pay tons of attention to arming your fighters and using the right spells by your cleric and magician. I never knew I was supposed to optimize my builds when I was a kid, so my teams always ended up wimpy and dying. I learned how to hex-edit my player's disk sectors to give them 99 HP, which made the end game much easier.
I think you should probably understand formal logic, and may proof theory and also abstract algebra as a pre-req.
So not only the design quality is flawed but also the manufacturing process is botched up.
That’s reassuring, I guess, because two kind of flaws cancel each other out
Their media hosting platform is used by many conferences. That's a video of a non-CCC conference, called asg, earlier in 2023, not to be confused with the recently held congress or other CCC headlined events.
He didn't kill someone's puppy, he just published some interesting data that others' code struggled to cope with. He was irresponsible perhaps, but I don't think he foresaw doing any real damage, and I don't think he needs to be especially sorry for it.
Fun fact: The original VW beetle could do this for half an hour or so [1]. There was a (1960s?) article in "Modern Motor", whereby someone tested it and found that there was at least some control, as the tyres provided enough paddle action to move forward and the front wheels acted as rudders.

Their floating inspired some to modify beetles to really make them amphibious [2,3].

Even if it officially floats, I wouldn't like to go up against a flooded river in a 4WD [4]. In this example, the wheels snagged and flipped the car.

[1] https://www.arnoldclark.com/newsroom/527-why-do-volkswagen-b...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiS4paC_sk

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRwzPz6rzs

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNkgixXl7U
There can be macro objects with non-determinism. The cat in the box in the Shrodinger experiment has deterministic neurons but you don't actually know the state of the cat as a whole due to the initial quantum event that set the entirity of the cat on one path or another.

This is where the entire problem with the thought that systems are deterministic or not comes into play. If there's a single photon that can hit a pixel on a sensor (or retina) or not and that ultimately has a cascading effect to make that larger object do something completely different or not then that larger object is non-deterministic as a whole. Yes as others have stated there's ways in which non-deterministic inputs can end up not mattering - the system has the same output. But there's also systems, eg. the cat in the box experiment, where the macro object ends up taking on the non-determinism of a single quantum event.

An AI that can behaive one way or the other based on what it read into the sensor input is absolutely as non-deterministic as that input. Likewise humans are as non-deterministic as their inputs. If a photon can hit your eye today and cause a flash of light that sets you on the path of doing something you otherwise wouldn't have done it doesn't matter if your neurons are essentially a machine or not. You are still non-deterministic. The focus on neurons being deterministic or not kind of misses the bigger picture. We absolutely live in a non-deterministic world and those inputs from this world cause ourselves to ultimately be non-deterministic.

This really gets down to the regularly discussed thought experiment of simulating a human. If you fully simulated a human with non-deterministic inputs everywhere you probably would indeed have a fully deterministic system. But that's just not how the real world environment a human is in behaves.
I hate LinkedIn. I closed mine.
The summary is written in the context of the tradition the text is in, not an overall Christian/etc context.
Resurrection consent: It's time to talk about our digital afterlives
TIL there's people who've never heard of VOIP phones
Visa Shakeup on Tap to Help Solve Worker Shortage
That's not FUD, I swear.
China planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer
I recently finished watching a thriller set in Antarctica (The Head) and they do this in a scene! Didn't know it was real.
hmm, really? i didn't realize that
Not at all clear the IRS won’t refund overpayments. I’ve gotten a check in the distant past when I double-paid something.
One should never short a stock based on fundamentals. That’s an expensive lesson every stock trader would learn after incurring losses.
Core software is worlds apart from some client app.

Dependencies get compromised, supply chain attacks are extremely real. If you write a webapp do whatever works for you. If you write software with a blast radius as large as SQLite's then please consider not pulling in some vulnerable third party lib for a nice to have.
Was not aware of Thorium, looks interesting. Now I'm wondering if node.js could benefit from some of these optimizations?
Devs working with core developers to create more 1st party packages would be a good start. I don't need 12 different implementations for sorting on Vue/React/[insert spa framework of the month]. I just need 1 really good sorting library. With it, we can move to less overall dependencies on random packages.
That is already accounted for with categorical cross-entropy loss.
Business Insider’s website reliably crashes my Safari (iOS) tab in about 10 seconds after open/refresh. It’s been happening for months, at least. It’s a real blessing now that I think about it
is this international, or just domestic flights?

im on a Mexico City to Vegas flight next week
Interesting, this sounds very similar to this other recent paper as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02412

Especially with keeping the original model weights the same.
There's an entire field of deterministic mathematics called Chaos Theory, that pretty much encompasses what it says on the tin.

