skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was no mention of any warnings or interventions or probationary periods. The OP said he was fired for working 3 jobs, and then later edited that to say it was due to low productivity.

Lets be real -- a "brilliant" engineer knows what is expected, knows how to do quality work, and certainly is capable of meeting minimum output to avoid getting fired, even just putting in 10-15 hours a week. The whole story seems kind of off.
> Systems programming intuition tells you that a 512-bit random number is, to within mind-boggling tolerances, as unguessable as a 521-bit random number.

Sure, but the other half of systems programming intuition tells you "the end user is going to truncate this value to 8 bits and still expect it to be random".
I'm not sure I see the point. A read-only filesystem that downloads files on-the-fly is neat, but doesn't sound practical in most situations.
There are a handful of times when the stars and planets aligned and the Microsoft desktop experience was consistent, coherent, and I dare say, pleasant:

* 1999: Windows 98 + Office 97 + Internet Explorer 5.5 + Visual Studio 6.0

* 2005: Windows XP (with Themes disabled) + Office 2003 + Internet Explorer 6 + Visual Studio 2005 (and Windows Media Player 9 gets an honourable mention)

* 2010: Windows 7 + Office 2010 + Visual Studio 2008 (but using Chrome instead of IE)

But between 2012 and 2019 (i.e. the Windows 8, Metro, and UWP kool-aid in Windows 10) it was naught but an incoherent mess - and since 2013, all releases of Office have been mildly grating.

I'll concede that, as far as superficial aesthetics are concerned, Office 2023 on Windows 11 looks nice, but that's honestly the only improvement I can cite; Windows 11 is a no-go for me so long as it has a lobotomized taskbar and start-menu - and I really don't think I'm missing out on anything except crows-feet on my face from constant frowning...
Yup, I sure hope so!
The only way the Nazis would have "won" is if they developed the atomic bomb before the US. Even with many of the emigres that helped with the Manhattan project, that might not have been possible. The Soviets were never going to surrender, same with the British, and once the Americans started supplying Britain with arms, they were safe. And then when Hitler declared war on the US, it was game over. The industrial might of the US alone was simply too powerful.

"You have horses! What were you thinking? Dragging our asses half way around the world, interrupting our lives... For what, you ignorant, servile scum!"
the top comment <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580334> by saurik (yes, that one) on the previous 121 comment thread back in 2020 sums up my feelings about the situation: BTFS is a "one CID at a time" version of IPFS

I do think IPFS is awesome, but is going to take some major advances in at least 3 areas before it becomes something usable day-to-day:

1. not running a local node proxy (I hear that Brave has some built-in WebTorrent support, so maybe that's the path, but since I don't use Brave I can't say whether they are "WebTorrent in name only" or what

2. related to that, the swarm/peer resolution latency suffers in the same way that "web3 crypto tomfoolery" does, and that latency makes "browsing" feel like the old 14.4k modem days

3. IPFS is absolutely fantastic for infrequently changing but super popular content, e.g. wikipedia, game releases, MDN content, etc, but is a super PITA to replace "tip" or "main" (if one thinks of browsing a git repo) with the "updated" version since (to the best of my knowledge) the only way folks have to resolve that newest CID is IPNS and DNS is never, ever going to be a "well, that's a good mechanism and surely doesn't contribute to one of the N things any outage always involves"

I'm aware that I have spent an inordinate amount of words talking about a filesystem other than the one you submitted, but unlike BTFS, which I would never install, I think that those who click on this and are interested in the idea of BTFS may enjoy reading further into IPFS, but should bear in mind my opinion of its current shortcomings
This is interesting but kinda goes against the original 3x10 saying 3x10[0] gains diminish quickly after that max amount.

[0] https://physicalculturestudy.com/2017/08/04/3-sets-x-10-reps...
I think that ship has sailed, if you believe the paper (which I do).

LLMs are already super-human at some highly abstract creative tasks, including research.

