skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ship of Theseus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

(For today’s 10000 (https://xkcd.com/1053/))
> Yes what you're describing is theta - both an upper and lower bound (within constant factor).

No, I'm not.

A tight upper bound is only sometimes the same thing as theta.

Insertion in a vector or a hash table is best case 1, average case 1, worst case n. Quicksort is average case nlogn, worst case n^2. Bubble sort is best case n, average case n^2, worst case n^2.

None of those algorithms are bound above and below by the same function.

When Theta exists, it does imply that the upper bound is tight. Which is the feature that's actually important. But Theta talks even more about the lower bound, which rarely matters. Theta is not what you're actually looking for the vast majority of the time.

I still can't think of a single situation where I care about "lower bound within constant factor". I care about average time, I care about upper bounds, occasionally I want an algorithm where the time is always exactly the same for a particular n. But not asymptotic lower bound.

Preventing smartass answers for "upper bound" is a good goal, but the way you do that is not by switching to Theta.
Comedy relies on the freedom to be politically-incorrect if need be to deliver a punchline.

In today's politically-correct world, most comedy is a non-no. "You can't say that!" - so it isn't said at all.
I'd guess Sony's answer to this would be watch your DVD or Blu-ray, since the article is about Sony DVD and Blu-ray discs that came with a digital code that allowed you to also stream the content from Sony's service.
Technically, powershell has a built-in alias of "rm" to the remove-item command. And Windows will happily accept / as the path separator. So you could do "sudo rm /" and it would be a legit command.
In Nome, Where the Muskoxen Roam Controversially
Thank you for the great suggestions! Will add them to the list
>Most advice you find online is useless. "Mommy-bloggers" have SEO spammed the internet with waste. It's either some form of extreme child micromanagement, or rituals designed for people with saint-like patience or time on their hands. Get your advice from real people - pediatricians, parents, friends, etc.

I wonder if someone else can chime in here, but I've found that ChatGPT's answers should be on-par with these mom-fluencers.
Content Hashing and Building on What Won't Change
More like an easy-mode llama.cpp that does a cgo wrapping of the lib (now; before they built patched llama.cpp runners and did IPC and managed child processes) and it does a few clever things to auto figure out layer splits (if you have meager GPU VRAM). The easy mode is that it will auto-load whatever model you'd like per request. They also implement docker-like layers for their representation of a model allowing you to overlay parameters of configuration and tag it. So far, it has been trivial to mix and match different models (or even the same models just with different parameters) for different tasks within the same application.
Ivanti: Patch new Connect Secure auth bypass bug immediately
> where would I need to click to switch profiles?

Go to about:profiles. From there, you can create and switch between profiles. This is not as convenient as it perhaps should be, but I did find one add-on that claims to simplify the process [1].

[1] https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
honestly these sorts of sentiments (in the link) remind me of the "lisp gives you enlightenment, lisp is the language of gods" etc. that we've heard for decades. I love lisp, but come on, gods?
This is exactly why I've eventually ended up with almost no notifications on my phone. I am way too susceptible to being distracted mid-task, and the only way I've found to effectively combat that is by aggressively removing those distractions.

Now if only I could turn off the "you must investigate X" shouting my brain randomly throws at me WITHOUT external stimuli.
Don't stress about how others may feel about your child's inevitable public meltdowns. Every parent has had children who have a meltdown (tired? hungry? you said no?) in public, and we have all felt embarassed/etc. I guess I can't really speak for more than myself, but when I see a parent whose child is having a hard time, I can only feel compassion for the parent (I know how difficult it is in that moment) and for the child (they are usually also emotionally compromised).

I'm not going to think you're a bad parent, or that your child is bad, because they are wailing about some toy, or starfishing on the floor of Target. We've all been there. We've all had to escort the noisy ones out of quiet places (church, movie, restaurant, etc). As someone else said, welcome to the brotherhood. :)
Otherwise not getting advice at all goes way beyond healthcare being too expensive, it could be that you don't get an appointment and it could just be that you don't have the time or energy.
Shrink Wrap Plastic History
Only 50 years late. Still, better late than never, I suppose.
Putin just gave a two hour interview where he explains the efforts they made and why they view this as a US coup.

