skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feeds into one of my pet hypotheses about human ability: the most important biological factors determining success lie not in whatever influences IQ or other intelligence or creativity attributes but in the dopamine system.

Take 20 IQ points from someone and replace that with the ability to engage focus and flow state at will and see what happens.

Our dopamine system is tuned for a world that is far slower than this one and largely unchanging. From the perspective of modernity almost all humans exist in a state of catatonic depression. Few humans are able to sustain the level of focus and activity that would be optimal in today's world. When we do, in short bursts, we see amazing results.

Unfortunately drugs like amphetamines have side effects and are addictive. From what I've seen amphetamines and similar focus drugs often lead to a lot of focus and engagement but mis-regulated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3e1F1a0Hg

An AI would not need to be superintelligent to outcompete humans in virtually any endeavor. It would just need to have ordinary human intelligence plus infinite tireless focus.

This also implies that a way to boost focus that worked better than amphetamine (and without addiction and other side effects) and similar things would be much more significant for human potential than a way to boost IQ.

The other alternative would be to drastically extend life span, allowing us to slow down and be okay with that. The reason we tend to fast forward everything so much is that we don't live very long. The systems of capital and capital allocation that drive society run at a speed that is far in excess of what our dopamine systems are adapted to handle so they can deliver results within an acceptably small fraction of a human life span.

Either we are too slow or too short lived. Pick one.
> I could no longer get by with crunching on the evening before the test and instead needed to actually have a work ethic for studying long term.

haha, I use to do it an hour before the test. I one time successfully "read" 5 books during a 20 min train ride.

I had this standard joke with a guy in my class where I would pretend the test was about the next chapter. He knew I was joking but freaked out completely ~ every time. He started working weeks in advance on things that should imho take 5 minutes then he would barely pass.

And then it suddenly involved actual work, something I was 100% unfamiliar with. The exotically untalented guy knew he had to start MONTHS in advance.

I ran into him 30 years later. He has a fabulous job that involves weekly courses. I ask him if he got any better at studying over all those years. He said he still starts studying all weekend, when he gets home and after dinner and still panics along the way and freaks out at 1 am on a daily basis - non of it makes any sense! After he barely passes the test he continues to study the material because he needs to know it but doesn't.

It's kinda sad as it sounds like he has no life, then again it is also extremely impressive and there must be something about the process that he really loves.

Others might think different, he is a legend to me.
I know a bunch of people who successfully completed bootcamps several months ago who have been looking for jobs for a while and are now thinking of returning to their previous careers to make some money. Just a data point.
Quickemu gives me the ability to instantly spin up a full blown VM without fiddling with QEMU configurations, just by telling it what OS I want.

This might be less useful for those who are quite familiar with QEMU, but it’s great for someone like me who isn’t. So this saves me a whole lot more than 2 minutes. And that’s generally what I want from a wrapper: improved UX.
Obviously, it's not perfect, and right now, for the best results, it would have to be re-recorded with a proper singer and instruments. But for some dude who has barely any experience in making music, I think it's amazing.

Also, I'm not a Christian; I just experimented in that area because I assumed that the quality bar would be lower in a more niche music genre. I made a custom gpt to generate the lyrics and structure and then just prompted it with, 'write me a song about jesus but don't use his name.'

If this is where it is now, where a person with no skills can make a song that wouldn't seem too out of place on a soundtrack for a Hallmark Channel movie, imagine where it's going to be in 5 years?
>Didn’t say it’s wrong

No, just that "it’s a wasted life".

>I relocated to live in 5 different cities in the same time span, met many different people, for me that counts

And for others having roots, and not just meeting different people like a tourist only to dispose and move on in a few years, but building deep relations with people, is what counts.

To be frank, it sounds like novelty seeking to avoid deeper commitments and more substantial development. Of course if one is young (say <= 30) it can also be fun.
Because people get boards that do not support it then complain to AMD.

Easier to just not claim it's there, like AMD used to.

