skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there no basis for arguing that it also had economic benefits? Cloth until mechanisation was a hugely expensive business, in man/woman power, time. Basically, Sumptuary laws may well have done what you say, but I bet that isn't all they did.

"The staple" was a highly regulated business for export of raw wool and cloth from England to the continent. Dying, weaving is at the foundation of much of the medieval trade networks.

Sumpturary laws would go directly to the economics of fabric as well as the social structural policing. Paying sumptuary fines probably also played here, because coin was scarce oftentimes, and taxation complex. By all means wear the forbidden colours, for a small fee.
If you’re like me you may have have read these and wondered what you can do to reduce the amount you ingest.

The simplest fix I can suggest is a zero water filter. They have a model with a glass body. The filter is rated to remove microplastics.

Filters last a long time. Easy to use. Any filter rates for microplastic removal should also work.

I don’t know how to reduce intake in food and am interested to know. Have found conflicting info.

https://www.amazon.com/ZeroWater-Ready-Pour-Dispenser-BPA-Fr...
This post makes it seem as if the NSA produced some kind of comprehensive review of programming languages which showed that Delphi is memory safe.

No, what actually happened is they published a short 7-page blurb[1] and it mentions Delphi in a single sentence: "Some examples of memory safe languages are Python, Java, C#, Go, Delphi/Object Pascal, Swift, Ruby, Rust, and Ada."

It's just a single sentence. It doesn't elaborate what specific features of those languages make them memory safe.

Delphi (and Ada) were most likely included on this list by mistake. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a result of some intern googling "memory safe languages".

These two languages are not memory safe. They don't have a garbage collector, borrow checker, or any other equivalent mechanism that eliminates memory errors. They both use manual memory management, which can be partially automated with RAII, just like C++.

[1] - https://media.defense.gov/2023/Apr/27/2003210083/-1/-1/0/CSI...
Today Mojang publishes deobfuscation mappings for each Minecraft Java release.
I get the Chomskyan objection re. statistical machine learning, I am partial to it.

But consider these LLMs and such as extremely crude simulations of biological neural networks. They aren't just any statistics; these are biomimetic computations. Then we can in principle "do science" here. We can study skyscrapers and bridges; we can study LLMs and say some scientific things about them. That is quite different than maybe what is going on in industry, but AFAIK there are lots of academic computer scientists who are trying to do just that, bring the science back to the study of these artifacts so that we can have some theorems and proofs, etc. That is - hopefully - more sophisticated a science than trying to poke and prod at a black box and call that empirical science.
Maybe I want to fly a specific model because it is more comfortable than the alternatives. Would I rather fly in a cramped 737 to Hawaii or a wide body airbus? Makes a difference to my comfort!
Why do you think banning search engines would be a net positive for society?
Congrats on being a jerk? I don't know man. Carry on.
This was 30+ years ago… I don’t know the details, but trust the source. The source used to teach at Carnegie Mellon. The point my friend made to me was that this guy was so good he never had to debug a program after he was done.

FWIW, apparently back before Intel released a particular 4 bit processor, this guy made an emulator and compiler for the chip so they could start writing code in anticipation of its release.

Once again, not direct experience… but trusted source.
Doesn't say anything about what they share other than that they don't collect personal data...
Take this opportunity to read the docs and discard assumptions. Enumerating buckets as though they’re directories will seem peculiar when you understand it is designed for billions of items and up. Index your objects separately, in whatever form makes sense to your application.
Wow. In this same thread I recommended Zero Water, which isn’t reverse osmosis. Does that type of filter avoid the issue?
One small suggested addendum: 1.5) read the last paragraph or two of the intro. Most good papers spend these paragraphs laying out their study and their expected and alternate hypotheses. It's a quick way to go from the floaty higher order topics covered in the abstract and discussion and drill into exactly what the scope of the paper actually is.
Should be “Europan” since “European” modifies “Europe” not “Europa”
In India the rate is rs. 30/w or inr 30k/kWh.

