skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best exposition of advanced concurrency I know of is Mara Bos' Rust Atomics and Locks - https://marabos.nl/atomics/ also available as a physical book. Don't let the "Rust" reference put you off, the book is relevant to any low-level programming language.

(If you're interested in concurrency in a Linux context as seen from a broader systems point of view, you might like Paul McKeneny's 'Is Parallel Programming Hard, And If So What Can You Do About It?" https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paul... )
It's pretty much familiarity. If I'd learned Rust back in the day, I'd probably not want to learn C++ for syntax reasons as well.

One thing I think Rust gets wrong is classes. I absolutely don't understand why you would require a separate `impl` block to provide methods. C++ has a reasonable syntax of providing methods in the class.
Do you have a list of devices you use? It would be very helpful, since HomeAssistant has hundreds of integrations, and it's a lot of work to track down devices that -

- FAIL NORMAL
- WORK OFFLINE
- YOU CAN STILL BUY

I really want my smart home devices to meet these criteria, but at the same time I have a bunch of other stuff I do.... so it would be awesome to have a starting point from people who have done it already.

Mozilla used to have such a database, but seems to have forgotten it.
The Greggs-Pret Index: A Machine Learning Analysis of Consumer Habits
Hence why I wrote mostly dead.
I consider that a feature tho.
American Finance Has Left Europe in the Dust. The Tables Aren't Turning
While I think your point is valid, IMO, entering in tech is so much easier. There's much more information available and you can tinker with hardware much more easier due to low prices. But it's very much easier to watch Youtube and play games on a playstation, so they do that.
How sure are you that the request came from the actual police in India, and not somebody else? I.e. someone who might get irrationally upset when you did not give them what you wanted?
It smells a little like a money laundering company. Large acquisitions of loss making companies. Unclear initial source of funds. A history of making decent products worse then firing everyone. How does the money flow?
Slime Molds and the Tokyo Railway System
My interest was piqued by a conversation on Joe Rogan's podcast featuring mycologist Paul Stamets and it was featured many years ago. (Sorry to find out late :D) Surprisingly, Stamets suggested that the development and refinement of Japan's train system were influenced by the patterns of slime mold.

Upon hearing this, I was initially skeptical: Wait, how can this be true?

Driven by curiosity, I embarked on a deeper investigation to verify the accuracy of this claim. This newsletter delves into the research of three scientists who conducted an experiment with slime mold, focusing on developing the most efficient routes for the Kanto region. The information presented here is taken from the original Japanese post authored by these researchers. Read more on https://beecurios.substack.com/p/brainless-genius-slime-molds-and
Earlier post about this with link to the university's press release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960728
Legalities aside, I think everyone should record interactions with their boss whenever possible. HR is there to protect the company not the employee, so the employee hast to do things to protect themselves.
Never heard about this app. Dont like 'download the app' popups in a time where webapps are perfectly fine. Give me one reason why you want to force users to use the app?
Really? I didn't check if anything in the page changed, but it seems to me like Bending Spoons was a failing wannabe Rocket Internet:

"Evernote was acquired and everyone was laid off."

"Immuni was awarded but less than 1% used it."

"Acquired some company and fired its entire team."

Literally sounds like some tech scavenger.
Actively | Software Engineers (LLM/backend/data infra, very product-y) & Solutions Engineers (great data/SQL chops, great at understanding customer problems, and strong engineer in general to automate work using LLMs/internal tools) | Full-time | NYC | Onsite

I'm one of the founders of Actively. We're building best-in-class machine learning and LLM-powered scoring for outbound sales teams. Our first product lives in Salesforce, ingests data from a variety of sources (firmographics, intent signals, marketing interactions, and prior engagement, including unstructured call transcripts, email chains, and notes), and combines LLMs with structured models to tell sales reps who they should reach out to each day (and why) to be laser-focused.

