skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oracle certainly has. Several GBUs realized they were working towards the same goal of a microservices base layer for future service hosting (for handling auth, logging, databases, etc.) and combined their efforts, and I happened to work on one of the resulting teams.

I'm not sure how public they've been about all this, but you certainly can teach an old dog new tricks, provided there is management buy-in (which we certainly had - at one point, our teams were moved between GBUs to save us from budget cuts).
no actually, it's because with a family to support, i can't afford to start over training for a new job and living on a junior level salary.
fwiw I agree with you that the evaluation criteria here are not ones that I particularly care about - I'm generally pretty happy with AI-first and then expanding to search engines if I can't get what I want there. My main intent was to note that Kagi users are just genuinely that enthusiastic, since GP at least lightly implied there might be some astroturfing going on.
I worked at a phone company circa 2010 that basically had an office of Oracle compliance. They had lots of ongoing disputed. I sat in a cubicle across from the guy who worked to get projects off Weblogic Server after Oracle acquired BEA. The doctrine was that WLS cost more and used 4X the CPU and memory that alternatives did, in addition to avoiding Oracle audits.
Apple has been dragged kicking and screaming into more consumer friendly positions since the iPhone was released. It took years for them to simply switch to a more open charging port standard.
> Unless it's buying index funds.

I mean literal index funds.
I think you’re getting confused? Or we’re talking past each other?

Knowing the outcome of a die roll after the roll doesn’t make the roll of the die non-random.

Any more than the die coming up 6 a bunch of times in a row does. Though maybe it would be a good idea to check the weight/balance of it, hah.

Knowing what the last card has to be after all the other cards have been played doesn’t make the process which made that card the last card any less random either.

Picking cards off a deck isn’t a randomization/non-randomization event, shuffling the deck is what does that.

Probability however, which directly impacts gameplay in some kinds of games, is directly impacted by knowledge exposed during gameplay.

So for instance, the second to last card (and also the last card) can be known with about 50/50 odds (probability wise) if someone is good at counting, which is damn good! Way better than 1/2704 odds of guessing a sequence of two cards at the start of the deck.

In the example of the broken hardware random number generator, knowledge of the defect can be used to attack a system if it assumes a continuous probability distribution out it’s outputs, if the attacker knows this.

The same as an attacker at a casino could probably manipulate a game to make money if they knew something was broken in the deck shuffling and the same two cards were always at some position in a ‘new’ deck.
I didn’t flag this one, but a lot of the debates wind up with pro-Apple/anti-Apple generalities. Which isn’t interesting. Even in this thread, it’s mostly people expressing outrage and disgust or reflexive dismissal; few actual thoughts.
Whenever I learn something from someone, that’s a good sign. It’s a sign they can communicate well and in my experience being practiced in teaching strongly correlates with eagerness to learn and grow.
> I wouldn't have thought India, a country that is so price sensitive, would be a place you find so many iPhones. But Indians love what America does and follow them blindly.

This is extremely wrong.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/india suggests Android has 95%+ market share in India (and largely unchanged for years).

https://www.statista.com/chart/22702/andoid-ios-market-share... lists India as one of the least iPhone-using countries in the world.

iPhone's are more than 3x more popular across Africa, South America and the rest of Asia than they are in India (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/africa, https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/south-amer..., https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/asia).
1. if you can figure out how to do this, you're intelligent enough to score in the top 90th percentile on the exam.
2. good luck getting away with this in person at the proctored exam.
My kid is doing prealgebra now online (AoPS). When she's on an iPad Pro, she uses the Apple Pencil in the Notes app, side-by-side with the AoPS window. When she's on a non-Pro iPad she uses pencil and paper.

I assume kids will use scratch paper with the SAT, along with calculators.

> Are they learning math typesetting at a young age?

My kid loves doing LateX on AoPS, for some reason. I guess it will be useful if she's still doing online math when she gets to higher levels (it's not really necessary for prealgebra).
> “Calorie is a calorie” is thermodynamically correct, but not true when it comes to diet. [insert alcohol analogy here]

In case this doesn't quite compute for some, I have a very simple thought experiment to apply to the CICO fallacy.

If you fill your gasoline car with diesel, will the engine perform correctly?

Of course we would not expect the engine to perform as well (or at all) on diesel. It doesn't matter if diesel contains more than enough energy per volume for the engine to run. It doesn't matter if the engine runs with some diesel mixed in with gasoline because it will not run as well and suffer other problems that can damage the engine. The car simply is not optimized to run on a fuel it wasn't designed for.

