skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The details of the paper are way over my head, but here's what I took away from a quick skim.

The random sampling technique of Benzur and Karger approximately preserves the total weights of all cuts in the graph, up to certain error bounds (with high probability). That is, if you draw a particular cut through the graph, the original version might have 100 edges crossing the cut, and the sparse graph might have 3 edges crossing the cut with a total weight of 102. Since all cut sizes are approximately preserved, you can get an approximate answer to the min cut in the original graph by solving the same problem on the sparse graph.

The deterministic, exact approach is a lot more complicated. In this case, we're not trying to preserve all cut weights, just the weights of minimum cuts. If you imagine a graph that consists of some dense "clusters" connected by other sparse "bottlenecks", then a minimum cut must go through the bottlenecks while avoiding the clusters.

So hand-waving the details, if you could exactly partition the graph into dense clusters, you could just collapse each cluster into a single vertex, and then easily solve the min-cut problem on the graph of clusters instead of the original graph. This partitioning is hard to do exactly. But if you start by doing it approximately, then you can bound the number of "adjustments" that need to be made in order to make the partitioning work.
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
Therapist: WebHardDiskPartitioner isn't real, it can't hurt you.

Chrome engineer: Hold my beer!
> Traffic stops, employment interviews, rental applications, and health care treatment are not events a single person experiences every day

Really? You don't think the outcomes from those events impact your everyday life?
Ultrafast laser-powered 'magnetic RAM' is on the horizon after new discovery
We are not slaves. We are not robots. Your philosophy is for bootlickers. That might get you places, but I've got my dignity.
> What if you 'negotiate' and the hospital and the insurance company just reject?

If you are sick and can't negotiate, and no one can negotiate on your behalf, or the provider won't negotiate, and if they sue, and if you have no charity assistance, then you will be one of the folks who goes bankrupt from medical bills. I said it was hard, and you can see from that chain of conditionals that it absolutely is, but of course it does happen.

The effects of bankruptcy in the U.S. last seven years, at least as far as credit rating is concerned. Not great, but this is not serious in the way that killing people would be serious, if that happened, which again, it basically doesn't if you can navigate the system.

> It does.

0.7% is an absurdly low profit margin. It just is. The rest of your paragraph is basically true, but doesn't change that. At the same time, the U.S. spends a much higher percentage of GDP on healthcare than most developed nations. Ergo, what the U.S. system is really optimized for is wasting money

Since that is not a rational goal for anyone, it's stupid. Evil at least achieves something for the evildoer. I'll leave it at that.
AFAIR it required some unusally large amount of base mem (not highmem). I learned a lot about computers by repetitively breaking the family PC trying to get it to work (by disabling random things in autoexec.bat and CONFIG.SYS to free up as much of that 640k as possible), then trying to fix it before my dad came home. Good times.
I wonder if these people ever paused to consider they aren't as smart as they think they are, if they're just figuring out some basics of human communication in their mid 20s that my 8 year old has known for years.
“It was to be free from almost all the tiresome restraints—“ red tape” was the word its supporters used—which have hitherto hampered research in this country.”

— That Hideous Strength: by C. S. Lewis (1943)

The book literally starts with a competition between Oxford and a fictional university about who gets to host a “trans-humanist” research organization.
Boeing whistleblower warns 787 Dreamliner could 'fall apart' in midair
For me, as someone who works in streaming, I/we have no interest in stopping/hindering competition and that's something that certainly gets raised by people who advocate for NN.

What companies want, is to be able to invest with ISPs to ensure they have optimised capacity available to ensure their service works well. Now, the issue then becomes: does the ISP use that as an excuse to neglect their own investments in public peering, or backhaul and only optimise for paying partners?

In that respect, as an internet user and competitor to others, I'd definitely want all ISPs to be accountable for ensuring their networks have capacity to meet the demands of their users at a baseline level. But if someone wants to invest over and above that, then I don't believe that's a bad thing.

What I also object to is ISPs holding us, as services, to ransom, saying "if you want to deliver to our customers, you have to pay for transit." this is increasingly something that ISPs are pushing for around the world. In theory they want it to be a tax on content providers that funds their networks, ultimately the customers pays, but it's the ISPs double dipping. They charge consumers for their internet connection and then want to charge the content providers for you using it.
WebVibrator is a thing. No, really*: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...

*Not supported on Safari, thank goodness!
Credit card rewards on purchases are not taxable events. They are considered refunds/rebates by the IRS.

In this scenario United Airlines is compensating people for a service, so these airline miles are considered income. That is why they need to compute the dollar value of those miles in order to report the tax burden. This happens whenever someone is paid with something other than dollars, and when people barter.
I've got some Formlabs demo prints that seem pretty good -- way better than the SLA stuff my friends and I make at home.

