skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still expensive jewelry I suppose--though possibly less of that. But, as you say, electronics is generally of relatively lower value than it used to be and at least some of it can be remotely disabled/tracked. A lot of people don't even have a stereo system or DSLR camera setup.
What you need to know about VC world as a founder
I've never experienced the latter but if somebody wants to waste their time sending me unwanted pull requests I can just ignore them.
What does float/period mean in that pic?

Is "period" used to mean "has decimal (binimal) point"?
Apparently motor vehicles are a small fraction of the total compared to miscellaneous.

https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...

With the average (mean) residential burglary taking $97,000, I sort of wonder if the most stolen thing is insurance claims.
I use Opensheet as the backend for storing reviews of my book. It's not CRUD, but easy enough to fetch data as JSON and display it on a website (and for free!).

Highly recommended.

https://github.com/benborgers/opensheet
The complexity of GRUB isn't justified by the number of systems it has to support. The number of supported systems is also not the reason why GRUB is so complex. The cause of complexity is poor design choices, if you can even call it that, when it comes to configuration and defaults.

It doesn't matter that better options exist. GRUB is the subject of this discussion. If it were about systemd-boot, then it would've been legitimate to complain about it or to praise it. But, it's not the subject.

But, since you mentioned "other options"... they are both the indication of the larger problem: Linux boot process is poorly designed and that's why many independent teams tried to replace it to variable degree of success. GRUB isn't the only poorly designed piece of this process. And they work to obscure and make even less accessible the subject of system booting for the wider audience, creating a feedback loop where the only few people brave enough to dive in and try to understand it are the people who started way back and usually have very distorted ideas about how their code is used by the layers built on top of it.

The whole of the booting process didn't need to be this complex: it could have fewer stages, fewer utilities that are responsible for different stages, fewer possible boot scenarios, better defined order of device initialization... the list goes on. GRUB is only a part of the larger problem, albeit it's a big part.
Thanks for the analysis. I’m tempted to call it the ‘Al Franken’ effect, albeit that is soft pedaling it a lot eh?
How would this be a “secular trend”? What does secular even mean in this context?
Phoronix, if you're going to prompt me for support... at least remember that I have.

I don't know what's up with your cookies or whatever, but I don't even get spared by having supported already.

Login lost, fine whatever. If I have to see the modal anyway I'd rather have my money. I don't regret supporting, just saying - had I known...

Anyway, on topic: I hope this doesn't mess up data/math like it tends to (IIRC?)

I think the compiler options the distribution uses now are well-reasoned. Except frame pointers, I'm hesitant to paint with big brushes like that. We were told that academically it makes no difference, yet it did.

Those who want to profile could do so with their own builds/tooling. Rebuilding with 'mock' and 'fedpkg' is incredibly easy for those so inclined.

Customizing a build of any package is legitimately no more than ~three repeatable commands:

fedpkg clone -a -b f$RELEASE $PKG
# ... spec patching/whatever
fedpkg mockbuild

I don't know why everyone had to participate, but we are - and it's been mostly fine.

I don't think we'll be so lucky with '-03'
Climate pledge verifier decided to allow more carbon offsets; Its staff revolted
All current-generation consoles do still take physical media, but yeah, there already are some smaller games that only come as digital. For those, I guess, piracy is the only way they could be preserved.
This same law also makes console modding services illegal.

One particular company, Cyber Gadget, even used to sell commercial save game editor apps, and they had to pull them after this law was introduced.
some projects are asking for physical id and signing a contract since decades
Hey that Broomrocket stuff looks interesting. And nary an LLM in sight.

janosdebugs, could you comment on the tech behind it?
Let me ask you something: is there a good source on how to debug in Ruby? I keep running into issues when I dive into it outside of Rails.

For example, yesterday I ran into an issue with bundler where a gem was failing to install and needed to step through the process. I set a binding.b in the gem’s extconf.rb, but when that breakpoint got hit the program just stopped without allowing input, I.e. there was no debug prompt presented.