There are numerous examples of LLMs solving problems that couldn't be found in the training data. They can also be improved by using reasoning methods like truth tables or causal language. See Orca from Microsoft for example.
The problem with the TC approach is substituting implementations for testing ends up being annoying compared to Go. And substituting multiple different interfaces doesn't compose well (this is essentially the mtl problem).

I tend to just record-of-functions everything which is essentially Go interfaces. It does work very well! As functions args usually do :)

But those aren't espoused heavily enough by "authorities" so I find less experienced Haskellers don't lean into them or feel comfortable working with them.
They just need to be better at it than humans, which is a rather low bar when you go beyond two unrelated fields.
If you live in a state that only requires single-party consent you can record at will your own conversations without disclosure.
As an aside, the audiobook version of this is really well done. You'll probably get more out of the actual book, but I really enjoyed having this on my long runs.
I would go further and say I believe animals have emotions, thoughts, and personalities too, but I would still say it was anthropomorphizing to suggest a computer did (indeed, it would be anthropomorphizing to say animals have intuitions, thoughts, and emotions, it's just a less controversial leap). I'd be open to revisiting my view of computers if they bit me when I came back from vacation.
Ignoring the “spits out training data” bit which is at best misleading, it’s interesting that you use the word “abstract” here.

I recently followed Karpathy’s GPT-from-scratch tutorial and was fascinated with how clearly you could see the models improving.

With no training, the model spits out uniformly random text. With a bit of training, the model starts generating gibberish. With further training, the model starts recognizing simple character patterns, like putting a consonant after a vowel. Then it learns syllables, and then words, and then sentences. With enough training (and data and parameters, of course) you eventually yield a model like GPT-4 that can write better code than many programmers.

It’s not always that clear cut, but you can clearly observe it moving up the chain of abstraction as the training loss decreases.

What happens when you go even bigger than GPT-4? We have every reason to believe that the models will be able to think more abstractly.

Your “never gonna work” comment flies in the face of exponential curve we find ourselves on.
Subscribe to get bombarded with ads seems like a terrible business model, but who knows with all the enshittification going on these days.
I take offense to being labeled a bad-faith actor trying to control a narrative. It's just an argument. You either agree with me or don't.

In war the economics are money and people. E.g. We could invade Iran. It might cost $300bn US and 100k personnel dead and 200k wounded. It's just pure economics.

US corporations make the same judgment when it comes to safety every day. A drug might kill 5 people from side effects but save 40,000. Is it worth it?
> One reason I think the European “right to be forgotten” is a problem is because it is a shield for people who use their social skills as a weapon.

Contrarian counterposition: perhaps the problem rather is that so many people become easily bewitched by social skills? I do believe that even if there was no "right to be forgotten", such people would easily be capable of using their social skills to "wipe away" the warning signs of the criminal past.
What this person doesn't understand is that debate isn't about changing your opponent's mind. A debate is won by convincing the audience.
Of course. But competition (and consumer demand) also means we are getting streams in more than 10 fps and more than 360p.

The cheaper bandwidth becomes, the more it makes sense for streaming services to give people what they want to pay for.
Nebraska Man Indicted for Multi-Million Dollar "Cryptojacking" Scheme
Elon Musk says new X users have to pay to tweet
Hey hey! We’re all stuck on the 405! Hey hey!
> The density is a function of the economic productivity

Density WAS a function of economic productivity before remote work was proven to work at a large scale. Now a lot of production ranging from software to even manufacturing can be done remotely. (manufacturing was already doing that to a visible extent before tech jumped on it after covid)
but that observation is consistent with the prevailing beliefs of powerlifters v bodybuilders on weight v volume for strength v hypertrophy, both get strong and both get big, but Powerlifters prioritising strength lift heavier weights at lower reps (1 - 6 reps to failure or near). Bodybuilders prioritising hypertrophy lift only slightly lower weights than powerlifters at slightly higher reps (e.g 6+ reps a set to failure or near)

(source, random opinions of gym bros and sisters at doherty's and derrimut gyms)
If you want to learn math, a good place to start would be AOPS curriculum https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/recommendations

Continue with Susan Rigetti curriculum https://www.susanrigetti.com/math

You can get answers to your questions here https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/ and here https://math.stackexchange.com/
Duh, of course. But as bandwidth becomes more available (ie cheaper), it makes more sense for streaming services to stream in higher and higher quality.

