skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate on this please: "the exercises guide you to "invent" the important parts of the theory."

BTW: I think time not doing exercises is just as important; it's when your mind tries to piece together the data. Coincidentally(?) time resting, after physically exercising, is when your muscles strengthen.
"Its like saying a hitman, who fails to carry out a plan to kill, is better than a driver whose car malfunctions and actually causes a fatal accident. "

No, it's like saying a a hitman who fails to carry out a plan to kill is better than an army of hitmen who succeed. And that is simple to say.

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If you really want to understand the people with whom you disagree, you might find it useful to understand that no one believes that this situation is just some accident into which the IDF has been forced to act. That is a long history, but the idea that one group is malicious and the other group is just acting like a person operating a car is central to the disagreements.

To use your metaphor for a lot of us what we are hearing is that drivers in cars have a historical mandate to mow down pedestrians who aren't in crosswalks. I don't think that is true, and I don't think that the IDF is operating ethically in any sense.
A front-to-back top strap is included in the box.
If you’re not religious, what’s the basis for saying anyone “deserves” anything? If he’s just meat, then he’s clearly a defective model. Just take him out. How is society better with him alive?
What exactly is "venture" about taking over a large endemic company and milking it for profit? Isn't that just the standard PE playbook?
No, "there exists a group" is not constructive, in general.
You just need to prove that non-existence leads to a contradiction.
The whole deal about "constructive mathematics" is to have that if you can prove something exists, you can also construct it.

I think the success of the constructive mathematics program is really debatable, but in any case I don't think it leads to more 'natural' mathematics.

(The terms used by GP are very confused and I agree with most of your reply)
I've been using Sourcehut for a couple years now. One thing this outage taught me about the service that I didn't know is that Mercurial (hg) is community maintained:

> We also did our best with hg.sr.ht, but it is community maintained

It looks like git.sr.ht is hosted on OVH in France, while hg.sr.ht is hosted on High5! in the Netherlands.

It's not entirely clear to me how this affects their product roadmap or support, but definitely good to know.
It is Amazing that Keats, Byron and Shelley all moved in the same circle and produced their work at almost the same time, and all 3 died young. Of the three I find Keats to be the easiest to get into.
FWIW, I had also written about this paper:
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/should-we-burn-meth...
I've just purchased Richard Hamming's "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" but haven't read it all yet, it looks pretty great.
At least as far as the web goes:

I agree generally but things like "How long should it take?" is more about your internet speeds / consistency, or very odd unforeseen issues on the back end, and frankly there's no amount of goofing around with even more code on your computer to determine local internet issues ... will tell me any number that makes sense.

The only time calculating "how long" is under ideal circumstances (and at that point nobody cares) or say very predictable large back end workloads. As soon as things get variable, I can't give you a reasonable number.

Sorry if that is a bit of a jumble of words and ideas there, I'm actually taking a break from troubleshooting this exact kind of issue. Customer has varying weird internet issues, wants to know "how long" ... bro wat?
There’s GOG, but they seem more niche for retro/hardcore gamers.
I'm glad you posted this. Honestly, while I agree with the flood of recent posts mourning Google in the wake of their layoffs (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046825 ), some of these posts (not necessarily this one by Tim Bray, as he left Google a decade ago, but certainly lots of the other ones) kinda leave a bad taste in my mouth because they strike me as a bit self-serving.

That is, I think folks generally have seen, and commented on, Google's rot for many years now. For me the beginning of the end was in the early 2010s or so, whenever Google drastically reduced the differentiation between ads and organic results, and began loading more and more ads into the top or the results page. I felt it was the first actively user hostile change that was solely in the service of revenue for Google. So I feel it's a tad rich that all these posts are coming out from ex-Googlers lamenting Google's decline now that it's really affecting Google's employees personally. I guess in their defense it seems pretty obvious they wouldn't be posting/commenting while they were currently Googlers, but still, it seems a bit lacking in insight/introspection to see all these posts pointing to the demise of Google's culture as when they had "uncaring" layoffs. I'm thinking, no, Google's demise started a decade-plus ago; they could just paper over it for a long time with good food.
Please forgive the almost-off-topic question, but I've been curious for years and can never find a straight answer. Is there no microbe out there that will ferment sugar/starch into methanol? I once found a paper on methanol poisonings in the developing world which didn't seem deliberate, and the authors suggested there were some opportunistic yeast that might be the culprit.

