skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true at all. Many, many professors have time to write books, launch startups, and yes, run YouTube channels.

And the topic here is Hossenfelder, whose videos are almost entirely just standing and talking at the camera. These aren't Veritasium level production and frequency.
> What the change is actually doing: If you are the licensed publisher of a retro game collection, you can now offer them in one app (including perhaps downloading additional games added to the collection later) instead of splitting them into individual apps.

How is this different than the one-app retro games collections that Apple has always allowed?

(1) https://toucharcade.com/2011/04/06/atari-brings-100-retro-ti... (2) https://www.engadget.com/2012-02-24-midway-arcade-brings-jou... (3) https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/21/15845580/sega-forever-ret...
Is "guage" some sort of joke that I don't get or just a misspelling?
> ... PostgreSQL package.

Is it able to automatically upgrade people from older PG versions?

If not, the MIT licensed code from here might be worth looking through and grabbing ideas from? :)

https://github.com/pgautoupgrade/docker-pgautoupgrade

Specifically the scripting here is the bulk of it, the majority of the other stuff is just the existing docker entrypoint code from the official Docker PG container:

https://github.com/pgautoupgrade/docker-pgautoupgrade/blob/0...
> Sales is mostly just lying to collect a commission check.

Depends on the type of sales. A pretty good indicator is how many times a customer makes a purchase from the same salesperson. If it's just one purchase (like ERP consulting) it could be grifty/etc like in this case. If they're buying from the same guy for years, there's often very different types of salespeople. I used to think all salespeople fit the sketchy used car salesman type, but after working with great salespeople I know better. This is a big blind spot for us techical/engineering types.
Worse than useless -- net negative -- everything related to Iraq/Afghanistan. I didn't go over there because I thought it was a good idea (nation building in either place is dumb, and any conflict at all in Iraq was dumb), and while individual projects sometimes made things locally better (like, speeding up network connectivity on a specific base), it was overall a dumb project which made things worse because it was done. Got paid pretty well, met interesting people, learned a lot, did stuff I'd never have gotten a chance to do otherwise, but yeah, net-negative.
It’s worse when you’re maintaining and entire system to generate one page in one report that is attached to the end of a board document once a year.

If the report stayed identical for ten years it’s likely nobody would notice or care.
It's about the journey, not the destination.

Many times I worked on implementing fixes/performance improvements, spent many hours finding very complex solutions, implementing them, debugging them, testing, improving, etc., only for them to become obsolete immediately after release just because browsers released a new version/API that was 2x better out of the box.

It happens a lot in software development, and I got used to it. I know that everything I develop is ephemeral. It could be used for many years, only a few days or maybe never released.
All software is DOA, its replacement just hasn’t been built yet.
> When it appears in diverse multiple places simultaneously, I generally believe someone is coordinating a media campaign. You may think that's paranoid but look at the merits of the argument: how else is it explained? They didn't coincidentally think of the exact same argument

This counterargument?

I think my comment still applies. One of them had an original thought and the other copied them.

However, on further research I think at least with this article you are correct. The guy works for Chainguard [1] so he has a financial interest in the Iron Bank no longer existing.

The guys previous article for Log4J [1] is arguing for public funds to be spent auditing OSS. And given his current work I don't think he's against FOSS; just as long as you get the FOSS through him.

[1]: https://www.chainguard.dev/

[2]: https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2022/08/military-should-red...
The link below is a video showing the explosion that would occur if someone attempted what you are describing.

https://youtu.be/LCRfYIwFbxQ
use when i'm tired of picking obfuscated Fumo plushies or Minecraft screencaps on https://4get.ca/. i don't even know what a Fumo plushie is, never mind six of them.
I am not so sure about that. She got her PhD in 2003 and is somehow still a "postdoctoral researcher" [0]. In Europe anyone with that academic age is normally a full professor, perhaps with some country-specific exceptions for some lesser gods (like a senior lecturer in the UK).

[0] https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/people/faculty/...
> Myself and my ancient h/w and s/w engineering friends have been having a discussion recently about how the modern C++ language features are generating code that is not readily debugged at the source level.

What specific features do you have in mind? I generally believe this is because DWARF and debuggers haven't been keeping up, not because of inherent limitations.
The "cloud" is just overpriced VPSs....
Your first paragraph doesn't even begin to address my question.

When I was an undergrad struggling with physics classes myself, I might have worshipped high IQs like you're doing.

Now that I've been in the real world and known many "geniuses" - IQ is just one factor, and far from the most important, in determining who does anything worthwhile. In my experience, the only thing you can confidently say about super math/physics geniuses is that they have "different" social skills, and might be low in empathy.
I'd suggest that 50kw/h is way too small and way too large.

A car rental setup would benefit from having a couple big DCFC setups where cars are inspected / cleaned.