Is bundler running inside a trap context similar to what you mention above?
This makes me wonder if recompiling Python with -march=native -mtune=native would speed it up by any noticeable amount.
The internet is already flooded with modified save files for every game.
There is absolutely no anti-semetic or pro-Hamas flavor to this article.
> "if you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism"

Isn't this true for just about any condition? It's not like people with ADHD or depression all behave exactly the same. I understand the urge to avoid categorizing people too broadly, but at the same time making the "taxonomy" of a condition hyperspecific is contradictory to having the label in the first place.

If saying "I have autism" has no descriptive power because this could mean a million different things, it seems like the term needs to be retired or narrowed to a specific set of behaviors/challenges.
Yeah it'll contribute to the regression of human life as we know it by boiling the seas even further. Just great.
Consciousness Is a Consensus Mechanism
Isn’t it obvious they aren’t physically identical? They have the same genes but are not identical!
I haven't read it, but someone else here mentioned Directive (EU) 2019/770 (... on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services)
Daily-Driving a Blackberry in 2023
FOSS zealots are not always security experts.
Chromium has chrome://flags, that's probably where the confusion came from.
Interpolation is a legitimate technique for regression problems, a special case of the k-nearest-neighbor estimator (which is one of the methods they test against). Lots of related regression techniques involve a tradeoff between global trends and nearby points: KNN, kernel regressions, gaussian process regressions, generalized additive models, local regressions, mixed models/generalized linear models with some covariance structures
- all of them more or less manifestations of the same underlying math. The tree based techniques - random forests, GBM and the like - they don't look like interpolations, but the more you zoom in to the leaf nodes of those trees, the more they look like averaging one or more local y-values.

Literal interpolation would be use a lot more often, except you can't practically do it in higher dimensions (even 2 isn't trivial).
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The thread with the actual discussion: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
>Not liquid, doesn't count for this purpose.

It takes 72 hours at most for me to liquidate shares and for it to show up in my checking account. That's liquid.

It's a layered approach: 0-interest checking for day-to-day expenses (i.e., regular cash flow), low interest savings for a cushion (i.e., anything surprising that absolutely needs to be funded within 72 hours), and everything else in productive investments. The cushion means you rarely ever touch the investments, so it grows happily over time, but it's still easy enough to get to just in case. Nothing expensive about this security at all, regardless of interest rates.
>Also, you will never have a cheat less video game. There will always be a way.

This is not true and has not been true for years. With crossplay disabled, games on Xbox and Playstation are truly cheat free. It doesn't happen. There is no dark web marketplace selling aimhacks because it isn't possible to install them.
some air-water heat pumps _can_ run in cooling mode, but speaking to a heating engineer the other week he recommended not doing this for exactly this reason.
Econ jargon. Means long-term, not (regularly) cyclical.

Derives from adjectival sense 2 here, I suppose:

https://www.websters1913.com/words/Secular
I think you are missing the most important factor here - if you have a stroke or heart attack, their investment is not the problem -- continuing to live is. It is your life to live, but IMO if your health is tanking due to work, you gotta slow down if not stop. I'd talk to them about having them buy you out. Even if you are the founder, nobody is irreplaceable. Hand it off and get healthy. No work is worth dying over, not even your own company.
Nah, recent research shows that we don't need mountains of data to have very competent models. I don't have any links on hand but quick web browsing should return some relevant information
What do you think "secular" means?
About the drawing: i draw like this on everything too. Agendas, todo lists. Its not like i want to do this. Its to keep my fingers busy.
I can attest that some people’s paper is filled with drawings ugly and nice.
I cant speak about the authenticity of this document.
A secular trend is an ongoing directional shift, in contrast to a cyclical change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_variation
An app would have trouble with that since it doesn't have an absolute size reference. By the time you put the screw atop a calibrated reference background tool, you'd be faster to just read the markings on the tool yourself. (If someone wanted to make an app that uses an object of precisely known size, say, a credit card, as a reference, and then calculate from there, yes I'd be all ears! But I've never heard of such a thing.)

