skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A unicycle or bicycle flipping is a Physics 101 problem. First you must lock up the wheel if you want to flip, meaning the complications of kinetic friction are irrelevant. There's a center of mass, a contact point, a velocity, and a force. You can make a free body diagram to accurately calculate if you have the speed and CG to rotate forward (flip). Newtonian physics isn't magic. Telling someone to "read a bicycle science book" just sounds like a flippant dismissive insult. You're safe to assume I'm already well studied. This is a conversation, not an insult battle. If you have a point in mind, then bring it to the conversation in plain english to be inspected under the light of day. What juicy morsel is contained in this book of yours - perhaps it will sell people on moving it to the top of their reading list. Until then it's meaningless.
The PhD I was doing was in formal methods, specifically in regards to timing semantics. I think it’s super neat, but sadly I am in a minority.

ML is cool but I was never able to get super into it. I use ChatGPT but I never had a ton of desire to get into the guts of it. I was always more interested in discrete math and formal logic.
This is a good reminder that what we call the public cloud today is actually a misnomer - it’s not actually a public cloud, it’s someone else’s cloud. Just like we used to say the cloud is really just someone else’s computer.

I think people started calling it the public cloud simply because of the scale and seemingly easy access to everyone, where the current clouds are seemingly in open competition with each other.
> The latest from NVIDIA requires liquid cooling, tons of power, and solid floors

We won't be running on GPUs forever. The innovation in the chip space will continue.

With as much margin as cloud takes, there will be increased interest in on-prem and mixed environments.

We run our own GPUs in production as well as having a cloud footprint.
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S.
Multiple Planes Cross Runway While Another Is Taking Off [video]
> you have to shuffle the order in which you grade these submissions each week, for fairness

I don't think this is fair. It's just a more randomly distributed unfairness, rather than by a deterministic factor (like the student's name)

'Fair' would be each student is assessed independently for the work they did, rather than their mark being impacted by how early or late they were marked.
Review of first ever solo RPG adventure: Castle Buffalo, for Tunnels and Trolls
Post-Darwinian Theories of Evolution
I used to work for a company headquartered in Austin, TX. About once a year, we would have a company all-hands, and I would fly in.

I would not consider that "commuting"?

Furthermore, Mr. Leek has a job in Buenos Aires - he's making a documentary.

I'm not saying there isn't a problem here. I'm just saying that he's not commuting to work if he's traveling once every two months.
I hear your argument.

Now, if you want this argument to be complete, you also need to specify what doesn't count as "forced" in your opinion. Otherwise you can pick any arbitrary human interaction and deem it as "forced" and you end up with some pretty weird consequences.

In this particular case, you think a Google engineer was essentially doing forced labor. Google being Google and not McDonalds, it would follow that all or the vast majority of salaried employees are doing forced labor. Did I get this right? Where exactly do you draw the line?
I too follow this advice. I am the only user on my system. I would put all my stuff directly into /home if that were an option which was unlikely to have huge gotchas at some point.
cpeffer - What about sites requiring auth? (IE: Confluence, staging environments, etc.)

I'm honestly really impressed.
Your FF Unit font looks like it has some kerning issues. Something doesn't feel right about it. It also gives me terminal-font-but-not-really vibrations, which isn't good for a product intended to be sold to non-tech people.

SF Pro has usability issues, but FF Unit has aesthetic issues.
Data Engineering Challenges and How Airbyte Solves Them
BTC to 100k as a 'base case' by the end of the year, but an inevitable climb towards 1 million per coin, say a barrage of influencers, YouTube personalities who used to run hedge funds, and other assorted media outlets.

I trade BTC for swings, and have a vague belief in its future. It seems like more is happening with other coins in terms of platform development and r and d.

But the shills are grating on me more than ever in this cycle.
"students who sit closer are more likely to be high achievers" might also be the source of most of the stereotypes of people with glasses. It took me years to realize I'm mildly shortsighted, so the first half of school I chose seats in the front half of the classroom to make reading the blackboard easier. Many of my friends had glasses and preferred to sit up front because their glasses didn't fully correct their vision.
Right. The video goes to another school, you wouldn't know it.

