skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A debate I like to chuck into a group of drunk friends: do dogs have gender?

They very obviously have sex and primary sexed characteristics, like most mammals. But gender seems to require some level of culture to really be defined, e.g. "girls wear dresses and listen to Taylor Swift." Girl dogs... Have pink bows put on them by their humans?

I've had many dogs and beyond mating habits I can't say my male and female dogs have consistently different behavior corresponding with their sex. Maybe if I spoke dog it would be obvious, and we could listen to this dog in the article working through newfound gender dysphoria at the doctors choosing the wrong surgery lol.
What is "capabilities" supposed to mean?
Chicago claims house. Detroit claims techno. They aren’t exactly the same.
> Someone did the banner first and everyone thinks that’s what you need to do to comply and everyone copied.

I don't think so. Most sites have teams big enough to know what they are doing, and they know this is the only way to "comply" while still being able to continue business as usual.
I intended "battleship" in a generic manner to include the carriers which are currently being built.
So basically they have the patience, the cash stockpile, and the management culture to support large multi-year product field testing with non-employees.
I wonder how this compares to using zstd with a dictionary.
Just do what everyone else does and teach your kid to drive your car in a parking lot whenever they can reach the pedals. I knew to drive by like 10.
What's "reverse ETL"?

Also what's Temporal.io? They have one of those useless marketing website that tell me to "write the code you want, not what you're forced to" and that it "delivers new development primitives".
Vishy Anand resigning was an absolute GM level move.
Yes but seniors are particularly vulnerable.
Yep - plus it also helps that we have the Atlantic and a lot of Europe between us and a potential invasion.
Most anyone who climbs Everest knows their approximate altitude based on certain landmarks (waypoints) that are very well known. The most obvious of which are the camps (1 through 4) but there are other landmarks that are well known.

If you're going off the main route however, then it's a bit of a different story.
Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
Well, since the article title says 2023 I'm wondering why you're bringing up the (excellent) withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021, successfully ending a forever war.
Look at the bigscreen vr headset!
Most people !== everyone by definition :)

I do think my situation fits current society more though. Families under one roof consuming media only through the shared TV is less and less how the (at least Western) world operates.
Thanks for the example. We definitely would never have 3 hulu streams simultaneously while someone else was "running a work environment". At most we'd have 2 simultaneous streams, and we've never had buffering or noticeable degradation when that happened.

I guess we live the simple life!
America's regard for Israeli tech remains steadfast, says StageOne Ventures
It has become a parasitic way to make money. Technology has made it very little work with limited utility for consumers. Realtors gained wealth at the expense of consumers.
I think the complaint is that the vision pro can’t authenticate the wearer to the iphone. Just like using your apple watch to unlock a mac, the vision pro will probably eventually be able to set up a trusted relationship between the user and their phone, and fix this issue. That’s what I understood from “ecosystem fail”
> That or it's their franchisee's problem and they don't have any incentive to fix it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29326999
A St Patrick's Day DB Tale: Patrick's Unlucky Green Fedoras
You can blame Mr. Putin for starting a full scale war in Europe the like it has never seen since the second world war.

Profit or not, the price of security is assuredly all the other things we could be doing or focusing our attention on such as medical research, cleaner energy, etc.

But the fact that nobody wins in war, not even the Russian even in victory will acts a deterrence to further conflicts, as it is already a strategic defeat for Russia.
Ukraine is already a democratic state, Iraq was never a democratic state.
But they can't. Because if the user doesn't consent, the advertising network is not allowed to even be involved.

And most sites don't just use one tracking network but they use many (see some of the convoluted cookie banners where you have to turn off data sharing with several hundred "partners")
I have rules capturing words like "redpanda" to filter into a folder, which I monthly give a glance and delete all. This has been for many such spam where the "do not send" link/button never works.
I didn't see anything of the sort looking through the source code. I see it uses portals (or scrot) to take a screenshot, and spawns Tesseract as an external process.

https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher/blob/9e67760d6c16ea...

Tesseract itself seems to be included in the Flatpak as you'd expect:

https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher/blob/master/manifes...

Where did you get that?
Probably Capability based security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
Here [1] is a video on this topic by Johnny Harris from a couple years ago. It's been a while since I watched it but IIRC there is a conflicting relationship between specifically McDonalds the corporation and Taylor which benefits both of them but screws over the individual franchise owners. Here is an interactive map [2] that shows where all the broken machines are.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4 [video][30 mins]

There is a sponsor ad from 06:49 to 08:47

[2] - https://mcbroken.com/
Is the DMCA worth keeping? There have been many anti-consumer news stories citing the DMCA as the linch pin.
Sometimes i wonder, how i got so far im my software developer career...
ATT has account passcodes, but not sure how high up of an employee you have to be at ATT to do a SIM swap without a customer’s passcode.
lol, indeed, that is the full monty
Even with lots of house building, the market rate will not get low enough to make it economical to house most of these people.