BoltDepot has some fantastic pages (and printable reference posters) that explain how fasteners are measured and described: https://boltdepot.com/Fastener-Information/Fastener-Basics

Once you've got the terminology, it's pretty straightforward to take the measurements. Thread diameter is easy to do with a $2 plastic vernier caliper (I use mine constantly), or fit into the holes in any screw checker. https://www.amazon.com/Stainlesstown-Bolt-Thread-Gauge-Blue/...

Thread pitch is best done with a thread gauge, which is a fold-out affair sort of like a feeler gauge. I've got an inch/metric combo one like this: https://www.amazon.com/ChgImposs-Imperial-Whitworth-Industri...

And then length is easy to do with the ruler on the side of the screw checker, or the calipers themselves. (Use the jaws for the overall length of a flush-type screw, the step-shoulder part for the length of a cap screw.)

There are also combo gauges, I'm intrigued by this type and I should pick one up to see how I like it: https://www.amazon.com/WEN-ME210G-Imperial-Multi-Gauge-Carry...
Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe
The retrospective nature of knowing every important event and saying oh today was X seems improbable at best
Might've been overlooked, but "fastly" should probably be "quickly" on the main page.
Those are standard partition types that have existed for decades.
One thing I remember and even used quite recently, is that you could C-z out of emacs in MS-DOS to get a new COMMAND.COM for running other applications, then exit back to emacs. I think this was some kind of feature of later versions of MS-DOS, that an application could open a child-COMMAND.COM and put itself in the background using some interrupt? Anyway that was great for running compilers and doing other tasks without having to ever exit emacs.

Anyway it was a very interesting read. I don't think I ever used Windows to run DOS applications. I used to start Windows 3.x now and then to run some Windows application, but then I exited out to COMMAND.COM again where I spent most of my time. And then when Microsoft tried to get everyone to switch to Windows 95 I installed Linux instead.
Can Reed Hastings disrupt skiing?
Having migrated my application's Python and JS codebases to their typed siblings respectively last year, my 2c is that Python typing feels good and worthwhile when you're in the standard lib, but _awful_ (and net-negative) once you leave "normal Python" for the shores of third-party packages, particularly ones that lean heavily on duck typing (Django and BeautifulSoup both come to mind.)

This is where some of the stuff in the TypeScript ecosystem really shines, IMHO — being able to have a completely typesafe ORM such as Drizzle (https://orm.drizzle.team/) feels like a Rubicon moment, and touching anything else feels like a significant step backwards.
"very far" is of course relative: if we have tree vectors, two of length R and one of length 0.99*R, it's not outlandish to call the distance 2R between the two vectors of equal magnitude "very large" compared to the distance 0.01R between two vectors of dissimilar magnitude.

Your last comment is completely incorrect, for a point at (1,1,1,....) each extra dimension adds a constant 1 to the euclidean distance, so that in 500 dimensions a point at (1,1,1,....) is around 22.4 units away from the origin, while in two dimensions it is only 1.4 units away from the origin.
There is nothing illegal or unconstitutional, because according with Brazilian laws, making apology to Nazism is illegal. Law 7.716/89, article 20. Nobody will previously censor you or check if you are commiting these crimes. But if you commit, there will be consequences.
As outlined in Article 3(1) of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, the unauthorized modification of Pokémon data can potentially diminish the enjoyment derived from the game, leading to detrimental consequences for game sales.
https://archive.is/2024.04.01-172034/https://www.nytimes.com...
I have wondered a lot bout using sail for shipping. If you are the shipper and you enjoy he sailing it seems like it could be a good idea. Just a way to pay for a lifestyle not a way to make boatloads of money. It would not make much of a dent in traditions shipping but more of a way to live a nice life.
I’m a very strong subscriber to the housing theory of everything.