Our paying customers are fast-growing unicorns you've definitely heard of with large outbound sales motions, where the reps use us to target their outbound every day. Our thesis is that scoring (a known/"need to have" part of the stack -- but able to be done 10x better with LLMs because you can incorporate the goldmine of unstructured engagement data) is the right wedge into building the intelligence-driven outbound sales stack of the future that _actually works_ for large companies that need to generate millions of dollars in pipeline each quarter. Unlike most other companies in the space, we are explicitly building for companies of this scale and have them using our product today "in production." We have a 100% close rate from pilot → paying customer and want to scale our customer base aggressively this year.

We started with the vision of bringing AI to every business team, and have since narrowed down to focus on outbound sales teams who have a bunch of attractive properties (there are a _ton_ of them out there, they all use the same stack, the data is consolidated in one place, lift is measurable and directly touches the top line, etc.).

We're a team of 6 working in-person in NYC with a team from Scale/Waymo/Google/etc. (including some very senior folks) and looking to bring on a couple more engineers as we start scaling our customer base, in both product & solutions engineering roles. If you have at least a few years of experience, are highly entrepreneurial / excited to work closely with customers + dig in across the business, and are excited to work on some combination of LLMs/data infra/across the stack, we would love to chat: mihir [at] actively.ai!

Keywords: AI, ML, LLMs, machine learning, Salesforce, explainable AI, product engineering, SQL, solutions engineering, data infrastructure
Humble Leadership for Team Success
Yeah the OP is quite correct.
Ask your generic web developer about nuances of HTTP, SSL or even networking in general.
This reads like ChatGPT, unfortunately. 80% of what is described is a stock web app, and the decentralised part is mostly hand-waving with no clear explanation of what the boundaries are between a API and courier server. Any existing ActivityPub implementation already matches whatever is described.
To me it sounds like excelent video for making a legal case againts Britanny, I'd be very upset if someone would be secretly recording a meeting with me as a HR person. Guess that depends on a state, but good luck finding another corporate job.
Which isn't even legally permissible, there is no way to 'give it back' (although you could stop using the title) - it can only be taken from you, which has to be done by the king on recommendation of the prime minister.
I use borg for my daily backups, which saves me a ton of space, nevertheless this is a very welcome feature!
To expand on that, Cloudflare's standard product is their HTTP reverse proxy. To proxy arbitrary TCP/UDP traffic, you need to use their Cloudflare Spectrum service (https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/application-services/produc...), which is metered.
It's another Better Battery Bulletin.

Someday, one will be worth reading
There are non tow options for evs. a ev can recharge another (non do this, but they could). Or a generator can be brought to the ev.
I can believe this as going thru something along the same lines with my housing association and met police, and it is shocking how many people who focus upon being seen to do a job and lie to cover up their mistakes have grown over the past few decades in the UK.

I shudder at how many scandals never come to light as the process to clear things up and get the truth out is an uphill battle. Oh and my local MP is Ed Davey, who is deeply linked to this PO scandal, though in fairness, he does seem to be singled out over all the others who did less on their watch.

I somehow wonder if society is on a path of race to the bottom at times and amazed how it works with all the flaws that just seem to grow.

Heck whilst typing this I get an email from police about some bail I never attended and yet again, it's the wrong person and has nothing to do with me beyond causing me more grief and stress. I don't even have a criminal record and due to do jury duty later this year, which is unlikely as being driven to wits end.
Introduction to Apache Hudi
Ever since Pizarro went searching, the legends of lost civilizations have been in the minds of explorers.

Lots of explorers came up empty and the legends were thought to be hokum by supposed experts, so yeah, I don’t understand the narrative.

Not only that but neither the Chinese nor South Africans, etc., have a different take or narrative that’s more globocebtric. I mean, I don’t think even the natives of the Amazon today have a better understanding than European, American, Asian or African archeologists regarding any such ancient civilization.