If he had something concrete he'd lead with it rather than make himself look like raving madman. He's talking about the Bob Lazar ufo at some point ffs.
I'm ramping up my ublock origin usage by a lot at this point. I didn't know that with the annoyances list you can remove most of the pooup blockers (cookies, paywalls, newsletters)
Your work doesn't seem to have a purpose for you, apart from just paying the bills/surviving. It would help to find a new motivation. For me, it was improveing my coding skills to get better paying jobs, so that I can save a lot of money and eventually be financially free (live off savings instead of salary). This motivated me for the last 10 years of my career. Without this goal, I might have burned out and end up in a bad place.
I am mistaken, you are correct. BMW and Volvo both have plants in SC that haven’t unionized yet.
> Freedom is a finite resource in which copyleft licenses take from the developer to give to users

I think this GNU essay has the right take: if it enables your own self-determination, that's freedom, but if it enables you to impose on others, that's power, and it makes sense to make the distinction.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html
What I remember the most was endless BSODs when using Microsoft Office. No autosave (that I knew of anyway) made that hell.
What's the real application here? It surely can't be automotive, the amount of time spent at full load is minuscule at least in cars. My old Model S has a full load output of 250 kW but the typical load is less than 30 kW. Lower power cars spend a bit more time at a higher fraction of full load but still typically far less than 50%.

Of course efficiency and cooling are important but EV drives are already quite efficient and rarely operate at full load so the improvement in practice will be small.

Or is the mention of automotive use relevant only because Porsche is involved in testing?
> After all, rents are huge part of the return on their investment and also huge factor in determining the asset price.

Yes, rents are part of their ROI. That does not mean asset prices cause rents. Rents cause asset prices by impacting investment demand. Rents provide a soft bound on asset prices because investors demand a certain ROI, else they will allocate capital in other markets. We're getting the direction of causality mixed up.

> Solution to rental crisis is the reduction of what percentage of people rent vs buy.

No. If we have N renters competing for 0.8*N rental properties near their workplace, and we convert half of them into buyers, you're left with 0.5*N renters competing for 0.3*N properties. If anything you have made the problem worse for renters (although you have improved the situation for buyers).
I agree with you that it was probably unintentional, and an embarrassing failure, though not malicious. I mostly like Apple products and am tolerant of their business model and practices. But I was struck by your phrasing to wonder whether we really owe charitable interpretations to companies. I do think most people employed anywhere are probably well intentioned, and maybe we owe them something. But companies are almost algorithms that run on a substrate of people.
The Y combinator (npi) was also a very mind opening exercise. Even recreating pairs was quite fun.
That's generally the response. My thought is: then how do you know when someone is just wrong? Why do teachers have red pens? While in aggregate, I suppose today's mistakes are tomorrow's standard usage, but individual acts may simply mean somebody doesn't have the best way of saying what they're trying to communicate.
Well that's the idea right.

If you have the mindset to make the best of things - hey I'm traveling, let me do a little sightseeing and max out rewards points, cool.

If you view your job exclusively as a burden then every minute commuting/in office/logging in/travelling is bad, and you probably won't have a great career.
There are many notions of "fairness", many of which are logically incompatible with each other.

In this example, I think it's kind of fair to give everyone an equal chance of being advantaged. You're not hurting anyone specifically.
> Interesting thought. Perhaps we'll discover a language that is in some way of higher order than Turing complete.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation
Are VW's shareholders actually doing well?

It seems Volkswagen stock is down -16.23% last-5-years, and trading at a price-to-book ratio of 0.39.

I'm not an accountant, but with such a low P/B ratio, is there a chance the company gets bought out and liquidated for its assets, costing everyone's jobs?

For comparison: Ford trades at price-to-book ratio of 1.13 and is up 16.62% last-5-years (still not much better than the risk-free rate). And long-term TSLA shareholders, of course, have made incredible profits.

https://ycharts.com/companies/VLKAF/price_to_book_value

https://ycharts.com/companies/F/price_to_book_value
I've been riding those daily for years. Today I am going to Alameda naval base where they've set up an EUC racetrack on the tarmac at noon. I don't know what part your'e taking issue with, but physics is best communicated with free body diagrams and equations, which are difficult to articulate in conversational english and interpret correctly as a reader. I'm sure there's countless ways to misinterpret and nitpick my comments, but I'm not going to squabble over those or spend too much time rewriting anything — I'll just say I stand by my arguments from years of experience, so try to read my comments in that light first. If you had an actual point to share, share that instead.
Elon is right, tariffs are going to be necessary if we don’t want to cede the auto industry to China, and I cannot imagine we do. It’s really hard to compete with nearly slave labor.
Water Facilities Warned to Improve Cybersecurity as Nation-State Hackers Pounce
emergent behavior from a self-interested system, which doesn't necessarily preclude collusion, directly or less so.

the best capitalist simply had their competition shot.
If the querry is:

"
Should this candidate be selected for interview?

Copy pasted CV
"

It surely works?
Maybe this is a good place to ask: what's the best way to run a Windows retro machine for games these days? Virtualbox, Dosbox-x?
Of the currently operating ones? I doubt that. Even just within that list there's a significant percentage of link rot present. Beyond the top ~5000 or so sites I would wager the longevity of adult content sites is pretty bad on average. They tend to be sketchy, ad-infested cesspools after all, that lose their value for the operators once they get on block lists.

