skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about "destroying all copies of the movie except one, then moving that onto a sd card you got off aliexpress"? Sure, that's a pretty dumb thing to do, but arguably so was investing into FTX.
I actually enjoyed the series, lots of neat sci-fi we dont get from non-english speaking countries. So a large body of content.
They are already way ahead
It was later noted on Twitter/X by someone that the rust version was not compiled with `--release`
Autovesk: Automatic Vectorized Code Generation from Unstructured Static Kernels
Wouldn't it be adding whatever the sum of your brute forcing list is onto itself? Which seems like a lot?
2^64 are 18.446.744.073.709.551.615. Adding a bit of json qirks you get that.
Is it so iconic that Sony should be allowed to collect royalties >50 years after the death of its performer?
For fun you should also release it as an Electron app, without even a hint of irony.
I believe I've found the spot shown in the article: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sSscNRFzYBg9Wmbb7 The satellite view matches the photos.
Replacement rate is commonly understood to be slightly above 2 to account for chance of death
> Isn't it that an extraordinary coincidence to find oneself born among the first few billion?

The weakness of the mediocrity principle is we're in a lot of categories, and we can't be near the middle of all of them at the same time.

This paper makes one particular assumption about what's a good set of things to be mediocre about; I think that's the weakest part because it's so easy for intuition to mislead there.

So I could invert your surprise: No more so than finding yourself in the last of a few trillion things that evolved into humans.
I also note that _The Logic Pool_ is also available in a short story collection of Stephen Baxter's called _Vacuum Diagrams_

http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/baxter/index.htm

Quoting from the beginning of the story:

This time he would reach the Sky. This time, before the Culling cut him away...
The tree of axiomatic systems beneath him was broad, deep, strong. He looked around him, at sibling-twins who had branched at choice-points, most of them thin, insipid structures. They spread into the distance, infiltrating the Pool with their webs of logic. He almost pitied their attenuated forms as he reached upwards, his own rich growth path assured...
Almost pitied. But when the Sky was so close there was no time for pity, no time for awareness of anything but growth, extension.
Little consciousness persisted between Cullings. But he could remember a little of his last birthing; and surely he had never risen so high, never felt the logical richness of the tree beneath him surge upwards through him like this, empowering him.
Now there was something ahead of him: a new postulate, hanging above him like some immense fruit. He approached it warily, savoring its compact, elegant form.
The fibers of his being pulsed as the few, strong axioms at the core of his structure sought to envelop this new statement. But they could not. They could not. The new statement was undecidable, not deducible from the set within him.
His excitement grew. The new hypothesis was simple of expression, yet ....
>It is absolutely legal to knock down your house so you dont have to pay property or sales tax on it.

Generally property taxes are on the land and its improvements (eg. houses), so burning down the house wouldn't relieve you of property tax obligations. Moreover, destroying the house would actually reduce your tax obligations, and AFAIK isn't illegal.
Fantastic.

Also this would be perfect as an SCP.
and this leads to 4 engineers and 6 managers sitting in a meeting, and nobody actually being responsible for anything.

no, of course, there's a lot of value in providing escalation/descalation/rehoming processes, and dedicated ways for org-wide feedback on people's and projects' impact, but people are not just three orthonormal roles on top of each other in a trenchcoat, if there's not clear hierarchy then - as others pointed out - the informal chaos takes over (because it's the human default)
Me too! I have a feeling that maybe Anathem appeals to the kind of people who themselves would be pushed into a math at a young age, like Barb. If I was on Arbre, there is no way I would have been tolerated in Sæcular society beyond my 11th birthday, and a.s. I'd be in a centenarian by now.
I found this blog post by rand pretty enlightening:

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-t...
Gout in my area.
Thanks for that link! There's another old story from a collection I read circa 1992 that I'm trying to chase down ;)
I just finished reading this book, and it's probably some of the best sci-fi I've ever seen. It took me about two days to read, interspersed with other life stuff.

I read the first couple appendices first. Technically they're not the intended starting point, but my ADHD brain needed a jump start before I could actually get invested in the story. What better way to do that than to introduce some really cool science and physics?
I think Julia's GC is quite good now, it can even multithread.
> Ambassador Kosh's ship arrives at the Epsilon III Jumpgate two days ahead of schedule. Upon leaving his ship the Minbari assassin approaches Kosh in the guise of Jeffrey Sinclair, whom Kosh recognises as Entil'Zha Valen. When he extends a hand in greeting to his 'old friend' the Minbari slaps a skin tab dosed with Florazyne, causing Kosh to collapse and lose consciousness

Oh no.
I am 2.5y into a bootstrap business (proxy alternative to burp suite). We are not nearly as successful as obsidian, but we managed to hit 30k$ ARR.

Honestly if I didnt have a contract on the side with high pay and low hours I would not be able to do it. Even with that if I compare what I would make as a full time dev I am not sure I will ever break even.