But I can safely assume that they're using much better machines, materials, and processes than I have access to.
If billed by hour, that's great.
Suppose the political party you dislike is in power and starts using their surveillance capabilities to crack down on dissenting opinions shared on the Internet, and you spend time discussing those opinions because it's your right as a citizen to exercise your freedom of thought and speech, but they catch you and penalize you for what you dared to share (which would be a benign opinion), would you start opposing it?

If it prevented your ability to speak freely about (and with) the candidates who represent your's and many others' wishes in a democracy, leading you to fear, would it become important to you?

That's what it's being used for.
Not quite, you don't save memory, only compute.
EndeavourOS uses dracut instead of mkinitcpio (whereas Arch Linux uses mkinitcpio). EndeavourOS brands all its desktops for online installation. In contrast, RebornOS made the choice to stick close with Arch Linux, with no branding for desktops installed online, uses mkinitcpio like Arch Linux, only deviations being fixes for problems that Arch Linux refuses to resolve - broken default themes on Cinnamon, MATE, and UKUI, the possibility of black screen on boot for Nvidia hybrid GPU, etc.
IIRC it depends on how you get them
I suspect that you are replying to a different comment than mine, but I remember the iPhone 1.0 demo, and smelling strong bovine excrement.

But they were able to release something that ended up changing the world.

It’s always a bit jarring to watch pre-smartphone movies and TV shows.

These things have become ubiquitous.

I liked the “flick-pen,” from Geostorm, though.
How does one research and generate insights for what does not exist yet? Is there a framework? At SXSW this year, there were a couple of talks about forecasting, as a tool for futurism, but where ethics are concerned, I’ve not seen a good template. Maybe all if this is obvious, yet I’m curious so I’m asking.
I'd also recommend https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html . I switched to it from iTerm2 for the reasons in https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/wezterm#iterm... (primarily a simpler Lua config to reason about and version control)
Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits the AI Inference Wave
> Kids are very expensive.

I have five. They don't have to be.
Randomized linear algebra and under-solving (mixed precision or fp32 instead of fp64) seem to be taking off more than in the past, mostly on gpu though (use of tensor cores, expensive fp64, memory bandwidth limits).

And I wish Eigen had a larger spectrum of 'solvers' you can chose from, depending on what you want. But in general I agree with you, except there's always a cycle to eke out somewhere, right?
Yeah, like if they said "call the archeology department of your local university to see if they want to document it", I'd totally do that. But I'm not going to call the police, explain to them what I'm calling about and potentially open a crime scene investigation in my own home.

Though realistically, I don't expect that the police would even come out or do anything at all, they don't bother to come out for car breakins, so I don't see them coming out for "I saw something in my new countertop that looks sort of like it could be a 500,000 year old human fossil"
Author is probably a firstborn. If you’re 3rd in birth order, you don’t need that reminder.
There are so many kinds of blueberries, and they all get sold without specifying what kind. There's also a matter of taste. I've had blueberries I like and blueberries I feel meh about from the store. I prefer less tart and some people prefer more tart.
The additional context you provide suggests that the smear was taken out of context in order to hide the fact that the smear was in fact covering a skid mark over a shit stain.
Too many people have their brain rotted from the web dev world where things are reinvented every other week.
Somehow I find marble and travertine in things like hotels a bit depressing. It took millions of years to form and it's a marvel of serendipitous geological processes. Then it gets sliced and stuck to a wall for a decade or two before another renovation or a demolition happens and it gets smashed up and thrown away.
The problem with a name is often it reflects what the code does [0], then people add to the code. Then the name gets longer and longer when it should reflect what it does. Start with a name that is abstract enough so it's resilient to changes in it's implementation.

[0] e.g. Login() then LoginSso() then LoginSsoOnlyGoogle() etc.
It's a pretty strong signal that your opinion of the value you're providing is not shared by those who are making the decisions. Regardless of if it's their own ignorance or not they aren't going to suddenly change their feelings about it.
Even that's a very high estimate.

Maybe there are 8 million bonafide geniuses on Earth, and maybe 80 million very smart people, at max.

And being very generous to the US, maybe a tenth of them are full time residents somewhere in the 50 states plus DC.

Claims that a meaningfully large portion of them are being 'wasted', are hard to believe since there aren't that many to begin with.
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Haha simplistic but probably faster and more space-efficient than a relational database. Sounds like rabernat and open-meteo who commented here do something similar to you and find it fast as well!
Can we please keep politics outside of the workplace?

This was something I liked about remote work - I didn't need to know my coworkers political leanings.

I don't care what you believe - just keep me out of it, and don't give me a reason to have an argument with you.