Compare eg Youtube videos today to Youtube videos 15 years ago.
The major issue is that the average person's intuition about the nature of the technical challenges around missile defense, and modern weapon systems broadly, are misinformed and essentially naive. There are serious design problems that need to be addressed when developing these systems, but those problems are almost never raised as the difficulties in public discourse.

For example, kinetic intercept ("bullet hitting a bullet") is surprisingly simple and has been a solved problem for several decades. People think it is hard because they literally imagine shooting down a bullet with another bullet, as if the missile was flying blind. Terminal guidance for these cases is computationally trivial -- modern hypersonic kinetic intercept platforms literally use 80486 class processors as guidance computers. Computers are much faster than the fundamental limitations of physics allow the world to change.

Almost all of the true design challenges are materials engineering problems. State-of-the-art weapon systems often operate at the edge of what is known to be possible with ordinary molecular materials, even highly exotic ones. There are severe restrictions on maneuverability when the system is already operating under material failure. In-atmosphere hypersonic platforms are already undergoing controlled disintegration during flight, even small excess stress will cause catastrophic failure of system components.

There is a second set of challenges around extreme throughput data processing in modern sensor-heavy weapon platforms (e.g. F-35) but these are essentially theoretical computer science or exotic DS&A problems.
Watch the videos. Don't comment without all the information.
They've made a ton of progress in just the last couple weeks, actually.

Still super young, like you said, but it's really good for a lot of cases and now defaults to using uv under the hood I believe, which makes it quite fast.
No,this is being able to interact with a .torrent file as if it's a directory.

The only usecase I see for this is as an alternative to a more traditional bittorrent client.
> The absurd strawman argument would be to make their work day worse to increase compensation by decreasing supply of doctors and nurses.

I doubt you should assume that with the growth of venture capital owned medical facilities.
What’s the conclusion here? Basically, the last paragraph says pundits should talk to different sources, and that they should “keep the interests of the nation” in mind. He concludes by saying some vaguely ominous thing about politics not mattering if America “goes down”.

So all in all, the thesis of the piece is that no one knows how or why defense contractors are spending a significant fraction of American GDP. But that’s actually ok because critics were wrong and the military projects actually worked after decades of development.

So what does any of this matter?! As he says, journalists and pundits and activists yelled for years and had no effect, zero results. Patriots kept getting made, the F35 was never canceled. The public, even institutions like universities and journalism, have no information and no influence. The author thinks thats fine, the missile defenses work (maybe we’re still not totally sure), and that this is just too important a task for democratic accountability.
Why did the cloud providers allow this guy to rack up such a large unpaid bill before going to the feds? Sounds like entrapment or something. I am guessing they knew it was fraudulent but let him run up a bill knowing that the feds would act faster by claiming a larger amount stolen. Or he was using compute power that was otherwise unallocated and they can claim a loss even though no one was going to use it anyway.
The same can be said for Windows 8 -> Windows 10. But that's mostly because Vista and 8 were exceptional low points.

You can even empirically show that by how abysmally bad their sales were. According to [1], Vista peaked at 25% market share (of Windows installations), when XP still had >70% and Windows 7 was just releasing. Windows 8 (including 8.1) similarly peaked at around 25% right before the release of Windows 10, at a time where Windows 7 held 65% market share, with the rest going to XP.

Statista tells a similar story [2] [3]

1: https://windowsreport.com/windows-market-share-history/

2: https://www.statista.com/chart/4225/windows-market-share-by-...