Or us$ 360/kwh.
And this is in open market. Government subsidized rates are even lower.

Farmers were given a solar water pump scheme with 90% subsidy last year.

10kwh solar panels + water pump for that capacity + installation + steel work for inr 90k or us $ 1092.
from TFA:
"Let me start by kind of explaining that with an example. In India recently, it has become a requirement, in order to obtain a SIM card, to submit to a biometric facial recognition scan.... Some, in some places like Taiwan, that is linked to government ID databases that often get breached and cause a lot of problems,”...

They explicitly mention, next, that this is not for US users. From what you, and they, say, Signal is not good if your threat includes the US government. It is good cover agaisnt India, Taiwan, Mexico. Probably not agaisnt UK or Israel, eg.
CS7637 was a fun course! One can get pretty far (80% accuracy) by using xor masks and comparing centroids.
Typical; someone with only half of a story pushing an agenda. You can look at the data yourself(*)
No state pays more outright than California. Followed closely by NY, Mass, Ct, NJ.
Look at per-capita income, and California is receives less than 44 other states. Lets see how does that compare some of those "red" states?MS(#8), Al(#7), La(#11), Ar(#15), Ky(#2), SC(#13), Tn(#16), Wv (#5), Oh(#21), Tx(#36), Mt(#19), NC(#20)?

Don't know about you, but the data sure tells another story doesn't it?
I damn well don't live in CA (midwest), but don't believe anything on the 'net until you verify it yourself. Too many people pushing an agenda.

(*) https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-...
>To what extent does the AI user have to understand/"pre-model" the physics, and to what extent does the AI generate understanding in some way?

The conclusion that I reached is that you need to understand at least enough to be able to handle basic scrutiny from people in the same field. So, for example, if you come up with an AI for deriving some model of the physics of a CT scanner, you should at least understand the problem you're tackling enough to make meaningful comparisons to any popular competing approaches that might exist. That understanding should automatically encompass things like understanding how your variables are bounded/how they behave.

A contrived example could be with an AI intended to guess 2 prime factors of a given number. Imagine someone making such a tool without even knowing what a prime number is, where the only benchmark they use for correctness is if its outputs fit the dataset of products of prime numbers given. The tool would be clearly useless, because while to the AI researcher it'd seem fine that it outputs 36, which is close to the intended 37, to anyone who knows about prime numbers it'd be an immediate warning sign needing further elaboration and explanation. The researcher could protest that as an AI expert, they don't know anything about prime numbers, but that doesn't really matter in research.

Similarly, due to my non-physics background, while I was (and to an extent still am) given significant leeway in terms of my ability to respond to detailed physics questions about my work, by now I am expected to be able to handle questions about things that are common knowledge among physicists in this field (so, for example, knowing what performing a Fourier transform means in our context, understanding the high level functioning of the key components of the machines we work with, having some intuition for when a simulation result is unrealistic etc). If I were to talk about how I've simulated some of these components, but drew a complete blank when asked how my work improved upon the common knowledge means of simulating them, I'd obviously look like a complete idiot :P

It may seem like a pretty low and obvious bar, but surprisingly I have seen many cases of researchers who didn't even care about reaching that level.
I guess they send it straight to the spying agencies from your personal computing device...
I tried one of those years ago. Within a day or two the water in the filter developed a nasty fishy smell and taste. I took it back for a new one and tried that. Same problem.
Is it not rather that time does not elapse everywhere at he same speed, simply put?

Based on this, of course, measuring it becomes difficult.