There’s nothing about this which is colonial/imperial: Ukraine was already separate for decades, peacefully, until outside nations supported violent overthrow of a democratically elected government which followed its rise to power with oppression of an ethnic group.

If we’re discussing what politicians say, then I see:

- Russia is making points about how the regions they annexed were oppressed after they made efforts to reach peace settlements

- US is frothing at the mouth about harming Russia

- Ukraine is saying crazy things, like laying claims to part of Russia.
If anime is to be believed, just about anything from vampires to dragons to inanimate objects can be represented by cute girls.
haha love these ideas
Yep. My play is to buy the physical media to support the artists and then rely on my digital backups for true ‘forever’ access. NAS FTW

‘Power to the people Coz’ - Martin Bishop
The generations before mine paid taxes so that I could attend a superb public University for very little money. But, about the time I entered that University, tax cut fever took root. A few years later, the costs started to climb through the roof and the incentives changed. My generation didn't fight hard enough or if we did, we lost the battle. Public anything is now poison in the US and I don't think it will improve in my lifetime. It will probably get even worse.
Lol, and this is money I never spent.

And instead it went to server and loads of disks, for a Jellyfin server.

And you know what? I 'pierat' and I keep all my files. When the money grubbers can get that through their thick skull, I'll start buying.

But until that time, this scam 'purchase' is a shitty rental.
I used to mow the grass at an active radio station. I occasionally had to DR a path to each tower so they could do maintenance. They don't regularly mow the fields where the towers are, though Toro did occasionally come out and mow the whole thing as a test site for new mowers, which was neat.
Maybe until UAC is improved you can ship with a launcher process that is signed by publisher "Unknown"?
Baker is just cashing in. Unlike CEOs who've been on Big Money from the start (or shortly after the start), she has toiled in relative obscurity for a very long time, arguably being severely underpaid for the responsibilities she took on.

At some point she stopped believing in the long-term prospect of Mozilla, or in its mission, and decided she would get hers before it was too late.

In a way, I humanly sympathise.
LLRT does not use a JIT. Does that mean it’s just old style slow code from an interpreter?

I can certainly see how that would substantially reduce cpu and memory cost but the code would execute 50-250x slower.
What do you mean? If it's the TPM requirement, Rufus can whip up a Win11 installer that bypasses that in like a minute.
I mean, it's often a reaction to the cold air on previously insulated parts. :D When we were doing diapers, we found it helpful to have the replacement prepped as a shield ;)
I assume the original language of the codebase
without having read that, I would agree, more competitors is better. It just seems like mozilla decided to not really fight to develop product, thus reducing the competitors in the arena
Time to make SHAKEN/STIR a requirement to participate in the phone network.
The only reason it existed for the last year was they didn't want to negotiate to move licenses to Crunchyroll, so I suspect the remaining Funimation-but-not-Crunchyroll content is going to just have its licenses left expire rather than move over if they haven't moved it already.

_However_, they're also not bothering to migrate purchased digital copies over, so people are losing access to things they've paid to "own".

> What is going to happen to my digital copies?

> We understand that you may have concerns about your digital copies from Funimation. These Digital copies available on Funimation were a digital access to the content available on the DVDs or Blu-rays purchased.

> Please note that Crunchyroll does not currently support Funimation Digital copies, which means that access to previously available digital copies will not be supported. However, we are continuously working to enhance our content offerings and provide you with an exceptional anime streaming experience. We appreciate your understanding and encourage you to explore the extensive anime library available on Crunchyroll.

Remember that when e.g. Ubisoft wants you to be comfortable not owning things...
Gemini is not distinct and memorable. It feels like a muddled compromise.

