skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the rest of you, but when it comes to

- Having enough money to retire into a dystopian hellhole that I spent my younger years creating

- Making some hard decisions now so that I can have an average life in a functioning society later

I'd prefer the latter. But conveniently, it's not HN that we need to convince to reign in advertising, it's the House and the Senate, and their voters are plenty suspicious of "big tech" whatever that is.

And yeah, much more worried about the NSA than terrorists.
Quite possible, but still JetBrains has a lot to thank for regarding Android Studio and Kotlin to Google.
I am a little confused about some of the language used here.

> The best version they could come up with — a kind of speed limit — comes from the trivial case where the problem’s variables (such as whether a salesman visits a city or not) can only assume binary values (zero or 1).

Did they just call an NP-Complete problem a trivial case?!

I was under the impression that all ILP can be reduced to 01-ILP equivalents, and vice versa?

> Unfortunately, once the variables take a value beyond just zero and 1, the algorithm’s runtime grows much longer. Researchers have long wondered if they could get closer to the trivial ideal.

So, is the work a solver improving the lower bound for 01-ILP or an algorithm that brings the bounds between 01-ILP and general ILP closer?
There's an opening because Google is suffering from self-inflected problems.
"Must be a target" in the sense that you're included in an early subset of data that is filtered on abnormal behaviors who will get additional filtering applied to them. Pretty sure the next step isn't tapping your phones and assigning you a tail but applying extra filtering. I'm not in intelligence but I've worked with psychiatry data before and it became boring and routine to identify people with previously undiagnosed mental disorders via data analysis with relatively small amounts of data compared to population-level scales. The intelligence agencies of the world surely know about slightly paranoid techies and have a behavior profile that allows false positives to be filtered out in another pass.

"Used a feature phone at odd hours for years but began leaving their phone behind to go pull large quantities of cash from the ATM according to bank records, followed by a new circuitous route around town where they don't live or work or have associated friends or family according to traffic cameras" is much more interesting.
There is a tension between them. If you take the second law as 'rigorous', the entropy must always increase. But Poincare recurrence says you will inevitably return to the lower entropy state, which of course is a violation.

One way around this is to relax the definition of the second law to be something like "almost always": the set of states with higher entropy are incredibly unlikely. And when you compute the recurrence time, it's astoundingly large; like trillions upon trillions of ages of the universe.

Cosmologically, there is some escape in that the expansion of the universe breaks the assumption of finite accessible phase space, but there is an underlying difficulty of what it means for the universe to be truly infinite or divergent in size. Not just really big, but truly infinite: where did it all come from?

My personal take is that the second law is about "macroscopic" experiments. You are given a box and you can only do things like push the side of box or put it on a hot stove or in a magnetic field or whatever, and the laws are about what you can or cannot do with those operations. The microscopic system might decide to do something incredibly unlikely, but you can't control or even anticipate it, and that is just the extremely long tail of the probability distribution that is a thermodynamic state.

I don't claim my view is rigorous; people like Boltzmann and Ehrenfest were much smarter than me and struggled with what irreversibilty means, and you can kind of go crazy worrying about this (likewise with the 'measurement problem' of quantum mechanics). In the end, whether a situation can be mapped to the exact axioms of a model like QM or thermodynamics is very tricky and perhaps unknowable.
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Show the Actual Game (in a trailer) [video]
I don't mean to excuse Facebook for lots of negative consequences they've unleashed on the world, but I think journalists should realize that repeating ad infinitum Zuckerberg's "Dumb fucks" quote can have the opposite of the intended purpose. I stopped reading after that quote.

That quote has been repeated a bajillion times already. Importantly, it was over 20 years ago, as the article points out, when Zuckerberg was an arrogant college student in a private chat. Ironically, I think this quote is a great argument against Facebook and social media, but almost in the exact opposite way that journalists intend.

People change. People say dumb shit when they're in college, especially when they're trying to boast to friends, privately. One of the biggest downsides of Facebook and social media is that it preserves all the mistakes of our youth (which in my opinion should have the freedom to be gradually forgotten as they recede in the past) for all time. There has been a ton of research and musings about how today's young people are much more risk averse than generations past, largely to their detriment, and it's not surprising given how the consequences of a juvenile mistake are more severe now than ever before.

To emphasize, I'm not giving Zuckerberg a free pass, at all. I just think there are tons of much more recent actions and behaviors by Zuckerberg and Meta that deserve opprobrium that can easily be highlighted. You don't need to dredge up 2-decade old quotes that have already been widely reported. It smacks of lazy journalism and just shows that you are using some of the worst impulses that Facebook itself has made widespread.
Minor nitpick but the NSA does not employ agents, but rather analysts and (sometimes) operators. "Agents" in the IC sense are people that do your bidding, i.e. recruiting someone to insert a USB drive into a target device.
The federal executive doesn’t regulate the BitTorrent protocol fyi. Copyright infringement is a civil matter.
Measured by whom?
1) Because exactly this happens

2) Because developers check out that source code and store it on their own laptops, which can sometimes get lost, stolen, or hacked.