It's akin to measuring gravity. You can — for a specific point in space and time. (Time is even worse, since it is specific to a given _trajectory_ in space)

But I have no idea what Im talking about.
re an earlier thread: studies of X0-f, XY-f, and XXY-m individuals show a difference in longevity based on the presence or absence of the second X. The opposite pattern is seen with WZ bird chromosomes.
Have you ever seen the tv news or read the newspaper when they cover a topic related to what you do for a living? Or a specific event you were a part of organizing? They usually have interviews with the “experts” you’re talking about. How do you feel about their accuracy and experience?
Styles aren't copyrightable.
It's funny (as in tragic) how "caves and common" team room got consultantized into "no walls for you".
Exactly this. The infrastructure to put carbon back in the ground would need to be approximately much larger than the entire infrastructure to extract it.
Comparison to the one in MiSTer?
Civilian casualties always suck, but total war means they are unavoidable. Think of how many Germans were killed during WW2 just because Hitler wanted to take over Europe? War is never clean, and insurgencies will always use civilians as human shields, so civilian casualties are unavoidable if you do anything but surrender.

Also, if you don’t want to be invaded, don’t elect leaders that think kidnapping people across the border is a good idea. Ya, it’s rarely this simple, since these places are rarely so democratic, but people have some responsibility for their governments even in the case of autocracies.
It is very possible there is a health concern. It is also very possible, as stated in the very beginning of the article, that this is a socio-economic/lifestyle correlation, and not causative or even involved in the health issues.

In other words, people who have no alternatives or through lack of education or other cause make poor health choices suffer the consequences broadly. There are things one can do to rule this out in a study, and these authors have not done them. Perhaps later studies will take that on.
Seconding lmm’s comment: the main reason social security remains popular is that everyone receives it. Yes, it’s crazy that billionaires get it but there aren’t a lot of them.

If you look at some of the “fraud prevention” criteria some states implement you find they often (true: not always) end up costing more than the fraud they are supposedly preventing. Meanwhile they provide hoops legitimately qualifying people find hard to jump through, which defeats the point of having the program in the first place. Sometimes I think that’s the actual goal of these programs.
Well, they actually cite technical reasons:

>there will be a conflict in the architecture

Title makes it sound like they reject paid features out of hand.
Would it be impossible to marry the two somehow? It’s hard for me to believe that the brain only uses a single technique for everything and likely has many different tools in its toolbox with a selector on top to know how to leverage each appropriately.
That only holds up if consumers are either withheld almost all information, or simply don't care.

To be clear, administration doesn't create law - only legislation does. Regulation only makes sense if its enforcing the will of the people. If the people have access to the basics, like what Koch industries actually does or a record of the most recent safety issues with Boeing planes, they can act themselves. Why do we need a heavy and every-growing web of regulators and centralized authority to enforce this?

If a company is screwing with the environment in ways that I am not okay with, why wouldn't I just stop giving them my money rather than waiting for regulators to eventually catch up and hope that both regulators aren't bought by special interests and that they leave no loop holes?

> this kind of “unfettered” capitalism.

What does this mean exactly? What is fettered capitalism in your definition, and when does it stop being capitalism at all? As far as I see it, capitalism like free speech is an all or nothing affair. I'm totally okay with people choosing to not want the risks of free speech or capitalism, but it isn't a spectrum as the value if both is lost as soon as you start putting guard rails on it.
If you are willing to maintain laws that perpetuate artificial shortages and therefore high rents, and the decades long wait lists that this type of policy creates, and tens of thousands of lives, if not hundreds of thousands of lives that this will make worse in every city, all to prevent people who have been living at far below market rates, likely for decades, then I would say we have a different moral calculus.

I see robust public housing as only sustainable solution for people getting priced out of a neighborhood.

>As per your comment, I'd say zoning laws and NIMBY are bigger fruits hanging lower than rent stabilization.

Again, I support some form of stabilization, but my entire point is that the NIMBY policies are, in large part, caused by the policy of rent-control itself. I could go into how 'golden handcuffs' cause this, but I feel like I've talked your ear off too much already.