It turns out that -innocent, simple looking- finite state deterministic automata can actually be less predictable than the non-deterministic kind. (and it can get pretty wild! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vgICfQawE )
You can’t compare like that.

If you drive into a tree and get maimed, it’s different to someone else driving you into a tree and maiming you.

When you’re welfare is in someone else’s hands, they need to better than you would.
It’s just like decision fatigue: your capacity for it diminishes the more you use it (within a given time range).

Instead, carefully curate your identity . This is described well in Atomic Habits. Train yourself to think “I am just not the kind of person who does x.”
Not many people use compute 24/7, so if your use cases can be ephemeral than spot/savings plans can be a good saving and using the cloud allows for opex rather than capex controls and taxes
GitHub's support is surprisingly bad.

When I was consulting for an R&D lab at eBay, we open sourced a bunch of our work in a GitHub org. It was sanctioned by eBay's OSPO; they even linked to it from their main open source directory.

7 years later, long after the team disbanded, someone in eBay's current legal team decided that the (now archival) org violated eBay's trademarks. For the last year+, every time I've opened GitHub, I've been met with the same undismissable banner.

Since the only choice they give you is to contact support, I did. Unfortunately, their support team is not responsive, and has a completely separate notifications system. It took an inordinately long time for them to respond. (I have poor reception here so I can't check, but I think it was months.) Since I'm not in the habit of checking GitHub Support for new messages, when they eventually replied, I missed it. I had to start a whole new ticket. That too was months ago, and I still haven't heard back.

So because I did some work for a skunkworks eBay team in 2015, the top 150px of my GitHub are unusable, and there's apparently nothing I can do about it until some call center decides to write me back.
If you read the article you posted, you’d see it say that the EV problems referenced have to do with paint, trim, climate, as opposed to engine, transmission, etc. In other words, not major issues.

“Tesla Motors, the market leader in EV sales, continues to have issues with body hardware, paint and trim, and climate system on its models, but are not as problematic for motor, charging, and battery. At number 14, Tesla is the second-highest ranked domestic automaker in CR’s brand rankings. The Model 3 and Model Y have average reliability while all the other Tesla models–the S, and X–are all below average.“

This has been my experience too. In 5 years I have not had any major issue with my electric car preventing me from driving it other than a flat tire. There have been a couple minor other issues, such as a window not automatically closing all the way and a software issue with the display but they were minor and tesla came to my house to fix it for free while the car was in my driveway. I don’t think there’s enough room in this comment box to type out all the major problems I had with my previous ICE vehicle in the 5 years before that.
Compilers can already vary how parameters are passed to internal functions, especially if link time optimizations are enabled. Not sure how good a job they do at improving performance that way, but I certainly did not enjoy how this complicated reverse engineering.
For some models you have to accept an eula before you can download them. Hence no bittorrent.
Looks cool. I’ll try it out when I’m on a Mac, mostly use Windows for daily dev right now.

Been working on a similar side project based on something I prototyped when I used to work on Alexa but for windows first then likely going to be multi-platform through tauri: https://youtu.be/pA08_2xwrD4

I think bringing another Siri/Cortana/Alexa like assistant to the desktop with today’s improvements will be useful but the thing I’ve always struggled with for past assistants is the right way to ensure that it’s not a chatbot (which generative models are good at) but instead something able to effectively and reliable complete common tasks you have (which they’re less good at).

The other thing that is very important imho is the ability to “teach” a new skill or flow that you want the assistant to accomplish. Today I’m playing with that by “watching” what someone does with their commentary and then turning that into data to learn from.

My real desktop based assistant will have “eyes” to see what I’m doing, have far field and near field speech reco, be able to “remember” what I’ve done without me having to explicitly tell it, and be configurable to map certain commands to certain programs with button and mouse control as needed.
I felt compelled to mention the hobby vs need situation because it used to be one of my hobby too but I also acknowledged it wasn't necessarily a smart thing from my part.

Now despite still enjoying riding a motorbike I am doing more recreationnal cycling and only transportation focused motorbike riding[1]. I just embraced moving a but slower. Turns out that with a simple bicycle you can get way enough thrill in the downhills, and with much less risks. As an ex elite road cycling racer, I am no stranger to catching and overtaking cars and motorbikes descending mountain passes.