I used to judge/lament VC backed software, now I understand. Wish there was a third way, but it doesn't really exist. There could be with gov subsidies, Canada gives a looooooooot of money to business just not small ones (sucks to be poor). I also learned to not care about: people that are not paying customers / people that sh*t on you for not being OSS.
Both Ra and There Is No Antimemetics Department by the same author are absolutely top-tier works.
I noticed and thought the same! Pretty cool.
It's one of those cases where something leans so hard into the satire that, at first, it's not obvious it isn't just the same thing it's satirizing.
That seems to be exactly what Mojo is/wants to be. At least that's how I understand their landing page: https://www.modular.com/max/mojo
Special Episode
"Gentlemen, we must not have a mineshaft gap!"

I have that I {heart} Nuclear War bumper sticker on the back of my car. The computer game was also awesome. A very hard game to win.
The ligatures appear to be excluded from the image of all glyphs. But below it is an image of all ligatures. ;)
With woodworking, you can say you are going for that country charm rustic look. Then each defect is "character". End the end you can still have a functional useful piece.
You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl"
>> "Conclusions: The modern 'epidemic level' of advanced dementias was not described among ancient Greco-Roman elderly. The possible emergence of advanced ADRD in the Roman era may be associated with environmental factors of air pollution and increased exposure to lead. Further historical analysis may formulate critical hypotheses about the modernity of high ADRD prevalence."

It's not as if they were doing detailed demographic studies back then, though. There's just certain things that can't be known, and this is one of them.
S.N.O.W. Days
Well, it's solar energy. Pretty much as close to being pure heat as it gets. Completely wasted heat at that: before solar panels, all it did was heat up my home. In fact, I have to pay money every single day in order to run air conditioners to keep that heat out because otherwise it gets so hot I have a panic attack. The heat is actually harmful to me.

With solar panels, I get to redirect that useless sun heat into those air conditioners. The result is more money in my wallet. It's perfect.

Even if I were to mine cryptocurrency, it's still pure heat anyway. Sun's shining whether we want it or not. I'd just buy more panels so I can redirect more sun energy into computer chips instead of allowing it to uselessly heat up my backyard. Processors dissipating heat or backyard radiating away heat at night -- what's the difference?

The system asked me for a hostname of sorts when I set it up. I named it "sun monetizer". Makes the sun useful for something. I used to hate the sun with every fiber of my being. Now I monetize it. The next step is realizing that cryptocurrencies make it possible to monetize the sun at industrial scales by serving as energy-to-money converters.

Sun's gonna continue injecting heat into this earth whether we want it or not. Better make the most of it.
This starts to sound a little kooky - if there's that much bias going around that we need to play games with hiding info from the interviewers, then how can they work effectively with this person if they can't be trusted?
Memories. I had that silver mountain book and a BBC B micro. Hours of fun.
Not sure why youre downvoted. The same article can be written on why software engineers like fishing or anything else.
>> It's tangible.

> You have 300 operations to step through and if you mess one up you probably need to start over.

This, but ;)

I really like that you don't have undo but you still don't have to start over. You have to learn how to build things and what to do when you inevitably eff up and how to cover it up! And then you go around the house and check how the builders/tradespeople covered up their mistakes or how they were simply never as perfect to begin with as you think you need to be.

The difference being that unfortunately you will know forever where you effed up and even if you cover it up so that nobody will ever notice unless you tell them, you will be able to see it.

I can still see the tile in the bathroom being siliconed in instead of grouted where we opened it up to allow access when re-piping the house vs. the regular grout even though objectively it's exactly the same color and even the texture is close enough. I siliconed it just in case because this was the second to last extra tile, so if we ever need to open it up again, I want to be able to just cut the silicone vs. destroying the tile like the contractor did to gain access the first time.

Same when I do woodworking. I will always remember/see the gap that was too wide after I cut it incorrectly and filled it in with sawdust and glue from the exact same wood. I keep a bunch of containers w/ the different wood types' sawdust for just these cases.
It took many years before mobile carriers in the US supported IPv6. I don't think any carriers here in Ireland do.

