skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably didn't read the essay I linked? It shows through numerous court decisions that maximizing shareholder profit is the legal duty.

Yes, there's a lot of leeway for HOW to maximize the profit and on what timescale, but the purpose still has to be profit maximization. For example a court ruled against Henry Ford rising workers' wages for the benefit of the workers and the society.

I don't really understand why people struggle with this IMHO plain fact that for-profit is for-profit. Maybe it challenges the idea that "free market" will benefit us all?

https://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2012/04/our-continuing-s...
Thank you for posting this list. The linked list is large and overwhelming so I mostly stayed to what I know. It's great to see someone else's perspective.
For Firefox Android, there’s <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/awesome-rss/>
Can you be more specific? Or describe how it could be better? I'll grant that Calibre has a UI that doesn't look like other applications but it seems to work well enough for me.
> We literally carry them on ourselves constantly, trash them every few years at most and usually keep them within range of a power outlet.

I mean if we’re legit trashing the phone, is that radioactive material actually worse than all the other toxic materials in a phone including the lithium ion battery?

Saying “nuclear radiation scary” and leaving it at that doesn’t actually tell us as the radioactive material matters a lot (eg plutonium is chemically toxic separate from its radioactivity and while short half life radiation is more dangerous than long in the abstract, the specific decay products matter a lot).

Besides, the battery could easily retain its value well beyond the use of the phone which would encourage harvesting rather than trashing (if you force a standard battery connection there would probably be a large thriving secondary market).
Nice to see a website that actually allows you to generate images from text for free, and without requiring a registration. The instructions are a little difficult but I found if I put the description in the prompt box and then clicked the auto Setting it worked quite well.
I've built this platform using Next.js 14, React Server Components, and deployed it on Vercel.

It's configurable (limited to layouts so far) but I'll add more configuration options as we go (e.g., display user intro page from README.md file)
Yeah lol, that was an unfortunate choice of acronym for something that came out around the same time as the AI thing.

Maybe GPTK is a better acronym? But that still feels weird...

Apple TINT? Toolkit is not a Transformer
What is bad is that sometimes the delivery page isnt even the actual restaurants website but a service that scrapped the restaurant and charged you more. I ordered from one of these once and luckily the restaurant declined the order and explained to me what happened. Basically I ordered online on what I thought was the restaurants site, it turned out it was the squatters, who then tried to call in my online order to the restaurant. Sometimes the url and even the phone number of a given restaurant have been stolen already on google maps. You can’t trust whats published at all with the amount of scam websites there are these days.
I do believe so but only for the host OS. Eg Mac containers work for Mac etc
I think what we have really underestimated is the amount of people who would get hooked on instant gratification more than this available knowledge (which, turns out, I am also guilty of).

Then came for-profits that agressively monetised every single bad habit one might imagine online and got us where we are today. Knowledge is still at the fingertips, but so many of us are now short-attention-span information-holics and instant gratification addicts.

We imagined brave new world, but became an equivalent of chain smokers trying to break out of their habit in a world where everyone else also smokes.
Dijkstra is definitely dynamic programming, no doubt about it, you are still computing a new state from neighbouring state nodes while ignoring substantial number of non-neighbouring states.

You just have to accept the more abstract definition of "state" where the state encodes subsets of the graph. The states in Dijkstra are represented by subgraphs and distances that incrementally include more nodes leaving us with a path of states to follow in some order.

It's not much different from the traveling salesman or viterbi in that sense. You come up with some topological order of states in abstract state-space and then follow that topological order to compute the new state based on the adjacent previously computed states and never look back to update already finalised states.

With this more abstract point of view, it's clear Dijsktra is dynamic programming.

There is a whole field of graph dynamic programming problems. And the closely related Markov chain problems.
Unidentified Patient Naming Convention [pdf]
That doesn't sound at all like what wings are for.
I’d heard the origin among borders as being a short form of “it just is”.

How can you tell that bird’s a blackbird not a starling?

Well, by its.. you know. It just is.
I didn’t say I necessarily wanted to buy moose. It’s attached to a gas station. Visiting sounds like a potentially interesting experience. Plus, I don’t know how common it is to have restaurants serving moose shot by the owner.
Britain claimed Rockall (a tiny shitty islet 200 miles from land) to stop Russia
Power companies paid US Southern civil right leaders as loyal industry advocates
Interesting comments on this article: https://primal.net/e/note1yedcazetn64722cmu9dwwu7r3crrgy6cxn...
You can write plenty of Mac and iOS programs - and much of the OS, and even XNU are - in C++.

You can't use the UI toolkits, because time has shown again and again that C++ is particularly bad at UI toolkits, but also as my other longer answer said, idiomatic Cocoa and UIKit programming has significant subclassing of ui components, and even the most robustly and carefully designed C++ frameworks can't manage ABI stability well (if at all) in that case.

