skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure why the point that reals appear to be more likely would be counterintuitive. If instead of uniform random real coefficients in an interval one picked uniform random roots in a circular disk centered at the origin of the complex plane as the way to construct polynomials, there is a fat chance that one almost never gets a polynomial with real coefficients back, whereas if the random roots were real then the polynomial is guaranteed real. So a priori neither of the possible answers would be surprising and getting reals to be more likely seems a bit more intuitive to me, though not necessary.
That was exactly my experience with Bumble and why I wrote off its main selling point as a useless gimmick.
On the other end of the spectrum, I probably give much more inherent value to my life than the average person (probably closer to 20m than 10m, if I were to spreadsheet it out) and it drives a lot of risk-averse action on my part.

Driving was one I decided on early: I didn't get a driver's license until 25, to get well out of the danger zone for auto accidents; and then less than a year after I got it, I moved to Finland (an uncommonly safe country in its own right) and I've been living off of public transit and bike paths that aren't thin painted lines next to motor traffic ever since.
Well written and article with some nice turns of phrase. Will be interesting to see how this plays out over time.
Yes, an electronic sensor is much more sensitive than our eyes. However, even within digital sensors, some are more sensitive than others. Add that sensitivity with the ability to do long exposure, and you can capture things we will never see with our naked eyes. Even with binoculars or telescopes, our eyes will just seem more photons, but pretty much without the color. That's where the digital sensors really "shine"
friendly reminder to you: you won't be in the future either. because all humans have short lifespans. having children won't change that. enjoy the ride, whatever that means to you
The entry level will stay terrible for the forseeable future
There's an incredibly simple result of Sturm that allows one to compute intervals bounding the real roots of polynomials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm%27s_theorem

That said, if you're working with finite precision, then there's an interesting question somewhere here -- given a polynomial with a certain number of real roots, how precisely do you need to know the coefficients before the answer changes?
This is the correct answer. It was taken as an assault on what everyone grew up with and learned their particular trade on (and still may use).

It's also a bad comparison on Apple's part. An ipad is another creative tool and provides a different experience than other methods (like traditional painting). For example, I play acoustic and electric guitar, but also use Ableton. I love my acoustic for the feel and experience, something I can't get in Ableton. I use Ableton for digital composition and sampling, something that's completely different from the feel of strings and how the notes feel through the wood of my acoustic. They are different experiences and usage and purpose.
the difference between fumbling around a GUI file manager looking for the correctly named file and using one of the many solutions the terminal offers is night and day. GUI's are clumsy and prone to extremely odd failures where the only solution is to exit and reset. Greyed out buttons when they shouldnt be etc... The terminal doesn't have these problems, if something fails you can see the error, its immediately responsive always, its composable and scriptable. Consider cutting up audio clips in audacity, doing it by hand can take ages and the GUI can crash and screw you over. With the terminal you can just take 2 minutes to write a burner script and use it and be done in seconds. Its really hard to describe the positives of the terminal over a GUI because they are radically different things, and new users are going to have a tough time setting up a friendly environment, but if you can get past that its extremely easy to see why they handle certain tasks a million times more efficient and resiliently.
To be fair, I think this indicates “hi, I want you to be in the driver seat and strike up a conversation”, which is very useful information
Art and design exist ubiquitously in all things and all actions. It is the people without taste who pretend art or design is a separate activity from all other human endeavors. Perhaps a subset of "pure" or obvious art are works devoid of function except to be perceived.

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Cesar A. Cruz
"I before E except for ~3000 words, many of which are common"
My telegraph has been smoking up all night!
It's dawn now, did anyone happen to screenshot that page during the night?

The mosaic of pink/purple skies was rather beautiful, but I'm afraid preserving it slipped my mind.
This reminds me of an article from Maddox in 2007 about how the Nokia E70 is better than the iPhone because he can use the terminal on it. [0] Time may have proven him right.

[0]http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
They're not meant to, that's what we have hydrogen for.
I'm not sure if you've read some of FNB's materials they set out at those events, but they should have reading out that defines the mission clearly as one not of charity, but of teaching people to be interdependent within their communities rather than on central governments. FNB is above all else a peaceful anarchist resistance movement.

Primarily volunteering with them creates two things that are basically the most important things in any emergency:

1. Knowledge of who to talk to and where to go when shit hits the fan

2. Established practices of organization

If community resources are scarce, and you have a FNB cohort in the community, you have a group of people with lots of practice stretching out food, preparing it, and redistributing it to many people. Again I recommend solnit, she wrote about this exact thing happening in one of SF's earliest devastating earthquakes.

The other upside is when the State turns up to fuck your community efforts up (like they did in SF, or Louisiana after Katrina) you also have a group with established methods of peaceful resistance. They probably already have clout with the local State enforcement group: the SFPD have gotten to the point where it's basically impossible to get them to harass FNB because of years of softening individual officers to the cause.

Edit: I see now you mean, practically speaking, what actions could they take.

Well in a place like NYC I have no idea. Probably there would be huge issues with famine. Realistically the first thing everyone should do is get the fuck out of that city lmao.

I don't know if SF would be so bad. There's also groups like Food Not Lawns trying to get people into growing their own food. If their efforts continue to be successful we can have closer to home food supply chains. As for convincing people to share, for some reason that isn't all that hard. When capitalism and its disincentives fall away, it seems people revert to our basic evolutionary advantage of social bonding and organization.