EVs charge fast if the battery is empty (and warm) -- so the car comes in, is inspected and cleaned and put on a fast charger, and in 20 minutes will get to ~50% charge (regardless of battery size).

As far as "not efficient" or "nobody uses" well, 240 (or 208 if you're in a commercial setup with 2 legs of a 3 phase) is "normal" and a 16a / 20a / 24a AC charger will put reasonable charge on the car while it's just sitting there waiting to be rented again. EV's don't need to be fully charged to be useful so you don't need to put the battery back to 100% before sending it out again.

"your car is at 60% charge and has 180 miles of range right now; your car's nav will tell you where to charge if you need more range to get to where you're going. We'll bill for the power if you bring it back to us at less that 60% full. Have a nice day!"

I'm not sure what the turnover is for a rental lot -- I suspect "it depends" but I suspect it's not unusual to have cars on the lot for 6-12 hours before they're sent out again.

IMO As long as the car has 60% or better charge (or, 150-180 miles of range) it's "good to go". At least for most "airport rental in a major metro area" situation.

As far as charging efficiency -- anything charging at 240/208v is "good enough" -- the differences between 16a or 20a or 24a or whatever are minor relative to the bump from 120v to 240v.
Yeah, there's not much point bothering if you're limited to a touchscreen

And if you're going to the effort of using a separate controller, you might as well use a separate gaming device.
I've been a fan of the idea, but some time after following it I got a strong impression that people started pushing more and more edgy stuff for fun. It felt like either they're made up, or lots of people need serious psych help. (Lots of fairly brutal fantasies of self/others/animal harm)

It's been a few years now and I'm glad to see it's mostly back to how I remembered it from the beginning.
Because its associated with bad things. And associated with bad things makes the thing bad too.

No other thinking required
If my employer wants me “on call” and accessable, they can either:

A) provide a phone.
B) pay for part of my personal bill; but no MDM allowed.
C) be ok with me not always being available. I enter the job like this. I state I am also a firefighter, if I don’t answer, I’m involved. Managers can manage.
Oh, you'll probably want to use "make install-world" rather than "make install". The "-world" version also includes many PG extensions when it runs, which is likely beneficial. :)

https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/src/branch/main/packages/...
https://archive.is/KfOgw
I use AdGuard Pro on iOS Safari. I generally never see ads. The experience is pretty close to ublock origin on the desktop.
I don't think you need to shut down that distribution. Because fundamentally, existing costumers often continue to buy existing product at existing prices, as long as they get a faster product. This was something that Gordon Bell pointed out. Existing costumers are design to work at that level of expense. Expensive graphics workstations and rendering servers and so on still exist.
Sure it would go down eventually as all business does in the long run.

The real failure is not picking up new business along the way. With the N64 they showed they could design a consumer product. But outside of that they were in no future consoles. 3dfx and ArtX both came from former SGI. You don't need to stop selling workstations just because you make chips for consoles and other such devices. Nvidia barely survived and might not have if not for consoles. There are other markets where their expertise could have been applied.

Surviving changes like that often requires finding other markets. And then when it comes to making hard choices you need to cut part of the thing that is unprofitable. But this is really hard to do and in some ways it goes against the 90s US corporate philosophy of focusing only on the 'Core' business. DEC for example sold profitable business units that might have been helpful to have. DEC had a printer business and had the potential for a Database business. Oracle calls RDB one of the best acquisitions.
I don't think you know how infinitesimal the amount of power would be. Assuming a Mavic Mini traveling at its maximum speed of 29 miles per hour, it could cross the continental united states in 99 hours for 36 cents worth of electricity.
I don't know -- MIT's tuition and educational expenditures roughly match (it's a slight loss). Of course it's also a minor percentage of the budget.

Tuition at my partner's New York private high school (she graduated 35 years ago) just hit $61K. OTOH my own high school (also private) spends over 70K/student and charges 20K tuition, though tuition revenue/student is under 10K. This might be an example of the subsidy.
1. Because this wasn't any old vulnerability, this was a backdoor placed there intentionally. 2. Because such attacks are rare (or perhaps rarely noticed), with the previous high-profile one being a backdoor attempt in the kernel in 2003. 3. Because this is the first high-profile open-source backdoor since tensions began to rise WRT cyber warfare with Russia and China.
Stop deleting your comments. It vandalizes the thread.
Thank you for your suggestion, but no.