It is pretty standard on apple platforms to have a ton of C++ doing things C++ is good at interacting with things in ObjC and Swift, and the fact the Apple is working to improve the c++/swift interop when every other new language has the response of "who cares about C++ interop? they can just write c interposition layers until they can replace an entire subset of the library all at once" demonstrates how important and well supported C++ is on the platform.

Long term who knows. Despite the questionable equivocation about safety from Herb&Bjarne modern C++ is not safe, and new features that introduce lack of safety keep getting added while long term failings like the over reliance on UB for definable behaviour[1], and as long as that attitude remains my hopes for actually getting C++ to a place it can be used safely if it can ever be exposed to attacker control data remain low, and so the future would eventually see C and C++ being dropped everywhere. Looking forward to safe languages in the kernel: swift, rust, and the most popular safe language in the world: javascript!!!! :D

[1] C++ has "unspecified behavior" and "implementation dependent behavior" that allow for different behaviour that people claim UB is needed for, without the "compiler can pretend this doesn't happen" nonsense
Adding,

You can upload an ID for the sites that require it. They suggest what data to mask out.

You can give them a limited power of attorney (revocable with just a click) to act on your behalf.
As mentioned, these are all toy implementations and you should not use them in production. If you want to the fast, easy, and extremely optimized way of doing things, use torch.nn.MultiheadAttention or torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention so that you get the optimal implementations. You can use xformers scaled dot product attention if you want the bleeding edge of performance.

> (Note that the code presented in this article is intended for illustrative purposes. If you plan to implement self-attention for training LLMs, I recommend considering optimized implementations like Flash Attention, which reduce memory footprint and computational load.)

Flash attention is already part of torch's kernels as of torch 2, but the latest versions and optimizations land in xformers first.
We networked our nerd house in the early/mid 90s, using an ISDN terminal to get that blazing fast 128kbps. Back then, people weren't constantly streaming video, so most of the time when you were downloading stuff (kernel source, Linux distros, funet.fi, sunsite.unc.edu, etc.) you got the whole 128k to yourself.

Most people at the phone company had no idea what ISDN was, so it took a while to find a technician there who could get up provisioned, etc.
> the last major standard was in 2008 and the two revisions since then have been minor.

For me this is a measure of maturity.
Changing a language every year is a sign of immaturity.
There is no source because it's not true. People pretend they are horrified more than they really are because it's more "normal" and socially acceptable. They think more about what others will think about them than what they are actually seeing: "Will others be okay with the way I react to this?", etc.
Yes, but that mental taxation is essentially unlearning a bad habit and why it feels so rough to go through.

I agree that if the sentiment of "but I didn't go on it" is the goal, sure, but it doesn't change the way you think. Breaking habits is hard and requires willpower, that's why most people never break them.
Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win
Yes, you can say
In cynical moments I think the main driver of IT decision making is CYA.
> intuitive and Pythonic

"Pythonic" hasn't been "intuitive" for 15 years now. Even old-school Perl is more cohesive and coherent than modern Python.
https://twitter.com/scottastevenson/status/17462608153872140...

Zero sales in 4.5 months.

2% total was laid off.

This isn't really a sign of "churn and burn".
chroot requires disabling SIP on MacOS, so any kind of "container" that shares the kernel but has a mostly isolated userspace is never going to happen on MacOS. If you want an isolated host environment on MacOS the bespoke approach is to use VZVirtualMachine. The whole point of containerization is to not require virtualization, so it kind of defeats the purpose.

I really think people who "want" containers on MacOS don't understand containers or what problem they solve, and if they think they need them should consider why they aren't already running their dev environment in Linux.
Only from some other languages into English, not from English into other languages.

Also, it doesn't do speech synthesis (i.e. text to voice).

So, mostly no.
Probably depends on where you’re shipping from. Houston to East Asia is almost certainly faster through Mexico than down through Panama.
Do you mean tree rebalancing algorithms? I have to agree with this. AVL tree insertion is fine enough, but it gets hairy when you get to deletion. And Red-Black trees…
Honestly, so many of these complaints about web application firewalls fly so far past the point that I'm not surprised folk don't understand them.

Yes, they can be trivial to bypass. And yes, they don't block everything. But also, yes, they can be very useful in some situations.

My employer's security team maintains a WAF, and while it may be frustrating at times (like when anti-directory-traversal rules broke page names with '...' in them) I mostly prefer that they continue to do so for two big reasons: script kiddies and botnets.

It doesn't matter that a bypass is trivial when in practice your attacker won't mutate their attack -- if the attacker was more sophisticated, the defence could be too, but if the attack is dumb then there's no point in a sophisticated defence.