That said, thanks to AMD UEFI modules always exporting their settings databases, even if vendor didn't provide options to configure things, you can always try to enable ECC (and various other things - beware of possibly damaging the hardware!).
To be fair, I don't see why LP is still being used for many applications nowadays and not replaced, as it tends to be a brute force techniques.
Yes, it’s terrible. Bootcamps have stopped reporting their employment numbers since 2022.

This question is better for r/cscareerquestions where there are more junior engineers and college grads. Gauge the situation with recent CS grads, and if they have trouble getting a job, you’ll have it way worst as a boot camp grad.
Politics is many people agreeing to do something for different reasons.
Delta Lake Rust implements ACID transactions
I am not sure that quote is attributed to Ronald Reagan

It’s by Calvin Coolidge

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2749-nothing-in-this-world-...
It is not obvious what the result of this would be. What hostname will it have? How will the disk be partitioned? What packages will be installed? What timezone will be set? What keyboard layout will be set? And so on.
The plane of Theseus.
The convenience of such a tool is great, but it's also ~5000 lines of bash across the two main scripts.

I'd want to vet such a thing before I run it, but I also really don't want to read 5000 lines of bash.
Microsoft and IBM were very close in those days. In fact, Microsoft wrote (some? most? all?) of the first version of OS/2 under contract for IBM. It was in fact a disagreement between IBM and Microsoft over Windows 3.x that ultimately severed that partnership supposedly. It’s been many years since I read this, but if memory serves it was Ballmer’s handling of IBM that led to the term BOGUS having a special meaning at Microsoft in the late 80s / early 90s. Wish I could remember which book that was in because I’m finding it difficult to discover a reference today searching.

Edit:

It’s not the original reference I’m remembering as this was published in 2022, but did find a mention of the term in this book: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Thank_You_Ibm_Next_Edit...
Using https://github.com/c-blake/batch/blob/master/examples/closes... from the examples/ directory of https://github.com/c-blake/batch, I get:

L2:bat/examples$ BATCH_EMUL=1 ./closes|awk '{print $3,$2,$1*$2}'|fitl -s0 -c,=,n,b -b100 1 2 3
$1= 3.815 *$2 + 695.6826 *$3
bootstrap-stderr-corr matrix
0.8872 -0.7856
0.04174

L2:bat/examples$ BATCH_EMUL=1 ./closes|awk '{print $3,$2,$1*$2}'|fitl -s0 -c,=,n,b -b100 1 2 3
$1= 4.528 *$2 + 695.3265 *$3
bootstrap-stderr-corr matrix
1.174 -0.7640
0.05302

L2:bat/examples$ a (695.3265 +- 0.05302)-(695.6826 +- 0.04174)
-0.356 +- 0.067 # i.e. run-to-run consistent
L2:bat/examples$ ./closes|awk '{print $3,$2,$1*$2}'|fitl -s0 -c,=,n,b -b100 1 2 3
$1= 779.67 *$2 + 48.861 *$3
bootstrap-stderr-corr matrix
1.550 -0.7495
0.2023

L2:bat/examples$ ./closes|awk '{print $3,$2,$1*$2}'|fitl -s0 -c,=,n,b -b100 1 2 3
$1= 787.77 *$2 + 48.745 *$3
bootstrap-stderr-corr matrix
1.350 -0.6207
0.1635

L2:bat/examples$ a (48.861 +- 0.2023)-(48.745 +- 0.1635)
0.12 +- 0.26 # i.e. run-to-run consistent
L2:bat/examples$ a (695.3265 +- 0.05302)/(48.745 +- 0.1635)
14.265 +- 0.048 # i.e. batching makes it 14X faster!

One can go further to get a mean +- std.err of ~695.52 +- ~0.04 nanosec hot-cache time per syscall overhead or even do point-weighting there, but it's probably more important to check fit residuals for serial autocorrelation (very do-able with https://github.com/c-blake/fitl, EDIT: oh, and if you care `a` is basically shown in https://github.com/SciNim/Measuremancer/pull/12 which uses standard error propagation).