It’s a really tired trope.
I didn't mean the bash history file but the mcfly internal one.

mcfly doesn't remove dups and also stores additional info about the executed commands like pwd, timestamp and return code.
States are created by military/policing power. Nations are created by people with a common identity. Important distinction, even if nation-states are the most common.
Like many places in the world the devs only care about the salaries. One reason why products made in specific countries are usualy low in quality. The devs dont give a damn.
A pressable button that toggles the light state achieves the same thing without the need for a motor.
The world will operate under a meritocracy because Nature/capitalism has deemed it the most effective.

We can't play roulette with our leadership. There is a reason monarchies are good as dead.
In 1995 email was very common, but it was always a propriatory system that only could be used in your office. Very little was connected to an outside network.
Not entirely sure if it applies to this two cases "Big Ring" and "Giant Arc", here, but other large "structures" have been found in the past and this paper "Seeing patterns in noise: gigaparsec-scale "structures" that do not violate homogeneity (2013)[0] addresses the possible randomness:

>In general when using an algorithmic approach to identify clusters of points in a distribution, one must employ some criterion in order to decide whether the results obtained correspond to ‘real’ structures in the Universe, or are merely artefacts of the algorithm. One possible criterion is theoretical: if there is a good reason to believe that the points in the cluster are in fact gravitationally bound, for instance, or if its properties match those of structures that are expected to exist in the real Universe, it may be regarded as real. Alternatively, to assess unusual clusters which do not conform to theoretical expectation, the relevant criterion is whether they are unlikely to have arisen purely from noise.

Since the linkage length used to identify the Huge-LQG is so large, there is no reason I know of to believe that it forms a gravitationally bound structure. Certainly no real structures of such size are expected in the standard cosmology. On the other hand, when using this linkage length the clustering algorithm often finds such extended structures even in pure Poisson noise. It therefore appears that the Huge-LQG fails to satisfy either criterion, and so its interpretation as a ‘structure’ is highly questionable. This conclusion is even more applicable to the other slightly smaller quasar groups whose existence has also been claimed.

[0]https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/434/1/398/997865
I think outside of the "is speech good or evil"-osphere, most people would still aspire to have a Tesla.
> a company whose mission is to make the world a better place

I’m looking at the apps in the article and see a private app impersonating NOAA, one to “create stylish, impactful content for social media,” and a series of cheap knock-offs of best-in-class apps. They deserve to exist and make money, and there is no shame in working on them. But it’s hard to argue anyone was responding to a higher calling.

Developers are expensive. It’s hard to argue for geographic premiums on top of that, or maintaining the staff required in a build-up during maintenance or run-down, when WFH has challenged the first and basic economic reality (driven home by positive real interest rates) the latter.
Of course it does. The representation of numbers is irrelevant, as long as its interface doesn’t change.

The only place you’d see changes are in bitwise/tritwise operations and in limits of fixed-size integers (abs(i) would likely be well defined for all ints, for example, and we would have INT_MAX = -INT_MIN, with values like 3^81 or 3^27).

Ternary floats probably would do away with the distinction between -0 and +0, too.
> I’ve been using `history | grep` since forever... which has been a single-character alias for more than 30 years...

I have "history | grep" basically aliased to "h?"
> Prof Rostain says he was warned against this research at the start of his career because scientists believed no ancient groups had lived in the Amazon.
Sad to see, best of luck to them
Be sure to check the comments at the bottom. The authors of the papers in question respond to these criticisms.

https://www.argmin.net/p/is-the-reproducibility-crisis-repro...

https://www.argmin.net/p/is-the-reproducibility-crisis-repro...

https://www.argmin.net/p/is-the-reproducibility-crisis-repro...
I dont think there is anything wrong with safety nets, but I think its silly to think that over 50% of the world is going to live like kings when the work like fast food laborers.
Sorry, it wasn't a "TV show" that brought this to life. Private Eye have been writing about it for 10+ years, the BBC and other papers have covered this issue multiple times in the last 3-4 years that I remember.