Botnets mean that purely reputation-based defence is insufficient. The best defence to a distributed attack is one that's really cheap to evaluate. If all an attacker ever tries is to hit our homepage with a fixed user agent string, then all we need to do is block that UA from hitting our home page. A simple WAF entry is sufficient to block that particular attacker.

This precise example is indeed poorly-applied, as the system is intended to receive arbitrary text of arbitrary technical complexity. But I wouldn't mind the rule being applied to my team's endpoints, as we can be confident that anyone sending shell has malicious intent regardless of whether there's any chance that my services would try to execute the code (they won't).

So long as it is possible to bring down services without any effort, skiddies will keep trying to do that. And so long as we've people trying dumb attacks in infrastructure, dumb defences can have a worthwhile effect. And if the dumb defences start catching stuff they're not supposed to catch, like the example with '...', they're dumb enough that we can understand why they're doing that and if we can safely turn them off.
No velocity though, right?
I have since learned that you can make a new app that's unlisted in the App Store:
https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/unlisted-app/

So my worries about confusing users are baseless.

I can put a link in the description of the main app and businesses can purchase the app from the link. Sounds amazing!
Sometimes I wonder if I ever get to be happy. From social experiences it feels like I only pretend to be alive because of social obligations.

I imagine work to be similar.
I don’t know if they’re considered big enough, as they both have <5 locations.

But Lykens Markets and Ingrams Fuel in the center “centre” of PA both have surprisingly good food for gas stations. Made fresh. Usually they’ll stock some surprising items from
Local dairies too.
Given that Sean Baxter already has lifetimes in Circle that work very similarly to Rust's, I'm skeptical that the very similar D language wouldn't be able to express the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis#Debate_over_sta...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459228/

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/research/psychoanaly...

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-...

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2021/07/psychoanalysis-science-or...

https://philarchive.org/archive/FERIPA-6

That quote you included seems a little funny. It’s not making any direct or compelling argument in favor of psychoanalysis being science, it’s just saying well if psychoanalysis isn’t science then other disciplines aren’t science either, and since that’s sometimes not true, then Popper is wrong. It’s a slippery argument with some assumptions and big holes, and perhaps most glaringly it is intentionally ignoring the magnitude or degree of scientific experimentation, and attempting to frame the issue as only binary: science or not science.

I’m sure there is some modern psychoanalysis that is scientific, but OTOH it seems like the foundations of psychoanalysis, especially Freud, are certainly problematic from the perspective of science, right? Psychoanalysis has a valid, earned reputation that may take a very long time to fix, even if today’s practitioners are being careful and scientific. This could be compared to chiropractic medicine - some of it is valid medicine today, but it definitely came from non-medical, non-scientific origins.

There appear to be at least 2 separate arguments going. One is whether psychoanalysis can be a science, and the other is whether it actually was a science historically. This is why both sides are somewhat right: proponents of psychoanalysis argue that it can be scientific, which is true, and opponents argue that it wasn’t scientific in origin and has a troubled past, which is also true.
Only if you do this weird unrealistic math. Usually you need to install some infrastructure or deal with overnight slow charging. Thats if you even have a spot at home for this. Factor in your time hunting for a charger or waiting around for the car, depending on how you value your time, and maybe filling up the gas car for $40 in 3 minutes really is cheaper when you’ve accounted for all the inconvenience you might be saddled with.
The new Slack UI is atrocious, especially with many workspaces. It's a screen for screen copy of Microsoft's Teams and I wish I was exaggerating!
Didn't see the same with SBC/ATT [1] in the Chicago burbs mid 90s fortunately. Even got a tour of the central office by walking up to the door as an early teen and asking to look around. Different times.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_AT%26T#Rise_of_SBC
Ruffle: 2023 in Review
RSS available?
That USB talk looks really interesting, thank you!

Edit: Actually they all look interesting, thanks!
How do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in barcamp [msg] (2007)
Musk was born in 1971, as much as I hate to admit it, he's Gen-X not a millenial.
I really didn't expect "Panama channel bottleneck" to be one of the problems we can solve with renewables.
> QMK itself is great, but I was never able to find a non-columnar split ISO keyboard to use it with.

https://keychron.de/products/keychron-q11-qmk-custom-mechani...
The fake "AI island" story that's being reported as true
People are not free to make decisions in a corporation. If their decisions are against interests of the corporation (the stockholders) they are typically fired.
All of those platforms were VC funded, and when the VCs demanded their 10x returns they in turn started to squeeze their users and the whole thing collapsed.
They can for most of them in the EU. In Switzerland it's also the only vaguely non-ridiculously expensive option.
Hi everyone. Since you were kind enough to upvote a couple of my pieces a good while back on the Zanclean Megaflood and Atlantropa, I thought I'd give this a whirl here, on the last & maybe the most ludicrous acquisition of the British Empire - a 20-metre high island in the Atlantic, surrounded by some of the roughest seas in the world, that's become the focus of a lot of paranoia and high farce over the last century. Cheers!
UK government to publish 'tests' on whether to pass new AI laws
It would help you to make your point if you could refer to the specific legal doctrine outlining exactly what management owes stockholders. It's called 'fiduciary' and, is broadly defined in the US by Delaware state law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary
Seriously, a critical issue when deciding to use a forum software is security. Once a software is popular (or insecure by default) you are required inviting hackes while you are sleeping.