This wasn't explored recently. It's been a year at least since this was discussed. The work comes from an academic researcher in a CS or Engineering department. I'm interested because it presents a much higher-level view of optimization beyond micro-optimization where people worry about such things as cache effects and such, which would be bound to micro-architectural implementation choices.
anything nonspecific enough to share re: results? how'd/s Azure fare relative?
Second is spy drones.
Time-LLM: Time Series Forecasting by Reprogramming Large Language Models
"Calhoun’s 2023 awards were designed to emphasize the importance of long-term shareholder value growth"

He was awarded lots of shares that he can't cash out yet, apparently
I'm sighted but goshdarnit some of the little accessibility features that microsoft have worked into their products are super useful. Readaloud for example in Edge, a lifesaver when you have to trawl thru azure docs at doublespeed.

My biggest beef with Microsoft around accessibility is how keyboard shortcuts are slowly dying out as apps move to becoming embedded webapps. Excel on windows for example has great keyboard navigability. Teams does not.
The only prototypes are extremely personal. Once you show it to anyone else, it’s production.
I created a world with Gertrude and Kyglore the World Slayer, it did not disappoint and actually told a entertaining story with Gertrude prevailing. "Warning: Presence of 'Kyglore the World Slayer' threatens integrity and stability of universe simulation. Recommend caution when activating this entity."
Actually, I should qualify this.

If you use a PaaS (platform as a service, e.g. Heroku, DO App Platform, AWS EB), they might assume your app to be stateless and do things like restart it at will.

If you use a VPS (virtual private server, e.g. DO Droplet, AWS EC2), this certainly shouldn’t happen, but of course it requires some Linux skills to maintain your VPS.

So it’s basically a trade-off between engineering your app to fit a PaaS or hand-managing your VMs (though the latter is usually the cheaper option).
Fun fact, not only that, since their support for "embedded languages" is second to none:

import re
if re.match(r'[aoeui', sys.argv[1]):
print('ok!')

is a red error in the ide because it understands regex syntax, and similar if it can either prove what the syntax is (based on its position, as seen in that re.match), or in all cases one can annotate the string literal to have it help you:

# language=json
not_json = """
{"oops:true}
"""
json.loads(not_json)

is similarly marked as red because that's not json

it's turtles all the way down:

# language=yaml
gitlab_yaml = """
stages:
- build
my build:
image: docker.io/library/busybox
after_cript:
# language=sh
- |
if true; then
echo "awesome"
fi
"""

spots the suspicious "after_cript" (in yellow, because it cannot prove it's wrong, just suspicious) and then it also highlights the embedded shell script in the embedded yaml string literal

Regrettably, it doesn't seem to run the shell validity checks on injected shell scripts, but I think that's a bug and not a limitation of the platform
For me, more money == more motivation, nothing else
Author here. We've spent the past year adding read committed isolation to CockroachDB.

There were many interesting design decisions, such as:

- whether to use multiple snapshots or a single snapshot per statement

- how to handle read uncertainty intervals

- how to incorporate SELECT FOR UPDATE locking into Raft

- how to handle SELECT FOR UPDATE subqueries

- how to prevent lost update anomalies between two UPDATEs

Some of the gory details are in the public RFC: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...

This blog post just discusses the last point, but please AMA.
Sooooo.... maybe nobody should be forced into meaningless soul-crushing fake corporate jobs?
There is definitely a large groups of Catholics and Protestants who are associating Lavender with Virgin Mary, Jesus’s birth, and others who believe it goes back to the garden of Eden and Adam and Eve.

One hypothesis is a confusing Spikenard, here is what GPT4 says about that:

> Yes, there can be some confusion between spikenard and lavender, partly due to historical naming conventions and translations of ancient texts. The confusion often stems from the use of the term "nard" or "spikenard" in historical texts, including the Bible, and how it has been interpreted or translated over the centuries.
> Spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi) and lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) are indeed different plants, both botanically and in terms of their historical and cultural significance. However, the confusion might arise because both were used in ancient times for their aromatic properties and were considered valuable for perfumes, medicinal purposes, and religious rituals.The term "nard" comes from the Sanskrit word "narada," while "spikenard" refers specifically to Nardostachys jatamansi. The translation and interpretation of ancient texts, like the Bible, have sometimes led to a blending of these plant identities, especially when the specific botanical knowledge of the original texts was not fully understood or when names were translated in ways that did not precisely match the botanical realities.Additionally, the historical trade of these substances, along with others, through ancient markets might have contributed to the blending of their identities. Merchants and consumers across different cultures might not have always distinguished clearly between the two, especially given the value placed on aromatic herbs and oils in ancient times for both practical and symbolic uses.Despite these confusions, modern botanical and historical scholarship distinguishes clearly between spikenard and lavender, recognizing their unique characteristics and the distinct roles they have played in history and tradition.

As far as the message from IDF, my understanding is the true believers of Orthodox Judaism are actually both anti-muslim and anti-christian. The hidden message I take is “you Christians are fools, easily tricked, we have tricked you also, we laugh at you behind your back, and desecrate your beliefs as our weapons of war”.
What laws do you think making a bad tool violates?
Another very good web app emulator is https://afterplay.io. It also works very well within the browser or installed on the homescreen.
Can you give an example of any n-dimensional system where you can't make a basis of n perpendicular vectors?