You obviously care a lot about this, I only wish I could communicate my complicated position better.
The statement “EVs won’t seriously do anything about global warming” is explicitly a global one, not limited to the USA (or you could have said US warming).
I think calling it "Open-source" is misleading considering its license.
It's technically a different algorithm just under the same "monte carlo" name.

However something interesting of note is that since most applications of monte carlo methods rely on PRNGs instead of true RNGs, they are technically deterministic (as given the same PRNG seed you should always get the same result for a given input).

So what this algorithm is doing instead of using a normal PRNG and a separate heuristic, is to instead query the neural network. This works because the neural net is an heuristic over a massive search space which ends up acting like a very poor PRNG that is heavily biased towards specific results based on the training of the neutal net, which in turn ends up looking like a PRNG with a set of heuristics applied.

The important thing to note is that this is a specialisation of MCTS and as such shouldn't technically work for all use cases.
…author took on issue without engaging with maintainers first, and is incorporating paid features, and it was 2 years ago…
Never said they had to be. Prosecutors can get very creative with plea bargains. Executives receive no punishment or admission of guilt, and in exchange, the FAA gets to make Boeing its playground.
That's why many only use Bluetooth to create an ad-hoc wifi network and do the transfer on that instead.

Airdrop even requires bluetooth.
No, there is no visible sign for AI to replace coders beyond interview assignments. And that holds true across domains other than programming - various university and institutional exams.

I won't be sure as to where you are geographically, though if I was to predict - jobs are harder to find a) because they are shifting to third world countries or b) in third-world countries due to a large work force
It's a bit late on a Sunday night for me, but that said..

It strikes me as a bit odd that it automatically assumes you want alpha transparency if the percentages do not sum 100%. I can't say I'd feel like I have some argument for why not. Maybe it's just my gut feeling that is like, transparency is so much more declarative elsewhere like "rgbA". I would have probably guessed it would be white or black by default.

It also strikes me as odd that you have to add a "p2" color/parameter called "transparent" if you just want to make a color a bit transparent. Like if you're going to automatically just force transparency as the default thing to choose for two colors which don't sum as 100%, then why not do something similar here, default the third parameter so I can just do `color-mix(in srgb, blue 20%)`
I mean... bankers, lawyers, doctors, stockbrokers, heck even my kid's school teachers... we're surrounded by people we have to trust at some level are doing their job and seeking to do their best by us. Being overly skeptical does us little good.
Did they provide you with Instructions for Use as a lay person? This might contain the legalese on what is or isn't permissible.

The company is required to have a complaint handling process, such that you making them aware of these vulnerabilities would mean they have to at least handle the feedback.

Maybe your findings can be rephrased in a way that don't require you to show how vulnerable their servers are, but that you suspect it's unsafe.
I think the message of the rest of the comment thread is that a door has two states, "open" and "closed", and the processes around those states know about both of them and handle them appropriately.

Whereas a door plug can't be opened and only has one state, "installed", but the internal processes treated it as if it were a door, generating the documentation that would be appropriate for opening and closing a door (nothing) rather than the documentation that would be appropriate for removing and reinstalling a structural element.

Then, when the door plug wasn't reinstalled correctly, there was no system checking whether it had been "closed", because that concept doesn't apply to door plugs. Whereas an actual door, if it had been left open, would still have generated no relevant documentation, but the plane wouldn't have taken off in that state because the problem would have been obvious.
Read your comment and went to Amazon (UK) to buy one, but the description makes no claim of removing microplastics but mercury, lead, and the filter itself is made of plastics so I’m confused
Whose shoe did they scrape this idea from the bottom of?

A curtain. Manufactured from what? Manufactured how? Transported how? Installed how? Maintained how?

Fossil. Fuels.

This kind of band-aid thinking needs to stop.

