skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Sensible moderate tax payers have to interact with icky drug addicts in their day to day life"

You phrased this in a way to make it sound absurd, but the fact is that this is absolutely part of the problem. "Sensible moderate tax payers" are participating into society because it makes them feel safer, and it abstracts away a lot of the details of building
important infrastructure like roads and hospitals.

Those Sensible Moderate Tax payers are generally ok with paying taxes that they know will go to things that don't benefit them directly, partly because they believe it will make their overall society better. They pay for schools even though they don't have kids, or their kids already are finished their education. They pay for roads, even ones they don't drive on. And yes, they even pay for housing for homeless and help for addicts, even though most of them have never been homeless or an addict, and never will be

But those Sensible Moderate Taxpayers aren't stupid. They can see when a policy is not actually improving the world around them. Sure they don't have the research or stats to back it up, but they are often the ones who actually have to bear the negative externalities of bad policy. They're the ones who have roads riddled with potholes, or kids in schools with overcrowded classrooms and overworked teachers. And they're the ones stepping over unconscious heroin addicts on their way to work, or sitting quietly on a bus while someone on fentanyl rages at people while everyone tries not to make eye contact

These interactions make people's lives worse. Yeah, the person on Fentanyl raging on the bus is probably not having a good day, but they are also making everyone else's day worse. They are arguably making society worse.

So yeah. The Sensible Moderate Taxpayer has to ask themselves why they are paying taxes to support such people who don't participate in the same society or behave with the same social norms. Especially since it seems to be making their own life worse as a result

By the way..

> They associate with crime and feel unsafe (even if it's illogical)

It's not illogical. People who are addicts are often not behaving rationally, they are unpredictable and that makes them potentially dangerous. It's not "illogical" to feel unsafe when confronted by someone behaving aggressively and erratically, even if statistically they don't tend to cause harm.

And homeless people often have little to lose. Which similarly makes them potentially dangerous. Especially if they are panhandling they are sometimes invading people's space and maybe shouting at people, which always comes across aggressive. Again, it's not illogical to feel threatened and unsafe when people are actually behaving aggressively towards you

Anyways, all this to say, ignore the opinions of the Sensible Moderate Taxpayer at your peril. If you have an interest in guiding policy a certain way, you will have to convince them your policy won't make their lives worse
If this were really the case, wouldn't it be a painfully obvious anticompetitive move?
This is a really bad take. I went straight to the algebraic geometry. I subject I'm very interested but have no math training.

I found the explanation on the development linkages to be intriguing. It described the historical context and the steps of development one key ideas.

Calling curious people posers is off putting.
Handcrafting a Wooden CNC Pen Plotter [video]
On reflection, the operative sentence of what is essentially my resume as a post is "ideally meet some builders", and that's what's driving my hesitance to relocate.
Podcasting Microphones Mega-Review (2022)
Seriously. My first thought was, is this April Fools'?

And if so, why aren't they throwing crypto into the mix?

"Quantum Blockchain AI" does kind roll off the tongue nicely...
> Where is the AI?

The founder of the Google Quantum AI lab is researching how quantum computers can be applied to AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iEEvRfTTEs
I have never found search console useful for anything other than random 404's and one-off server errors.
When a site is hit by an algorithmic penalty there is never any clue as to why.
Wouldn't it be more relevant to reduce the time it takes to settle trades? That seems anachronistic, like sending checks by snailmail. We have so many computers in the 21st century, and most money is digital already. Does settling/clearing on a delay actually serve a purpose, or just enables someone to collect rent?
In cutthroat capitalism, integrity goes out of the window. The last Prime Minister of the UK had ties to many dodgy organisations and was backed by oil companies. The current Prime Minister is married to a billionaire.
Conversely: we have computers now. Why shouldn't stock traders get the benefit of the increased productivity? Maybe the stock market should go to a four day week. Maybe just a few hours per day.
And yet GPT4 still can't reliably tell me if a word contains any given letter.
So many preconceptions. Firstly, what exactly does "speeds with allow interstellar travel" entail? A being that was functionally immortal wouldn't care about travel times. And why assume that interstellar travel is even required? There is no solid reason why extraterrestrials need to huddle around stars. They might live in the void between stars. Heck, there could be millions of truck-sized UFOs dancing around in "our" ort cloud and we wouldn't even notice.
I would read the table of contents and pick the most intriguing/relevant topic and see if it's comprehensible and relevant.
That’s an excellent point.