[1] I basically only ride my motorbike if I have my partner with me and I am going to a specific place we wouldn't be able to make it and back home within a time constraint.
> Spirit [AeroSystems] is responsible for the entire fuselage, including the cockpit, in all Boeing jets, and the entire fuselage for the 737 MAX models, according to the Seattle Times.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/boeing-737-max-loses-e...

So Boeing didn’t actually manufacture the plane. But they are still responsible for ensuring its manufactured correctly.
Yeah, as an EU, this truc is ridiculously heavy and big. Well most cars produced nowadays are too.. :(
Huh, well that's reason #27 that my ultima-like tiles never rendered fast enough.
I was making the equivalent of sprites (hex codes) and I think you could even draw them from BASIC (although looping in BASIC was too slow to update the tiles).
Psst, you forgot about China.
This is a pedantic and pointless distinction given the fact that the law regularly does in fact map IP addresses to people without additional forensic evidence. People are successfully convicted on the basis of an IP correlation to a device owned by an individual.

Juries aren't going to care about this distinction because the CSI effect makes it seem like anything technical is basically an immutable fingerprint.
From the website "The Office of Defense and Intelligence (ODI) is a preeminent division within CSX Labs, committed to providing unrivaled analytical insights into global technological trends within the defense and intelligence arena. ODI strives to illuminate the path of technological progress for strategic advantage, fostering a secure and enlightened global landscape."
I figured $300/hr was on the cheaper side around here
Please don’t read this as a defense of Boeing, especially the MAX series aircraft, but from a flyer-safety standpoint the statistics show most Boeing aircraft in operation today are extremely safe.

The post-200 series 737s, not including the MAX, have some of the largest accumulated flight miles and lowest incident rates of any aircraft ever. The 777 and 747-400 also have exceptional safety records. Even the aging 757 and 767 fleets have only slightly higher rates. The 787, though relatively newer and with plenty of documented early issues has had no passenger fatalities that I’m aware of.

Just some food for thought.
7:2 is amazing but I’d put 5 over it. Five was the last of being able to “talk” to the game. Something that we haven’t been able to do really in mainstream games until now with LLMs. I’m really hoping for an updated 5 style with really conversations here soon that gives the same sort if magic 4 and 5 did for me then.
Boeing was reasonably broken up until merged with McDonnell Douglas.
Well I started in '05 and my freshman dorm floor lost 1 guy to World of Warcraft and 1 guy to weed... I don't remember anything but maybe orientation could have been improved with a quick "don't forget to go to class occasionally" briefing.
Hey, OP here :) Happy new year! I hope you’ll find this useful. I have quite a few designs I haven’t posted yet but I’ll get to it in the days to come! Cheers
Considering the only publically available research this company has is in autonomous AI agents, I'm curious (and a little worried) to what they are working on behind the scenes.
Whatever age this individual is doesn't matter really. It seems that the situation has been handled, and I'm sure it was a massive lesson.

I didn't do anything but repost the bold link from the first paragraph of TFA...
> A highway is a one-time cost

Not really, especially in places that regularly experience freezing and snow.
It's hard to know how much time has to elapse before all the problems have been teased out though.

Anyone who thought the DC-10 was in the clear after its cargo door problems were fixed was in for a nasty surprise a few years later when an engine fell off of one at O'Hare, but if the industry had written it off after that incident they'd have missed out on 35 years of an otherwise reliable plane.
HR teams need to filter, wind up using ML systems to distill us down to keywords.

Applicants start using ML.

Now we have computers creating applications to be reviewed by computers for a job to get hired where you use ML to try to shortcut the amount of work actually done, while your health insurance claims are judged first by ML and your company's stock is traded by ML...
> SpaceX, the least bad, is still a trash fire of malfeasance that's doing harm to ground based astronomy and also allows Musk to interfere in world politics, as he did when he defended Russia by blocking StarLink access to Ukraine's offensives.

I'm not a fan of Musk by any means, but this seems to wildly mischaracterize what happened. Are you going by the actual details of the situation, or just the reported headlines?

My understanding, which I just backed up with some review of the situation, is that SpaceX allowed starling service continuously, and footed the bill until the US government stepped in to pay it. They allowed it for humanitarian and defense purposes, but refused to extend service into contested territories that Ukraine was assaulting to recover, especially after a Starlink enabled assault drone was discovered.

