skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain which tools are now automated for you?
> What if I spend more hours watching cat videos on Youtube over actually learning or making something?

That doesn't sound that bad in itself. In my experience falling into this trap many, many times over my life, it's something that's rather easy to recognize as harmful—just difficult to climb out of if it's an established habit.

So—consumption of unproductive content per se strikes me as less of a problem than a) addictive consumption and b) the illusion that consumption can replace a sense of self.
Crockford: "Lisp in C's Clothing"

https://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html
But sometimes I see a task that would take about a day... and then people insist on breaking it down in four parts!

Then they take about a quarter day each, provided the same person does all four simultaneously. Or about a day each if you give them to different people.
Oh, huh. I now recognize what you're referring to but I never would have realized that without being explicitly told so. Thank you.
50+ Passengers injured upon sudden altitude drop due to Boeing instrument fail
It depends on individual requirements. Most Apple laptops have better battery life than all of my laptops, but current ones have less memory available to run virtual machines unless I pay a huge premium which raise would raise the price 7 x over what I paid for my current Thinkpad E580. Also the later has a matte screen which I can't have on a Macbook nor can they fold like my Lenovo Yoga to be used as a tablet and drawing board.

If I was travelling a lot and spending a lot of time outside home I guess the battery life would trump any other factor and it would be a better option. In my case this is not a deciding factor as my laptops spend most of their time at home and as long as battery last a couple a few hours they will be plugged before it gets empty. I still benefit from the laptop form factor as I can still move them from one room to another easily or use them outdoor.

Besides premium price + sustained higher price in the second hand market make it so that at an average of around 350€ the cumulative price of all the computers (5) in my household is lower than the asking price of a single Macbook Pro with only 8GB of memory and a single 1TB hard drive.
https://archive.ph/qwFuI
I thought this happened in front of a hotel?
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

If you want to change the company from within then you are almost certainly dedicated to the goals of the organization and they are falling short, but it is loyalty to the organization itself that gets you clout. So in order to change the company, you first have to do the thing that you want to change, like cutting corners to meet a deadline. Only after you've kissed the ring will you be given power. This means that unless you are able to perform a revolution or coup within the company (maybe by unionizing), you will always be subordinate to its rotting fish head. If you want to change the company, the best way you can do that is by joining a competitor with better leadership and out-competing or being that leadership at a competitor.

Being a subordinate to people you don't respect is going to demoralize you, demotivate you, disempower you, and make you lose respect for yourself until you cannot function as a person.

CGPGrey's summary of the dictators handbook is also quite relevant: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers

If you want to make a change, your only option is to get into a position of power, be subject to the same corruptive forces as the incumbent, and choose to be responsible instead of selfish, which is fundamentally an act of self sacrifice. His discussion of the video is way more thought provoking than the original video itself, IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvD7zVN2jo
probably more "unfeasible at the time" than "unimaginable"
I don't understand why he didn't pipe btrfs through network. Do a btrfs snapshot first, then btrfs send => nc => network => nc => brtfs receive. That way only blocks in use are sent.
It's seems a bit like a US thing to me. For the majority of European university studies having a high school diploma is enough to qualify. Even for foreign students, at least EU students, typically not more than a language certification. Only for some highly competitive (medicine) or skill-based (music, art) would additional testing be required.

Are the levels of high schools so different across the US?
Uber itself is a company ripping off their drivers. This is there to put a stop to that. It should cost much more than 4-5 Euros to get stuff delivered, other people are not your slaves and their work needs to be compensated fairly.
In what way is the free version lacking security?
suicide due to mental health makes zero sense. sorry you just have to introduce way too many elements. The real explanation is simple.
Your exact command works reliably but is inefficient. And it works by design, not accident. For starters, the default block size in most netcat implementations is tiny like 4 kB or less. So there is a higher CPU and I/O overhead. And if netcat does a partial or small read less than 4 kB, when it writes the partial block to the nvme disk, the kernel would take care of reading a full 4kB block from the nvme disk, updating it with the partial data block, and rewriting the full 4kB block to the disk, which is what makes it work, albeit inefficiently.
Same as a better battery life, number of ports, keyboard layout/feel, anything else.

The whole package is just a sum of what fits anyone's requirements / preferences.
Meanwhile in Germany you read how our combustion engines are a competitive advantage... Maybe in heavy industrial equipment that can't have off the shelf ones.
I guess I read your comment as contradicting itself by the phrase "the power" rather than "the illusion of power", especially since the american public is so easily distracted by petty squabbling, whereas capital is emphatically not easily distracted but extremely focused on what it wants.