3) Because with a proper secrets manager, each developer can get their own auth credentials for each service, increasing auditability.
> HTTPS says, importantly, "You're getting the content from whom you think you're getting it from."

You need certificate pinning to know this for sure, due to the existence of MITM HTTPS spoofing in things like corporate firewalls. HTTPS alone isn't enough; you have to confirm the certificate is the one you expected. (You can pin the CA cert rather than the leaf certificate if you want, if you trust the CA; that still prevents MITM spoofing.)
I think AirPods were post-Steve? And they were both widely mocked at launch and wildly successful.
Digging around in terminfo is like holding a flickering, flaming torch up to some hieroglyphics in some deep catacomb. It's weird to think just how much complexity goes into a terminal application. Makes me even more grateful to the devs behind iTerm and Kitty (and all the others!)

EDIT: for iTerm+zsh, I collected some functions for setting tab colors: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/84ebe33c1879f921685304...

EDIT2: Contrast terminfo with the old-school method of connecting to HTTP or SMTP with telnet. Yeah, it's simple text but that text is being displayed by a complex application that supports all sorts of wild stuff!
I can appreciate that the model might be trained to work on primarily chinese language, but the performance for me really doesnt seem to be there yet.

I hate to do the "I asked ai and pasted it here" style of comment, but I really wanted to understand the validity of the claim it surpasses gpt4 in all those benchmarks. I asked gpt4 and qwen-vl-max this prompt to try to get a sense of their capabilities. Nothing even close imo.

"tell me a story about relations between people living on one side of a penny floating through space and the other. Use the format of the hero's journey, including rejecting the call, focus on worldbuilding by hinting at further complexity, and do it in a kafkaesque style"

quen's story starts with:
Once upon a time, there was a penny floating through space.

gpt 4:
Through the vast emptiness of space drifted an ancient penny, a relic from a long-forgotten Earth.

The difference is night and day atm. Ask yourself: would Kafka have started a story with "once upon a time"
Two were.
I'm sorry I made you so mad, it was just my opinion
If gas was magically $16 a gallon tomorrow, it would amplify inflation. Markets and their workers would demand wage increases, which would of course trickle to everything else.

And yes, imagine what this would look like at $20 a gallon :/
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Glad i got an oculus before they spike the price
On a 16 hour flight you can watch the onscreen entertainment, use your wireless laptop, your wireless tablet and your wireless phone. I’ve travelled a bit and usually alternate among them.

But the Vision Pro would need two cables (power brick and battery pack, which is required even when plugged in to the brick) and when you get up to use the bathroom your neighbor will absolutely trip crossing your seat and land their ass on the Vision Pro you left behind.. that you don’t want to wear into the cramped airplane bathroom.
Shouldn't the watch be on your non-dominant hand?
> Blame and persecution are not counterproductive, they are crucial to improving safety.

There's a good chapter on blame that you should read in this book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accident...
It changes electrolyte balance from what I’ve experienced, so that’s another likely way. Try being dehydrated and depressed. You can’t! The will to live kicks in and overrides depression. Like the guy who jumped off Golden Gate Bridge who on hitting the water was filled with sudden will to live. Near death is a good cure for a lot of things. That’s why keto works.
Team Topologies as an organizational pattern language – Part 3
Ask Mercedes-Benz. If somehow that repo gets exposed - so are all of your secrets. You just made a problem a lot worse and potentially opened up an avenue to expose more data.
People get this weird idea in their heads that if they do more stuff than what they have done is better in some way. In practice however simpler code usually wins out.

Docstrings are usually a lot better than type hints for that purpose.
Some other early reviews that are up:

CNET - Apple Vision Pro Review: A Mind-Blowing Look at an Unfinished Future

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-vision-pro-review-...

WSJ - Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset Yet Is Just a Glimpse of the Future

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-vision-pro-review-39f2d82e?mo...

Tom's Hardware - Apple Vision Pro review: A revolution in progress

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/smart-glasses/apple-visi...

CNBC - Apple Vision Pro review: This is the future of computing and entertainment

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/30/apple-vision-pro-review-the-...
I recently discovered a unit test file in the SymPy repository that demonstrates how to use SymPy for matrix calculus, specifically for finding derivatives of symbolic matrix expressions. This is of course very useful when working with optimization problems in e.g. machine-learning. The point is that SymPy can do this directly (in matrix form), yet this is not really obvious from the available documentation / content on forums.
Good analysis.