Security is very expensive and few companies have the budget and the attitude to be continuously awake and proactive.
the computer i would run the container on. I just run my software on that. If it's complex to configure, it'll still be complex to configure in docker. But then I also need to configure docker.
Also in most countries of this world, charging an EV effectively means charging with a majority of energy derived from burning gasoline (or equivalents).
Yes, the three holes are very common in Sweden, the first time I even encountered covers without them was when moving abroad.

However, a few years ago Ikea removed them in Sweden also, unfortunately. From what I've heard it's because they got too many complaints internationally due to people believing that the covers were broken.
Didn't Nintendo just DMCA the Portal64 project via Valve/Steam?

>publishing decompiled code is [not] good practice

I remember specifically that Portal64's developer required you to have the Portal.steam.app in order to build your own N64 version (using his tools/code).
>All of that seems self hosted to me, or do you mean having a server somewhere at home or on the internet with the ebook collection?

I''m not the person you replied to, but having it run on a server somewhere is exactly what "self hosted" means to me.
By far the best and most thorough investigation into the WWII German nuclear weapons program is "Forgotten Creators" by former MIT and US Navy scientist Dr. Todd Rider. The author spent nearly a decade digging through public and private archives and libraries and many hundreds of original WWII papers that had never seen the light of day since the end of the conflict were published for the first time (this was in 2019). The book is more properly a survey of the totality of German science since the 19th century, but a significant portion---around 1,000 pages---deals specifically with the German nuclear effort.

You can download it here: https://riderinstitute.org/revolutionary-innovation/ There are also links to several video presentations the author made in 2022 to various entities such as the Smithsonian and the Hidden History Podcast with D. Ray Smith, the former lead historian at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

For the Japanese program---which was directly linked to the German version by late in the war if not all the way through---Robert K. Wilcox's book, "Japan's Secret War" is the best resource. The third and final edition of this work also appeared in 2019. It contains some of the findings of a former USAF, CIA, and DIA intelligence officer named Dwight Rider (perhaps a distant cousin of the "Forgotten Creators" author) who had more than 13,000 NARA documents in his possession at the time of his death, all of them having to do with the WWII Japanese atomic bomb. Around 400 original wartime papers are cited in "Secret War".
GPT Medical Assistant
cries in ALGOL-68
I've never really had the chance to try it, but buildah seems like a decent enough choice to build images using basic shell tooling. At least then you don't need to muck around with build-args or other limitations of the dockerfile DSL.
I have also used the K860 and I like it. I stumbled across Chad Austin’s Microsoft Sculpt wired conversion [1] and I have been using it for some time now. Apart from the abysmal function keys it’s a decent keyboard, and with QMK you can make it do whatever you want.

[1]: https://chadaustin.me/2021/02/wired-sculpt/
Indeed. If someone is going to argue credibly for treating everything from commercial sources as spam then they also need to explain how businesses can provide any information they are actively required to provide to their customers either by law or by whatever method the customer is using to pay them. In general the merchants have no say in this and the penalties for failing to provide the information can be far more severe than anything they're going to suffer for losing a few people who don't understand what spam is and abuse the mark-as-spam button when reading their mail.
Did the people running the camps think themselves as evil?
Wasn't that the lizards' promise when they convinced us to incubate their eggs at the ivies?
The article starts with the phrase “The price of home charging”
I didn't know that! Thank you for the info. It's something I've been talking to my SO about... she's more tied to the US than I am, but someday I'd love to get us both elsewhere.
The thing that I find most amusing (and also distressing) about audiophiles is that they rarely seem aware of the conditions or equipment used during the creation of the recordings they work so hard to perfect the playback of.

The system described in TFA costs substantially more than the gear used to record, mix and master probably at least half of the record collection. There are studios with insanely "high end" playback systems, but they are not common - the gear in most recording studios is very good, but any audiophile would find faults with it (whether they exist or not, heh).

And then there's Ye Olde RIAA equalization curve for vinyl, which is a complete abomination if you're going to view things through the lens "I want to hear exactly what was recorded" - you just never can, because the curve was applied when the vinyl master was created.