Anyway, I don't mean to start an argument over the power of voting, illusory or no. We all have opinions about the value of voting that we hold rather tightly given so much emphasis is placed on it as the center of the political power we do hold.
Johnson and Lindenstrauss disagree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Lindenstrauss_...
This scenario seems similar to the Gaza situation. Perhaps if the Gazans had patriots lives could be saved.
I miss those days when most websites implemented this.
That's a completely different question, to which the answer is 'we don't know'.
It's just an interpretation. Your interpretation is similar to the Big Bang model of visible Universe expansion. If you can convince us that your model is better than other models, then we will use your model, but nobody can prove than a model is correct, unless we will find a hidden recorder somewhere which was turned on for few dozens of billion years.

Photon will hit something, or will travel until it will be redshifted to obvilion, or will travel until end of the medium (photon is a wave, so it waves something).
This was written in 50 BCE, nearly two thousand years before Einstein's Nobel winning work proving the discrete qualities of photons.

I'm well aware it's at best a partial description of light.

But it's leagues ahead of Plato's tiny triangles of fire in Timaeus or any other contemporary descriptions.

Also, technically zero mass is very little weight (the least, in fact). And the speed of light is very fast (the fastest). So Lucretius was correct in his statements, if just conservative in the degree to which he stated them (which was in line with the Epicurean commitment to the avoidance of false negatives).

Wave particle duality doesn't really get discussed in Western antiquity outside of a single tangent describing the beliefs of the Peratae who claim the universe has a threefold nature, with the first being continuous and infinitely divisible, the second being a near infinite number of potentialities, and the third being a formal instance. There's a bit of an Everettian quality to their thinking, but outside of its quite broad scope of thought I'm unaware of anyone saying "yeah, reality is both continuous and discrete at the same time" until physicists grappling with contradictory experimental results in the 20th century. The closest in antiquity outside of this group was arguably Plato's theory of forms where the forms were continuous and their physical manifestations discrete, though this is materially different from the idea they are both simultaneously occurring in what's around us (even if Plato's paradigm most likely influenced the much later Peratae).
That sounds interesting, never thought to use this - is it like aquafaba so it also works as a thickener?
In hindsight, I think Microsoft was stopped from taking ownership of the internet back then (by bundling the Internet Explorer and taking control over the whole experience, evolution of standards, etc.). It was already (very!) close back then, it still took a decade to reverse that.

Now we are dealing (among others) with the same topic, but are already much deeper in the swamp:

Several companies are actively working to replace the internet with a walled abstraction they own and monetize, for more than a decade now, trying to argue "it's not the internet, it's an app!" or "it's not the internet, it's a profile-page on our portal!"

IMO we're deeper in it now, because of how much better these arguments seem to work now among tech-people I talk to (compared to how futile Microsoft's arguments were for tech-people back then)
Doesn't matter. That is not relevant to the paradox.
I would say the improvement allowed the demand to be met, everybody wanted to use youtube, but few could.

Just like many people may want to eat a wide range of expensive tasty food, but have to make do with junk because it's what they can afford.
that's it. i'm never flying again. anyone wanna bet they adopted agile and offshoring at the same time?
There is more than one way to do things, and its far from clear that the state mandated way is the right way. Its pretty obvious that this is the most expensive way though - as most of the tax take goes on paying off existing debts, and superfluous expenses such as supporting a huge administrative state 'service' - pay, pensions, army, police, teachers, etc.

With roads, in the first place these existed before the state adopted the infrastructure - someone made these. New roads were created to encourage a specific type of corporate industrialisation, with petrol companies heavily supporting gas burning cars. And nowadays, roads are being constrained and pedestrianised to discourage cars - so this infrastructure (that has already been paid for) is being rolled back (at further expense). So, how is that a good use of money; what value is the state adding here? By the way, having an extensive road network is probably why we don't have flying cars.

Water systems and sanitation are sort of the same thing. Perhaps you think taking all the sewage and grouping it into a river of muck to then discharge it at sea is a good idea. I don't. Have you considered that human excrement might be processed more locally, and then re-used as fertiliser - as we do for animal waste? Probably this is how things were done (I know this was the case even recently in China) but instead we are taught the gross story that 300 years ago people in cities threw their sewage into the streets, walking into their homes, etc. I'm sure some of that occurred - forced industrialisation happened very quickly, moving people off common (acts of enclosure, etc - this is state sanctioned theft, btw) forced people into cities. I'm sure peoples' peasant habits could not work in the city.

