skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, though, a majority of Democratic Senators voted for the invasion, including Genocide Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and Chuck Schumer.

Aside from Lieberman, who had already been a VP nominee, all of these Senators were rewarded by the Democratic party after the debacle. They failed upward.
That should be quite easy compared to software development, which is much more open-ended since the requirement are usually more nebulous, potentially contradictory, and at times simply wrong.
I didn't read it very carefully but I guess this can be translated as,

"If the particle is over here (it probably is), it isn't moving, but if it's over there (very unlikely) it's moving very fast."

Therefore most of the momentum expectation is coming from where the particle probably isn't.
thanks, you got the story right! It does sound crazy, but that also seems to be the point: scam victims are shamed and it's worth level setting on how "it can happen to anyone" because there's very sophisticated psychological warfare going on here.
KYC before you’re allowed to use c++. This will facilitate making a list of all c++ users >:)
> Britain's data watchdog says the force "incorrectly linked and merged the records" of the individuals that share the same name and date of birth on multiple occasions during 2020, 2021 and 2022.

I wonder if a country could successfully require name/birthdate to be unique?

It looks like the UK averages around 1800 births/day. The most common last name, "Smith", belongs to about 1 in 88 people there. That would mean about 20 Smiths born per day.

That's small enough that they could all be given different first names without anyone having to pick some weird name.

There could still be collisions due to immigration though.
They buried the techniques in a few places.

Laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) https://appliedspectra.com/technology/libs.html

Laser ablation molecular istopic spectroscopy (LAMIS) https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ja/c5ja0...

Linked in the article is another article that elaborates

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/new-crp-implementation-...

*Enhancing Nuclear Analytical Techniques to Meet the Needs of Forensic Science’ (F11021)*

https://www.iaea.org/projects/crp/d52040

>This project will consider applications based on hand-held and portable devices including (but not limited to) ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), near infra-red (NIR) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers and some bench-top laboratory instruments that have become ‘field’ transportable including laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS), laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry (LAMIS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, mass spectrometry (MS) and multi-spectral imaging (MSI). This CRP is conducted jointly with the Nuclear Sciences Instrumentation Laboratory under CRP G42007.

*‘Field Deployable Analytical Methods to Assess the Authenticity, Safety and Quality of Food (D52040/G42007)*

https://www.iaea.org/projects/crp/f11021

>ion and neutron beam techniques for elemental and molecular analysis is well established and such services are available through a great number of laboratories in the IAEA Member States operating ion beam accelerator or research reactor centers

Isotope spectroscopy I knew of:

For carbon/water isotope determination with spectroscopy you can use cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) for gas state stable isotopes (water, CO, CO2, CH4). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity_ring-down_spectroscopy https://www.picarro.com/environmental/support/literature/mea...

Picaro instrument is ok at precision, cleaning is not fun, and matrix effects suck. Laser lifetime leaves much to be desired.
MDM profiles are installed remotely and cannot be removed simply by doing a factory reset.
I don't know what the mathematical underpinnings of those mortgage-backed derivatives were, but I know someone somewhere looked at all that math and decided the risk burden was acceptable. No one said hey, wait, the model is only as good as the assumptions you feed into it. The movie The Big Short got at this, but it was just a movie with Steve Carell standing in for that shocked person who doesn't seem to have really existed until after the assumptions failed and the collapse was inevitable.

My point is you can't plead 20-20 hindsight.
> multiple books at the same time to get the knowledge we don't gravely need in the first place

Then don't read either one. I just saved you a ton of time, you're welcome.
Exactly, but if you compare to the market, even though 5.7% absolute returns is a poor 15 month performance, much of the model's relative outperformance came from those 15 months where at the same point, the SPX was still highly negative
Maybe thats exactly why they thought we would solve it in the future.

Space was more of an unknown unkown.
> Wasn't the main breakthrough its utility and accessibility, not precision?

Utility yes, accessibility no. It quantified the previously artistic. You may enjoy Peter Bernstein’s Against the Gods.