To summarize: most of the malaise in developed economies especially among the young is due to housing prices.

A lot of the other issues we face including inflation in other areas is downstream of housing prices since expensive housing drives wage inflation. That wage inflation doesn’t end up benefiting the worker much though because it’s all eaten by housing. This bids up housing even more in a vicious cycle.

A lot of social problems are also downstream of housing: alarmingly low birth rates, depression to some degree, the decline of in person socialization due to the death of “third spaces” (too expensive), parents and grandparents becoming a burden on the young because they can’t afford to live, etc.

Failure to build sufficient housing to meet demand is literally destroying civilization.

You can see this most clearly in certain cities like SF that have this disease worst of all, but it’s a problem everywhere.
I started working in offices around 1998 as an intern. The place I worked used email heavily, but had no shared calendar. Definitely people who did stuff like this. My boss had a bound dated diary book that he used to record what happened (vs where he had to be) decorated which he decorated with interesting doodles, etc.

We lost something with Outlook for everything.
Quite rightly most attention has been on the operational success of the backdoor and how it achieves it's goals.

But I would love some deeper analysis of the mistakes and over-engineering parts. In the Bryan Cantril interview [1] Andrés suggests there are a lot of dumb things done because it was a kind of off-the-shelf backdooring piece that didn't necessarily know how it would be deployed. Eg the symbol table lookup that led him to investigate.

Similarly, why were they chopping off 48 bytes using RC4 [2]

So I'd love folks to talk about how (given more time/better team) this could have been better or where they messed up more

[1] https://youtu.be/jg5F9UupL6I?si=gvXsYFXgagkGOMd4
[2] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/17744729080201014...
I was going to say, too! This seems absolutely joyful in comparison to my dreary (online) work calendar which just contains the same weekly recurring status meetings with the same people week after week, color coded by project.

It would be cool to have interoperability between calendar software and illustrative art software so modern office workers could create something like this during downtime/boredom!
Why are corn subsidies so high?
If you use pip and requirements.txt, the dependency resolution is not great, it just installs things in order.

There isn't a lock file. How do you deal with dev dependencies? How do you work on a lib and its calling code without pushing it to pypa? Working with c deps?

All this stuff feels harder to do then it should be.
In the US, this is so true and sad. After building my first home with insulation way beyond code I learned the sad lesson that it won't get you a dime more when it is time to sell.

We keep in touch with the new owners who have since thanked us for building so well. Their bills are much lower than any in the neighborhood and they had no idea.

The same goes for heat pumps. I'm living in my third build and we had room to do a ground source heat pump. It is amazing and my bills are half of what my neighbor pays for a similar size house. Mine is also better insulated. When it comes time to sell it, nobody will care.

The US needs to up the codes on insulation. Hot climate, cold climate - who cares, it helps.
It used to be pretty good but the last three or four times I’ve tried to look something up I’ve not found anything that fits the usage I’ve seen, and most or all entries are clearly someone trying to “make fetch happen” (promote some definition their friend circle used for a week then dropped) or making a “joke” (just spam).
I still only write C89.

Being able to declare variables anywhere can lead to some really nasty bugs especially when using goto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_variation

The above page has a nice explanation in the etymology section for the two divergent meanings.
I actually love this example because it's not just bad products in banking. It's profiteering in the most literal sense.[1] Being government backed gives you the pleasure of taking risks on the backs of taxpayers. Why wouldn't you?

Conversely, from speaking with friends doing BI at insurance companies, I don't think there is often more than a single percent of margin in insurance. Not a lot of room to take further risks without some backing.

If the government steps in to overcome the risk, we open the door to profiteering, same as our current banking disaster. And if they don't, then insurance companies will exit the industry, since the risk isn't justified.

