skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear Jaynes is pure pseudo scientist, I don't think there is a neuroscientist, historian, anthropologist, or a classicist in the world who thinks he has any value. It's an interesting idea for a sci-fi setting like Westworld, but it's rubbish.
Clogged arteries, i.e. layers upon layers of risk-averse and clueless management. Top management paralysed by what the stock market may think of their ideas. You could also ask why Bing has been forever underperforming despite all the cash Microsoft has throw at it so far?
Ask HN: Does your org/employer delete Teams/Slack messages?
University of Washington recently implemented a new retention policy [1] that deletes -- without exception -- all 1:1 or group chat messages in our enterprise MS Teams after just THIRTY (30) DAYS. They claim this is to improve privacy, compliance, efficiency of search.

Does your organization/employer do the same?

[1] https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/software-computers/productivity-platforms/microsoft-productivity-platform/teams-chat-retention-project/
> That's one way to think of it. But you also can just say: the only way to have equal care is to raise the standard of all care to the quality of high end care. That's worth trying to achieve even if it's not logically perfect. Most things in life aren't but trying to get there is still a "reasonable goal". It's just about priorities.

This is a good example of the common liberal fallacy of Utopianism.
Also a common filler for epoxy. When I sanded boat fillets I'd get the smell of baby powder.
Heart-dotted i and j should be added to Unicode.

Medieval monks used to do this with the first letter of the word for "eye" (oko), and those got added, despite the fact that one of them had only one historical occurence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_o_variants
Great news, you’re chosen for indefinite sabbatical and ability to seek other jobs!

This is so bad it’s hilarious and sad at the same time.
Without opening the link I knew utah county utah would be the driest.
My $0.02: One issue is that we don’t quantify the costs or risks in short-term thinking.

I’ve come to believe we don’t know how, and the national security risks and implications are huge.
My thesis has long been that it's impossible to replace C++ with a single language. C++ got into the trouble it has because it permits any and all development to occur within its walls. The C++ committee cannot make any decision without alienating some niche C++ industry that nevertheless represents at least hundreds of millions of dollars per year. The result is a jumbled mess of mismatched and incompatible features that provide a combinatorial explosion of hiding places for surprising and dangerous interactions in otherwise innocent looking code.

Rust (and insert any other language here) can only kill C++ by being C++.

However, we're seeing quite a lot of systems language development over the last decade and a half. Which is surprising coming from any sort of money making venture. To create a serious language, you're signing up for a decade of hard work at a minimum just to get your foot in the door. Then an endless parade of technical and community building issues to wade through, forever.

C++ cannot be killed off by one language, but it can be killed by a dozen or two languages. So we're seeing Rust, Hylo, Vale, P, Odin, Zig, Jai (do we have a release date for that one yet?), Carbon, Swift, Go, and even the newer language releases of C++ is trying to kill off old C++.

A lot of entities are looking around the room and asking themselves "how do we deal of this C++ thing" and then deciding to commit to the seriously non-trivial endeavor of creating a new language from scratch.

Eventually, C++ will be relegated to a historical footnote and niche application. Although, I'm not going to be surprised if this takes another 50 years and half a dozen new languages on top of what we're already seeing.
Wow, that is really cool. I'll definitely be playing with this later, thanks for the tip!
Seems like computer science knowledge is becoming more and more of a prerequisite for academic science
The article asks users to make sure passwords include upper and lowercase and special chars.

This is just wrong. Diceware passwords are better for passwords that need to be memorized.
Well, and almost no company or open source project is going to spend years rewriting their giant C++ code-base in Rust. And many people leading such C++ projects won't bother gaining expertise in Rust or care about hiring people who know Rust. New code at these companies will continue to be C++. And not all developers consider Rust to be superior to C++.

Don't underestimate good old fashioned inertia, in other words.
There's also Michael Levy who is composing new music for ancient instruments[1] as well as playing the oldest song "Epitaph of Seikilos" on a kithara[2]

[1] https://ancientlyre.com/
[2] https://michaellevy.bandcamp.com/track/epitaph-of-seikilos-c...
Allen J. Bard obituary: electrochemist in material discovery and diagnostics
Yeah, it's obviously not the ideal, but if you look up a video of a walkabout through the city there you'll see what I mean immediately.
This is probably a screen recording with a bit of video editing on top. My fiancée does this sort of thing on a contract basis sometimes.
Most insurance risk and cost is for liability
It's a different blog post about a different but related topic. Yesterday's post was about API design. This post is about random number generator design.
I was thinking https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Bluegleam
I'm a huge fan of charmbracelet's vhs:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs

I have a gitlab CI job to update my demo .gif's every time I update my application; always ensures that things are up-to-date and provides gif/video recording that I've ran specific commands (perfect for auditors!)
Ah yes. As if the nature of employment in 2024 isn't embarrassing enough for our society, the burden of writing an email to notify an employee of the termination of their employment is just too great. We must turn to ChatGPT to write poorly worded termination emails in service of our shareholders.
FWIW I'm getting contacted regularly by recruiters working with JS in London. When enquired about salary, from their experience, people with my experience can get about £350k+. It's higher than an L6 SWE at Google/Meta in London, but not outrageously so.
tl;dr summary in 3 points:
1) Heavy debt from private equity deals and increased lease costs made Red Lobster financially vulnerable. 2) Customers drifted away to other dining options, and frequent leadership changes hindered a stable turnaround plan. 3) The Endless Shrimp promotion, while a poor decision, underscored the company's larger management issues.
How cool! It's like Foldit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit) for surgery videos.
The ‘bowls’/balls used for motorcycle stunt riding might be good examples for this (and could be fun).
Europe != Germany. Plenty of parts of Europe have drought issues and water saving laws.

I expect plenty of parts of the US have loads of water and no droughts as well.
The runner will feel a pull to the left, as if the track had a slope in that direction. I wonder if that could give motion sickness to somebody. Probably people sent to the Moon will be selected against that because of the journey to and from the Moon but I really have no idea about that.

Another problem, as pointed out by someone else in the comments, is that the floor is not flat but points upward and the feet and ankles might feel that. Furthermore it's another possible source of motion sickess (flat but not flat.)
I don't know why knowing the geological fact that talc contains trace amounts of asbestos is supposed to sound so guilty.

My children's school district contains way more than a trace amount of asbestos. The administrators there know it. They aren't in federal court for failing to slap a warning label on the schools.
Interesting. I’ve been using the Wikipedia iOS app (which saves history by the day) to keep track of my personal rabbit hole journeys…
America's Colleges Are Reaping What They Sowed
Imagine ranking surveillance equipment right up there in importance-to-society with schools and libraries...
They'd be taking robotaxis
I mean, this will directly hurt Reddit's credibility and as such they will move to change things as the stock price will ...

Okay, sorry there, I couldn't even finish that. Laughing too hard.

Reddit.

Credibility.

I know, I know, too much for me too.
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I can't help but think of Apple's "think different" campaign and then contrasting their past and present behaviour against the actual message those great minds spent their lives transmitting.

Think the same is: Screw everyone and everything as hard as possible for maximum personal gain even if it's only going to benefit me in the short term and take special care to let everyone know how great a guy I am while simultaneously skullfucking them!

Think different is: Hey, check it out! There's so many of us here, let's work together and then who knows how far we could go?

Barf.
Author mentioned about high-frequency trading tools and machine learning.

Don't know about machine learning, but a HF C++ developer usually has solid fundamentals. I tend to believe that naïve C++ programmers aren't in those areas.
Every day it feels like we are getting closer and closer to making Idiocracy a reality.
Thanks. Kinda expected (or at least I do, being accustomed to Google Fonts) nowadays a font-hosting site to have something like that.

edit: Just saw sibling comment that placeholder text is editable. Hadn't noticed it.
Pretty sure this has been happening for a long time now. Before AI/automation, they would just hire people in developing countries to manually promote products on the platform. You can take some steps to mitigate this: for example clicking on the username of people recommending products and seeing if they promote the products more than once or have a history of being active on other unrelated subs. Although they also manipulate that sometimes (purchasing old/actual user accounts), but there's not much else you can do at this point. Even the old word-of-mouth method is more unreliable these days because people just echo what they saw on social media.
> The photo was taken from a tall structure, possibly a fire tower.