High energy chemistry to make methanol just seems to almost miss the point.
Probably true. I think there's a case for Ptolemy being an originator of separating data from intuition, even if his planetary model didn't reflect it. Moving our intuition away from the center of the universe. By recording measurements and proposing a falsifiable model he laid a foundation for Copernicus, Kepler, Newton ...
> imagine that OP is reusing passwords

FWIW that's impossible in this context since:

> you cannot set app passwords yourself

Though more generally, password reuse is indeed a problem regardless of entropy.
With two silos, wouldn't you need to have at least two APIs?
Reading the OP charitably, I think it was a genuine mistake.
I think that’s how they kill prime video and Alexa. Ask people to pay when nobody does kill it
Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?
> The people who are closest to the problem of children’s safety online come to a different assessment as to whether the larger risk is predators or hackers stealing… their identities?

The people who are closest to the problem are the children's parents. Are you saying they would rather not have encryption?

The people who are against encryption, from what I can see, are not parents. They are businesses who don't want to have their access to data curtailed, and politicians who favor those businesses. I have not seen any real arguments against encryption from them, just FUD about "protect the children!".
This channel has some of the best usage of AI art that I’ve seen. I wouldn’t consider the background art of this kind of content core, but it is important. I’m very impressed by what is generated and how well it goes along with what he talks about.
This is the case, and the turnover usually involves the driver going to another company. Often those big "signup deals" you see for drivers are to pay off the previous company if necessary.

Once a driver has some experience they will settle down in a company that doesn't turn over as much, or actually become a real owner-operator.
Ask HN: Java for New Projects?
Is anyone using Java for new projects? I've seen a lot of job postings / new companies being started with Python, Go, TypeScript, and the like.

Outside of companies already firmly planted with Java in their ecosystem I don't really see people being excited to start new projects using Java (or even a JVM-based language).

What is everyone's thoughts here? Am I perhaps in a vacuum?

Note: I really enjoy the developer experience using Java and enjoy exploring other JVM-based languages like Clojure, Kotlin, etc.
RGMX has a video series on a lot of the low-level SNES functions. If you've ever wanted to know how Mode-7 works, it's great.

The video below goes over the controllers, Super Scope, mouse, etc. A brief discussion of the multi-tap starts around 16:00. You are correct that it leverages the spare pins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dw7NFm1ZfY
I wonder what it is about leaders like Steve Jobs that makes them popular despite how programmers working for them know the guy in charge has never written a line of code.

Is it charisma (whatever that means)? Is it vision? Is it luck and being at the right place at the right time? Is it a few devoted loyal programmers who spread the word about how amazing the Führer is?

I often think it also has to do with the person positioning himself/herself in crowds that appreciate/respect/value him/her. For instance, it's hard to imagine someone like Jobs at an Oracle-style corporation, or imagine Elon Musk running a bank. It seems like these types of people soon understand that certain groups match their "vibe" better, and it works as a positive feedback loop for them.
I agree. That’s why I said child raisers have “taken responsibility.” I could have also said “accepted responsibility.”

I wouldn’t consider a parent who opts out of raising their child to be a child raiser.
The company that is using value-less LLM model training fud to boost its stock price virtue signals about caring about the environment by squeezing its educational, thus prone to price fluctuations, customers.
This information seems to be incorrect based on this https://stepstojustice.ca/questions/employment-and-work/can-...

and this

https://certn.co/blog/criminal-record-check-alberta-your-faq...

It seems like employers can only factor convictions, and they must justify why that conviction would be a factor in doing the job.

What I can believe is that the RCMP would botch a case involving a native person.

Just yesterday a bunch of video transcriptions were released of RCMP officers busting up a peaceful protest by native tribes. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-audio-wetsuweten-coa...

The officers referred to tribal members with face-paint honoring missing and murdered women as "orcs".

In regards to arresting a mentally disabled man: "That big f--king ogre looking dude that is in those videos he is actually like autistic, then the f--king guys just beat the shit out of him and then he started crying. I felt bad for him, apparently the sergeant grabbed his balls and twisted, I guess. He was on the ground and everyone was just grabbing limbs. He didn't have a limb to grab so he just like grabs his balls like 'You done now? You done resisting?"

Canada has decent policy, but we have, for some reason, imported policing culture from the states.
Some influencers think it’s quite heavy: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1747367564093624348
Blue/green is new, so am guessing most folks don't know about it.
It's the way for close to zero downtime upgrades.

Am waiting for them to support upgrades from RDS Postgres to Aurora.
People don’t care to.
> There tends to be belief that housing regulations exist to limit supply.

Also to enrich union tradespeople. See prohibitions against PEX plumbing and requirements for electrical conduit instead of Romex.
Stoicism was a mentality created (popularized) by an emperor and adopted by a people who lived in a cruel and domineering world.

Life could be short and mean and you had to deal with that. To rule Rome you had to be ruthless and deadly, and feel little guilt about it.

These days stoicism is rebranded in a way I find very unhealthy. It’s a thinly veiled excuse for self centered sociopathy rather than an embrace of the natural rhythms of the world and what is in and not in your control. It has become either an excuse to give up one’s individuality in a system or to imagine it empowers you in some “sigma” way to conquer it.