I'd name it GooGaa or Googa. Like "Google" and "goo-goo-gaa-gaa" (baby's first babbling). It's flowing, friendly & familiar.
What took you away from Louisville (laravel as my tts heard it)?
Welcome to the Web in 2024...
I feel like I've gone a full 180 from my feelings on the company after reading this.

Having their personal beliefs belittled by a CEO after their death is frankly disgusting. I will be switching off of Firefox, I wish I had seen this earlier.
Looking at that page, it looks like syncthing chooses to not provide a Windows service. That is where 100% of the complexity is coming from. If they did provide a Windows service, then it would be as simple as opening the service manager, and setting the startup type from "manual" to "automatic".

It's not fair to blame Windows for the developers of an app not using its features. Similarly, if syncthing didn't bother to create a unit file on Linux, your example would no longer be a simple one liner. That wouldn't be systemd's fault though.
Exactly. It's like how younger people read Snow Crash and think it was prophetic, but that's because they don't know that multiplayer RPGs called MUDs existed when he wrote it in 1992.
Russia annexed those regions when it became the best way to protect the people there, after the collapse of negotiations.

> I will fault Ukraine for many things, but being unwilling to negotiate with someone who will not moderate their goals in line with their ability to achieve them is not one of them.

This is something Ukraine should consider, after the massive failure of their Sprint/Summer Offensive of 2023.

Ukraine needs to moderate their aims in light of their military failures — before the fanaticism leads to their destruction.
> and replacing them with just straight up floating point calculation
Not only that, the diff replaces 100-150 lines of code with 3. That's the kind of pull request I can only dream of making
That's still too pejorative, since there's no deprivation of possession/usage at all, not even temporarily.

Ex: When someone starts playing a pirated copy at home, it doesn't cause their neighbors' copy of the same movie to become unusable for the duration.
Gemini is free but not as good. You get gemini pro for it though, for free.

To get the good staff you need gemini ultra. And to get that you need to pay for gemini advanced.

Yeah, not confusing at all.

Selling gemini ultra to get gemini ultra is too simple for google.
All of my most rewarding/impactful work was for little or no pay, yeah. It feels like an unavoidable thing at this point and definitely makes working in software a little depressing.
They have the most prestigious researchers and engineers that can jump through interview hoops. That doesnt translate to world changing products, and they arent "the best"
Gemini? First Go and now Gemini really? Can't wait for Google iOS and Google Windows.
The "it" means access to the content ;)

/s
This comment reminds me of the GIF of Michael Scott screaming 'NO GOD PLEASE NO'[1].

It also tells me that anyone who makes this comment has limited exposure to comparative kernel development. I've always said it, I'll say it now, and I'll say it in the future: the NT kernel is by far the best part of Windows, and it is in many ways superior to the Linux kernel. Furthermore, Windows ships with an absolute metric ton of very nice userspace technologies that either a) don't exist on Linux, or b) are rubbish to use on Linux.

I don't understand why people want everything to converge on the Linux kernel and its userspace. I like open-source as much as everyone else, but 'let's make ALL the things GNU/Linux!' just leads to lack of competition and therefore stagnation and no innovation.

I have a better wish: Microsoft should open-source core Windows technologies, and eventually, the NT kernel itself. Then, it could maintain its official Microsoft® Windows™ distribution with support contracts, while allowing developers to compile and modify WindowsOpen. Something like what it currently does with VS Code.

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-god-please-no
Touchdown: Enabling Safe Landings in Las Vegas for Super Bowl Lviii
Mom here with some technological advice: put down your phone. Screens are terrible babysitters, they teach the absolute worst lesson. And I'm not talking about the content on the screen, I'm talking about the dopamine that the screen triggers. Put down your phone, don't use screens as a babysitter. You will regret every hour your child spends in front of a screen, but latency is on the order of years. Be the adult you want your kid to grow into.