Not sure I’d think of it as a “disagreement,” though; just another angle.
A Close Examination of the Most Infamous Public Toilet in America
Fast Stable Diffusion on CPU 1.0.0 Beta 30 Release
> MIDI should be studied by anyone interested in protocol design

Absolutely. A shambles hopefully never repeated.
Longevity revolution: How those over 100 are making the most of their lives
How did a GMO purple tomato get mixed up for an organic variety?
More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181896
The calculation takes time but the inference is from a single snapshot so it is effectively a single transaction of input to output. An intelligent entity is not a transactional machine. It has to a working system.

That system might be as simple as calling the transactional machine ever few seconds. That might pass the threshold. But then your AGI is the broader setup, not just the LLM.

But the transactional machine is certainly not an intelligent entity. Much like a brain in a jar or a cryostasis’d human.

Suppose we could perfectly simulate a human mind in a way that everyone finds compelling. We would still not call that simulated human mind an intelligent entity unless it was “active”.
> be alarmed by price changes

only because they're not knowledgable enough. And if they're an amateur, they will lose to the pros - it's a shark infested trading market out there.

I don't see any problems with that.
If this were true then every site would implement adsense. Most don't.
> I’ve never met a conservative teacher.

This probably depends where you went to school. I'm from South Florida where there is a large Cuban population.

> Here’s an article about how college professors used to be much more Republican: https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappea...

Thanks for the article. It's a bit of a goofy partisan piece though, and provides some hand-wavy conjecture like, "It is unclear why elite research institutions have been untouched by these changes, though it is possible that these institutions use less-politicized criteria when selecting faculty, and thus make it easier for talented conservative scholars to find jobs." The article never explains what criteria. It also makes funny statements like "if one wants to be exposed to a broad spectrum of political ideas, it is still far better to attend Notre Dame or Baylor than Berkeley or Cornell" Because... more faculty are Republican? Does the American two-party system accurately represent the wide spectrum of political thought?

You seem to be implying that the rise in liberal professors/teachers is a result of covert infiltration of American universities that is brainwashing students and faculty. I find it more likely that less conservatives want to be teachers/professors than liberals do in the first place.
Speak Your Mind, but Not Like That: The Double Bind Theory
> One of our known scientific facts is that we know our understanding physics is incomplete (namely, QCD and GR are incompatible), so obviously we can never put 100% confidence into Carter's negative claim.

By this line of thinking we can never put “100% confidence” into anything at all.

But our understanding of physics will never be “complete”, therefore this is just a cheap argument to say we must assign every claim a non-zero chance of being true.

> This is just Epistemology 101, and totally uncontroversial.

You’re mincing claims, jumping from obscure physics to “Epistemology 101” and trying to lump it all together as “totally uncontroversial”, but it’s really just an attempt at moving the goal posts with fancy language and big words.

It doesn’t change the fact that the original claim clearly has some factual inconsistencies, such as the way the date of the encounter doesn’t even match other records of the event or even appear to be in the same season at which the event occurred, or that none of the other people present appear to have come away with similar observations.

Talking about physics and GR and QCD and Epistemology 101 doesn’t change anything. It’s just superfluous jargon.
'The science isn't there': do dating apps help us find our soulmate?
It isn't going to change anything in the grand scheme of things. The market swings on news, and there's mostly no news after hours. And even when there is, people who want to trade already manage to do it 24x7 in a variety of ways (hence the wild swings sometimes in between market closing and opening the following day).
Ever heard of a book called K&R C, and another book called The Annotated Reference of UNIX, aka Lion's Book?

Also lots of AT&T and Bell Labs money poured into employees salaries.
Monetization is a problem. Early on apps like tinder and even some dating websites worked, but at some point the incentives to keep people isolated and single win out. If the app works, people stop using it. Similar to how engagement works on most social media, it isolates and makes people more hostile rather than fulfilling the need that brought the user there in the first place. Should call it anti-social media. Economics ensure that the problem is never to be solved by any technology platform that attempts to. Maybe if the government builds their own non-monitized apps, that might work. But, security is hard, given great power competition, government funded dating apps would have difficulty on that front. Inject a lot of fake profiles and you could collapse birth rates. I sometimes wonder if that isn’t the point of TikTok, an app that decreases birth rates in a subtle and indirect way.
I believe the first cores in chisel which is a Haskell/ML type HDL, so SAIL fits right in.

Just because people are used to other ways of doing things doesn’t make those ways better. “I don’t want to learn something new“ certainly isn’t a compelling argument.
>He offered some suggestions: The building code could be rewritten to make it easier to purchase and install prefabricated structures (“Under the terms of a project labor agreement approved by the Board of Supervisors during your tenure, we are restricted from using off-site modular construction for any project using bond funds in excess of $1 million,” he acidly noted). The Board of Supervisors could eliminate multiagency approvals for small projects. It could streamline the bidding process. It could lift the boycott it had placed on doing business with 30 other states on account of their laws on reproductive, voting and L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

>We think of adding regulation as something liberals do and removing regulation as something conservatives do. But what regulation often does is take power and discretion away from government employees who could do a far better job if they were allowed to make decisions based on goals rather than process.
Yes, it would help US teens were convinced to use another communication app that treated people equally in a group regardless of their phones. But they are teens and culture from network effects is hard to change.