Given the unmet demand for density right now, it will take a lot of building in a lot of metros for there to be a significant decrease in rents in urban centers. Even with really a ton of building in SF, we are talking 25% reduction in rent when these people would have trouble even with a 50% reduction in market rents.

Massachusetts has recognized this problem, which is why most new vouchers are in Fall River, MA rather than Boston - it is much cheaper to house.
The real answer here is REMOVING the DMCA on criminalizing reverse engineering and DRM.

If its your property, you should legally speaking tell any OTHER company to rightly fuck off about restrictions on your property.

Intellectual property rights (copyright, patent, trademark) should NOT have any ground in restricting property rights of things directly owned. Instead, we see shit like Iphones where they use the term "SELL", and then continual and ongoing restrictions by the FORMER OWNER.

If a company wants to maintain control, they should RENT it, with an explicit, simple to read rental agreement.
Here's a matrix multiplication using Winograd's algorithm (that you describe), implemented in Go (very small code):

https://bugfix-66.com/983cb3a3a37dbe8e82edea6298988f03d2a1a4...
Thank you! Saving this for my next time in Czechia <3
That's 2 civilians as contrasted to 118 from a massacre that is part of a genocide fully endorsed (using its veto power at the UN) and supported (with weapons deliveries) by the United States:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-aid-convoy-deaths-al...
Even the Feds Are Tired of McDonald's Broken Ice Cream Machines
>That's only because we have no way to measure it, not because it's not also a physical problem

People say the same thing about God.

Measurability is a fundamental requirement of science for something to be tested or studied systematically.
If only people would read to the end before reacting.

I have no plans to ever visit Vancouver or indeed Canada; I'm interested in how the word is pronounced for the purpose of reading the article. It's not worth it to me to spend half an hour figuring out the pronunciation of a single word. I'm already multilingual and familiar with a range of diacritical marks; it might take other people much longer to put it together. That's why it would make sense for the writers of an English-language article to provide some sort of pronunciation pointer.
You ok bro? I mean, lets put these two of your statements together:

> If [yada yada] then unemployment would not be so low.

Which seems to indicate that you do believe unemployment is low, but

> the numbers mean the same they have been artificially influenced by other factors

which seems to indicate that you disbelieve the evidence that unemployment is low...

The reason I ask if you are OK is that this is exactly the kind of thing which happens--to me as much as anybody--when you are feeling depressed. Any reasons to be optimistic (e.g. unemployment is low) are immediately discounted (e.g. its low because minimum wage hasn't kept up), or even just flat-out denied (unemployment isn't even low, because the numbers are cooked.)

Which is bad enough, but all the reasons for pessimism get magnified (e.g. purchasing power hasn't kept ups). The result is a self-reinforcing cycle of pessimism, which makes you completely immune to things which would ordinarily cheer you up and help you out of the trap.

> artificially influenced...the ability to measure the economy through unemployment has been nerfed....

Yeah. The danger with this kind of skepticism is where does it stop? I mean, sure, if you want to use the unemployment numbers as a source of information, you should know what is being measured and how its being measured. But to just dismiss this metric out of hand--when every other economist in the world follows it closely and thinks its useful--is just too facile. You can doubt anything. And it can trap you in a bad place. I hope you are all right.
Depends on the company. 2000s-Google valued former founders very highly - I was one, as was my manager, as were about a half dozen of my coworkers. Certain teams within Google still do - we've got 4 indie app developers on my team in Play. Reportedly Facebook also values ex-founders highly (or did during their growth phase, I dunno if they still do), and Coinbase seemed very happy to pick up another crypto-adjacent founder when I applied. On the flip side, Apple offered me a position as a retail sales associate, Stripe seemed to want implementors that didn't ask questions, and Netflix didn't know what to do with me.

I've found that what the recruitment process is looking for is a pretty good filter for the type of environment that you'd want to work in, though. If you're the type of personality who was a founder for many years, you probably will not be happy in an environment where you're asked to put your head down and do what your manager tells you.
True, good point. But it's very very hard to do that on an aircraft because space is at a huge premium. You simply don't have infinite space around the pedals. Or other controls for that matter. For example a clipboard could fall on the center pedestal and flip one of the gazillion switches. Luckily most important ones have barriers around them, or other safeguards like the need to lift up the lever before moving it.
You can request a copy of your LexisNexis report here and if you're a resident of certain states you can have them delete your data and stop collecting:

https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request
Because they're able to understand what is actually valuable to their customers, and they'll go the extra mile to make sure that what matters is done properly.