If you run a human body solely on sugar, it will eventually crash and burn, figuratively speaking. The body can run on some exogenous sugar, but it's likely not optimal; in fact, it's not even indicated for when protein and fat are available. Likewise, the human body will fail solely on protein or solely fat, and it may suffer problems when eating fat and sugar simultaneously. However, it operates quite well on some mixture of protein and fat, and can tolerate a relatively small amount of carbs without much consequence. This is because the human body was designed by ~4 million years of evolution to move away from fruit-eating to hunting (and the occasional eating of tubers when game is scarce). It is hardly more "omnivorous" than a cow is, given that cows will eat meat (and may other things) when you put it in front of them. Most large mammals can tolerate eating a wide variety of things, but that doesn't mean their species didn't develop to specialize in a specific diet.

CICO also encounters an issue when it comes to using exercise as a means of maintaining or losing body fat. When you engage in exercise, your glycogen stores are prioritized over fat because it can be oxidized more rapidly. Although you are always relying on some amount of fat and carbs, neither being absolutely exclusive, exercise prioritizes carb metabolism. What happens when someone relies heavily on exercise for weight loss is that they may lose some weight because they've expended a lot of glycogen from their muscles and liver, but that doesn't really equate to losing an appreciable amount of body fat, which is what most people are interested in when they want to lose weight. It's not that exercise doesn't work, but it's not as efficient as people realize – that is unless you exercise hard and long enough that your body is forced to start relying much more heavily on fat oxidation.
There are types of motorsports that are quite cheap. E.g. folkracing in Sweden has a rule where anyone can buy a competitor's car for $800. This means there is no incentive for spending lots of money on making your car better than the competition. No drivers license is necessary, age limit is 14.

Yes it still requires sacrificing a lot of time and some money, but not worse than many regular sports.
My friend took an important law school exam (GRE or BAR, not sure which) in the past 2 years that was self administered, and she described her experience as "harrowing." The kernel level malware they installed to monitor the exam crashed her device 4 times during the exam. This was after she got it running on a secondary device because it wouldn't even start on her M1 MacBook Air. The software recorded her screen and camera the entire time, and would invalidate her results if her husband entered the frame.

I can't imagine the stress this causes even on top of, y'know, having your entire career dependent on the results.

I hope they're using their savings to purchase managed devices and hire good IT support, but I'm not holding out much hope.
> but it is missing the absolute trash fire that those results are currently

I don't understand your answer. Isn't that a good thing? Why are you missing trash on DDG?
I hate hearing these things described passively. AGI isn't "coming soon". It's not a storm or a season or a comet. People — specifically Sam Altman! — are building it. So when those same people say "hey, here's a solution to a problem that AGI will cause that also happens to make me a lot of money", we're right to be skeptical.
This is not entirely true. These articles are referring to the mobile services. The majority of LIs services are built in Java (with some Node, Python, Scala sprinkled in).

Here's a write up from the LI engineering blog briefly detailing a history of their architecture (up to 2015):
https://engineering.linkedin.com/architecture/brief-history-...
Here's the company's description of how they will secure it: https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/test-security-fairness

Still relying on the test being taken in a monitored environment, like at school or a test center. They emphasize that this new digital delivery means questions are less likely to be taken out of the test environment and published.
When you set Accept=yes (new process per connection), then service naturally stops once connection closes. But that approach has relatively high per-connection overhead, so it cannot be used in a lot of cases. Still pretty useful for stuff like x11vnc.

For Accept=no, there is no auto-stop. I think it's because once service is activated, systemd no longer has reliable information about socket and thus cannot tell if the service is idle or not.

But what socket/dbus activation does is it enables services to exit on idle. And some services actually do it - systemd-timedated being one example. Any time I enter "timedatectl" I see it start and then exit.
My Robotic Doppelganger Is the Grim Face of Journalism's Future
And what about projects that don’t exist in a paradigm where css can be collocated with templates/components? Legacy projects? Large contributor teams?
My first thought was, "Needs more monads".

Sure enough, in the commentary:

> Monads are woefully un-represented here; I would be grateful if someone could contribute a few (progressive) examples in the spirit of the development above.
Definitely, the GitLab meeting linked (https://app.circleback.ai/view/lt93jwzdg3hdzcdnxmm) is one example. Let me know if any other public meetings come to mind I can import to show this.
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How does this cut costs? I would think they'll be spending a ton on online security and such. Imagine the fallout if this is hacked or goes down on test day. They will save some money on proctoring, since the exam is much shorter in duration.
A book that’s even older: http://www.davidsalomon.name/assem.advertis/AssemAd.html
Sounds like your printer looked identical to mine at one point!

I've since upgraded with with a klicky probe, then removed that and went Tap. I'm looking at replacing the Stealthburner with something with better cooling as it's definitely not good enough, even after replacing the fan that came with my LDO kit with an even better fan.

I built mine in about a week while my wife was out of town with a friend, though. :D

I have had a lot of problems getting it to be reliable, though. I've replaced a lot of parts and did a lot of upgrades. I'm finally at a point where the only thing I might "fix" would be to replace the belts because I'm pretty sure they're stretching little by little still, even after months.