Force, brutality and tight control underlie the state system. Humans are perfectly capable of managing things without state intervention - but once you force people from a more natural state (living near the land to living in densely populated cities), the state seems to be the only management option. The state is not actually there to help - it only needs to appear to be 'doing its best'. It is there to collectivise and harness the efforts of many people, regardless of how they feel about it. Most people simply accept the reality that they are presented and are happy to do what it tells them. The state uses schooling, culture etc to create the idea that it is beneficent, that it has a moral right to force another - it literally teaches people to adopt its self-serving immorality - and it works! Mostly.
The difference is that Lisp doesn't require a two language syndrome.

Julia, Mojo, XLA, Triton,... are picking up speed, and the pressure for a JIT on CPython is increasing from Microsoft and Facebook, exactly because not everything is AI, and not everyone wants to write C++, C to speed up Python.
Which might turn out to be correct. Might be wrong also. We have no priors to AGI developing. Only NGI, and we know preciously little about how to achieve NGI too, except the bedroom way.
Usually you don't know what is the experience before buying. Most people buy expensive things primarily out of network effect and or influence by marketing and person of relevance.

And I don't mean this as to diminish iphones usage experience or capabilities. It is the same for people buying one of those über expensive Samsung folding phones, cars, clothing or the latest Thermomix.
yea, could we please sanction the v4 internet of the last two decades as un world heritage or something and make the gold diggers leave for some unregulated ar/ai-mine elsewhere.
I sense a paradox there. They are insisting on calling it a lie but really it isn't
> While cosine similarity is invariant under such rotations R, one of the
key insights in this paper is that the first (but not the second) objective is
also invariant to rescalings of the columns of A and B

Ha interesting I wrote a blog post where I pointed this out a few years ago [1], and how we got around it for item-item similarity at an old job (essentially an implicit re-projection to original space as noted in section 3).

https://swarbrickjones.wordpress.com/2016/11/24/note-on-an-i...
I Agree, this is just typical boomer behaviour.
Great way to get your account banned!
> Many people have no passion after work.

That’s trained / learned behaviour though. No kid grows up wanting to sit in a cubicle all day
I've also done this a lot, as has everybody. My experience is that there are two problems.

One, it turns out I never ever end up doing the actual steps as I planned to. After a few I have new insights, realize I forgot something, see an easier way, I don't know -- the plan is never followed.

The other is that I really hate working like this because it seems all the creative effort of thinking about how to make something is put in the first part. And then, the rest is still most of the work, but it's the really boring part. It's much more fun (and therefore faster, and resulting in better work) to spread the creativity and the boredom out more equally.

The two are probably related, and it's not inconceivable that I have ADHD.
When I was a child myself I hated this and as adult I am still unconvinced it is necessary.

Also this sort of stuff made me lose lots of trust for educators in general, even university level ones are willing to teach junk.
Instead of sums of multiplications you could for example use sum of squares of differences.

Means squared error instead of dot product, it's not cheaper but it's close

If you want to go cheaper you could use sum of abs of differences.
I wonder what techonolgy you have at home without paying a dime to actually access it.
This is super cool and was very easy to get going. Missing keyboard shortcuts is pretty annoying and would make this even simpler. I hopped in hoping it was like a Google Drawing, which it's pretty close, but the lack of keyboard shortcuts for copying/pasting, selecting all, etc -- makes it hard to move fast.
Web 3.0 is ded, long live Web 4.0 !!!
Google enables display output on the Pixel
Yes I absolutely loved that.

I wish Microsoft PowerPoint built some of that so we could use it for light weight animations and story telling.
Did you read the article? I found it to be a balanced piece on cultural changes and party politics in the US. At no point it seemed to be "making fun of one side".
No — the kernel buffers non-O_DIRECT writes to block devices to ensure correctness.

Larger writes will be more efficient, however, if only due to reduced system call overhead.

While not necessary when writing an image with the correct block size for the target device, even partial block overwrites work fine:

# yes | head -c 512 > foo
# losetup /dev/loop0 foo
# echo 'Ham and jam and Spam a lot.' | dd bs=5 of=/dev/loop0
5+1 records in
5+1 records out
28 bytes copied, 0.000481667 s, 58.1 kB/s
# hexdump -C /dev/loop0
00000000 48 61 6d 20 61 6e 64 20 6a 61 6d 20 61 6e 64 20 |Ham and jam and |
00000010 53 70 61 6d 20 61 20 6c 6f 74 2e 0a 79 0a 79 0a |Spam a lot..y.y.|
00000020 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a |y.y.y.y.y.y.y.y.|
*
00000200

Partial block overwrites may (= will, unless the block to be overwritten is in the kernel's buffer cache) require a read/modify/write operation, but this is transparent to the application.