It's comparable to why 'Google Video Search' lost out to youtube way back in the day. The google engineer nerds couldn't understand why no one liked their product: it had all these options for uploading video with the best quality and all these formats, while youtube had worse quality and few options. They missed the point and didn't understand the users, and were caught up in the tech rather than what was actually valuable to the users (basically: dead simple to 'just upload a video' - quality doesn't matter as much as that).

Kinda like how Mark Z. has been talking about how the Oculus has similar resolution. It's not the tech specs that make the product - those are necessary but not sufficient. If the product is supposed to be AR: then it needs to actually be AR. And that means. e.g., that details like virtual shadows on real surfaces MUST be included, and must actually work properly. If it's not, then it's only kinda-AR. That's the kind of long tail that Apple understands, and other companies don't. The tech must fit the users, and the experience must be complete.
The loss of goodwill and fatigue limits our actions for more necessary circumstances.

Perhaps Iraq wouldn't be a democracy, but our support of Ukraine would be more full-throated, and maybe our political circumstance would be better off.
Iraq is a democratic state now and arguably has been one for longer than Ukraine. Ukraine has only recently become a democratic state (last 15 years) and still has issues.
Grad school is for just a few years (usually) in your youth. Overwork can be decades of grind when you have a family and obligations where you can't just quit.
> Why is there no competition in the commercial-grade ice cream machine market?

Maybe patents? That's what they're for, after all.
> Every language I've ever seen with garbage collection has gone through decades of "now the garbage collection is better" or "just wait until the next version, garbage collection will be better".

Ok but the Go example I linked is already in production, right now, you can use it. This isn't a "it will get better in two releases" situation, Go's GC as of today has pause times that are sub-millisecond. The Java Shenandoah example I linked is still mostly in beta, but it's also something you can use right now, though admittedly it'll probably be awhile before it's in a mainline release.

> This is besides the point of performance and no longer talking about reality, it's just FUD from a "what if" future.

It's not "just FUD", there are dozens of reported security issues that have happened because of bad manual memory management problems. Off the top of my head, Heartbleed was a famous case.

This isn't me badmouthing anyone; manual memory management is hard to get right, even for very smart people.

> Right, but you get it by avoiding allocation and avoiding the garbage collector the same way avoiding allocation in C++ is important, but in julia it won't be woven in to the performance, it will cause big pauses.

Fair enough, I did look at the code for the official benchmarks (https://github.com/JuliaLang/Microbenchmarks/blob/master/per...) and outside of the integer parsing code it does indeed seem to avoid dynamic allocations so I will concede that the benchmarks might be a bit more skewed compared to real-world code.

I still get a hunch that if you compared it allocation-heavy Julia to malloc+free-heavy C++ the differences wouldn't really be that far off, but that's just a hunch and I don't have data to back that up; might be a fun test to write though, so maybe I'll try that this weekend.

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Sort of tangential, but I also do think that there's value in having decent concurrency constructs built into the language. With C++, if you stick to built-ins you are basically stuck with mutexes and despite what people like to pretend, getting correct code with mutexes is really really hard to get right, and very easy to screw up in a non-obvious way. If you allow yourself to use libraries, then you have stuff like ZeroMQ and OpenMP and stuff, so it's really not that dire realistically. However, I think there's value in having nice, easy to use concurrency constructs in the language other than mutexes, and I do wonder if as a result of that it encourages people to utilize multiple threads more frequently, because they don't have to worry about weird deadlock situations as much.

Again, I believe Rust actually does address this because of the single-owner-enforced-at-compile-time stuff, but I haven't used it enough to really draw a conclusion on it.
Totally agree. Best thing about working a life-long career with computers is that you can get away from them quite easily, leave your phone at home, turn off your monitor.

Every time I see an intent by companies to increment my time spent with a computer, to watch their ads, buy another thing I don't need ... I know that I should be doing the exact opposite.
You can reference specific move numbers from specific master games to compress. But you still need to compress how you store those master games. What you're describing for mid/late game might make more sense like this: you use a fixed version of stockfish to suggest moves (depth and version should be locked to static values so it reproduces the same engine move each time). If it's within the first 8 suggestions, you can flag that it's an engine move with 4 bits. Decompression time is significantly larger, but it maximizes the space for cpu trade-off.
>since the article title says 2023 I'm wondering why you're bringing up the (excellent) withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021

It says record, so my question is:
Which was bigger, the value of the assets left in Afghanistan in 2021, or the 81 billion transferred in 2023?
It places the minimum bar at known place, and that known place is anti-consumer. So now all companies know that they don't have to any more than have a certified repair center program.

What's that you sa? The requirements on certification are impossibly high. Oh noes.
I couldn't finish the entire article. At first I was impressed but soon the article descends into that particular flavor of business oriented self-help that is just repeating clichés.

