skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an interesting discussion. I'd go for a small door (opaque)/large window (transparent) that one can from the inside. A large triple glazed window ON the door (a smaller door ON a bigger door), a red/yellow light switch, a elevator-like ring/bell, a walkie-talkie permanently installed inside, a staff-count every 30mins. And then I am thinking that after 2-3 weeks all the people-dependent solutions would be abandoned...
Who will vote in the tens-of-billions-for-musk vote that comes up in June?

Googling around, it looks like:

- 13% of Tesla is owned by Musk. He will vote I guess?

- The other big shareholders are funds. Do those vote?

- What percentage of private shareholders vote? I guess people who don't live in the US can't vote, even if they wanted?
Just want to mention that you're not downvoted for liking Musk or providing an opinion that you consider contrary. You are being downvoted because your comment does not contribute to the conversation in a constructive manner.
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So, Dropbox failed to inform the affected customers?
Dropbox offers end-to-end encryption now (for business teams):

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/new-solutions-to-sec...
here we go again. domain and path restricted cookies anyone?
It's most definitely ScreenStudio. I recently used it to create a demo for Upscayl too! https://twitter.com/upscayl/status/1784705006500733382
I think cognition programs' ability to define and redefine and even step into and out of syntax structures at runtime is really beautiful. Particularly because the machinery is so minimal. I'm not a language expert so I don't know if that's novel or not.

Reading the article was really enjoyable. As a reader, I could feel the authors' excitement and recognize the joy they've felt as they've climbed over hilltops only to realize a new range of possibilities.

If I understand it correctly, what's really being said here is that, with Cognition, you can build truly "thinking" machines.

Programs can write and execute their own novel subroutines, based on new input and without ever being halted and restarted with new instructions. And that means the program can learn and adapt by building new abstractions and possibly connect itself to new APIs.

To me, that's more exciting than a bigger neural network or a new training technique.
As I say, it deeply confuses me: "To choose to have no choice" seems akin to "to desire a state of no desire": https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2003-04-30

On the subject of not having a mental representation of what this means, I have also been pondering recently about "literally unthinkable thoughts", which may directly sound like the same kind of paradox, but is at the meta-level and about the same kind of (apparent) paradox (that isn't a paradox at all for the people using the terms in those ways): https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/04/30-13.54.02.html
Beyond the general look of places or particular constructed tells, I wonder if the model is taking any hints from analemma type patterns or latitude by the sun position (e.g. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheLongit... ). Cryptonomicon's use of that problem came to mind.
Yes it's not my summary. I originally learned about the family tree example from a lecture by Geoffrey Hinton. Found some lecture slides here which reference the example but can't find the original lecture right now.

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/coursera/lecture4/lec4.pd...

> No one claims linear models perform reasoning. Why are you proposing that this 3 layer (read, 3 matrix multiplies) is doing reasoning?

A 3 layer neural network is a non-linear function. It is not a linear model. There are activation functions between the layers which make it non-linear.
A software I created made it to the front of hacker news
I remember that day. It was the day I stopped using dropbox.
Dating/flirting on a full stomach is more likely to happen than on an empty stomach.

Exhibit A :)

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/business-negotiations/in-b...
Hashed passwords? Surely they mean hashed and salted passwords. Right? Right???
> A leaf blower does that.

A leaf blower in the hand of a human can do that. Without the human pointing the leafblower just right the objects will go in random directions.

They made a controller to control their “leafblower”[1] just right so the objects end up in where they want them to, and then they described how well it works on various tasks. This automated controller is their contribution.

1: They didn’t use an actual leafblower but a nozzle attached to an air compressor.
Same here: Picture from rural Austria in the North and it comes up with Hungaria. Location is in the center of Budapest, 300km distance to the original view point. But architectual style looks really hungarian.
It seems most billion dollar companies, are just Dave, hacking away on Node and dropping directly to production... :-)
Those are some insane generalizations about a population that is 1.5x larger than that of the US. Hard-working people are everywhere, and there are plenty of top-talent people working in the EU and Asia. Also it's worth mentioning that not all top-talent workers want to move to the US, and there are plenty of reasons for that.
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> Sadly, most of modern management refuses to make these changes, and too many folks in the trenches don't want to take ownership of their work and just want to be told what to do.

Interestingly enough this is something I see in management books and operations research books going back to the 70s. It's a lesson that hasn't been learned.