My gigabit fiber provider only supports IPv4. Granted, they're just a VNO, using PPPoE on top of Eircom's network. Eir supports IPv6 if you subscribe to them directly, but their customer service is nonexistent and you'll be waiting over a year just for them to hook you up. For now I stay with the VNO because they have excellent customer service, except for not having an answer for me every time I ask them when they'll support v6.
I've never seen a story wrapped up in such a satisfying way before Ra. I don't know how, but it delivered every possible thing that I could have wanted. My brain is happy. It's been so long since I've felt that.
Does WB get the whole writeoff in one year, but only if they value the movie at zero and destroy it without ever releasing it? Otherwise I don’t see how doing this is better for them than recouping whatever they might.
It’s less about the ecology and more about who has the right to make modifications in a public park. Usually, whoever creates the park (whether it's a city, county, township, state, or the federal government) puts someone in charge of the maintenance of the park. Even if they’re doing a bad job it’s usually considered a bad idea for visitors, even locals as in this case, to take matters into their own hands. Certainly if every visitor started digging things up or cutting down trees then there wouldn’t be much left of the park.
He didn't invent it and doesn't claim he did but he did design each and every part that could not be bought off the shelf as well as the final assembly. I'd say 'design' is more than appropriate.
which makes interviewing all the more annoying because then your success applies to which interviewer you get
"Now let's assume our chicken is a sphere.."
Very cool project. I'm curious, was the bulk of that £2500 cost tied up in any one part of the build? I'm suspecting the CNC work.
I assume that terminals are authenticated, and stolen/diverted terminals can be disabled, so outside willful negligence or failure to report stolen/diverted terminals, it seems like it should be obvious who is accessing their modern communication network.
Tech companies axe 34,000 jobs since start of year in pivot to AI
https://archive.is/YXwKp
I use stremio with some torrent plugin. I've read about debrid , but don't really get it's advantage. Is it mainly to avoid being identified as torrenting by authorities? So if i live in a torrent friendly country it doesn't matter?
DBT in simplest terms is just a way to orchestrate transformations in dependency order. Table "A" needs to be updated before table "B," because "B" selects from "A." It works well for that.

I've seen it used to get wild west SQL logic into version control. To replace scheduled SQL workbooks running entire data pipelines.

I've also seen over-engineered integrations with other orchestration tools in the "stack."

Once a DBT project grows to a certain size, roughly 500-1000 .SQL files, it gets hard to manage. Not impossible, though it takes intentionality about how to group things together and scale them out operationally.

"Slim CI" is a recent buzzword that has some nice ideas about build automations.

Cosmos is supposed to solve a lot of the automation gripes with dbt. I haven't tried it yet but would like to.
https://www.astronomer.io/cosmos/
M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine (2022)
The issues with the California education system extend beyond reading.

Like medicine, the certification system being as long and expensive prices an entire group of candidates out of the market.

No k-12 teacher should need a masters, or a degree in education. An appropriate undergrad major should be sufficient.

Funnily, 1st year PhD (with no masters) students become defacto instructors for undergrads but K-12 needs degrees and certifications up the wazoo.

The wages for teaching (in CA) are only bad if you need a ton of qualifications to get there. When compared to other peer professions, it's hourly rate is alright. Except, those professions don't need advanced degrees.

That's where the other main issue comes up. Teachers' hours are a lie. They're expected to work long unpaid hours, especially in their first few years of setting up their coursework. Add the auxiliary role of being baby sitter, and it quickly burns them out.

I won't jump into issues around funding and over hiring for admins. That's a whole another can of worms.
It would relieve you of property tax for the house, which is my point.

It would also allow you to avoid taxes on the sale of the house.
All I can think of is the recruiters who cannot have the courtesy to tell the other 99% they are no longer under consideration.
how is that discrimination other than signaling you know the language, have a job permit and so on.
>leaving you no choice but to open the original url

This is auto-unsubscribe territory for me.
Asking which kind of politicians you vote for is pretty obviously about discriminating. But I'm not surprised that this is happening in health care because that space is highly politicized in the US and strong right wingers are likely to have moral objections to several medical procedures. Strong left wingers are likely to have moral objections to the American medical system's notoriously ruthless business practices. In other words, they probably want people who don't have particularly strong political views.

Sadly, political affiliation and political belief are not protected classes under US civil rights law so employers can legally discriminate on this basis. This is actually a big part of why the American political system is so dominated by corporate interests because many people are terrified of hurting their career prospects if they participate in the political process.
Edit: moved response to correct/intended comment
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336139
I'm also surprised and I'm trying to not make any assumptions here.
Replacing the NIC sounds expensive, on a college student budget. You could've just reprogrammed the MAC EEPROM, no?
In chess, games are never won until checkmate or resignation by the opponent. If it fails to get there, it just didn't win the games. It doesn't matter how winning the position was at any other point during the game. That's why it's tainted. The results are changed, and the games themselves are changed. Therefore the comparisons to humans and other engines is changed. And hence, what we learn about the approach presented is diminished and obsfuscated.

I think wrong is a strong word here. You can keep making a bigger model, that's one direction to go for sure. But adding search is certainly an interesting one at the very least. And it's definitely the way forward to see if this is an approach that can advance the strength of chess playing programs. I seriously doubt this would ever outperform a search based paradigm on its own. For one thing it gets no advantage from extra time(which is another reason the grandmaster strength claim is dubious btw; it would be outplayed in longer time controls). For another, search might be necessary to make this thing able to train without the help of Stockfish, by playing itself(iterated amplification and distillation, how AlphaZero was trained). For a third, due to the game complexity of chess, it's likely that model size without search would have to scale exponentially to become stronger.