> pit traders were fine pricing different strikes at different vols

Former algorithmic options trader. We ate the former pit traders for breakfast. Modelling the volatility surface is an entire field, and to the extent problems in finance can be solved this is sort of one of them.
So many previous discussion. Here is the one with the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948008
Snow is a near perfect black body radiator
Saved You A Click: Butterflies are often drawn by illustrators like dead specimens, with their wings pinned far above their head, when living butterflies do not hold their forewings very far forward of their head.
Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor
The Golden Age of Software
I'm an Engineer who's been really blown away by ChatGPT and the latest LLM technology. I wrote this as I was thinking about the future of software engineering.
Projected oil demand is currently measured in trillions of tonnes per century. Deuterium is only seven or eight orders of magnitude more energy-dense than oil. If our power use continues to grow exponentially, we won't get close to the five billion year mark before running out: ten thousand years would be pushing it.
One can do this mentally easily enough. 52! = 525150....321, and there are 26 even numbers in this progression, so we have 26 powers of 2. Taking them out, there are 13 of those even factors divisible by 4, but we already took out the first 2 from each so we have 13 more 2's, giving 26 + 13 = 39. Now on to factors divisible by 8, they are half of those that are divisible by 4, so half of 13, giving 6 more 2's (52 is not divisible by 8 so we round down). Thus so far we have 39 + 6 = 45 two's in the factorization of 52!. On to numbers less than 52 that are divisible by 16, that's half those divisible by 8, so 3 more, getting us to 48. Finally there is there is the factor 32 = 2^5 of 52! giving us one more 2, hence 49. i.e. for p a prime, the largest k such that p^k divides n! is given by k = Floor(n/p) + Floor(n/p^2) + ... + Floor(n/p^t) where p^(t+1)>n
Observable integrates really well with ClickHouse using its REST API, like in this example: https://observablehq.com/@stas-sl/github-issues-survival-ana...

But I didn't try the new Observable Framework - interesting to see similar examples where it queries a database live. I hope that preloading and caching all the data is not the only option because these types of apps should be interactive. Ideally, it should expose SQL for live editing.
> We're not this dumb...

Counterexample: the last pandemic
Thanks, again, for the discussion. I really appreciate it.

I'd argue that we have the same perspective on things - Flickr is a way to share, not archive. (Archival may be a wonderful side benefit, but community and connection are what makes Flickr magical, archive is a bonus) Yahoo had a different perspective. We're attempting to reverse it.

And we're succeeding. Across every metric you can imagine, Flickr is the healthiest it's ever been. More active users, more engagement, more connections, more revenue, more of everything - except people treating it like a "photo dump".

Most importantly, our members are ecstatic about it, it's now profitable and cash flow positive, so not in imminent danger (and we're trying to build it, sustainably, for 100+ years[1]). IMHO, it's not nearly enough, yet, but the trajectory is awesome. It's working. And it's working without invading people's privacy, unlike nearly every other social media platform.

We haven't "not done anything". Your account, for reasons I don't know, though someone here at Flickr likely does, hasn't seen anything. There's a big difference. Other accounts have. Every account will, eventually, including yours. Sorry you got an extra runway. ;) We're trying to be VERY careful about deleting photos.

I'm glad you had (and have?) backups. We know definitely, though, that MOST of our members did not. You were an outlier, but our outreach to people without backups was very appreciated. They had a very clear choice, we didn't hold their photos hostage, and that mattered to them.

It was definitely not intended to extort anyone - the options were very clear: download your photos and/or pay for the storage. (I think "and" is the right choice, but I'm biased... I also don't keep my photo archive _only_ on SmugMug and/or Flickr). The vast majority downloaded, rather than paid, and we view that as a win.

We gave people years to learn, choose, and act. I'd say that's pretty generous, and more generous than nearly any other troubled Internet service I've ever heard of. Are you aware of one that's been more generous? If you DIDN'T have backups, would you still have found our emails hostile?

I would appreciate answers to my prior questions, which you didn't address. Were we more hostile than simply turning everything off? It was a binary option. We chose to give people years of choice instead of deleting their photography.

[1] https://www.flickr.org
Can you elaborate further on what you have in mind here?
The photo of the functional AC model is very well made. Flatly laid out, all components and pipes visible and labeled, numbered shut off values all over, gauges on everything. A multimeter sitting on the workbench.

Give me a few hours with that board playing around and Id develop quite an intuition for how the thing works with no prior experience.
I was just coming here to say the same thing about. It has been pretty good for document generation when combined with AWS Lambdas + headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf (if you don't need modern CSS functionality).
Well LLMs do even trillions of "reviews" and are still not much wiser than before. Clearly, pieces are missing. I find it interesting that people assume that number_of_samples correlates with intelligent_behaviour, for some reason.

Your example would maybe work if an intelligent agent had access to many compilers and reverse-engineered code bases. And if the algorithms were 1000x better than today. Otherwise it can guess until the cold death of the Universe without making progress.
"faced with 100% white people for 'a smart person', my move would be damn the torpedos, ship it!"

Rolling with that, then complaining about politics in grandiose ways, shows myopia coupled to tone-deafness.

Pretty simple situation, they shouldn't have rushed a mitigation against line-levels engineering advice after that. I assume you're an engineer and have heard that one before. Rest is boring Wokes trying to couple their politics hobby to it.
> I notice daily fluctuation in my relative aptitudes for visually vs aurally ingesting media.

Yes, same! I think ability to concentrate on written print & ability to concentrate on read-out-loud texts are pretty unrelated but both very trainable skills and you slowly lose acuity in each as you don't use the skills. If I'm reading an ebook for the first time in a while, my attention span is abysmal, and same with audiobooks.