We need to take a good look at our ridiculous unsustainable life-styles, and make some hard decisions about whether we need a stupid over-sized pickup truck and a new phone, or if we need an actual future for us all.
It’s not in Microsoft Store, but it can be installed via WinGet on Windows machines:

winget install LocalSend.LocalSend
While it's vital that we remain aware of any attempt to manipulate our perceptions of reality (via social media, advertising, the press, government outreach), this report reads like a takedown piece.
Exploring Bauhaus: Revolutionary design school that shaped modern world
The distro maintainers should make sure the operating system works well on its own. For what needs to be customized there can be a settings application and individual applications can expose ways for themselves to be customized.
Individual Private offices are superior in almost every way for makers.

Additionally, open concept war rooms for a small startup team can be useful to maintain for everyone to sit together in escalated times.

In addition to this, remote can work better as hybrid with the above two satisfied.

Some employers seem to require remote employees to have a dedicated office. Seems understandable as there can be different distractions at home to go with the benefits.
I don’t know about Zero Water. I recently purchased a water distiller to make distilled water for my humidifier.

I’d read that it wouldn’t taste that good. But I found it tastes fine to me. As a bonus, boiling hard water can eliminate microplastics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/02/28/...
Roman Emperor Caligula's coffee table
A useful utility for sharing (upload and download) files over a local LAN that a friend wrote is https://github.com/akovacs/uploadserver - it's basically a nicer version of:

python -m http.server 8000

You first start one server on a desktop/laptop which has the software, and then any client (Android, iOS, PlayStation, Kindle, etc) with a web browser (no need to install any client software) can upload or download files from it.

You can download prebuilt binaries for x86-64 Linux, Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OS 10.7 Lion or higher (sorry, no prebuilt binaries for Apple Silicon, but they could be added if there is sufficient demand) from https://github.com/akovacs/uploadserver/releases/ or compile from source using a nightly rust toolchain if you prefer.

Start the file server on a desktop machine:

chmod +x upload_server
./upload_server

Determine your machine's IP address using:

# Linux
hostname -I

# Mac
ifconfig

# Windows
ipconfig

Navigate to the server's ip address port 8000 (indicated by the hostname -I command you ran earlier) in the web browser of your choice on any device (no need to download or install any client applications) and upload files using the web UI or directly via curl:

curl -X POST --data-binary @file_to_upload.txt http://192.168.1.X:8000/uploaded_file.txt

Then download the file to another machine or mobile device either from the web GUI or via a commandline tool:

curl http://192.168.1.X:8000/uploads/uploaded_file.txt --output downloaded_file.txt

If you don't have a local network, you can setup an adhoc hotspot on any Android 9+ (Settings > Network & internet > Hotspot & tethering https://support.google.com/android/answer/9059108) or iPhone (Settings > Personal Hotspot), then connect to it using any WiFi-enabled device.

Compared to cloud services or `python -m http.server 8000`, this is extremely fast since the server is written in rust, it is fairly simple (compiled and stripped binary is typically less than 3MB), it sends everything over local LAN, it seems to handle large files (over 4GB) fairly well, and you only need to install the software on one machine.
Idk if I’d take that explanation at face value.

I’m trying to recall a time in my career where I’ve heard this phrase and it was actually a technical problem. Most of the time this is a dismissive response that is more political than it is technical. And let’s be honest — we’re the ones inventing the architecture of the applications. If a feature is desired but it “conflicts with the architecture” then you figure out how to resolve the conflict.
I swear in about a 100 years from now people are gonna want to exhume the graves and defile and mutilate and urinate upon the corpses of everyone who said "Who's going to pay for that?"
A reasonably-complete grid is available at https://wiki.vg/Server_List, typically updated by the devs themselves as this the main minecraft dev wiki.
FoxNews has gone straight tabloid, but CNN still looks somewhat like news. It’s when they get into the tabloidy stories that I begin to see something is off. But CNN is just trying to make money, and ironically, is copying FoxNews’s formula in preaching to the child and stoking biases to rake in that ad money (because at the end of the day, both really only care about making money, and changing minds rather than reinforcing them isn’t very profitable).
Open source; Closed contribution