It was way off on the state, but I am still impressed with that spot on description. It was taken from a fire tower.
Mostly, from RSS feeds collected over the years. Occasionally, from a Bloomberg terminal that my department is renting.
Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed
I find the transformer based SwinIR model to be both relatively computationally efficient (when compared to ESRGAN) and provides excellent quality upscaling for a very general set of input images.
I have found that with some practice, stack-based is better for writing, infix is better for reading. At least for equations. Pythagoras is trivial to write:

a a * b b * + sqrt

and in fact the process of entering a calculation can be informative, since you are thinking about the sequence of operations more. Writing infix requires either looking ahead to figure out when to add parentheses, or backing up and adding them after the fact. But I still have to simulate bits and pieces in my head when reading postfix.
There have been studies on the subject, and participants could adapt to rotations as high as 23 RPM. In this test they were more in the 5-10 RPM range (depending on which iteration and how fast the participants were running), so it'd probably be fine after some adjustment.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14703662/
The entire point of this exercise appears to be this: Forth has one character you cannot redefine, the space, what happens if we remove that restriction?

The part of the bootstrap you're referring to is, in fact, the part where they tell the reader to treat space and newline as delimiters, so it appears you're complaining about whitespace being significant in the part of the program where they declare it to be a delimiter.

Such is your right, of course, but it does lead one to wonder if you had some better idea for how to go about this.
I've had this domain for awhile. I bet it's a rule specific to .app.
It wasn't meant to be convincing, it was meant to be an honest report of the situation. I don't remember the details. All I remember was that my assessment of it at the time was that it was devoid of merit, which is one of the reasons I don't remember the details.

Now, there are two possibilities: one is that I was wrong, that it has merit, and if I go back and revisit it that I will see now what I missed then. The second possibility is that I got it right back in the day.

But notice that we can actually use the scientific method to test this. These are hypotheses and they make predictions. In particular, the first hypothesis predicts that there should be some evidence that Feyerabend has merit. In particular, I would expect to be able to find someone who produced a useful result and credited that at least in part to his or her having read Feyerabend. I have never seen such an example. To the contrary, the only people I see citing Feyerabend are crackpots who are bitter about not being taken seriously.

Of course, I haven't looked very hard either, so it's entirely possible that there are counterexamples out there. But the appropriate response is not to argue about this or impugn my character, but simply to point me to the evidence that I've missed.
People go past that idea by noticing that it happened on Earth almost as soon as it possibly could have happened. If we just got incredibly lucky, you'd think the planet would have sat around a while before the big stroke of luck, but it didn't. This is fairly suggestive that abiogenesis is not that unlikely.
Buying refurbished also makes it much easier to avoid having the same brand/model/batch/uptime, for firmware and hardware issues. I do carefully test for bad sectors and verify capacity, just in case.
Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC, by Roger Ver
> nobody was putting the same energy he was to either offer better or stop it

which was much easier thing to do, compared to an outsider, considering he was on Red Hat's payroll, along with the people (gnome/freedesktop crowd) he had need to convince
I'm working on a gemini web browser called astro (https://github.com/blmayer/astro), so far it has 50 stars, I'm super happy.

Also I have a SMPT server featuring automatic encryption using the WKD standard: https://dovel.email the idea is that people could self host their email easily. Maybe I'll make a SAAS for this.

My webring is mostly for fun and testing stuff: https://derelict.garden

Now they are hosted on my raspberry pi zero on my living room!
Yes, why do you want to record people who aren't on your property?
Rob Pike called Russ Cox "future winner of the Kyoto prize".

My favorite is https://research.swtch.com/qart (see also: https://spinroot.com/pico/pjw.html)
Not sure on #1, definitely mitigated SEO sites and blogspam (on an individual basis, if you added a spammy blog to your personal spam list it stopped showing up in results). As a result on slashtag searches there was very little spam.

Would it come back? As it was? no. The folks at Bing used some of the techniques to mitigate some spam in Bing results but didn’t implement slashtags.

It would cost between $3 - $6M to go from scratch to developing a 3 billion page index with a 10 billion page crawl ‘frontier’. You can seed the crawl with Common Crawl. If you can get $10 RPM’s ($10 per thousand queries) and roughly 10M queries/day (so $10k/day recurring revenue) you can run an operationally cash flow positive business. You would want to grow it organically to a 10 billion page index on a 100 billion page crawl which would cover 90+% of the english language queries. With clever optimizations (like a news sieve to only index pages about the news that made ‘sense’) you might improve efficiencies. You would also want to focus on reference applications (people who use search to get their job done) for paid subscriber growth, and simpler commercial partnerships for managing ad lead generation on commercial search (people looking for products or services).

Also you would need to be an advertising ‘primary’ (not taking feeds from networks on a revenue share model) So, for example, working directly with Amazon to both efficiently access their internal product index and to surface it on commercial queries. Note people like Amazon do their own advertising business on their own index so you compete with that to some extent and navigating that early is essential.