As for the ownership - I think that makes a lot of sense. People in the trenches know very well that they don't really own the thing, but are just at best responsible for it. I think that is perfectly fine, and the whole "ownership" language tends to obscure very real power dynamics.
Can you use it on Android/iOS?
Interesting idea. Does need some automation though to make it practical irl.
This is pretty cool, but what really excites me is the possibility of inventing entirely new sports that only work in low gravity.

Now, I'm an adrenaline junkie myself, so it might be best if I leave the actual inventing of those sorts to someone else. Most of my ideas come with rather high risk of injury, which might not be great when you're on the moon
You and your smarter friends could share bookmarks with each other and comment on them, via email.

This would have an incredibly high barrier to entry, because out of 8-9b people on the planet, which hundred are going to be (and remain) a smarter friend (or fof) of leafy?
Please read these quotes from these links to better understand why it’s not wrong.

“Extension is a plug-and-play, zero-config, cross-browser extension development tool for browser extensions with built-in support for TypeScript, WebAssembly, React, and modern JavaScript.”

“WebExtensions are a way to write browser extensions: that is, programs installed inside a web browser that modify the behavior of the browser or web pages loaded by the browser. WebExtensions are built on a set of cross-browser APIs, so WebExtensions written for Google Chrome, Opera, or Edge will, in most cases, run in Firefox too.”
Of course there isn't, but it limits efficiency and features.
For example, you will miss all the fancy features Google Images does in cloud and user experience might be slower, since everything must be processed and downloaded on client side. Some level of metadata is always unencrypted.
I think it's a little bit different. When I was in tech, I had a set of bars of quality for employees:

1. Google (keeping in mind early Google was much more selective than today

2. Elite schools / HN

3. Typical tech

When I worked for a non-tech, I learned that there are about a dozen rungs below that. The ladder runs very deep. I was surprised at just how incompetent people were if you stepped into almost any company outside of tech.

I am guessing there is no way I could hire you (a random HN'er) to make custom software for some waste management firm, but they need someone to do it. It's not particular complex or interesting, but it's stuff which needs to get done. That's actually a huge part of the industry. On a prior thread, someone asked how IBM makes their money. The pieces I've seen are based on contracting out this sort of boring but very necessary work from a place that's completely incompetent in tech (random big non-tech firm) to one which is only moderately incompetent (IBM).
"The Twitterization of Tesla" progresses according to plan ...
Of course not. It’s just storing bits at the end of the day. But storing seemingly random bits will always be more expensive than storing predictable bits, and this case is no exception: Proton is roughly 4x more expensive per bit than Dropbox.
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> Perhaps because the latter are associated with aspirational working class, which is to be mocked.

No, what’s being mocked is the quality of the food. The “aspirational working class” in Europe has much better food options for even better prices—has nothing to do with classism and everything to do with the development of an American culture that ruined food in this country.

My grandparents grew up in rural Appalachia and what they prepared themselves and ate back then was much tastier and fresher than Olive Garden.
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A new layer between the layer 1 and layer 2, sure...
The way the GNOME Project has evolved over the years is just sad. The development ethos seems to be further and further away from the spirit of Free software.

The project does comply with the "letter of the law" when it comes to Free software. That is, the project does give the users their four essential freedoms of running the programs as they wish, freedom to study the programs, redistribute, and modify. But at least IMO this is necessary but not sufficient for "proper" Free software.

At least to me there is still stuff that is required for something to be Free software, even if you technically fulfill the definition. The "spirit of the law" of Free software to complement the "letter of the law". One of these is that you can act in the Free software ecosystem as a productive and good faith actor. In this case, the GNOME Project has decided to unilaterally break the FDO icon theme standard, and for what? Because they want to have the Adwaita icons as a "Private UI icon set for GNOME core apps"? This is not okay.

One must ask if this change truly helps empower the users in their use of the software and their computers.
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Thanks for doing the work for me, was on my phone and not in the mood for an extended search
from http://www.trs-80.org/multiplan/

"Originally code-named “EP” (for “Electronic Paper”), Multiplan was written to use a very clever p-code compiler system created by Richard Brodie. This p-code system, which was also used later by Microsoft Word, allowed Microsoft to target Multiplan to a huge number of different 8-bit and 16-bit computer systems. (Charles Simonyi once estimated that Multiplan was available for 100 platforms.)"

Many people say that the 'p' in 'p-code' stands for 'pseudo', i.e. pseudo code.
But the article archived at https://techshelps.github.io/MSDN/BACKGRND/html/msdn_c7pcode... says the 'p' is short for 'packed'.