When I first started listening to audiobooks the only way I could pay attention was if I was also doing something visual at the same time (jigsaw puzzles usually) and my mind wandered constantly. I thought audiobooks just weren't for me, but after months of listening now I can stare into space for several hours straight, completely immersed in the book.
That makes much more sense. Now I see that it's a plate of pills, with a woman's hair behind it. I thought it was a cupcake.
Are there any good self-hosted alternative to this?
I am not an engineer but i don't think car repair techniques would work on traditional materials used in this niche to the strength required for anything that needs to use titanium alloy. We don't currently make cards out of titanium, we probably aren't going to start making them out of fancy titanium. Car repair shops work because cars don't actually need to be that strong.
I’ve designed and printed many conference abstract books with PagedJS! Love that thing
Set by who?

By definition the current electorate is fine with what they have assumed so far.
What more can you say about or link to of the wirewrap robot? I remember seeing it in the lab, but never saw it in action, and I haven't been able to dig up anything more about it. I'd love to see a video of it doing its thing!

Maybe its corpse appears in this video from 1993, which might be years too late, but it does show off some of its beautiful work.

David Siegel: MIT AI Lab:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp9NHNKTV-M

>An old video of the 9th floor of 545 Tech Square (MIT building number NE43), filmed around 1993.

Check out the Puma graveyard, and all the little swarming space robots!

I wonder what ever happened to Minsky's tentacle:

AI History: Minsky Tentacle Arm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuXQPdd0hjI

>This film from 1968 shows Marvin Minsky's tentacle arm, developed at the MIT AI Lab (one of CSAIL's forerunner labs). The arm had twelve joints and could be controlled by a PDP-6 computer or via a joystick. This video demonstrates that the arm was strong enough to lift a person, yet gentle enough to embrace a child.

The stuff at the end reminds me of Golan Levin's adorable googly-eyed worm robot (which was a menacing BB IRB-2400/16 underneath):

Interactive Worm Robot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjUwH9tOdus

>"Double-Taker (Snout)" (interactive robotic installation, 2008) deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant's trunk, which responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity. Sited on a low roof above a museum entrance, and governed by a real-time machine vision algorithm, Double-Taker (Snout) orients itself towards passers-by, tracking their bodies and suggesting an intelligent awareness of their activities. The goal of this kinetic system is to perform convincing "double-takes" at its visitors, in which the sculpture appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers — communicating, without words, that there is something uniquely surprising about each of us. More information at http://www.flong.com/projects/snout/.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080803011529/https://www.flong...

https://library.e.abb.com/public/76ee88849028406b94407ad406d...
Guns in bulk are smuggled south, guns come north with criminals. You can see this in the seizure stats.

In the context of banning guns, any movement north is too much.
Before that union leaders were killed by US police
If you have many readers and a single writer there's no point in the readers blocking each other.
you can "force" integer arithmetic with bit or (example your_float|0), this helps the JavaScript runtime to optimise calls and use (faster) int arithmetic. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23436159/how-bitwise-ope...)

always remember the fastest code is the code that is not executed at runtime.
This video by breaking taps is a good one for anyone interested in the process or the challenges of producing these sorts of metal lattices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpO5DgiCgyM
> Imagine infosec people making every CVE a big deal, you’d end up with a needlessly limited system - that ironically doesn’t satisfy anyone, because the infosec people will always have a new urgent CVE tomorrow.

That already exists, it's called SIPRNet, and it satisfies several millions people in their day to day job.
> Statements such as "Stating the simple fact [...]" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

That statement is just a fact. Normal people are not being offended by calls to regulate Apple, most of them don't even realize until they update their iPhone to Apple's conformant implementation and scare-ware modals.

You know what people want? They want all their messaging apps to go away so their carriers can finally figure out what "SMS" actually means. They want mobile sites to stop saying "This resource is not compatible with Safari", and they want developers to offer them better experiences at lower prices. Apple has the largest margins of any hardware manufacturer in their league, and software margins just as large as the industry leaders. It's not just that Apple has money; it's that they have no excuse to neglect the development of their platform. They are replete with capital, and spend those financial resources blocking out their competitors.
If you grow crops, your crops can freeze when it's a clear sky at night with stagnant air even though the air temperature only goes close to freezing.

In some agri areas, you'll see "wind machines" to blow the warmer air around the crops to keep them from radiating their heat and frosting.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/wind-machines-minimizing-cold-in...
Did they need some kind of visa to do that? or were they already EU citizens?
That MSDN documentation is unfortunately silent on this, but the example in the documentation (at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/c...) only makes sense if the operating system guarantees the ordering.