That said, you're gonna make mistakes. That's one of the harder lessons in patenting, I think. There's no takebacks. Nobody's gonna swoop in to save you. There's only tomorrow. Children will forgive you if you make a mistake, apologize, learn, and avoid the mistake in the future.
If I understand correctly, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Mexico City, Tehran and St Louis have a majority streets running slightly askew from due North - South or due East - West. Any ideas why that may be the case?
i'll corroborate GP. it's happened when i tried enrolling in WA's Apple Health and then 3 days in a row got a call from the same number who left no message; finally i made sure to be near my phone the fourth day and got to it before the voicemail.

related, i found out within the last month via mail, after-the-fact, that Progressive had canceled my car insurance due to a billing change, and so i couldn't legally drive that week. you'd think an insurance billing department of all places would leave a message if they can't get hold of you immediately, but nope. not their policy. i guess the spammers have ruined things so much that if Progressive did leave a message most people (myself included) would mistake it for a phishing attempt anyway.
Some of these answers are stressing me out...
winget has Python 3.12.2 at the moment, which has been released two days ago.

And you don't have to use --id - you can do `winget install 7zip` etc in cases where there's no ambiguity.
You’re correct. One suggestion is explicitly request email or text instead of calling. (Or WhatsApp in many countries.) Since some people are hearing-impaired, it’s not even an unusual request even before this spam program arose.

It won’t always work, e.g. the request won’t reach the delivery driver who’s a contractor of the subcontractor of the logistics company you mention this to. However, I’ve found it works with businesses that are small enough to care about customer satisfaction.
It's certainly true that it depends on the subfield and somewhat on your level of experience in that field. But the approach I outlined works pretty well, generally, and only serves to underscore how bad many papers are.

For example, I'm not going to be able to pick up a paper from CERN and do most of the steps I outlined, but if I did do that, and found an obvious statistical anomaly in the first table, well...now I'd have something interesting to ask about and dig into.
It can summarize links and provide links for products

I asked it to summarize a link for a product and give me comparable products, with reviews and links and build a table for the results
If Firefox is destined for a market share of 2%, may as well get there quickly. A few years of decline vs a few months makes little difference in the long term.

To be honest, market share shouldn't ever have been Baker's goal and losing it isn't necessarily a black mark against her. Firefox should have a vision of what it wants a browser and the internet to look like and be working to make software that supports that. Firefox seems to just be following along as Chrome with some minor tweaks [0] and that is the real problem. Google's vision of the internet is not what Firefox should be working to implement. There are deep strategic issues here that go far beyond market share. I'm personally happy to use niche software, I don't care what other people are using (Linux reached my desktop a long time ago). But it is hard to see what even Mozilla thinks the point of Firefox is.

One of the things that makes Brave interesting to me is that it sees a web where middle men get cut out through the use of cryptocurrency. Is that going to work? Probably not. But it is a different take on what the internet could be. We need competitors like that. Even for privacy; it is hard to tell who Mozilla thinks the internet should look like. I'd hazard little change from now except without 3rd party cookies. That isn't a very impressive vision.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/chrom...
When I was at Microsoft we did not use to consider UAC as a security boundary, since there were ways to bypass it. (I used to work on windows kernel security). I wonder how security team let this feature get shipped. Or perhaps now they consider UAC as a security boundary.
It’s weird branding. Your local music and iTunes purchases live in the Music app. Apple Music the service also lives in the Music app.