"Microsoft has introduced a code compression technology in its C/C++ Development System for Windows version 7.0 (C/C++ 7.0) called p-code (short for packed code) that provides programmers with a flexible and easy-to-implement solution for minimizing an application's memory requirements. In most cases, p-code can reduce the size of an executable file by about 40 percent. For example, the Windows Project Manager version 1.0 (resource files not included) shrinks from 932K (C/C ++ 7.0 with size optimizations turned on) to 556K when p-code is employed."

"Until now, p-code has been a proprietary technology developed by the applications group at Microsoft and used on a variety of internal projects. The retail releases of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint�, and other applications employ this technology to provide extensive breadth of functionality without consuming inordinate amounts of memory."
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The best i've ever used.
Without ever having been to one, I'll note that as a European I know Red Lobster only from TV as a stereotypical place used as a joke about the type of places people presented as less sophisticated might consider fancy. It's used that way in Big Bang Theory, for example, though presumably because it is well known enough as at least a place that some people will consider fancy.
That's pretty standard, even for well-run chains. Gives the primary business (making food profitably) a huge cash infusion, and removes a distraction.

Obviously deal terms are important, but that action on its own isn't stripping for the sake of stripping.
Couldn’t they use a heavy weighted outfit? Add a couple hundred kg of gear and you’d get a solid workout on the same plane. Feels like you could make a treadmill that is smaller than the wall of death.
Yep, that's where I got my info from. I will translate for the international audience:

§ 8th - (7) - Product placement is permitted, except in news programs and programs for political information, consumer programs, regional window programs according to Section 59 Paragraph 4, window programs according to Section 65, programs with religious content and children's programs.

The bullet points below it help narrow it down further. "Just mentioning it" is allowed, as long as you don't emphasise it too much or encourage purchase, etc.

And "just mentioning it" is fine, if you use the product as an example when talking about a certain topic, or if you mention that it exists. Which is IMO more effective than overt advertisement.
Interesting point! Anti vaccines yes obviously, but I wouldn't call them "antivax" (anymore) as it seems I reserved in my mind that name for the wild mob - for better or for worse. Because there's no good thing without downsides and discussing downsides is just as important, regardless how one prioritizes them. We are all different organisms and what works for one won't necessarily work the same for the other, and we need solutions for all.
If I was a malware distributor, I'd just throw a couple random bytes at the end each time I upload a malicious file, it'd still work and have a different checksum/hash.
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An "AST in spirit" is in our mind, but not the machine.

(let ((s (s s)))
(flet ((s (s) (declare (type s s)) s))
(tagbody (s) s (go s))))

The function READ has no idea what S is: variable, operator name, data symbol, type, go tag, function name, macro name, ...? For each above we don't know what s is. We would need to parse it according to some syntax (and possibly know the current state of the runtime.

An AST would be the product of a parser and the parse would parse the code above according to some provided syntax. The AST then would encode a tree built from some syntax, where the nodes would be classified. In Lisp symbols and lists have multiple uses and the s-expression does not encode which uses it is: is it data, is it some kind of syntactical element. There is also no defined parser and no syntax it encodes on that level. READ is at best an s-expression reader, where it has zero knowledge what the lists and symbols supposed to mean in Lisp. For the reader (+ a b), (a + b), (a b +) are just s-expressions, not Lisp code.
Perhaps Tesla needs an activist investor to get shakes things up ...

Musk's time is over.

He's either spread too thin, got too money hungry (despite having nearly all of it!), lost his mind, or just hasn't got it anymore ...
How is that more random?
When one entity has so much leverage over another it compromises the sovereignty of the other.

Also it's a 'gray area' -- Switzerland belongs to many EU institutions like Schengen and EEA without being in the EU proper. Using Euros would also be common in parts of Switzerland.
I kind of agree - but relatively speaking they're at about the same place right now.
It doesn't even require creativity - I think many existing sports would be fun in low gravity. Basketball with extremely tall hoops. Tennis on a massive court. Not to mention golf.
> TFR won't get to 0, but based on all available evidence across the world, it isn't going back up either.

It is going back up, it's just very unclear on which timescale. Will it go back to the replacement rate in 20, 50, 100, 1000 years?

Cultures/genes which favor procreation will ... procreate, and become more and more represented. It's possible that in a 1000 years, most of the world will be from orthodox jews / amish / conservative muslims etc. at which point the TFR will be back up.

And this is when we leave it to the nature. China as an autoritarian state has a lot of tools at their disposal. They can make motherhood more desirable.
I tried a picture of open, expansive countryside in the UK midlands and it guessed the middle of Piccadilly Circus.
Is it about "how clean is the place" or about "how clean is the table while we are/after we are done eating"?