Certainly doable but not something that your typical venture fund would go for. It would have a longer payback time (lower internal rate of return) than VC’s look for.
You see the same with Dentist, the cost to start a practice after paying for college? Or get a job at a big PE owned Dentist Office and work for commission.
SwinIR hails from 2021: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10257
That depends - how long will the location be a great location for that business? You really need an good accountant and a reliable psychic to figure this out, an accountant can figure out how tax code, laws, and other details apply - while the psychic can tell you how the tax code, fads, and your life will change in the future. (I don't believe a reliable psychic exists - but you still need one to figure out the correct answer)

If you will be there for decades it is worth owning. The land can be paid off and still working for you. Likewise the building is depreciated and paid for (check with an accountant!), but you are still there using it - you still need to remodel and maintain it though. You pay more upfront, but long term it is a better investment.

However many businesses are fad - they do well for a few years and then people move on to the next fad and you should close up. If you only need the real estate for a couple years you should rent/lease: you won't see a payoff from the upfront costs, and you are stuck with the real estate while trying to sell it.
1 - Because for most organization/project, there are constraints with higher priority than the intrinsic qualities of the programming languages.

The authors mentions specialized talent pool. I think that's a good point, but from my experience, someone capable of writing performance oriented code in C++ should be able to do the same in rust with minimal training time since the execution and memory models are close enough. In this case, i think the ecosystem of libraries and pre existing code would be the main reason to stick with C++.

2 - C++ is evolving pretty fast

Much as LLVM/Clang pushed GCC to be a better compiler. I think the pressure from newer languages like rust in having a positive effect on the C++ ecosystem. Especially in term of tooling, syntax and general dev productivity (c++ modules ). Still not at the level of cargo as such, but things are improving.

Good for C++, but it also means that as time passes, there are less and less reason to switch to a completely different language and ecosystem.

The jury is still out on the "safety" part of C++ and how much safer C++ can get and how would that compare to what rust is providing right now.

My bet is that rust will always be preferred for environment where safety the number one concern.
https://archive.is/qarb5
Even if commercial/government AM radio did not matter at all this would still be a huge problem because innumerable other vital and not so vital things use the shortwave radio bands. Interfering in this is against the law already. Many of these vehicles should not be allowed to be sold commercially according to current unenforced FCC regulations.
hugging face?
Your first point was addressed by my sibling comment.

> Which implies being happy with the status quo.

At this point it feels like you are trolling. By your logic, I hope you are out in Angola distributing food, because otherwise you are obviously happy about people dying of starvation. See what I did there?

Brexit built it's entire campaign on "taking back control of the borders and restricting immigration". For Remain, the issue with Brexit was losing access to the EU single market and Schengen free movement zone, which were the focal points of their campaign. None of the sides campaigned against hunger in Angola, therefore by your logic everyone in the UK - including you - is positively happy about the status quo of Angolans starving?
Women were marketed to put this on their labia every day in order to feel "fresh and clean". This is a very dubious benefit given that feminine hygiene products like this tend to cause more irritation and problems than they prevent.

This wasn't about avoiding swamp-ass from working in the hot sun even if my feet concur with you about the effectiveness of talc and the uselessness of cornstarch.
I am not saying he can't say whatever he wants. My initial response was to the notion that any other person as CEO of SpaceX (or Tesla) would also be flawed. Which, obviously. But it is simply not the case that most CEOs are as loud about broadcasting their whims to the world.

Tesla is 12th largest public company by market cap, between Broadcom and Novo Nordisk. Those companies have CEOs, but those CEOs do not habitually make controversial statements on Internet fora. It is possible for a person to be flawed, but not to spend effort ensuring wide distribution of those flaws.
But don't forget that these are prestigious institutions and we should trust what their "experts" say without question or be shadowbanned from social media.
Oh Frick Go Back: GUI Tool to Removes Ads from Various Places Around Windows 11
That’s my reading, arousal/somnolence as opposed to being insensate vs. sentience.
Here in the Bay Area I've been quoted $800 to clean a dog's teeth.
Ah I was looking at US fatalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
I know this may just not be my cup of tea because I have the mind of an overly stimulated modern person... but that sounded awful.
"Surprising"? This is the least surprising thing I've ever read. IMO cell phone usage by minors should be treated the same way as alcohol use: with strict supervision and in limited amounts. And yes, I will call CPS on you if I see your kid scrolling on tiktok.