(Yes I recognize this is the whole point of protests and the irony surrounding my stance)
Hoping to find out when I compare TimescaleDB vs. Clickhouse!
The full final report is well worth a read for those with time on their hands: https://www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org/s/FHI-Final-Report...
Did you get cut cause "we need a number" and you're expensive?

Were you the growth guy when they need run the busies blood and guts people?

Did they save 2 people in some other department who matter more with some horse trading?

You can go and be a clock puncher. It's perfectly fine to do so. I know plenty of them, some got laid off recently and cant seem to find jobs. The high achiever's the go the extra mile types who are LIKED (dont be an asshole) are all working already.

Down vote me all you want. I was here for the first (2000) tech flop. The people who went the extra mile and some safe and secure corporates were the ones who made it. Coming out the other side (the ad tech, Web 2.0 boom) there were a lot of talented, ambitious, hard working people around. Any one who wasnt that ended up in another field that made them happy.
They aren't remotely the same thing dude. Medicine is better when it gets made at a factory instead of in someone's back yard. Fruits and vegetables are better when they are made locally (which can be someone's back yard), rather than being shipped halfway across the country/world.
> But they have to stretch

People already routinely type at least !, @, and $ often enough and it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal.

> On phones you have numpad input for the same reason

Yes, a straight grid of numbers for touchscreens not one heavily skewed to the side. Also, the number pad keyboard means larger hitboxes for numbers to type them faster. There's also no real "home row" on a phone keyboard.

Look, if it makes you happy, do it. I'm just suggesting that to me its not really that much better than just pressing the keys that are practically always there on any regular keyboard. I'd personally just rather get better at pressing the number row keys instead of ensuring I'm on a keyboard or OS configuration to allow me to have some non-standard numberpad layer on the keyboard.
There are many reasons why a library require continuous maintainance even when it's "feature-complete", off the top of my head:

1. Bug fixes

2. Security issues

3. Optimization

4. Compatibility/Adapt to landscape changes

People pointing flaws in a library aren't "scumbags that expect open source library maintainers to slave away indefinitely"

No one is forcing the maintainer to "slave away", they can step down any time and say I'm not up for this role anymore. Those interested will fork the library and carry the torch.

No need to be so defensive and insult others just for giving feedback.
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Every union officer is elected by the workers, so yes, they have an incentive to please them. Historically, unions have been responsible for a massive amount of health & safety improvements in the workplace.
Bostrom's original statement was not remotely accurate or mild. The statement, "Take for example the following sentence: Blacks are more stupid than whites. I like that sentence and I think it is true." -- is a classic example of racism. It is racist to the core. Not only that, Bostrom knew at the time racism like that would make things more difficult for him and he was correct. Sometimes cancel culture is deserved. At least he eventually apologized for it.
"your work" means "your responsibility" or "your part of the deal" here, not "you get legal ownership of the project".

The premise of a working contract being that you have to work in exchange for a salary...
It's pretty bad career advice. If you're an indie app developer trying to make a living developing indie apps, then you need to care about design. If it's not your career, then it's great advice.

A few years ago I had a need for an app which would allow an android tablet to play media when power was connected and pause when power was disconnected. Nothing like that existed (at least open source) at the time, so I dug up some ancient school project someone made for an android app back in 2010, updated it to allow media controls, and used it. I published it on fdroid, but I put zero effort into updating the already-then-outdated UI and never updated it again unless I had another need for it.

I wasn't getting paid for app development and design. I am not trying to get paid for app development and design. To the extent that having done this impacts my career, I think "bothered to create a custom android app for his personal project" says a lot more about me than "does not have a state of the art UI for his custom personal project app".

If people are turned off from that app by the outdated UI, I could not care less.
The Making of Django Reinhardt
Fusion Startup Is a Strong Newcomer [video]
Unless they are given meaningful equity, it's not their ship, and regardless of whether it is or isn't, unlike the shareholders and creditors, they won't be sinking with it.

If you want worker interests to be even a little aligned with owner interests, the correct corporate structure is not an S corp, or a C corp, it is some flavor of worker co-op.

And even then, it can't grow too big.
Lower cost printers are absolutely using LCDs with an LED UV light source. These resin curing printers are pretty darn cheap as well, and have a ton of resolution. They also excel on volume as they do expose the entire plate at once and don’t require scanning a laser around.

The material you get out of such a printer is of course entirely different from an injection molded part.
> You're not making that distinction

I'm not making the distinction because I was talking purely about the desire to be able to understand everything, not the desire to actually do so at all. So your attempt to split hairs is purely irrelevant to my point.