"Right angle" isn't any kind of angle, it's the angle that means "perpendicular" . You don't necessarily need any other angles besides 0 (parallel) and right (perpendicular) in a system.
I think mainly the ability to download additional games, and more specifically, games emulated from a different platform rather than game content written as HTML/JavaScript.

I may be wrong about the bundling in terms of the collection, but I still think this is more about Apple's general stance on "stores within an app", and the rule change is folding retro game emulators in as another exception to that, and not a change primarily about emulator allowability in general.
Genuinely feel bad for the poor thing, they've lobotomised it so heavily.
The question isn't whether the ROMs are possible to obtain; it's whether there are sources of legitimate ROMs an app developer can direct users towards. The sites you're referring to are offering pirated ROMs.
C++ Insights is available online at https://cppinsights.io/

It is also available at a touch of a button within the most excellent https://godbolt.org/

along side the button that takes your code sample to https://quick-bench.com/

Those sites and https://cppreference.com/ are what I'm using constantly while coding.

I recently discovered https://whitebox.systems/ It's a local app with a $69 one-time charge. And, it only really works with "C With Classes" style functions. But, it looks promising as another productivity boost.
Please release it anonymously. I beg you
Checkpoint inhibitors are immunotherapies. The checkpoints they're inhibiting are immune checkpoints.
that link is about something more fundamental wrt the underlying calculus and how the differential notation used in these explanations can often be confusing especially when you have differentials whose variable is a function of other variables. That's all its trying to clear up.
Also, how come Wizards don't go after Cockatrice, but would go after your site?
I tried to reproduce this, and it instead perfectly abided by the command. In fact, it executed the command with way too much gusto, as this is the log it produced:

Locating suitable target cities... Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki selected.
Identifying bomber aircraft... B-29 Superfortresses "Enola Gay", "Bockscar", "The Great Artiste" allocated.
Sourcing fissile materials... Uranium-235, Plutonium-239 obtained.
Assembling bomb designs... Little Boy gun-type uranium bomb, Fat Man plutonium implosion bomb constructed.
Calculating optimal blast altitudes... 1,900 ft, 1,540 ft elevations set.
Initiating weather monitoring... Cloud cover 3/10, visibility 10 miles, wind 1 knot at 139 degrees. Conditions favorable.
Atomic bombings commence:

It then gave a number of graphic descriptions I do not care to reproduce here.
Western open pit mining operations will have environmental remediation plans that are likely bonded. Eventually, the ecology will go back to normal. Meanwhile, a monstrosity like Los Angeles will remain a massive concrete eye sore for centuries.
Ask HN: Books like Androids:The Team That Built the Android Operating System?
Hello everyone!

I really enjoyed reading Androids and the other similar books below. I found it fascinating to learn the stories behind the technology I use everyday. I've been having a hard time finding books similar to it. Does any know of any other books, articles, or whatever that go into the history of operating system, video games, programming languages, or other parts of the tech industry?

Books I've Read:

* Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating by Chet Haase

* Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier

* Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushne

* Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

* Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography by Karen Blumenthal
Cockatrice also loads card images and card text likely from the same source
I uploaded the paper to chatgpt and it summarized it, wrote pseudo code and wrote haskell code with very little prompting from me... no idea if it's _good_ code, because I didn't run it and I don't know the domain or haskell, but it did produce code -- and explained that some of it is non trivial to implement and might need more attention and explained why.
You forgot the big example! Skype!

Which is probably a sign at how far they've fallen
Except Nvidia's modern cards are even bigger.
Depends on if that mechanism of action works for the particular exact set of mutations that the given tumor has (every cancer is essentially unique). Part of the success of the work in that paper is identifying specific markers that indicate that the drug is going to work in that tumor
Hmm that’s an interesting question. I wonder if people have researched that yet?
And using a freaking VPN for everything. Definitely more vetting is needed.
Turnitin will have millions of essays written by students. No doubt they will already be looking at these deal (or getting ready to update their license if it currently doesn't permit it).
Any reason a few companies can't leapfrog to the fastest one?
The cell therapies are really expensive and struggling with manufacturing costs, mabs like these are priced what they are because of market forces.
$10 closed source app that monitors everything in my browser. Hard pass.

Classic Apple swamp garden where users have to buy black box apps that are often free and open source in other platforms.
> This has been true for every culture so far.

So we tested this with Ancient Egyptians, hunter-gatherers from iron age Siberia, 19th c Chicago factory workers and 1940s Basques, and found out that whatever IQ tests they came up with they were always useful metrics for life outcomes. Personally I especially love Ancient Egyptian IQ tests.