The C++ standard (at least a draft of it I found on a quick web search) is more explicit: it says (https://eel.is/c++draft/thread.thread.constr) "The completion of the invocation of the constructor synchronizes with the beginning of the invocation of the copy of f." (see https://eel.is/c++draft/intro.races for more detail on that "synchronizes with"). Since the code in question is using std::thread, even if the operating system did not have the relevant guarantees, the C++ standard library would have the required memory barriers.
.. and the Mac Mini M1/M2/M2 Pro.

If you're going to run your stuff on them on aarch64 Linux in docker anyway you wont notice any difference (except speed and price) between Mac and Ampere running Linux.
I would say that Microsoft/OpenAI’s attacks on open source, whether it be through “AGI safety” BS as a front for regulating their way to a monopoly, or attempting Embrace, Exentend, Extinguish on companies like Mistral, and Cold War-style fear mongering about China, are the greatest near-term risks to linear progress. And it’s worth noting on that latter point that China is not similarly constrained and so could end up outcompeting the U.S., regardless
It depends how much you care about tidiness/perfection. Unless you use a metal paste, the worst that can happen with too large amount is that it will leak outside. And you can wipe that - that's it. So feel free to use too much and just clean up afterwards. That's better than using too little.
The Amiga was dead the second they put all of those whiz-bang chips in them that allowed them to do things that the PC and Mac couldn't do.

One company cannot out-innovate thousands for long-- so everything the Amiga could do in 1985, the PC could do better by 1987 with ISA cards from thousands of different manufacturers.

HAM in 1985 was great. VGA in 1987 was better.

2x 8-bit stereo channels in 1985 was great. SoundBlaster CMS in 1987 wasn't better, but it didn't take long before 16-bit audio hit the PC.

Video overlay with the A2000 was great, and carved out a niche in AV production for decades. But again, VGA was better, ubiquitous GUI accelerators like the Mach32 made windows fly so fast the Amiga could only dream, and frankensteining accelerators into a closed "complete" system was not the answer people were looking for.

Hell I had, and still have, my A2000 and remember the torturous pain of upgrading the video in it, with some apps that would only display on the built-in video because the add-in cards couldn't support the native graphics some apps that would work on both until you dropped in the accelerator file thingy and then they would only work on the add-in card, motherboard ram/chip ram/fast ram/expansion card ram/CPU accelerator RAM all of which could lead to incompatibilities or performance gotchas.

Generally speaking, you stuck in a VGA card and CGA and EGA worked. When a faster card came out you stuck it in and loaded a TSR or drivers and things worked faster. Installed Windows? Get a card with Windows acceleration. 1280x1024@24-bits in 1992 while the Amiga was outputting TV resolutions.

I installed a Picasso video card and performance worsened because I had paid for the then-astronomical 8MB "fast" RAM upgrade and whoops! video cards only worked with up to 6MB of fast ram and any configurations with more had to use segmented RAM which tanked performance. Some programs would only work with the Picasso drivers, some with the cybergraphics drivers, and others still with only EGS drivers.

At almost the exact time this article came out I moved to PC, got to play Doom, and the rest was history.
Unionization in the Tech Sector
that is an interesting point; i didn't know that (about design in grayscale).

the issue with "apps are designed with e-ink UX in mind" -- how many stock apps do you actually use? where the manufacturer has control over how it's implemented?

Usually the apps that are used frequently are apps that are designed for big colourful phones. That's why i want to experiment with a "deglossed" or slightly desaturated version.
In that case, it might be easier to start over with fixed specs. That might not be as much work as it sounds like since most of the existing code would have been produced by the LLM, and only the human feedback and interventions would have to be redone. It would be almost like backtracking to an earlier point in a chat history and changing path there. TA talks about that another LLM could provide insight about where to change what.

It might also be possible to change an existing history without abandoning all which has happened afterwards. Of course, this could lead to conflicts, sort of like when rebasing a branch, and it would be useful to have another LLM look for it.

GPT Copilot might or might not be able to start from existing code as well and one would approach it as one would a legacy codebase that has to be adapted to new requirements.
I just learned about this in the Mining Massive Datasets course at Stanford.

The gist is that you can formulate the PageRank problem as a flow equation r = Mr, where r is a vector of PageRanks and M is a stochastic adjacency matrix, which can be interpreted as the probability of visiting one page from another.

This matrix is huge and hence this is tough to solve.

But since M is a stochastic matrix, it has the property that its largest eigenvalue is exactly 1, and all other eigenvalues are < 1. And the equation r = Mr can be interpreted as r being the eigenvector of M with eigenvalue 1, as this equation implies multiplying by M is equivalent to multiplying by 1.

Repeatedly multiplying by M hence shrinks every eigenvector except the eigenvector with eigenvalue 1. So you start with some initialization of r, and repeatedly multiply by M until it converges. The resulting value of r solves r = Mr since all other eigenvectors shrank towards zero.

This is a much more efficient way to compute r, and hence makes PageRank computationally feasible.