I'm not sure it's accurate to say they defended Russia be refusing to allow their service to be used as an offensive weapon when they had the ability to control that. Many companies would do the same. Many developers would do the same for their code. I doubt they would consider their actions defending Russia.
Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36828861
That’s a really good way to stagnate imho. I’d rather have 10 sorting libraries that each specialize or make different trade-offs than one library that tries to do everything.

That said, you can still have a core set of “blessed” packages that serve the common needs.
I think you want the 'patience' option...

--patience
Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
14x16 tiles were used because 14 pixels wide is the native resolution of two bytes on the Apple II.
Brazil has decided that since the first day.

And honestly, it didn't create any huge roadblocks for Boeing.
I live on a ridge and that's the first question I asked. The seller pointed to a healthy pine tree some 50 feet tall, so it seems, about 100 feet away and said, no need.

There are a couple more near it, unscathed, and in my time here, the nearest hit, by the 5 second rule, has been 2 miles away.

5280 ft/mile / 1100 ft/second -- 5 seconds per mile, lightning to thunder.

I would still consider it, but since the ground under the house is mostly quartz rock, I wonder about the grounding.
If all you have is a modest W-2 and are taking standard deduction (most people in the US) it would be nice if the IRS pre-filled out a form. It’s also pretty simple to just fill out a 1040 in those circumstances.
The changing of the word "homeless" isn't to prevent offence, but to make people view them differently, for a time.
Read Trust Me, I'm Lying for a longform breakdown of how marketers templatized easy ways to exploit enshitification for their own amplification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me%2C_I%27m_Lying
For those wanting to play in the universe https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com is still running and still getting regular updates.
Ah yes, the same capitalism that was around for the building of this industry that was incredibly safe up until it wasnt? Or was it safe because it was heavily regulated back then but the heavy regulations today we ignore because "capitalism"? You cant just throw these single word thought-terminators out there. When an actual cartoon is doing better than you it's time to recalibrate. "Think Mark! Think!"
The entire reason this is a big deal is that people don't know what their dependencies are. The left-pad incident wasn't a big deal because it was pulled, it was a big deal because no one could easily fix their builds and didn't even know they were depending on it, because it was a dependency of a dependency of a dependency.

While it's ridiculous to expect that people will audit every single dependency and sub-dependency, it's not ridiculous to expect tooling to do the same.

Packages should be given an overall quality rating (and honestly it might be great for an ecosystem as large, diverse, and welcoming-to-beginners as JS/TS), part of the score comes from the number of different dependencies/sub-dependencies -- a social package score if you will. If a package causes the dependency graph to explode, give a warning before installing it.

Then, if you're NPM, you don't need all of these convoluted and exploitable policies around un-publishing.
Honestly, how go does package management is pretty good.
Because in the real world there are crappy programmers writing 1000 line functions and code nested 10 levels deep. Having explicitly delimited code blocks makes code, especially bad code, easier to read. I'd rather see 3 or 4 "}", maybe with comments, rather than just seeing a large reduction in indent and having to scroll up 3 pages to figure out the code structure.

I guess if you're doing team-based Python development then everyone is going to be forced to be sensitive to indent, and maybe use a Python-aware editor, but often in a large non-Python project there are many different editors and indent configurations being used and the code structure is unreadable - but at least you can use a language aware formatter or indent tool to recover it. In Python any sort of loss of proper indenting would obviously change the functionality of the code. Maybe this never happens ?
> this is my schoolwork computer and we don't have money like that

I would prefer to accept this as the baseline and not have to explain why my purchase is important. A large amount of situations involving ownership of a computer are similarly important when it comes to someone being in a pivotal part of their life and not having extra money.
Well, there's product-price-uncompetitive and then externality-inclusive-uncompetitive.
Isn’t the manufacturing process and quality assurance part of the design in “products” like these? It is in car manufacturing so i assume it should, I don’t believe is sort of an “artisan” production line.
> the humanities did plenty to devalue itself, by adopting the view that 'value' itself is likely a social construct.

The humanities is not a monolith.

If you ask a philosopher in the analytic tradition, which is the tradition in which most of the philosophical world resides, they are likely to disagree with social constructivist views.
This is why I prefer vendoring dependencies. I have to actually code review them.
So is hearing loss not associated with dementia or is it that hearing loss is associated with dementia and hearing aids might increase the chances for dementia?
It should work in Chrome, it's essentially a streamlit app