The bigger point would not be ever more careful measurement of the cost if you do not, but rather the ease of "batchifying" if you do of any highly regular call interface similar to syscalls with high latency and also the "follow on" API design, granularity-wise. The inner code of a mini-assembly language letting you implement, say, open/fstat/mmap/close all in one syscall crossing is only about 30 lines of C. { Yes, yes..It could use multi-CPU-arch and syscall auditing integration.. and sure, ebpf & io_uring alter the Linux landscape these days }. Also, @exDM69 is very correct that pure hot cache-hot loop numbers are only one part of the cost story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39188551).
To do this I had to install libosinfo-bin
Ryanair is happy to buy the Boeing 737-MAX planes that other airlines are thinking of ditching: https://skift.com/2024/01/29/ryanair-ceo-says-uniteds-boeing...

Interestingly, Airbus's orders are filled up to 2030. I suppose if an airline wants something sooner, they'll either get Boeing or they're not going [to get one].
Yes, this ^
How to deal with news, if journalism is not a mirror of reality
I will definitely check out more about Nextcloud. But I fear it is a bit of a huge service to host an maintain.
I own a Lamborghini that I received as a gift for my 20th anniversary. It's my second high-performance car. The first one was a Honda Civic that I drove for a while and then parked in the garage, eventually forgetting about it. (It was an amazing vehicle and well-crafted, but the driving experience just didn't align with my preferences.)

The Lamborghini effortlessly (performance-wise, it's quite powerful) does what I want it to do, and I'm perfectly fine taking it on a week-long trip without worrying about refueling. I'm also comfortable driving it in any situation.

In eco mode, it has an impressive fuel efficiency, which is fantastic since 95% of the time, I'm using it for regular commuting.
You know what I'm asking. Is it also jarring, is it funny, is it interesting, etc.
I taught a coding bootcamp (one of the early ones in 2010-11) and I've met several people out of bootcamps. You are probably looking at several years of seriously hard learning and putting up with a significant setback in your career with very little in the way of using your existing skills. I would rather try to learn coding myself and move over gradually if I were you. You are not going to be anywhere near an expert in coding after one year if you start from scratch.
Because it is a big market. Technically the US companies could proceed with the acquisition but then they might be prevented from participating in the EU market.
LP or ILP? There is a significant difference since for non-discrete problem Linear Programming is shockingly efficient and in no way can be considered a brute force technique.

edit: What would be a technique you consider non-brute force in discrete problems?
in this context what makes a difference if it is a Chinese companies abandoning the product vs a British company.

Is china the only nations making "trash"....

Further your video shows off several replacements with 1 having some kind of incompatibility with some carrier boards... Personally I have never been a fan of the Compute Module form factor anyway.. I prefer the full SBC boards. I think the Compute Module form factor lends itself to more complexity and issues.

The SBC Market is huge now, and sure you can point to market failures, companies that dont survive, products that get abandoned every market will have those, and I see that as a GOOD THING. not a bad thing.

That is capitalism, which I love, at work.
It's clear the industry can't stop it. The only thing they can do is shape it into sth that benefits it. Think Napster -> Spotify.

Unfortunately, the way they've historically done it is to try and block anyone with force until someone came along who actually figured out a peaceful model for both consumers and producers (again, think Spotify). I don't think the AI game will play out any different.

The cool thing is: it's a great place for startups. Big tech will get sued right away before finding product market fit with an AI product, but small startups can survive until they have enough product market fit to fund the defense for the lawsuits.
Wikimedia Russia Shuts Down, Putting Local Site in Peril
Usually subjects of investigation don't get to choose the mode in which they share evidence
reminds me of the saying that every year, the intelligence threshold needed to end the world drops a bit more - cannot for the life of me find it again...
> Instutions were built and maintainted to support inflow of children and stable corporations were kept alfoat by a growing populace.

It's absurd to attribute the failure of modern capitalism to demographic flows or contraception.

Western corporations were relatively stable only because the rate of technological disruption was lower and, more importantly, the rate of overall financialization of the economy was so much lower. Capital moved very slowly, and financial instruments were few, often strictly regulated. Most capital was in steady manufacturing and agriculture business, rather than in volatile service industries. That made for a view of the economy where businesses were an institutional part of society, with roles and responsibilities and connections to locality.