Part of it too is that Apple feels pressure to do something innovative. They made some big bets in the 2000s that paid off very well but a company that has a hit like the iPhone becomes profoundly conservative. The trouble is that there aren't many market opportunities bigger than smartphones, there's a possible iCar and an iHouse and that's about it.

Apple's worst fear might be being successful as a niche product: what if every seat of Dassault 3Dexperience ends up with an Apple Vision Pro? Apple might be left with the maintenance burden forever but no real prospects for a mainstream product.
> where a huge amount of information can be gathered about people without “searches and seizures”

Although in my opinion, the vast majority of this data collection and use absolutely counts as "searches and seizures" -- just by private corporations rather than the government. Which, in my view, is worse than if it were just the government.
Whatever happens in Florida, HN doesn’t like it. Why? Because of the distorted perception about FL driven the mass media.

A couple years ago I made a decision to move to FL from NY. I’ll say it out loud, FL is ahead of NY. They just have bad marketing skills.
No, it’s all ML models. It is very unlikely that an ML model trained on wrist motions for walking and running would falsely report steps for… other activities.
This is a much more financially accurate article: https://www.ft.com/content/d7b61c43-be36-49da-894e-cac68fefb...

> While Evergrande is listed in Hong Kong, almost all of its assets and the vast majority of its more than $300bn in liabilities are in China.

> In theory, the ruling could pave the way for liquidators to attempt to seize control of some Evergrande assets in mainland China, since Hong Kong has a mutual recognition agreement on insolvency and restructuring that applies in some parts of China.

> However, it is not clear how far mainland courts will accept the Hong Kong winding-up order.

In short, this headline is wildly overstated. This is a minority jurisdiction that is overreaching. There is no way that Mainland Chinese courts will respect the decision. Frankly, I would say the same if a giant French property developer happened to be listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. If a Dutch court ordered them to liquidate, I cannot believe the French gov't would allow it. (To be clear: I am not an EU hater here. Vice versa would also be true.)

My prediction: China with directly or indirectly nationalise Evergrande. Most bondholders (especially foreigners) will be wiped out. Most of the unfinished buildings will be completed in 2-5 years.
Originall XBox was also a money sink for Microsoft, bleeding money, bringing everyone on board to develop for it.

Modern Apple is anything like that.
Doesn’t it have some weird and Very Apple design flaw where it’s hard to charge and use at the same time?
The video also offers a solution. Obscure the view of your hands from the camera(s).
I know people who have died from human driven cars, where the driver was sober. Autonomous cars only need to beat that, which is a much lower bar than perfect. Of course the closer to perfect they get the better, but a lot of people die on the roads, if autonomous cars can improve on that then we need them now, not waiting for some perfect. (I don't know if they really improve - all data I've seen is confusing and may be an attempt to hide the truth in some way)
Are you by chance affiliated with the secrets manager solution you've attempted to promote a fair few times in this thread?
I find it very odd that Americans seem to not be able to understand how a highly nationalist people may object to them staying past their welcome date and seek to attack them on their own accord, and that most of these groups existed well before acquiring Iranian funding.

Most Iraqis still remember tragedies like the Mahmudiyah massacre. The government of the time took them into account and promised to have American bases closed, but reneged. I think you can see how events like that being rampant might drive people to fight, even a generation later.
The plane thing is funny. I can’t imagine anyone actually using VR in economy. At best you’ll annoy people next to you and the flight attendants if they need you to move or respond. At worst you’ll hit your head on something or whack someone with the controllers
Prions are exactly the tiny, hard to detect things that could make Alzheimers transmissible. There are likely to remain many questions to resolve, but this sure suggests a line of inquiry: Is Alzheimer's one distinct disease? Can a prion be isolated as the cause? Can a diagnostic test be designed that detects this prion? Etc.
While I get your point, the constitution is fundamentally _about_ hamstringing the government in ways you're fully allowed to privately contract away. It's about saying the government may pass any and all laws within these guidelines -- that's why you can shout fire at the top of a mountain and nobody cares, but in a privately owned theater it's not a free-speech issue.

Or something like that - point is, if it wasn't doing anything wrong, why was it obscuring that fact through classification and NDA's until now - when as you say - it's public data that the government would (in your theory of constitutional law) be entitled to purchase?
So right. I have lived experience with someone who stalked me based on a 20-year-old (literally) 20 years ago - Internet post. At first, I thought they were sarcastic - until they actually drugged my sister and had her call me and I realized they had hired a sex offender to actually stalk me. This app is the same way. No ability to delete or forget what is posted. No one is suing anyone 20 years later, so retention of that data is not needed. It is only kept purely for profiling purposes. Ones that do not seem to add value other than support smear campaign efforts.