And all this brings me back to my previous points about releasing weights and code. If they had done so, I would be trying all of these things out myself right now instead of arguing about it on the internet. But time and time again Deepmind have demonstrated that they won't engage with the wider computer chess community. And so their research, which is no doubt innovative and inspiring, fails to have the impact it could have, because the community has to redo all the work with less money and compute. We saw this with Alpha Zero; it took years and a lot of hard work by volunteers for Leela just to get where Alpha Zero was originally and eventually surpass it. And it will probably take a long time to see state of the art competitive engines based on this new approach in the wild. Because Deepmind don't really care about that beyond making a splash with their initial publication. They're only peripherally interested in chess, which is fine, but as a chess player and computer chess enthusiast it makes me sad that they won't engage with the community in an open way.
Of course. But OP specifically pointed out configuration and DI as hard to beat.
in a job interview, it's ML. in a product, it's AI.
Thanks for clarifying, for the record, I generally agree with you. I think we just disagree on the snippets and how in-depth they need to be. Our library is built on HF libraries (we don't implement the training code ourselves), which are popular and commonly utilized by researchers, and people know how to build good models on those libraries. The package is simply meant to provide an easier interface to create some of these complex multi-stage LLM workflows that are starting to become common at ML research conferences and reduce boilerplate code around common functions (caching or tokenizing).

But I hear you on it would be useful to also have some examples that show a proper, reliable model being trained with the library v.s. just example models. The project is pretty early, and we'll work on adding more examples.
Trace – Freddie Enrichment and IQ Debate: Why Trace Is Wrong
> Currently it's bad, like horrendously bad, 30x less efficient in some cases that I've tested.

Ouch. Back when I played with it efficiency wasn't even under discussion, as the basics had just gotten there (topic/service/action support), last I paid attention to this matter was during to some performance/inconsistencies of FastDDS (during Foxy, maybe?) from which the default was changed to Cyclone, but I must admit I'm a bit out of the loop.

> Yeah 2 years seems a long time, but it never turns out that way. It really pains me to see useful packages made obsolete and unusable again and again for no reason but moving to the next release which usually brings effectively nothing by itself.

Yup. Two years makes sense for cloud, but with hardware involved and a fleet deployed in varying conditions around the world, 2 years to migrate a major version of ROS and Ubuntu is maybe too short (not even considering packages that you depend on that might not be ported at all). I would love to see other distros with longer spans (Alma/RHEL/Debian) becoming 1st class citizens and ROS releases turning into incremental versions running on the same platform until they reach EOL, at "robotics pace" that would be fantastic.
thats if you are like CEO. if you got fired from google then of course you can apply for a job at bing
Pkl – A configuration as code language with rich validation and tooling
There are a lot of great newsletters nowadays about People Management and Engineering Leadership. I'm subscribed to a dozen of them in Substack. I left here mine as it's about Engineering Leadership and Management: https://rafapaez.substack.com/
Heh - confined for the summer gives a bit of an incentive, sorry about that.

All the same it's a high number, .. I'm guessing more than a few were light pulps and the best you could find given the library at hand?

I read a lot of books, several thousand, from 12 to 17, and kept a log of them - later I worked in (and led) a team that digested a few thousand technical documents a day (with a heavy dose of computer assistence to find|pick out key parts), there's a lot of material you can fly through quickly and not miss much, there are rare books that can take a year or a lifetime to fully digest and finish with.
They don’t make an iPad with an e-ink screen do they?

For me, that’s what I like about my Remarkable.
There'd be a bigger uproar about that. Other games have removed problematic tracks and the fans were rabid.
“Every single mid level and up corporate manager on the planet” immediately comes to mind.
Yes, the e-Ink screen. (Ie the primary reason for buying one)
You can do a similar thing with software. Just say you're going for minimalism/a demake/suckless homage/etc.
So you're saying that you can't demolish buildings on your own property (or at least not without rebuilding another of equal value), because that would lead to the city/county getting less taxes? That seems utterly absurd. What's next, not being able to paint the inside of your house puke yellow, which would also tank property values?
Perhaps we can debate whether this is really a Rails-specific problem per se, but we definitely had lots of problems scaling to prevent long-running IO from saturating web/job worker pools for things like taxes, shipping rates, syncing external inventory, ad syndication, etc -- anything where we had to make multiple network calls to the outside world from a Rails thread was a big pain.
How to Effectively Progress on the Management Track
That's not a robot...
https://archive.is/GImKK
Sorry, the ATF burned most of them to death.
There is a beta of Organic Maps for Linux. Check out bottom of this page: https://organicmaps.app/

I would still want to to know if I can selfhost something of similar, low complexity in my home network.