I don't doubt that there's a lot more out there (10x yes, 100x possibly, 1000x unlikely imo), but I think tens-of-thousands is enough to capture almost all of the significant ones that get any traffic and will be around for longer than one or two domain renewal periods.
Based on that article, European management seems to be pushing against US unionization too (installing anti union local ceo, etc)
Vindaloo Curry
It happens in your phone contacts when you’re deciding who to talk to. You’re starting with your Abrahams, Billys and Changs, probably rarely reaching out to your Xaviers, Yusufs and Zeldas about going out tonight because you’ve already assembled a crew by the time you reach the Mimis, Natashas and Ottos.
> see staff as fungible

It's like that in almost every field.
i was hanging around the Gong around then; I'm in Rads and was attempting to make a game with some friends from there at the time.

Those were some fun times.
We’ve been developing niche medical software successfully for some decades.

First, it helps that it’s niche—it avoids the “make healthcare better with electronic healthcare records” space, which can only but descend into making a much of text boxes available on a screen and promising that AI will do… something…

Second, we will listen to our clients, and probe their needs. But we’re most successful when we observe our clients. When we’re not in the thick of it, we have more space to ask “does it have to be this way?” We work very hard to formulate the problem so that a piece of software is not the default solution.

Few of the pain points are “exciting” or “glamorous”. But anything that means the practitioner is spending more time with the patient is a big win, even if it means applying some very boring technology.

Best of luck.
Yes. "The fast lane truck"

They regularly test trucks, often while towing heavy loads on the "Ike gauntlet" which is a loop of interstate in the Colorado Rockies near where I grew up that is part of the amazing work they did s part of the US interstate system. It's a wonder of the world. Anyway, it's also one of the toughest, highest altitude, highest grade tests of vehicles in the US. Lots of automakers ship their cars there to test them, not just trucks.
When in doubt blame white people right?
Time to start the boozepartysex AI coding bootcamp!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-484806/X-Facto...
Because politicians want power and control over the citizens. They might use it for different things, but power is power.
> which doesn't line up with your conspiracy theory that the only reason this one was allowed was because of their own store.

Literally, tell me you have never heard of Delta without telling me you've never heard of Delta.

The only reason this app exists is because of alternative App Stores. It is not a conspiracy theory, you can ask me, saurik, or any other iOS user that used the Altstore to attain basic functionality on their phone.

> And no this is not 100% on apple. The developer could have put it on the App Store in all regions. Again, Apple approved an emulator recently.

Yep. This is 100% on you. You are the only person that continues to enable and apologize for this behavior. So naturally, you are the only person that deserves to suffer on behalf of the users. I really hope you never sideload, and you get to watch the App Store become the same barren husk it is on MacOS while you desperately beg developers to pay for distributing their Free Software. Surely, those high-and-mighty developers will descend from their ivory tower and delete their altstores so that 'nerdjon' from Hacker News won't keep pissing and moaning about how his iPhone sucks now. Yes, that will fix it.
Modern TVs support "HbbTV", and it's enabled by default in many locales. It's essentially HTML-over-DVB (including javascript), which is absolutely terrifying when you realize that there's no encryption or authentication, and that it's something you can broadcast for yourself with a cheap SDR, and that TVs run outdated browser engines with root-equivalent privileges.
Silicon League?
Anyone can apply - you needn't be a US citizen (I'm not, for example) and you are most welcome to be South African.

Edit: I asked my informant and they said that YC has funded 6 South African founders since 2017, which I guess is how far that data goes back to. We agreed that it seems like there should be more!
There was no cost-benefit analysis on offer, you are correct. This is not the same as there being none, though. Weed-out courses are a classic example implemented at the institutional level - they exist to find as early as possible who is likely to be compatible with the educational program to come. Like any system working on messy humans (who like to defy neatly delineated categories), there are marginal cases who just need a little help to flip from one category to the other. The author calculated that they were such a marginal student and invested accordingly. This should not be confused for assuming that every passionate, driven student is a marginal case who just needs a little help.

The author is essentially arguing at length for a greater emphasis on benefit and less on cost. Not just in o-chem, but at every stage of medical training.
Great, happy to see progress in this space! I've built demo for the same thing with same use-case couple day ago. Execute untrusted JS code.

Empowering user apps with code is way to go.
> There is nothing that screamed “not planet” about Pluto until some scientists preconceptions and emotional investment about the numbers of planets got challenged.

> People now have to learn by rote that Pluto is not a planet. Because “scientists say so”, not because they are actually becoming sensitive to debris fields.

Even the other dwarfs we know of so far seem to make it a different category to me. Pluto is a lot more like them than it's like even Mercury.

https://planetseducation.com/dwarf-planets/

> The link between orbital debris and planetary size isn’t even going to hold with future discoveries. So the new restrictive regular language-unfriendly definition isn’t even going to be stable.