Or a much easier approach, Apple could fix that, if they wanted. But they don't because iPhones would lose their status symbol (blue bubble) and teens could then buy other phones without suffering rejection in groups. Apple can't have that.

If culture among teens is hard to change and Apple values income above all, it's up to regulators. But US regulators aren't as active than EU.
Also worth a trip to:

https://www.beamish.org.uk/

To see a lot of Industrial Revolution tech actually working.
Linus Torvalds on security, AI, open source and trust [video]
Cryptocurrency exchanges are typically 24/7 and as someone who does occasional trading, I can confidently say that it is very stressful: anything can happen while you sleep. So you sleep less when you have some open positions.
>What it really means

That's not really true. Certainly that's what it really means for some people. But for other people it means "yes, we literally mean defund the police" or else some version of "all cops are bastards." I'm just just saying that there are some odd opinions on the fringe, but rather this movement never managed to clearly define or unify its message.
I can't believe how terrible product search is on Instacart - I place orders on there pretty frequently for my mom, and Petco is the worst.

I will search for "wellness chicken cat food" - and wellness has chicken cat food in a few different textures, so it seems like those should at least be on the page of search results, if not the top results. Not always so! At the very least I will have to scroll a ways down the page to get anything even wellness.

And sometimes the top results aren't even cat food, they will be random other pet supplies.

Or she wants a few different flavors of the food, and I find one and then the other flavors I have to search a few different ways to pull them up and they don't show up on any "similar" displays.

It's painful. I hope Google doesn't go the same way - I think with Instacart it's because they want to promote whatever it is they put at the top, but even that doesn't explain how terrible some of the search results are.
Show HN: Duolingo for Chess
After 6 months of building, I just beta launched the Duolingo for Chess and received 500 sign ups in the first day! Chess player or not, I'm curious to hear your feedback on the product & possible ideas for a GTM strategy.

The product is still in its beta phase, so is missing some gamification / social aspects, but the idea is to create the most practical, fun and efficient training product on the market.

Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8WB0HaFQ48

More Detailed Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1ccrh7l/new_training...

Let me know what you think here or feel free to email me directly at emory@chesslab.me!

Important Note: For now, it's best viewed on a desktop.
Isn’t .app only available on Google too?
> arguably we would have a better alternative if systemd had never been adopted.

Not true. We have many alternatives, adopted in some distros. But AFAIK no Enterprise distro. For servers or desktop.. why?

because systemd starts as many services as possible in parallel this speeds the overall startup and gets the host system to a login screen or reduce the server downtime dramatically than SystemV. That is for sure a well wanted characteristics today...
Article is about various enterprise security features - not about getting security fixes to your operating system. These are more about logging, analytics over the logs and more control on the workstation configuration and different security policies.

These are tools that can increase security for an organization that has resources to properly deploy, manage and monitor them. IMHO they don't do much unless you have people who can dedicate time to dig into them.

Providing the storage and processing capacity on the cloud costs money, so it is difficult to bundle them with reasonably priced perpetual operating system license. There's also a lot of competition on this space.
That would upset the church of emacs though.
A shell command, so curl would work
Reagan campaign paid Iran millions to stall the release of the hostages and shortly after winning the election they were released. Pretty shitty, and treasonous imo to be using your own fellow citizens being held hostage as political leverage.
Anything new here?

Last milestone was February 2023:

https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/our-progress-t...
Wow, django-ninja is just what I was looking for. Thanks for pointing it out. Here’s their CRUD example: https://django-ninja.dev/tutorial/other/crud/
Things I Tell Myself to Be More Agentic
> I wonder if they put "AI" in the branding to grab the attention of people in quantum about to pivot to LLM's..

The Quantum AI lab was founded in 2013, about a decade before LLM's took off. The founder of the lab is researching how quantum can be applied to AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iEEvRfTTEs
“Wrong answers are not calculated” is a popular simplification of this, but it's misleading you here.

Quantum computers are a means of systematically creating and modifying complicated sums of exponentially large FFT's, and then efficiently sampling from the resulting distribution.

Note that you typically still need to sample many times to get a meaningful answer, which is where the “wrong answers are not calculated” ultimately comes from: if you can arrange for most or all of the factors corresponding to “wrong” answers in the sampled distribution to cancel out (such as the term for the number 4 when trying to factor 15), then when you sample several times from that distribution, very few or perhaps none of those samples will have been drawn from the “wrong” part of the distribution, and so you waste less time testing bad samples.