[1] Profiteering: The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk.
I'm not sure we should be celebrating EVs when we could have done much more with public transportation and micromobility.

Given that they have 90kWh battery packs, I don't think many of the Jaguar I-PACEs in my area have even hit the "break-even" CO2 point when their owners are now trying to unload them. For some of these cars it's taken 5 years to get to just 25k miles.

https://www.kbb.com/cars-for-sale/all/jaguar/i-pace/seattle-...

My e-bike with a .36kWh battery pack has done far, far more for the environment than any EV ever will.
Often complicated, rather than illegal. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/deer-farmin...

While driving through Texas after the total eclipse, my wife and I were reading about the high fences on Texas ranches (deer hunting ranches, possibly with managed breeding), and enjoyed this article on the tradeoffs https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/which-side-of-the-f...
The term is being used in reference to their genes, not their appearance.
I thought the OP link and then your link would be a link to this, which is noted as the inspiration in your link https://youtube.com/@project_jdm
Nitpick: RLHF and RLAIF provide preferences between candidate data from another source, they don't provide synthetic data themselves. Of course someone can train a model using synthetic data generated by another model, that's just not RLAIF.

And a serious issue: that's probably not copyright safe in the way Adobe wants.
Curious what you have in mind, how so?
From the article:

Now attention is shifting to another burglar-thwarting development: Working from home. Burglars try to avoid dwellings with people in them, and at-home workers also provide residential neighborhoods with what urbanist Jane Jacobs famously dubbed “eyes on the street,” an informal system of surveillance that makes it harder for miscreants to get away with stuff.

A more sophisticated analysis released as a (not yet peer-reviewed) working paper earlier this year by Jesse Matheson, Brendon McConnell, James Rockey and Argyris Sakalis, all economists at British universities, found that that in England and Wales (which experienced a pandemic drop in burglaries similar to that in the US) neighborhoods with residents more likely to work from home experienced steeper burglary declines. To be precise, a 9.5 percentage point (one standard deviation) increase in WFH share “leads to a persistent 4% drop in burglaries.”
I think that's a great point I haven't thought of much before. Goods have gotten way cheaper relative to the cost of services, and especially second hand goods are almost unsellable in some cases - my guess is "porch pirate" thefts are more common now than home robberies.

If you couple all the following:

1. Most goods in a home have little resale value.

2. Tons of homes, even in modest or poor areas, have security cameras.

3. At least where I live, many homeowners have guns.

4. As the article points out, with so many people now staying at home or having flexible schedules, it's a lot harder to determine when a house would be empty.

Overall the risk/reward tradeoff just got much, much worse for home burglaries.
You should sample younger. There aren't nearly as many 'non-tech people' 16-25.
What could NPR possibly add to any of those 3 food fights? In addition to the 100s of hours and 1,000s of column inches already wasted? New evidence, witnesses, analysis, pizza toppings, anything? Nope.

Was yet another rehash more important than every thing else? There are 1,000s of newsworthy topics and issues every single day. Was relitigating the precise definition of "collusion" really the most important topic? Again?

Was there any risk that any one any where wouldn't have already been fully immersed in those jello wrestling matches? (Benghazi!)

Are you familiar with Project Censored? Were Hunter's nude selfies and expired (?) concealed carry permit more important than any of these: https://www.projectcensored.org/top-25-censored-news-stories...

FWIW: Every side have long claimed "the media" censors their favored tickle fights. aka "Working the refs", public relations. Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent explains how that endless meta-slapfight works.

To their credit, the right-wing noise machine created their own media ecosystem. (Though it's weird they continue to say they're being ignored, when conservatives dominate every medium.) The left, greens, socialists, grannies knitting for world peace, etc should all do the same.

> Does that tell us all we need to know about you?

Gods, I certainly hope so. Firstly, that the "news" actually be "new".
China Says Nearly One-Fifth of Its Arable Land Is Polluted