Are you saying that we're going to find huge planets that haven't cleared their neighborhoods? That sounds unlikely.
Haha, I've always enjoyed being at the end getting less attention from teachers. If the data merely shows a correlation, it may as well be explained by us at the end being under less pressure.
If "FCK" or "XXXCNTSLT" appear in the middle of the code, do you think the people who would have been offended by "SHIT" will be happier?
Exactly. Many staff/principal ICs I work with are genuinely happy and passionate about their work, they literally do it for fun having achieved financial independence.
Clearly evidence of anti-Polish bias when all the Zbigniews and Zygmunts and Wojteks get lower grades. (Or just another example of correlation vs. causation in action)
It's most likely a joke, but it might actually work against someone who just copy/pastes the linkedin into an older GPT model.
If an employee is pressured to deliver faster, and the employer looks the other way when chatgpt comes out - then there is little for the regulator to do. If you penalize the employee, another will just do the same.
> It's worth people revisiting Rich Hickey's "Open Source is Not About You".

Thank you for the reference to Rich Hickey's note. I used to subscribe to his view more or less completely, which is essentially that open source creators owe their users nothing and that if you want something fixed it's your responsibility to do it.

Over time, however, I have come around to think that Richard Stallman put his finger on the core issue, which is user rights regarding the code: to understand the code, to make changes to it, to make copies, and to propagate changed versions. [0, 1] This is different and more fundamental than the question of the obligations between members of the open-source community, which are much more amorphous than licenses for code.

In the original GNU manifesto, Richard Stallman made a prediction that succeeded beyond all expectation.

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free,
just like air.

This means much more than just saving everyone the price of a Unix license. It
means that much wasteful duplication of system programming effort will be
avoided. This effort can go instead into advancing the state of the art.

Not all code needs to be open source. But conferring user rights like the four freedoms on the basic building blocks of software system has unleashed enormous human creativity. I want to work on those building blocks and I'm willing to trade that privilege for other things like making more money. In doing do I acknowledge we do owe users rights to use the code as they please. And I want to live in a society where those rights are upheld, at least for certain types of software.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
Left and right are different in different countries. In the US, the Republicans are generally pro-building (see where new homes and factories are being built). But in the UK, the left party (Labour) is the one pushing for less onerous planning.
> Can you help me design experiments to prove the following?

Sure.

> * Simpler theories, with equal explanatory and predictive power, are preferable

You don't need an experiment for this. A more complicated theory is undesirable, all else being equal, because it requires more effort to deal with. A simpler theory will let you avoid that wasted effort.

> * I'm not dreaming

Any experiment will do here. You can't perform experiments in dreams. That is one of the things that distinguishes dreams from reality.

> and there's no evil demon deceiving me

You can never prove that. You might be living in the Matrix, and the Matrix could be controlled by an evil demon. That possibility can never be completely eliminated. However, there is no evidence for it, and so neither the matrix nor evil demons are needed to explain observations, and so they can be discounted for that reason. In other words, the Matrix or evil-demon hypotheses have no predictive power.

> * The next swan will be white because all prior swans I've observed are

That's a false assertion so you can't design an experiment to prove it. Science does not rely on induction.

> * Technology acts as a context of justification for scientific propositions, and proves its efficacy

Do you have a better explanation for how technology comes to exist that is consistent with all the data?

> * Experiment is the ultimate arbiter of truth

Again, that is not a provable assertion. That is a heuristic that empirically produces better results than any other criterion that humans have come up with so far.

There is actually reason to believe that it can't be improved upon, just as there is reason to believe that an oracle for the halting problem can't be constructed in our universe. But you can't prove it.
Mad (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data) Landscape [pdf]
This system already existed - it's open source - and while the page owner has linked the actual creator, the addition of a "donate" button is a bit suspect, in my opinion.

The hard work was done by other people - whether the modern news content was de novo I don't know - but it has been done elsewhere by other people, like the original, which has multiple channel and music - check it out here:

https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/

Try Channel 6!
Look, I'm not talking about it as a speculative asset, I'm just stating why it can be useful. And by inflation risk I meant risk of being devalued due to artificial increases in supply.
100% duty cycle capable means more durable and capable of industrial use, racing, aerospace, military.

Think mining haul trucks, industrial process control, towing, semi trucks, race cars, electric helicopters, water pumps, etc.

also, likely capable of 150% for short bursts (military power)
You can't prove anything scientifically. The best you can do is come up with an explanation that is consistent with all the data.

How do you know that your wife loves you, and that she's not just pulling a long con?
Forfeiting sounds intentional. How would you know the nationality of all participants in a conversation?