That said, it was more "reliable" out of the box than my 2 TronXY printers. It's just that I want it to be less stressful.

I've seriously considered a Bambu because of that, but at this point I think mine is a match for them, so it's only the multi-color capability that has me interested in them now.
Those are Debian's (or Redhat's, or Fedora's) builds.

Oracle ones are exactly as layer8 wrote. Moreso, if you also need windows or macos build; there's no Debian or Redhat then.
Acknowledging the general ickyness of prison labor, I'd be curious what the overall effect on wellbeing and recidivism among prisoners would be of spending time working outside planting trees to make the local community a better, more beautiful place.
If this topic merits discussion on HN, can you do something about the flagging? It seems like someone is flagging every comment to prevent discussion.
> try and prevent

Yeah, good luck with that. If there's one thing remote teaching during covid taught me it's that you can't stop someone from cheating during an online assessment.
The fire fighting museum in Fulda is really quite good with exhibits about systems around the world.

http://www.dfm-fulda.de/
I tend to like the view of AI maximalist. All the post apocalyptic stuff is not great for your mood day to day.
That's exactly why critics of Tailwind (like myself) have been so frustrated…Tailwind shouldn't mean you avoid spending time "thinking about CSS". CSS should be a principal and respected pillar of a website's architecture, every bit as vitally important to reason about and understand as anything JS-related. Tailwind v4 promoting CSS-first configuration and customization, and allowing design token usage in vanilla CSS, knocks down a major complaint we've had regarding the framework.
> If Target and Walmart want these subscriptions to be useful, they need to drop the minimum amounts for deliveries.

That appears to be exactly what they are doing here.

The free 2-day shipping under Circle 360 doesn't mention any order minimum in the fine print. They definitely could have made that more clear in the marketing material though.
The two are completely separate. Getting C# to build and run only needs executing 'winget install dotnet-sdk-8' on windows or 'sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0' on e.g. Ubuntu.
They lie constantly. Just some excusese to take their empire back.
Anthropic's Claude 3 Models in Google Cloud Vertex AI
London's Lost Rivers
I think many are just tired of American "exceptionalism" being pushed with the same fallacies every time.
what prevents anyone with a sufficiently large dataset from using AI to create fake iris prints that can't be distinguished from the real thing?
> because genocidal movements are corrupt well beyond the "power of science."

Science was central to the genocidal movements in the US and Germany. In many ways, science was the cause of the genocidal movements. Eugenics was a scientific movement championed by scientists. What changed wasn't science. It was culture and politics that changed. The horrors of the 20th century led philosphers, politicians and ordinary citizens to lose their blind faith and trust in science and progress.

The rise of science and social darwinism of the early 1900s is similar to rise of AI and technocracy. Hopefully we won't as foolish to place blind trust on it and history doesn't repeat itself.
Actually many higher ed institutions are re-instituting them this year: https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2024/03/05/brown-shifts-back-...
Lived all my live in the West and West Berlin, worked a few years in East Berlin.

But you have a point. East Germans are much more sceptical of supporting the war. They are tired of propaganda.

(it seems to be different in Poland: Sikorski is a crazy war hawk, don't know about ordinary polish people)
> Some changes are better than others. If your product works in python/MySQL then rust probably isn't a good fit. Maybe Ruby or PostgresSQL would be better fits. [...] Rust and Python are both great tools, but it is never okay to choose between the two on any project - the choice is obvious before you get to choosing.

I actually really disagree with this. Python and Ruby are extremely similar in the problem they solve. If you're using MySQL as a basic OLTP database, and you need a basic OLTP database, you shouldn't use Postgres.

I'm talking organizationally here, not just on a single project. You gain nothing by introducing Ruby to your company that's filled with Python experts. Instead, you introduce a bunch of friction and overhead as developers have to relearn things like syntax, how to set up their development environment, how to do dependency management, testing frameworks, etc...

The time to introduce new tech is when it is fundamentally different enough that it could matter. Maybe you have a bunch of Python code, but there's a certain area that's very performance sensitive: you could look at using Rust, Go or C++. Maybe you have MySQL, but you need a database that's used for complex OLAP queries rather than low-latency OLTP work. There you could look at Redshift, Snowflake or the various Postgres OLAP configurations.

Where experience comes in is knowing when these new tools are worth the overhead they cause. Less experienced engineers vastly underestimate the overhead that comes with introducing new tooling. This even applies internally; for example, if you've used Flask for every project you've done at your company for the past 5 years is it really worth switching to Django?
Wow, this guy Vannevar Bush was the definition of being early:

> Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.
The sad future.
They're doing the right thing. It's a killer business but this isn't 2020 ZIRP. If a company isn't profitable, it's not going to inspire trust, and this will hinder its growth and cost it deals. In addition to the tough VC market. At 39$/m, PlanetScale is a no brainer. Anyone with any clue will use this platform to build, and with these changes there's no doubt as to whether they will be there in 2y or not.
> If you would turn it around and imagine a world without paper passports and government issued id's - what would you use as unique identifier for a person?