A quantum computer is potentially useful for simulating quantum systems because the _models_ for those systems are ridiculously complex in _exactly_ this way. It won't help if the model is wrong, but our problem is currently that we can't really run the calculations our current models imply beyond slightly-larger-than-toy examples.
Anything can happen in stock market as well. Just the price isn't immediately updated, but it is still the same thing.
Wait until they bring in Scrum. The $1.7 million toilet will cost three times as much.
They don't really define "complexity" well enough. CMake is more complex internally than the autotools in terms of the functionality available and the internal implementation details. But it does much, much more than the Autotools ever attempted. However, the user configuration is simpler and more powerful, and the generated build logic is simpler and more flexible in terms of the output formats available. And it only requires learning a single language, not three or four.

You're absolutely spot on with regard to its maintainability though. The Autoconf macros can't be changed without breaking everyone, so it's effectively impossible to change it, and we've seen that stagnation for well over a decade at this point. The use of m4 adds a whole heap of incidental complexity and inflexibility. You can never replace m4, because of the huge number of Autoconf functions internally-expanding user-provided macros.

I'm unsure why they make such a big deal of configurable install prefixes and system feature testing. While Autoconf may have pioneered this, or at least popularised it, it's not like the alternative systems like CMake don't implement the exact same features. They do, though with slightly changed names (just cosmetic).

Where I think they have a point, is in the huge investment into the Autotools by projects and the inertia that creates to resist change. That's very real. However, I do think that the cost of change is often overestimated. Off the top of my head, I've converted four open-source Autotools-based projects to use CMake (schroot, libTIFF, Apache Xerces-C++ and Apache Xalan-C++). Some of these had very complex logic encoded in their configure scripts; some of them had libraries of Autoconf macros to do custom feature testing. And yet, while rewriting this logic to use the CMake equivalents was tedious, it was entirely doable, and in all cases it was doable in under a week with a bit of shakedown afterwards to eliminate subtle behaviour differences. For two of these (libTIFF and Xerces), the projects maintain both systems in parallel to this day.

The inertia will keep a lot of established projects using the Autotools for several more years I would expect. If it works, the incentive to change is not going to be there until the Autotools bitrot to the extent that they break with contemporary toolchains. It will happen at some point. We already see it occasionally with libtool, and I've already seen the Autotools builds I maintain fail on Solaris, Cygwin and MinGW where they worked without any special effort with CMake.

Every piece of software is a child of its time. The Autotools were created to solve Unix portability problems of the '90s, and they served that purpose well using the portable and commonly-available tools of that time. However, while these tools continue to work today, they have not evolved to solve contemporary problems and that is why they aren't going to be a good choice for new projects. It will die by attrition if nothing else.
_ is for Alphabet
More to the point, Sun did actually play with the idea of having Java in Solaris.

Android Things had drivers in Java, and Android has a few, although only as userspace.
It serves the purpose of bringing all the market participants together to have the deepest market at the time of trading. This prevents pricing swings based on who happens to want to trade right this minute. Trading more frequently actually allows brokers to collect rents in the form of a spread for the “service” of buying from you now and selling to me later. If we had a daily auction, we could avoid the need for such a broker spread.
The "Simple Makefile for Python projects" exemplifies why I dislike (ab)using make. It doesn't actually track deps properly, so venv doesn't get updated if requirements.txt changes, and nor does the dependency change tracking work properly for test target. To make it more correct you'd need bunch of .stamp files and/or globs, and even then it might be iffy. For lots of uses the simple file mtime based change/dep tracking is just too crude, and phony targets are largely an antipattern.

For script-running just is great, for full dep tracking build tool something like buck2 is an improvement.

The one place where make shines is when your workflow is truly file-based, so all steps can really be described as some variations of "transform file A to file B".
If the number of legal immigrants has remained steady within a given time period, but the number of illegal immigrants has increased within the same time period, we can infer that the total number of prospective immigrants has also increased; This inference paired with the first fact presented can allow us to safely assume that competition for legal immigration has in fact increased.
> Does settling/clearing on a delay actually serve a purpose, or just enables someone to collect rent?

It removes friction from the market since it gives time to line things up between market participants.

For example if some assets are on loan, it gives time to the people who were borrowing it to find some other market participant to borrow it from.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-28/tradin... was a good explainer
Sorry that this happened to you and your team :-(

Strongly disagree that Atlassian gives the most interested work in Australia. Atlassian is not an engineering driven company. The work at Atlassian is super, super dull.