Once technological disruption and financialization accelerated, unshackled capital steamrolled society into doing what it's best for capital pretty much all the time, demographics be damned. Part of the push towards later and later parenthood is due to the increased specialization necessary to tech-intensive capital-fuelled businesses, requiring longer and longer training times and complete dedication for several years on top of that - all to earn unstable jobs that disappear very shortly, thanks to more and more automation.

Yes, something is broken in the West: the needs of capital have trumped the needs of people for two generations, and now we're paying the price for it. You won't fix this through demographic tinkering, but through societal and political change. In fact, increasing demographic pressure on Western societies, at this point, is courting disaster.
Do you actually want to jump the chasm or is it something you're considering purely because the sales job market isn't looking great?
Realizing when you're wrong and dealing with it with grace is a skill that needs to be learned, and one you should take the time to practice.
Query by Example [pdf]
…and how many self-help books they have purchased over the course of their lives :)

I'm certainly guilty of the latter, and recognized the link as something that would scratch that still-relevant itch. Though I've grown out of compulsively chasing the purple cow :)
Embulk in TD, and in the Future
Sadly “ macOS Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave & High Sierra”
They don't know the difference.
I was just messing around really and thought that it might be easier to find an audience with Christian music rather than if I tried targeting a more mainstream genre. Those mega churches need to play something, right?
> The promised user interface, Presentation Manager, was introduced with OS/2 1.1 in October 1988.[15] It had a similar user interface to Windows 2.1, which was released in May of that year. (The interface was replaced in versions 1.2 and 1.3 by a look closer in appearance to Windows 3.0.)

To quote the relevant section of parent’s link.
>Steamdeck with integrated RDNA2 is very capable with even modern games.

With a caveat: at its native 1280×800 resolution.
It was pressure from airlines to not have to retrain pilots, because that costs them money and whatnot. And in almost all cases when it comes to Boeing, the 737, and further issues, these airlines are also involved.
Well then THAT is the problem isn't it?
Not exactly. There is a qualitative distinction:

* Computers and other automations never made creative decisions before and were perfect for automating mechanical, rote tasks. Like going through a column of numbers and summing them up, or resizing a folder full of images

* AI attempts to make decisions that we would otherwise make creatively: yes, it may not be truly intelligent, but it undeniably makes decisions that, IF we made them, we would use part of our creative brains

That is the FUNDAMENTAL distinction between AI and other forms of computing: AI, while not intrinsically different than other forms of computing, attempts to take over our creatively-functioning brains. That is why I am against it. Society needs creatively functioning brains to be healthy, and an amalgamation of AI with humanity will have forseen and unforseen consequences, including a subtle but significant modification of our mental operation to make us forget what it is to be truly human.
First, I want to contribute to a project, if I am using it actively and I ran into an issue or found out about a crucial one from another user.

Then I would look for a ticket tracker system where I can leave a detailed description of the problem.

Only after that I would look into the code base and what I look for are:
1. Used technologies. For example, I will not learn qt and C++ to fix something in KDE, because I have no interest in learning them.
2. License. I don't mind MIT, GPL, or any sensible option just please don't have a needlessly complex custom one.
3. Clear guidelines about where to and how to contribute.
virt-install can be given all of those parameters as arguments[0], too; parent just didn't post an obnoxiously large shell line to demonstrate.

[0]: https://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-install
I think it is more an alternative to gnome boxes where the tool take care of downloading latest image in addition to offering a default config specific to that distro/os and additionally supporting dirty OSes like windows and macOS.
join launchschool.com and lets study together. I am in the same boat
Just to be clear: The teaching languages aren't Racket.
The teaching languages consists of a series of small languages designed for beginners. The idea is that a beginner can get more precise error messages.

Analogy: On a calculator, what should the result of sqrt(-4) be?

Depends:
If the user is a third grader, then maybe "error, can't take square root of -4".
If the user knows complex numbers, then "2i".

The teaching languages does just that. They are linked to the book, which tells you when to "level up".