3: https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows...
From https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... it looks likethere are like 5 or 6 post per year.
What is the dollar value of getting access to a phone number belonging to a celebrity or a billionaire? I don't know the exact amount, but it is 100% more than what T-Mobile can feasibly pay all of its employees. Do you think security guards protecting the federal reserve's gold vault get paid more than the value of the gold in that vault?
i would say the top 3 things I’ve acquired are pens, notepads and keyrings. Some of the pens though are like really more just novelty items for promotional purposes than something you would actually use to write with (1 is 50cm tall with a hand on the top of it) - from a hand hygiene course I went to.

I went to an infection control course once that had pens that doubled as spray bottles of alcohol gel. Also got a key ring that’s a bottle of alcohol gel.

I also went to a blood transfusion course one time and got fridge magnets that had important facts you need to remember for blood transfusions, a reusable bag, that when folded back into its pouch takes the shape of a drop of red blood, I got a stress ball that is a big red blood cell, a note pad that has the blood bank logo and contact details at the very bottom, a red blood drop plushie, and I also got a really useful little book with all the information I could possibly need for doing blood transfusions. It’s still sitting on my bookshelf 6 years later and I still look at it from time to time to remind myself of stuff.

The transfusion book is probably my favourite freebie because it’s really relevant to my job. But some of the other items were still novel and also bring a little moment of joy acquiring them.

One point I’d make is that you can’t use random objects to be the main attraction, or main value of your course. The value still has to come from what it is you’re actually teaching, it needs to be really relevant, and teaching stuff that people in the industry actually want to know about, and take value from.
Anti-Americanism is cool and intellectual-coded. F35 hysterics is just an instance of that.
You literally said:

"It's not; anti-Semitism as we know today is very much rooted in racial science (well, "science") of the 19th century."

So yes, you were talking about contemporary anti-semitism.
Seems arbitrary. What if I don't need that for my business
I use lots of hacks like this in my life. It's nice that you can (mostly) do this with open source software.

Too bad the rest of the world generally doesn't support this sort of thing. for example maybe you can buy a macos/ios tool to <overcome-ui-problem> but you can't just do it yourself.
That was very funny - I laughed out loud :D
What would be nice is a Microsoft Word plugin that checked grammar and usage against this spec…
If you’re worried you have tinnitus you can also be hearing air conditioner units whine or even the fridge.

I spent some time in the middle of what I’ll call the Mexican outback during the winter - everything is dead. There’s nothing at night, not even bugs. I could hear the blood pump in my ears. Pretty neat. No lights or stars either. The closest to ‘deadening silence’ I’ve ever been.
Literally a bug in the system.
This is just a long way of stating your confidence that your values will always be in lock-step with whatever the most powerful zetigeist in your society is at any one time. Which is its own problem that you should reflect on.

Eich hasn't thrown rocks at anyone and it's disengenuous to frame it otherwise, especually considering you could have made a perfectly good argument without that.

Edit: The question isn't whether you think he did something wrong, it's whether you think that people who have contributed massively to causes or organisations should be driven out for reasons that have nothing to do with those causes or organisations.
> The cylindrical piece of space junk is made of a metallic alloy called Inconel, they added. It weighs 1.6 pounds (0.7 kg) and measures 4 inches (10 centimeters) high by 1.6 inches (4 cm) wide.

I’m no rocket scientist, but I’m pretty sure that would kill you if you got hit. Though we’ll have to run a couple more tests to be sure.

Home owner says it tore through two floors: https://twitter.com/Alejandro0tero/status/176872903149342722...
After watching the video, it looks like a very serious design or QC issue, for a company widely known for QC issues.

The mats were a hit job because most of the cases were not actually the mats, and one company was getting a hard focus for this issue when it was prevalent in many different brands.

The cybertruck is not a hit job because this is just another in the laughing stock line of quality control and design issues from a company known for it.
https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2023-07-27-1 [Updated Report on Russia's Commission of Genocide in Ukraine]

Which organization is the author of this report?