(Music purchased on iTunes can be downloaded directly to the device without syncing, but you need to manually sync with your computer to transfer over music that you acquired elsewhere. Either that or you subscribe to the iTunes Match service assuming that sticks around)

Basically, in the PC version of these apps the main difference compared to Mac seems to be that Apple didn’t split Podcasts and Audibooks into separate apps. They’re just mushed into an app that’s weirdly called iTunes. I feel like they should have clumsily but less confusingly called it “Apple Podcasts and Audiobooks”
This is brilliant. Please someone make this!
Seconding this. Every time I see a young child in a stroller staring at a screen, I have to fight to stop myself from grinding my teeth into a fine powder.
Ollama folks just announced api compat with openai's stuff

https://ollama.ai/blog/openai-compatibility

So apparently, yeah.
Plenty of ways to monetize that. They could use inline ads. They could insert a relevant ad after a response. If they go evil, they could predispose the LLM to make product suggestions for paying clients.
> The eruption killed them

There wasn't any eruption at the time. There was ongoing seismic shifting and land uplift, that's why the fissures were forming.

It happened to erupt shortly afterwards, but the way these things go that's just happenstance. The geology service did not suspect an imminent eruption at the time of the evacuation.

In retrospect it was good that the town was evacuated at the time, and probably the previous evacuation shouldn't have been lifted. I'm just noting the chronology and what was stated and known at the time.

> I'm not going to engage with them with a person dead.

Well, you'd feel right at home in Iceland, but personally I wish it had more of the US's attitude of mandatory and critical root cause investigations when workplace deaths occur.

> Why should we believe that and not the government?

I think the facts speak for themselves. Up-thread I linked to an article by a local professor of volcanology basically agreeing with what I'm saying here. It's in Icelandic, but Google Translate does a decent job of it if you're interested.
Brb going to pirate a rental car
Piracy has, once again, become a better product than the one being sold. Ignoring the economics of paid vs free (or "stolen"), the experience with pirated media is flat out better than anything being offered by any of the companies selling products.

Do you know what piracy doesn't give you? It lacks the torrential downpour of ads and other garbage that are relentlessly jammed in your face. I recently bought a new (cheap) TV that runs Google TV. On day 1 the interface is laggy and bogged down with piles of shit upon shit that I don't want. For example, I don't need a rotating billboard of ads on my homescreen when the hardware is barely powerful enough to keep things running. I'm sure it's going to be unusable in a couple years.

I'm going to hack it and if I lose access to legitimate content, so be it.

In Canada, we have SportsNet for NHL broadcasts. It's terrible. Pirate streams are better (video) quality. If it comes to it, I'll pay more than SportsNet costs if I can get and ESPN stream out of the US. Think about that for a second. I'm willing to pay more than what they're charging, but the current product is so bad I refuse to give them a dollar.
How to say "you don't like journalism" without actually saying it. Have you even watched the interview? Compare it to the latest CNN interview with Zelensky.
> You 3+n where n=dogs in family.

No dogs here, cats - but I'm definitely glad that I'm no longer responsible for 80% of the fecal output of the household.
Word for OpenBSD
To be fair, that's the last thing Gerv would have wanted, particularly now that she is no longer CEO.
I've got in-depth experience with many Rails apps and quite a few Phoenix apps (and many other stacks). I used to agree with your opinion, though I think Rails no longer holds a massive edge. Phoenix is now just as effective at releasing real-world products especially run-of-the-mill web apps. And when things get complex after a bit of time (usually due to business logic evolving) - much more effective.

The place where I feel Rails still holds an edge is the massive amount of gems available, but hex is absolutely catching up and I'm only running into missing packages/libraries when I'm doing "weirder" things these days. The ecosystem continues to evolve for the better. On the other hand Phoenix destroys Rails in any realtime scenario. Maybe those edge cases matter to your particular project then again maybe not.
I found a promising answer in a comment from "Nathan":

> Most of Melbourne’s grid was laid out according to magnetic north, not true north, hence the ~8 degree rotation.
Not even sure what you're referring to. Do you think the tone from pressing buttons on your landline is still analog signaling? It is not.
Would be nice if rather than adhering to a specific very-closed source company first things were developed for standards, or at least used something like litellm.
Surely all the customers losing access to their libraries have to do to regain access to the content they paid for is either watch or rip the physical media that the streaming code was issued with that they still completely have and didn't sell, lose, or give away, right?