I've been in the US plenty of times, but I'm a burger guy, so I made sure I tried all burger chains and as many (indi) restaurants I could. But I've never been in a Red Lobster. I do understand though that lobster-eating can be messy - thus the bib.

I can also picture that cracking lobster 'body-parts' is not the most romantic setup.
Yes, and if they think the spec is bogus and obsolete, fine, either help to improve it or just provide no icon theme that pretends to follow it, then distros know they need to install another one for 3rdparty apps...
Bitwarden just launched a new authenticator app
How do people make those animated videos like AWS use for their products?
This is a bit tangential to the topic, but shareholder voting is interesting enough anyway.

* Musk will vote, for obvious reasons.

* Big institutional funds almost always vote with the board of directors recommendations. They very rarely rock the boat for a lot of mostly good reasons.

* Private shareholders with a sizable stake likely will vote.

* Retail shareholders (i.e. you and I) are notorious for not voting. Case in point: AMC is mostly held by retail investors at this point and had to go through all sorts of shenanigans to be able to increase the maximum number of shares they could issue, because that typically requires a shareholder vote that simply wouldn't ever get enough total votes to pass.
Right on.

> All this rhetoric about european health insurance and job security is good but it is good today. Will it be good tomorrow?

In Croatia it already went down the drain years ago. People who never needed hospital treatments in their adult life have absolutely no clue at what the'll get into. Frequent misdiagnosis, waiting lists for years in advance to even see a specialist - not even to have a surgery, no responsiblity, 30 year old methods and knowledge etc.

Doctors themselves are disgruntled and are complaining about low salaries how they whould be paid much more if they were in the States or say Germany etc. Which is simply ridiculous because they're highest paid profession over here and frankly any other worker would be paid more if it was working abroad.

This is the only profession over here where its completely legal to work in both a public hospital/clinic and work in a private clinic/practice at the same time. So it quickly came down to: "oh you see, the waiting list for your life-saving urgent surgery is 2 years, but if you come to my/friend's practice will sort you out in no time at all, we accept all payment options". Or "Sorry the waiting list is very long, but I'm the one who makes it wink wink".

So this quickly devolved to "why would I give two shits what happens in my public hospital (workplace) when they cannot fire me (because they need me)". It also priced out many non well-off people because the Germans and Italians are using these private services too raising the prices.

So the public health services are used now pretty much by friends and families of the people working there and by poor people who have no choice but to take whatever scraps are given to them.

Citizens get screwed over twice; they get no or bad service for the money thats taken from them by force (very high taxes), and they'll have to pay for private care which is very expensive and the private insurance options are actually very poor.

I could go on about job "security" now, but this theme is so painful I'll leave it for another time.
> Enter any jewelry store in the west now and they'll tell you: men buy jewelry too now. But it didn't use to be that way: typically a watch was the only jewelry a man was allowed to wear.

Historically speaking, this was only true in recent times (the last few hundred years). Visit a history museum and you'll find all sorts of jewellery and ornaments worn by men over time.
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They offer paid support plans. That actually may explain why everything looks so polished.

https://platform.uno/support/
Next step is usually into regular code. We stepped into Godot, in our case.
After working with scratch on one serious project you realize its limitations and their associated pains. And moving to regular programming language relieves most of this.
Actually, yes:

https://gluonhq.com/products/mobile/

Although it's not a mapping over the native UI toolkits so it has the same issues as Flutter etc.
I really recommend listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast (available on Spotify at least). Really high-quality interviews with both ex and current hackers, cybersecurity professionals etc.
I'm 192cm (6'4) tall and those screens are a pain for me to use. Also, adding you your comment

>Every time I end up at McD's, I wonder why the hell I bothered.

I feel the same everytime i open my burger box and see a smashed pile of crap that is nothing like the burger in my mind or on the ad. Marketing is strong. Fortunately I maybe go to BK or McD once a year, but always disappointed.
Sorry, but no. I've thought that shrimp and lobsters were simply ocean bugs since I was a child in the 80s. It isn't quite accurate in science terms, but still holds out as a thing in my brain. Even if I happen to eat them (Not disgusting, not delicious either)

I'll also mention that folks allergic to shellfish also have to be careful with crickets and other land insects. They have their similarities.
In that case I'm assuming something went wrong when I sent the application as I never got anything back from you. I just sent it again so hopefully this time it'll be different :)
The Deluge came out a decade after the OP-1