So it's not like the stupid people of Britain woke up one day, turned on the TV and said "Golly gee, post office scandal. I never knew!"

Sounds like a puff PR piece for the TV drama?
I'm not a developer and have no use case for your service but thanks for the forward thinking, experimenting, transparency, and efforts to improve one of the things that enshi*ified the Web.
No, American, and have been involved in litigation and not a lawyer. I spent time growing up in Europe, but never professionally.

Litigators will frequently bring up contrasting legal theories. But you’re not allowed to go into hypotheticals when calculating damages.
It certainly does A history search. For “really useful”, I would suggest replacing it with the fzf integration. McFly could perhaps be even better.
Oh battery swapping would be entirely automated, no way you'd do it at home (let alone on the reg).

Nio Inc. has videos of the process, and that's what you'd expect (and I assume what tesla tried at one time), you drive to a booth, the car gets locked in and the battery is replaced automatically, then you drive out.
This is the way - collapse sun tress as you read
> The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit et al. ISBN: 978-0124159501

An excellent book that I used for my Parallel Programming course in my undergrad. While looking up Nir Shavit (back then), I came across a "Summer School on Practice and Theory of Concurrent Computing (2017)" [1] which had notable people give talks about interesting & fundamental topics related to Parallel Computing such as "Wait-free computing 'for dummies'", "Lock-free concurrent data structures", and "Locking, from traditional to modern" (taught by Nir Shavit). [2] is a link to a YouTube playlist containing all the videos from that Summer School. I highly recommend it.

[1] https://neerc.ifmo.ru/sptcc/courses.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVe-2wcL84b9G9o7KPubp...
I find it annoying that the tl;dr summarizes two sentences.
What is the point you are trying to make here? You can't use a proprietary library without a license because you can't distribute it. Whether you can have code linking to the proprietary library without distributing the proprietary library has been largely irrelevant to the makers of those libraries since you wouldn't be allowed to use that functionality without either the distributor or the user paying for a license anyways.
Or you could just watch youtube less :)
There are plenty of these. Most universities have a course for this. Lots of the online platforms too.

Here's a free resource: https://startupclass.samaltman.com/
Archaeology has an evidence bias. If there’s a perceived euro-centric emphasis at all, then that can just be attributed to there being more stuff found in the ground.

The truth is that classical archaeology is often just easier, because we have a lot of writing from that time period telling us where battles happened etc.

I’m sure archaeologist would love to open up a whole new front, but it takes time to find stuff that’s hard to find.
Pretty much anywhere. chargers are scattered all over. not every town has them, they are often hidden, and off the beaten path. If you start navigating to them when you are down to 150 miles of range you will ba okay and not have to go too far out of your way.
Solving the 'Profile View' Crisis in Facial Image Synthesis
Gen AI on RTX PCs Developer Contest
Here it was charging for RSVPs that killed it. Everyone dropped it like a hot potato when they announced it.
Browser extensions too.
I'm basing this on my experience a few years back.

It's not that you can't do it with other software, Mathematica just has all of it included by default, with very comprehensive documentation. And a slick UI.

Sure you can probably do most of it in python, but you'll find yourself chasing some obscure modules to get some things working. Even just to get arbitrary precision calculations for just about everything, for example. And don't forget the importance of a documentation that explains every option with examples (barring some obscure stuff, which can be quite annoying if you encounter it).

Since it's all integrated Mathematica allows you to go from calculating Sin[2] to arbitrary precision, to calculating the derivative of Sin[2x], to showing the first 10 terms of its Taylor series. All using the same sine function.

This does have some downsides. For one it's a pretty heavy program to run. And because they want to include everything they need to be quite opinionated about certain things. There are multiple ways to define fractional derivatives for instance, since they include a function for it they must have picked one of them. And then there are the name clashes, I once had to laugh quite loudly when I tried "Rotate[{0,1}, 45deg]" and got back an image of {0,1} at a 45 degree angle.