I wish more people would study it in its context, a philosophy for a cruel and bitter world — something many of us do not live in today.
SNES can go up to a whopping 3.58Mhz (NTSC clock, not sure if exactly the same for PAL) but I believe due to some bus/architecture weirdness slows down to 1.79Mhz (which is what the NTSC NES runs at) when reading the controllers.

Now the SuperFX chip, in Star Fox, ran at 10Mhz. Later versions like the one in Doom on SNES went up to 21Mhz.
Maybe an AI overlord can solve the tragedy of the commons
I have not... heard that idea before. Instead, I heard "reality is just 100 million polygons per second" (Jim Clark?), implying that if you can do ray tracing at a high resolution and frame rate, you can fool somebody's optical nerves into thinking they are looking at reality (ignoring the difference between pixel screens and the physics of how human vision actually works).

Does anybody have a reliable link to the Whitted quote?
Yes! I was a bit cagey because I hadn’t tested it so didn’t know if it worked. It’s a Mill smart convection heater. Their smart stuff works both with their app and with a Home Assistant integration (and via HASS with HomeKit as well). Really neat to use when it’s all set up.

What impressed me particularly is that the generation 3 smart heaters (which is my version) lets you specify to NOT connect to the cloud when it joins WiFi, and instead is accessible only locally—in my case via home assistant. (But I did have to create an account on the first-time setup to update the firmware) The fact their newest products offer this kind of functionality gives me some faith in the future.
Apllo was not the fastest computer in the world. It was a small device enough to shuttle rockets around the moon and back.
Same on macOS … and wow is it animating at a really low frame rate.
Actually, this does not apply to good economics papers. Good economics papers have much stronger ways to identify both the independent and dependent variables using microdata from public and private sources.

Getting access logs for whether people logged in from home or the office is really not a crazy stretch.

Measuring the dependent variable "productivity" is actually much harder since firm-level productivity (aka earnings) has a whole host of other things that impact it besides worker-level productivity and we all know how hard it is to measure developer productivity.
A virtual card that expires or is limited would have protected somewhat.
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I've never really found Macrumors to be all that click-baity. My guess would be a reference point targeted at their particular demographic.

Reading the article on your iPad Pro? Now you know roughly how heavy the Vision Pro is going to be.
That matches my math when I was flying, if you're not doing 10+ hours a month or have a specific mission that can't be solved by rentals, you're best off renting.

There's a middle-ground which is quite common of the "own a share" - you and five others buy and maintain a plane and "rent" it from yourself - this works great if the times you want to fly don't all overlap.
> Rapid degrowth in global oil and gas production would lead to mass hunger.

Would it? Many farmers in developing countries don’t have tractors and don’t use fertilizer. Isn’t their food production less tied to fossil fuels?
Clickbaity titles are par for the course for MacRumors.
Frankly it sounds way too complicated for what it seems to do. Sure if one wants to do emacs-gardening it is fine.
Counterweights do indeed help. Lots of Quest users use an external battery mounted on the back of their headstrap as a counterweight, so I’m sure there will be third party straps that do that with the Vision’s external battery.
Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
The Elite Strap is also expensive and infamous for breaking, Meta stopped the sales of both the Quest 2 and Quest 3 versions in the past.
I just ordered a cheap third-party strap and it's very comfortable.

The original strap is so terrible that it seems intentional. The bare minimum so they can legally say it includes one.
One thing everyone here always forgets about places like Bell Labs and Xerox parc, was that it was NOT a monoculture of developers working on things. These places encouraged collaboration between many different disciplines. They encouraged diversity.

What turned me off tech culture is not just that tech companies became more like banks. It's that there is a monoculture of thought, and highly arrogant thought at that. It's the place where developers are royalty and everyone else is regarded as mouth breathing servants. Of course, most companies, for damn good reason, are not structured with developers running everything, and so you get a constant stream of toxic comments complaining about how every other role at the company is useless and holding back the oh-so-brilliant developers.

That's not diversity, it's not inclusion, and it's not a recipe for actually changing the world for the better.
Couldn't the seller put in a sim card to determine if the phone was stolen?
ECB Seeks to Prevent States from Constitutionally Enshrining Right to Use Cash
Particularly interesting given Schwarzenegger's recent escapades in Germany, where they demanded half the import dues on a watch he was auctioning off for charity be paid in cash.
If you seek elightment, you seek truth. Look down towards foundations like physics, mathematics, logic and look back towards the past.

It' smaybe check out the Computer History Museum.

Read Feynman's (or about) books. "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman" is light but profound. Max Tegmark's "Our Mathematical Universe" is great. "I am a strange loop" by Douglas Hofstadter will connect many dots. If you want to peek deeper - "Through two doors at once" describes experiments at the edge of our reality. "The singularity is near" is a good perspective that connects dots through time back many years to many in the future.