Even the desire to be able to is one I find absurd, and as I said fundamentally based on an irrational fear of the unknown — specifically the fear of having to rely on something that you may not be able to perfectly understand or control — and a prideful desire to not only control everything but not have to rely on the expertise of others. Moreover it is a mindset that is simply not practical in any other field of life, in modern society, and while it may once have been possible in the software industry, I don't think holding back software from the many benefits more complex and complete software can bring making it easier to use, handle more edge cases, solve problems more completely and from first principles, have more useful features, integrate better with other things, and so on just to preserve that state, th)at sort of atavistic design philosophy, is sensible either. It seems like a monomial pursuit of the optimization of one variable, namely a certain specific sense of reliability where edge cases and the fragility of the integrations between things and the lack of accounting for various use cases necessitating piling on more ad hoc tools, are not counted, at the expense of many other things.

> Arguing for choosing complexity that removes that option because otherwise we're irrationally afraid of the unknown is really one heck of a take.

It doesn't seem like a particularly crazy take to me at all. Perhaps in the software industry it is, because there has been such a cargo cult like obsession with the Unix Philosophy for a very long time, but I've always been a crank and have no desire to apologize for that, and it's a trade-off we make every day in other areas: choosing something that even if we wanted to we probably couldn't fully understand all of the intricacies of because it serves our needs better on a practical level is something every person in modern society does every day with a vast panoply of things, including software, because the division of labor and specialization and so on is actually a very important part of what makes the modern world with all of its advanced technology and convenience and so on possible.

> I can't understand every intricacy of my systems, but I know several NetBSD developers who have intimate understandings of literally every aspect of their computers.

I'm not so sure that's true, except on an abstract architectural level probably, in which case the second part of my argument above would come into play.

> Because this is possible, and because people with this level of understanding exist, I trust what comes from the NetBSD project more than I trust anything from any of the Linux distros.

Trust about what? That's kind of my question.
> Dating of the travertine by Anne-Marie Lebatard and collaborators in 2014 suggests that the individual lived sometime between 1.6 million and 1.2 million years ago.

What the…? Am I misunderstanding something? I didn’t think human ancestry started so long ago.
surely this was planned!!
The problem is we are collectively not willing to pay for this quality of life, so we operate various systems near the breaking point. As long as said systems don't fail, they will continue to operate as is. Teacher shortages, nurse and doctor shortages, bus driver shortages, air traffic controller shortages, and so on.

Agree with your point that the people creating these situations should be held accountable in some form, although I'm unsure if the will exists for accountability. America runs on "maximum extraction minimum liability" as a philosophy.

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/27/labor-shortages-air-traffic...

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/health-care-doctor-shortage...

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/aging-health-care-labor-sho...

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/08/us-labor-shortage-older-wor...
500000-microsecond-blunder*
You'll know AGI has really arrived when we do have factory robots backflipping and doing stupid stuff to amuse themselves.
Very recently two other engineers had a long debate on a PR of mine that really had no material impact one way or another. My approach rang true with the article: "they can sort it out."

I do enjoy a certain degree of challenge at work, though, to be more precise less anti-challenge (high friction, high ceremony work). I will invent work, especially if I'm experiencing paper-cuts: e.g. I spend a stupid amount of time improving CI speed. It's thankless and invisible, but makes the mundane more bearable (nothing is worse than trying to push mundane work through flaky CI).

Edit: this entire perspective comes from having given a huge damn at one point. The one-sided relationship with an employer taught me the inevitable, and very hard, lesson. Barry is one acquisition away from becoming Maria.
Can you elaborate more ? I don't use tiktok so i don't have much idea.
Do you use any word to distinguish what google did in my example vs what theranos/FTX did? Or would you put both in the same category as one small lie is same as basing existence of a company on lie.
"Clickbait" implies deception. The title was not deceptive.
Did I miss how he was disparaged by Katherine Maher? I read her email; she certainly disagreed with him, but I think that's very different than disparaging him. If you call for open discussion of ideas, you must expect that some people will disagree with your ideas.
The magic ingredient in concrete is cement and the magic ingredient in cement is limestone, so our cities are literally built out of bones. Sleep tight.
Exactly. Black and white TVs worked very much like oscilloscopes and had almost no definition of horizontal resolution. Very few color broadcast TVs were made with three separate beams and three separate color filters (like rear-view projectors). Your typical color TV effectively created "pixels" by their use of shadow masks and three separate beams. The analog signal, however, could still be in transition along the entire horizontal sweep. The biggest difference between high-end studio monitors and your average TV was how packed the shadow mask was.
Hundreds could die if Boeing fails to handle quality issues, whistleblower says
Proof-of-Diligence: Model trust and maintainability in open source
Fair point, it doesn’t seem like anyone did actually say as much.
A progressive public radio show run by two ethnic MIT graduates? Yes.