I'm not sure... but I'm also convinced that 'private corporation issued id' isn't fundamentally superior to 'government issued id' and has some challenges in terms of accountability.
They seem passionate about their job and they enjoy programming professionally.
Honestly kinda crazy that it gets on top on HN.
Goes to show the upside of going to YC.
You could use the !important variants for overrides instead of merge. In v4, the tailwind team has already said they want to introduce a solution to solve this problem without tools like tw-merge. I’m guessing it will be some sort of modifier that is placed at a lower specificity if you know that you are authoring something that will be overridden later.
It's from the breakdown of benzoyl peroxide, if you're wondering.
I'd happily pay $25/year. $2/mo to live in a city with that kind of greenery and QOL improvement? Absolutely sign me the fuck up.
There is no shame in charging for a product and changing strategy. Best wishes for success.
Tech people are those, who have to fix everything once SHTF.

Business people are those, who get to go to nice trips and dinners for their "right" decision.

Any other questions?
Can confirm, my version here also got a notice:
https://github.com/pwahs/fillominordle

Full notice is here:
https://enterprise.githubsupport.com/attachments/token/cx6V4...
Look up what chumbox or chumbucket ads are, I think it will show what I mean.
> fac n = product [1..n]

This is a beautiful line of code.

In all seriousness, I'd probably prefer to find the Junior or "Another junior" version if I was browsing a project.
If you can't opt out of the dumb-dumb version regardless of your answers to previous questions then the test is rigged. Not only would it not be directly comparable to previous test years, it would not be comparable to other versions of the test. Defeating the entire point (ranking students)
Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants; warranty voiding guaranteed
Pivoting to a Billion-Dollar Idea: Lessons from Clipboard Health's Wei Deng
Standardized tests actually correlate better with academic success than a number of other measures. Some Ivies have recently been reinstituting standardized testing requirements.
The foundational purpose of the Flat Earth movement was not to disinform or to pursue misguided science. It was to demonstrate that 100% objective proof is impossible, because all evidence is weighed by subjective humans.

"Disinformation" is a matter of opinion.

Truth is a matter of probability, and everyone gets their own priors.
The 5% royalty is for using the unreal engine - they don't enforce that the engine be used in order to appear in their game store, nor do they enforce that unreal engine games can only be sold on their game store.
Thanks for sharing this! Question, I looked thru the code and didnt see the code for actually pulling the historical images, did you do that manually via GFW/Esri?

I was helping with a project for the Audubon Society some years back and we were pulling these images via ESA sweeps, which were all available via AWS (puller pays, which was quite inexpensive). However, it required some complex geometry and post-processing. Did you have to do something similar?
Normally we'd merge into the earlier thread, but in this case I'm going to merge those comments hither, because the current submission is (presumably) a more neutral article.
This is an Apple vs. developers fight. Epic is just the one spending money on it.
My experience was nearly identical taking the GRE in 2003.
Shorter is good, but dynamic tests (called "computer adaptive tests" or CAT in the industry) make it difficult to follow longstanding best-practices for test taking. When I took the SAT, I could quickly scan through the questions in the current section and mark those that looked difficult, and save them for the end. With a CAT test, it's typically one-question-at-a-time, and if you're a strong test taker, they get successively more difficult. They are more efficient tests, but (IMHO) less pleasant to take.
The old Shipt membership via Target didn't include 2-day delivery without an order minimum. I also don't think having that membership made your shipping orders any faster (only same-day delivery orders), so it seems like an upgrade / expansion as well.
AsyncAPI Codegen, a code generator from AsyncAPI spec v2 and v3
Far easier said than done. And that you mentioned MySQL/MariaDB as a possible replacement means that you have never worked with Oracle's SQL dialect.
Feel like there would be fewer posts and languages like this if people just took 10 seconds to read about modern C#.
A nuanced reply.

If you look at standard adoption curves: computers were at least Early Mainstream. Well beyond Early Adopter.
This is the original announcement by the AEPD, the Spanish Data Protection Authority.

https://www.aepd.es/en/press-and-communication/press-release...
I agree. I started with a working, cheap printer and then decided I wanted a big Voron. I printed the parts for a Voron 0 and made that, and then used that to print a Voron 2.4.

The print-it-forward program was months in arrears when I looked at it, and it was very expensive to pay someone else to print them without the print-it-forward. I could have bought an Ender 3 and printed it myself cheaper.

Technically that cheap printer still works, but my 2 Vorons are so much better than I don't even consider using it.
> As a male

huh?