One thing he suggests that I disagree with is making decisions fast. He suggests one ought not hesitate and to set a timer and to force oneself to make the decision in 60 seconds. My own experience is that making a decision on a deadline is extremely important (agree so far) but I set the deadline as far in the future as possible. That is, I try to identify "when does this decision have to be made" and then I stick to that date. I also ensure than every important decision I have to make is made after I have slept on it.

Stated another way, I don't make decisions hastily and I allow decisions to percolate in my subconscious for as long as possible. But once the deadline arrives, I make the decision without hesitation. I trust that my subconscious will have worked on the problem in the time I have given it. I believe that while I sleep it is able to get the most work done.
Think of a reusable Sea Dragon that can lift off from land.
I worked in telecom for many years.

Retail employees would perform sim swaps at locations I worked at for about $250-300. This was circa 2006 so I’m not surprised that people do it for $1000 with inflation.

The reality is that cell phone employees are paid just above minimum wage, so asking them to protect a system that has the capacity for multiple millions of fraud by simply changing a sim is hard.

The good news is that they made it much much harder for retail employees to access your account without your consent. You almost universally need a pin or last 4 of a social to access a customer account now without a manager override.

This is a huge improvement from the time I worked entry-level retail at AT&T when I could see any customer’s full social or tax ID by typing their phone number into the point of sale!

Imagine being 18, poor as fuck, and able to see anyone’s financial information. I was moral, but I knew tons of people who just took out loans as if they were the customer committing massive fraud. It was very hard for AT&T to catch this kind of identity theft. I’m glad systems are becoming safer over time.
There were many attempts at that, JetBrains MPS (metaprogramming studio) comes to mind, but all them feel clunky and constrained.

Many proprietary programming systems do follow this model, like Mathematica and visual IDEs like PLC programmers. But to bring it to wide programming audience we need to agree on an open format for representing syntax trees and implement several editors for typical use cases, from ultra-lightweight slow-connection-SSH-capable to more or less fully featured IDEs. Though I don't know much details about them, tree-sitter and language server protocol could be centers of crystallization for such software. I hope we'll see interesting developments in this space.
Counterexample (working solution): https://imgur.com/a/VxDJc6M, level 9

* all the tiles are used: yes

* every part of every tile visited: no. bottom right tile is not visited at all; the dangling path of the three-way tile is not visited

* elegant: no. Dangling paths.
The automotive market before Tesla, the smartphone market before the iPhone, bookstores before Amazon, social media before TikTok, etc. And those are just high profile examples, there are thousands of new businesses launched every year into existing, "saturated" markets and not all of them fail. Sure, marketing is a component of success but innovation can and does succeed, every day. And of course the lean startup approach doesn't apply only to innovative businesses, it's just a philosophy for proving out your market and solution by experiment rather than by theory.
I don’t see it as an ideal future if they don’t let you have root and run unsigned code. A dystopia created by the ad industry seems way more likely.
I see the expected comments about addressing symptoms here. Yes, intellectual property lock-in is bad. Confusion over why McDonald's put up with this (as in, in an idealized view of a free market, that problem would resolve itself).

The problem is capitalism. And it's working as intended.

IP, by definition, is just an enclosure [1]. McDonald's the corporation has an adversarial relationship with its franchisees and you see this in every franchise. The head corporation will simply try to extract the maximum possible wealth from their franchisees, even to their detriment.

Profits tend to decrease over time. To keep profits growing, it inevitably leads to cutting quality to lower costs and predating on your customers, franchisees and employees.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
> When at a previous company I set up an SSH CA, we found an SSH MITM within 3 days (though benign; an ISP-provided modem/router was resolving all hostnames to itself when the WAN was down), and the user was planning on just accepting the new SSH host key.

Wouldn't that be a problem with TOAU? :)
How do you know your false positive rate if you ignore the reports?
Expat is understaffed and without funding
>No other PC will have this level of integration.

"640K software is all the memory anybody would ever need on a computer."
Trading democracy for the 43 million people in Iraq for more full-throated support for the 45 million people of Ukraine seems like a bad trade given our current level of support is still preserving democracy in Ukraine.
SMS is a bad “something you have”. Your phone number is just something temporarily routed to your device, with varying degrees of temporary
Especially when the $20k to the realtor isn't the full story. A usual realtor's pay would be:

$20,000 commission:

- 30% ($6,000) split with brokerage (Keller Williams/Remax/Etc)

- 25% ($5,000) to set aside for taxes

- $799 for MLS fees (estimated at .12%)

- 20% ($4,000) for team splits

Leaving $4,201 for the agent, for what may be their only transaction for a month.

The reason NAR/brokers were so hellbent on not changing how the fees were handled is because this is going to hit them the hardest, a majority of these fees go to the broker/NAR.