These are just some incomplete starter points. It's deep, beautiful rabbit hole. Enjoy it.
By Vectron's mighty claw, so they do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icTrzUuWlHI
Maybe if you get some exo-skeleton from CES :-)

I'd love to test them out though
Maybe You Should Invest in Translation
> What gave you the authority and moral credibility

I lived in an US suburb (Natick, West Mass). I lived in the city center of two American cities (Boston, NYC) for almost 5 years. I'm living in a large European city (Berlin) for 10+ years.

Aside from the suburbs, I never had the "need" to have my own car to do anything. Public transportation and biking were the main modes of transportation, but I never restrained myself for getting a taxi or a ZipCar for the occasional longer trip.

It's not about being "anti-car". The thing is that I have actual data and I can tell you from actual experience: the majority of people living in large urban centers will be better off if they don't have a car, let alone a truck.

> over the perspective of people voting with their wallets.

People "voting" with their wallets is not a reliable measure when the ballot does not have all the actual viable candidates.

People started buying SUVs and trucks in North America not because they are the obvious superior alternative, but because car makers started removing the other alternatives from the market for not being as profitable.

> I would think the people who are actually spending their money would be better at knowing what they need, than internet commentators who are not.

In the US, trucks were almost 80% of all auto sales in 2023 [0]. Are you really willing to defend the position that the majority of people bought them because of "need"?

[0]: https://finmasters.com/car-sales-statistics/
Does it have any bearing on the case, though? I agree but it may make no difference
I'm guessing allocator time, memory usage, and cache residency are the major performance considerations. Vec knows what size it is so the comparison is cheap and in any case collect is already expected to allocate depending on what it is fed.
They got the title wrong. Record profits due to decades of poor monopsony governmental policies.

We are living with the end results of the allowance of company merger after company merger. Capitalism only works when there is considerable competition, and the ability to independently set prices. Only utilities work best with less competition, and require a ton of regulation and huge scrutiny. We should be treating any company that increasingly consumes companies as utilities and limit their ability to arbitrarily raise prices.

I was taught that profitability tends towards zero over time and this is simply something I have not experienced in my lifetime. Something is greatly broken in the modern age when we allow policy to favor incumbents so heavily. There should be company after company sprouting up to take advantage of these profits, and I’m not entirely sure that is happening, despite hearing accounts of record numbers of business started in the last 5 years.
You mean a left-to-right top strap.
Just when you think private companies are already sucking enough the last dime out of healthcare…

Anyways, the non-profit hospitals already engage in price gouging, the for-profit companies might as well take part.
I can't find it now but I wrote a bit of fanfic where Ken Thompson sent an LLM back in time (referencing his "Love, Ken" UNIX tapes that he would send out) to save humanity. He was always a bit head of his time.
I also remember him saying, (paraphrasing here) “I’m not particularly smart, there are people out there that are much smarter than me. What I am really good at is poking around in the dark with a stick and seeing what happens”
Not entirely true.

I still access my personal Gmail account via the Microsoft Exchange option in my iPhone's Mail.app and I get push notifications this way rather than being stuck with Fetch.

The reason it still works is that connections made to Google Sync for personal accounts prior to the discontinuation date like 10 years ago are still honored and "grandfathered" if you will.

So to get it to work I just need to modify the Exchange GUID in my iPhone to what the GUID was on my phone back when I logged into Google Sync before they discontinued new logins.

Fortunately changing this GUID is possible by taking an iPhone backup, modifying a plist file in the backup, and restoring that backup to the phone.

So right now, on my iPhone 14 Pro, I am still using Mail.app with push notifications to my personal Gmail account.
I for one would welcome a benevolent AI dictator.
I understood the parent comment as generating renewable methane like methanol, using renewable electricity -> hydrogen (and CO2) -> methane.

This doesn't requires bacteries and feedstock in a wet disgester, so it removes the issue with moist and sulfur.
The key argument of the paper this is based on is that storing H2 is difficult if you don't have salt caverns. Then you need H2 pressure tanks, and that is expensive and also requires a lot of energy. And you don't have salt caverns everywhere.

The authors compare this in an energy model, and come to the conclusion that methanol comes out on top if you don't have cheap (aka salt cavern) h2 storage. But of course, there are a lot of assumptions going into this.

Nice bonus: It's an open source model, so others can test it with different assumptions.
Except we don't have the same rights to a lawyer as in the US. We have a right to speak to a lawyer, but that could be over the phone and they are not present during questioning:

https://blogs.ubc.ca/ijhr/2021/11/29/the-right-to-counsel-it...
It is simple. If the Govt wants to support the semiconductor industry provide proper worker protections. It should know that the a few companies would have cartel like power and exploit their employees.