Finally, note that this applies to most block devices, but tape devices work differently: partial overwrites are not supported, and, in variable block mode, the size of individual write calls determines the resulting tape block sizes.
If your job involved _only_ putting up or modifying API endpoints that involved querying a single SQL database, you could automate at least a good chunk of that. Maybe all of it.

How long would it take to build a system to automate API endpoints that query a single SQL database? It depends.
or https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
My theory is that redshifting caused by gravitational background noise. I did calculation somewhere on HN or Youtube few months ago and numbers are of same magnitude.
> So I would imagine you could write just enough webusb code to get new instruments to work that you wouldn't need local apps as a manufacturer.

Yes, delivering device control software in a browser with webusb from a cloud platform will usher in a whole new chapter of keeping people from truly owning the scientific research equipment they have procured!
The problem here seems to be that "lie" is a loaded term.

Understanding is a point somewhere between an absolute falsehood and the an absolute detailed truth. These two can be hard to define for some subjects but nevertheless.

People who don't have the mental capacity or knowledge to understand the complete truth can still benefit from a partial understanding of what's going on and that's what this is talking about.

I think it's similar to how programmers use libraries to hide abstractions. We don't need to know the details of what's going on at the lower levels of our stack to be useful even though we're operating with some "false" notions of what's happening under the hood.
Nintendo, Sega, Sony etc took a cut of each program sale at the time.

It was not really unfeasible technically, but socially. Like selling "hats" or lootboxes to gamers were not unfeasable, but they refused to pay even the tiniest amount.
I think that yours comment is very interesting, I have reflected many times about how to differentiate things that appear in the same context of things that are similar. Any big idea here could be the spark to initiate a great startup.
Maybe dealing with 2/3 of the question is enough to tame suicidal thoughts.
I'm a big fan of it. The business end has a very simple and open design that makes it work much better than other immersion blenders I've had. Since the end is all metal I can use it in boiling liquids with no problems. I don't put it in past the metal part, but apparently this bit is watertight as well. The motor is really good. Has a lot of oomph.

I saw a test where they put the bamix up against a few other immersion blenders and it did well. It wasn't the fastest, but among the fast ones. The thing that sets it apart is the clean and simple design. I've had mine for a bit over a decade without any problems.

I'm sure there are other products on the market that you should consider. I must admit that I have not kept abreast of immersion blender news. But I would have no problem recommending it. It is one of the most useful tools in my kitchen.
It has been the main view since at least the 80s but then we got a low carb high fat movement around 00s-10s that argued that carbs are a poison. Partly because if you stopped eating carbs, then you basically couldn't eat high caloric fast food.

So although common within the science community, many in the general population still have a negative view on carbs. I assume this article is aimed towards those.
The models that they call "lie" are, in fact, mostly correct, they are good approximations, with limited scope, and sometimes don't handle edge cases, the same with Newton's gravity and many topics.

The same way that Pi is not 3.14159, nor it is 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286, and it's not a lie, just an approximation.

The reality is that we don't know the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything

Even general relativity is a lie if you want to go that route.

This Wikipedia article is just scientific trolling promoted by satiric authors like Pratchett, that some people here are taking too seriously.
thanks you for this. The entire concept of AI alignment rests upon alignment of markets with social good, ie market regulation, a situation which is antithetical to neoliberalism. There is no alignment within neoliberal economies. As stated elsewhere, venture capitalism escaped the sandbox already.
Well, real median full-time wages in the UK are lower than 15 years ago. Why would contracting rates be any different?

UK labour market is dire. UK GDP growth is stagnant and border line non-existant
With modern systems this rarely is a problem. Like Andy said, Linux comes with most drivers in the kernel. Windows just installs the appropriate drivers as soon as you boot it up with new hardware. Sometimes it takes a minute or two for it to boot up after the initial swap, but then it should be fine.
This only applies to native extensions.
And many others keep being present in Linux when trying to use it on laptops, even laptops that are shipped with Linux pre-installed hardly support 100% of the hardware.

Even ChromeOS doesn't fully support GNU/Linux when running Crostini, https://chromeos.dev/en/linux/linux-on-chromeos-faq
Well forgive me if I'm misunderstanding but it seems that all human knowledge being approximate it all comes under this heading. They are simply saying is that it may not be best to start with the most complex approximation.
I saw several corner cases related to civil engineering in the correct sense; I'll try to think of larger phrases that might be more specific...

EDIT: or maybe not? they seem to be literally "edge" and "corner" cases (of slabs, not in parameter space)

(...and "coffin corner" appears to have been from american football before aerospace?)
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