Having had first-hand experience, it's like walking into a nice resort at age 50 and having someone at the dining table pick up a brawl from a rugby match 20 years ago, thinking oh hey this is where we left off last I saw you.

No one should have to experience this.
Wouldn't your dominant hand be on your mouse?
And we did have for a while a few AR glasses, then all seem to have disappeared. No apps for them? No idea why. When I picked on the idea (late, I know) it seemed to me everything was in the stage of "almost there" and shortly after that, nothing was available anymore.
Maybe the problem is that it is "lib"systemd, meaning it doesn't really have control over when the process forks, it's the application code's responsibility. Although I would probably also avoid this design, but that would probably make the library interface a bit unfriendly, with the application needing to pass its own pid to library functions where appropriate.
Are you associated with Doppler?

You have been linking it multiple times in this thread, and this comment sounds like a sales pitch.
History does not agree: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/03...
> The distinction is the difference between an unexpected gift versus an overt act, and thus a search warrant would apply in the context of the FBI.

Why would buying information you have no right to privacy for require a warrant? Police do not need warrants for generally publicly available information, and if anyone can buy this information why not police? Similar to how police do not require a warrant when they ask a phone company for records and the company just gives it to them without question.

If police ask you to search your house, you could let them or you could tell them to come back with a warrant but if you let them they can use what they find.
No, because all of Kafka's books were written in German.
Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong
Funny, conservative beliefs are a like a slow feed as you get older and have kids... This is just the gateway.

It happened to me and millions of others.
People who drink dairy are probably not in keto. Dairy has a ton of sugar.
Now, farmers can txt and drive!
Post mortem on Linear incident from Jan 24th, 2024
Which is rather unfortunate.

I no longer eat meat, but when I was younger I considered the brains as the tastiest part of an animal, when properly prepared and cooked.

It is said that in USA eating organs is not very popular, so it is likely that many have never experienced well cooked brains, to know what they are missing.

There exists a hypothesis that is rather plausible, that breaking bones and eating their content of brains and marrow has played an important role in the evolution of humans, by providing an abundant source of long-chain fatty acids, enabling the unusual mass ratio between the central nervous system and the whole body that characterizes humans.
There's actually data on this!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1357650X.2021.2...
The perpetual motion machine of AI-generated data and the distraction of ChatGPT
> The new technocrats are ostentatious in their use of language that appeals to Enlightenment values—reason, progress, freedom—but in fact they are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal movement. Many of them profess unconditional support for free speech, but are vindictive toward those who say things that do not flatter them.

I am ecstatic that people are catching on to this ridiculous language game in which empty PR words and marketing copy are somehow confused with reality itself. The Ministry of Liberalism is anything but; just ask their colleagues at the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Peace.
You might be excited to learn that in internet forums discussing things of this nature it is very common knowledge then.

It also tends to be used by specific demographics to derail topics like prison and slavery abolition. Without context, it's difficult to tell the difference between belaboring the point and a bad faith argument.

I personally gave you the benefit of the doubt, but it makes it questionable and some may not.
As someone who worked at a fortune 500 company making such EMR software:

There's no incentive to make the UI or workflows better. They don't pay the bills. Software is sold to the suits during dinners and baseball games, not doctors or nurses.

Besides, a great portion of the development is outsourced chasing lower costs. The code reviews were so bad that a coworker used to joke that "we'd get more stuff done if we just fired the overseas team".

The biggest and most well funded dev team was the one that worked on Revenue Cycle.

I quit a few years ago and haven't looked back.
What does it matter if it's calibrated on earth? If the problem is the antenna pattern, influence of the rover itself, etc, why can't it be calibrated with the exact duplicate of the rover we have?
Many times! I like the beer but over 6C I don’t really like it…
I was writing personas for a website just a few hours ago so I tried it out.

Its ideas seem more generic but thorough compared to a human. E.g. it might give 8 ideas where 2-3 are irrelevant, 3-4 I already know, but then there's 1 good idea I hadn't thought of. So that's a net positive as long as they're not incorporated unthinkingly.

I like the 'objections' part of the persona (helps preempt concerns that can be addressed in website copy). (although these aren't real users so again should be taken with a shaker of salt).

Nice work. It's the most useful ChatGPT plugin I've used so far.
I can see it being used on a long haul in economy after dinner service and before breakfast. Most of that doesn’t really apply, except for the occasional bathroom run.
No, that would be either Crossover [0] or Game Porting Toolkit [1] (easily run via Whisky [2]).

[0] https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

[1] https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Game_Porting_Toolkit

[2] https://getwhisky.app/