"The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights is a unique international consortium of parliamentarians, scholars, jurists, human rights defenders, NGOs, and students united in the pursuit of justice, inspired by and anchored in Raoul Wallenberg’s humanitarian legacy – how one person with the compassion to care and the courage to act can confront evil, prevail, and transform history."
I wish they brought back small niche stores, say hobby stores. Or possibly a mall full of computer and electronics stores.

but probably land is worth too much, and the benefit to the community is an externality that doesn't map to the short-term bottom line.
You can replicate some of his winnings.

Eg unicycles are really cheap, and it took me a few idle afternoons (about twenty years ago) to get going on the unicycle. Mind you, I didn't learn any tricks, just how to go forward and how to get on without holding onto anything.

Getting a spouse and 4 kids is a bit more involved, but doable for most people with a bit of dedication.
As far as I understand from what I've read, Iran even separated the attack times of missiles and UAVs to make them easier to monitor and shoot down without overloading air defense systems. For example, Russia deliberately syncs these attack with large numbers of aerial weapons to overload Ukraine's air defenses beyond their capacity—Iran could not have been unaware of this tactic, but it chose not to.

Right after the attack Iran's permanent representative to the UN stated that "The matter can be deemed concluded. However, should the Israeli regime make another mistake, Iran’s response will be considerably more severe". It looks convincing that Iranian pyrotechnic show is more of a reputational response, given that some of the targets were shown in propaganda videos days before the attack (if not directly leaked to Western counterparts so that Israelis had time to prepare and/or evacuate personnel).
It can be an essential component, but for on-site replication you need to coordinate your caches to make the most of your available capacity. There're efforts to implement this on top IPFS to have mutually trusted nodes elect a leader deciding who should pin what to ensure you keep enough intact copies of everything in the distributed cache, but like so many things IPFS it started out interesting, died from feature creep and "visions" instead of working code.
I've been doing this for years in projects internal to my employers. It's nice to see it catching on, because it'll be easier to explain to people if I can point to a blog post saying the same thing.

Other tips worth trying:

* You'll do even better by optimizing your ID type. Even if it has to be a string, it can at least be a string with SSO, or a long-lived string reference, or an interned string.

* Try the ahash crate instead of the default cryptogically secure hash function in Rust.

* Consider HashSet<ByRef<Arc<T>>> instead of having to take keys to a different map to resolve the actual object.
Not with my invention of pavement and pebblature paint for cars. Spot this, Sputnik wannabe!
I knew the junk wasn't Chinese because this was only reported in space.com and not across all the mainstream media.
Cool concept. I assume that it seeds if and while the files are present on your device? Tried to read the manpage but unformatted manpage markdown on a phone was too difficult to read.
This works for Charles Schwab too!
*from ISS

I don't think we're paying to send junk to the ISS yet.
https://universal-blue.org

Using the Bazzite image has replaced Windows for me. Basically everything works.
Good hackers would stay away from twitter/X in the first place...

This is a bad habit which should go away.
In my experience MS Word was not the primary means of producing technical documentation in the fields this spec is intended for.
Highlighter: Tcl/Tk app for reading and annotating PDF documents
How come this kind of shit is only a problem in places where police are more likely to be involved in criminal events that involve brutalizing innocent people?

Does Norway have a problem with an excessive number of people filming police interactions in public?
There are additionally certain ways sentences are to be constructed that are beyond the means of simple spellcheckers. The accepted vocabulary list is the easy part of the spec.
it IS.
Procrastination is one of the symptom of underlying emotional irregularities. It's a coping mechanism for people who avoid task on hand becuase the task causes them anxiety, pain, discomfor what-have-you.
Deal and heal the underlying issue/s and you will be better able to resolve procrastination.
ok then spammers will just sit on the accounts for a few months. aged accounts probably work better for spamming anyway. useless solution