Conflating the teaching languages and Racket is not helpful.
> The misadventures of the hippies do make you wonder if maybe another way of living is possible...

Only on the backs of the people who actually keep the world running. It's an inherently parasitic sort of LARP only possible in a very wealthy society. If everybody starts living the commune life, you're soon looking at a whole lot of violence and abuse, just like the primitive, self-sufficient societies the hippies romanticize and were / are trying to imitate.
That's really interesting and I like seeing what can be done in more "evolved" languages than awk. Awk has the advantage of being everywhere and not needing installation phases, but that's a price you only pay once.

Your Kotlin code feels more imperative to me even though I'm used to that kind of things; I like that awk still feels more like describing stuff, but that's only me.
But if they want to buy Bitcoin with them there needs to be someone on the other side of the transaction.
Can someone explain how this is a security problem? While GPG key verification would be the best way to ensure authenticity, it's doing nothing different from what almost everyone does: download the ISO from the distro's own HTTPS site. It then goes beyond what most people do and validates that the hashes matche.
"Nu" means "now" in Swedish. So a lot of Swedes bought .nu domains because it works in Swedish.

Just like I bought "och.glass" which means "and.icecream" in Swedish, even though "glass" has a different meaning in English.
Seatbelts also make it easier to maintain control during a sudden sharp swerve, which can reduce the chances that a sudden swerve to avoid something in your lane will turn into an out of control excursion into other lanes.

That's probably sufficient to justify a mandate for the driver and possibly front seat passengers (since a sharp swerve toward the passenger side could cause an unbelted front seat passenger to hit the driver).
> I use Joplin, using the open source Joplin Server hosted on my nas in docker.

Interesting project. I will read up on it. From a first glance on joplinapp.org, it does not seem to mention any way to self-host it the backend.

Although, I did find some forum posts mentioning a joplin server pre-release. Is that what you're running?

Do you know if it is possible to host it natively without docker?
At https://www.waiterio.com/downloads we have 5 native apps Android/iOS/macOS/Windows/Linux

The Windows and Linux app currently uses Electron.
Android/iOS/macOS are native apps using the OS Webview to load https://app.waiterio.com

We migrated away from electron to a macOS app with WKWebView.
The reason was few years ago Apple increased the security/signing standard, the electron packaging/signing were broken for few months. So in the doubt we decided to try a native macOS app with a WebView and it tooks us less then the fixing of the signing.

We will also migrate away from electron to a Windows app with WebView2.
The reason is we want to use a native C++ library/driver called Zadig and we believe it would be easier than trying out the NAPI-gyp way with Electron.

I would have still used Electron in the past as the first implementation and I would use it again in a new company with 0 native apps.
Thank you Electron! But goodbye for now!
as far as I know, the only real sources of it is from animal, even when you buy it as a supplement, so unless they have something very unusual, I would think it either is lacking essential vitamins, or cannot be vegan
Regardless of spiritual or psychological practices. Fact is food was generally nowhere near as available as it is now for the vast majority of our evolution as a species.

We didn't evolve around day-long snacking.
> Quickemu is a wrapper for the excellent QEMU that attempts to automatically "do the right thing", rather than expose exhaustive configuration options.

As others have said, it's to get past the awful QEMU configuration step. It makes spinning up a VM as easy as VirtualBox (and friends).
Yes. Place the secrets in a secured (symmetric encrypted) document. Then print the password for that document and hand it to a loved one, trusted family member/friend, or lawyer.
> According to some benchmarks I've seen (sorry no link), a system call in the middle of a memory heavy inner loop can impact performance for 100 us before performance is back to steady state. This is 100x longer than the system call alone.

Do you some intuition of what causes this? I don't have how much experience with this kind of work, but 100µs is enough time to do hundreds of random memory accesses. How can a single syscall do so much damage to the cache?
there's a world of difference in contacting a company via an ethical vulnerability disclosure program and doing so without one in place. it really shouldn't be that difficult to understand. Being "german" has nothing to do with it
Whoops, I seem to cannot edit my thread anymore. Is there any chance I can still adjust the title?