It is an impressive piece of engineering. Which could have had much more of an impact if it was a bit more open, but oh well...
I concur. I've been in that ecosystem for a few years and I finally had to give up on my Jetson Nano in "favor" the new Jetson Nano Orin. Which did solve a lot of my issues with software, and I paid for it, too. Just say no to Nvidia sbc lol but it's extremely powerful when the software is aligned with your goals.
I am so done with "awful but lots of money." I won't even do boring but lots of money any more.

I recently took a shocking pay cut to get "not awful and very fun."

Being bored was killing me. Draining your soul for money is not wise. Your mind takes on a personality you can't relate to and sinks to an imperceptible malaise. It's a form of torture. Leaving that to discover purpose again is an unforgettable relief. I feel young again and I'm flooded daily with feelings of optimism, something I thought was just lost to youth. Like being released from prison.
Are people downvoting because they think that no targeting means no ads? It just means worse ads and MORE ads because the ones that are there are less valuable. Ironic.
Not really. I block all occurences of google tag manager and a lot of other ad related services and I have 0 issues.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-operator-illegal-boote...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/criminal-charges-filed-los-an...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/individual-pleads-guilty-part...
> rich, hearty vegetable and bean soup

Add some fried bacon bits and tell me it's not infinitely better for it.

> fresh rustic sourdough bread

Which is great on its own, but much better with some butter and ham.

> vegetables roasted until they caramelize

Which is a great side dish next to a good steak.

Nothing wrong with vegetables, but none of these things are as satisfying as they would be combined with some animal products.
Lost me at 'neural network'
What an asinine comment. What is it about Thiel that makes otherwise regular users shift into a reddit-dunk frenzy? He's just a guy, if you even read what you linked you'd find it pretty obvious that's not at all what he meant.
Tinkerable software is alive in open source software of today.

I would recommend playing with simpler stuff and building it yourself from source and playing with adding things to it. It doesn't have to be useful things, try making all the menu text silly for the hell of it or whatever. It's still fun.
Daily Driver: Playable Demo (2020)
Co-written by Springsteen and Patti Smith, not a Prince song.
Let me rephrase: Maybe they can negotiate a different quote?

The PR gained in the development community to help a service beloved by hackers in this site could be very beneficial.
Compton Verney's new painted ladies are more about vice than virtue (2023)
Consensus Cookery (2018)
"someone who might get irrationally upset when you did not give them what you wanted"

Like the police in India?
Most people have shelter, they just want better shelter. There is a vast inflation in expectations. Previously more people have been living together in smaller spaces, thats why we have housing shortage now.
Where Is All of the Fediverse?
I can’t think of an instance where giving it back has been refused. It certainly won’t in this instance
Re: (Extremely, unnecessarily long) Thanks for the pardoning
My mistake. Looks like I can’t edit or delete my post at this point unfortunately.
PyTorch is much nicer to play with in my opinion. Maybe start with their official tutorial, I've also heard good things about Karpathy's YouTube channel from beginners.
In Sweden, there has also been a notable tech downturn, with layoffs, etc.
ITCC Inclusive Item Writing Resource
The IT Certification Council (ITCC) announces the publication of its new Incusive Item Writing Resource, which can be accessed and downloaded free of charge here.
Let me quote Liberty Munson here:
"The goal of this document is to help item writers take diversity and inclusion into consideration as they create exam and assessment content. Inclusive item writing helps ensure that the wording and structure of the questions is accessible to as many people as possible. By doing this, we are ensuring that the exam measures only the relevant skills, abilities, or traits that it is designed to measure. This, in turn, ensures that the assessment is fair, valid, and meaningful, regardless of their individual differences."
This is extremely useful and relevant work. These guidelines are clear and actionable. Raising awareness of DEI issues at that stage will allow the DEI reviews to be more focused.