Not to mention all the dry goods stashed in stores throughout the city can be stretched pretty far by the people who have practice at it. If FNB minded folks can redistribute from the stores quickly enough they might even be able to get to the meat and etc to turn into jerky etc - hopefully they'd abandon veganism in an actual emergency. Knowing them, probably not lol. But if I'm there that's what I'm doing.

Others have written on the plight of cities in anarchy, and I don't think it's quite so doom and gloom. "Conquest of Bread" was the OG and I think it still holds up.
I hear this sentiment echoed a fair amount without really saying why it sucks. And sometimes I wonder if the writer omitted it for brevity, or is actually just echoing something they read on the internet without really believing or understanding it themselves, because saying something sucks where clearly other people don’t know that it sucks (or else why would it be so popular) positions the writer in a dialogue as mysteriously knowledgeable. Hard to argue against points you don’t even know the other person is making and all.
I think ultimately we'll realize overengineered glass (even if it's single use or crushed/repurposed or landfilled or recycled) is the best all around solution, especially taking into account health and future abundant (fusion-similar) energy.

But also from big picture pollution/environmental and even carbon perspectives.
A solar panel weighs like 10kg and costs about $100. Then you also need equipment to produce the microwaves, fuel and an engine to keep the thing in place...
I'm drawing a blank. Wait, almond butter!
C’mon, “Blottery Barn” was _right there_
The Sky Crawlers,
Because it's not required
My understanding is it's this, then having to repeat it over and over for each city (network effects are within a city, mostly).
Different tools have different strengths. There is some stuff you can do in a graphical file manager that would take you significantly longer to do on a shell.
Really? So we're only 3 orders of magnitude off? Seems like we can definitely get to appreciable levels of i/o in the near future.
A Christian Netflix exists. It's called Pure Flix.
Q&A with Roberta Williams for King's Quest's 40th Anniversary
It's weird you say you value knowing what your machine is doing, but then say your first choice is a mac.
No. An Einstein would be giving us the technology to do so practically. Telling us to cut down on CO2 emissions is, quite frankly, useless. We don't exactly have a shortage of pundits in 2024.
You're using a shorthand that captures an important point but does not quite dispose of the objection. Let R(X) be an indicator function that's 1 when largest root is real and 0 otherwise; then we want E[R(X)]. I think your point is that E[R(aX)]=E[R(X)], so the choice of Uniform(-1,1) rather than Uniform(-LargeNumber, LargeNumber) is a 'without loss of generality' simplification. Likewise we could take any scale mixture E[R(AX)] for A real, almost surely nonzero, and independent of X. That's a broad class of distributions, but it doesn't cover every 'natural' way of generating coefficient vectors; for example, you could sample X from a hypersphere instead of a hypercube.
It's the apocalypse.
CMEs do not directly affect electronics. Charged particles simply do not reach the surface.

They instead distort the geomagnetic field, and the changing magnetic field induces voltage. But the Earth's magnetic field is pretty weak, so the voltage becomes significant only for very large circuits. Such as transmission lines or old-style telegraph lines.
> Last time I tried KDE in Fedora, I could make multiple apps crash just by attempting drag & drop onto them.

That's not normal, common or at all representative of the distro or Linux on desktop in general.
If any other company does it, their user wont care. Apple is special because it really is a form of self-induced-hypnosis of the 'magic of apple', which is what people buy into. This ruins the illusion, so to speak.
American exceptionalism is easy to pick apart, and George Carlin would agree.

The point he's making was (c. 1970) that much of American culture's presumption of innate superiority post-WW2 was unfounded overconfidence demonstrating a lack of humility and intrinsic tempered confidence in relation to other rich traditions that also exist. It is also true that American culture was and is intrinsically hollow and shallow in many (but not all) dimensions not replicated in other parts of the world. And to be fair, Zappa was brilliant and a guitar virtuoso but a bit off in a way the 60's-70's counterculture celebrated profusely in a reactionary oppositional mirror of mainstream American culture. Growing up, my hippie nudist neighbors with their hydroponic weed and horrible tasting tomatoes would be all over everything Zappa. Incidentally, I have a signed Zappa KSJO sticker signed at a Campbell, CA venue and its newspaper clipping provenance... going to get it framed and probably sell it on FleaBay at some point.
You can look at the current activity charts and extrapolate from the particle flux, but it's likely going to be below 1mSv for a 6 hour flight. The XKCD radiation chart provides the most sensible comparison for most people I think:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

As a comparison, a typical flight might only have a dose of 40uSv, so like 25 normal flights. But still many people take many more trips than that.
Jack Dorsey, Bluesky, decentralised social networks and the common crowd
And yet, the industrial manufacturing sector uses more! As does the computing sector.

This is because energy consumption reduction due to efficiency improvements goes -- to be very generous -- as 1/t, and exponential growth goes as e^t, and e^t/t is still exponential for large t.
if you publish it online, it becomes training data for LLMs.

sometimes silence is best?
Magma. Only in the us. Sydney where it’s developed have to pay for it
That's actually reasonable. I use keepassxc, and I have messed the autotype many times. But I mean, that is not an argument for disabling the feature.
people live near antartica?
"Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian has confirmed that the disruption arose from an unprecedented sequence of events whereby an inadvertent misconfiguration during provisioning of UniSuper’s Private Cloud services ultimately resulted in the deletion of UniSuper’s Private Cloud subscription."
Perhaps the blowback is a sign of a wider weariness that people have accumulated towards big tech companies over the past few years, mixed with a nebulous malaise about 'AI' and what it means for the status quo and people's livelihoods.

Exactly. It's not only the creative artists who are opposing, although that's what this ad targets; a lot of others not in big tech are also very displeased with where things are going. The sentiment of this resistance can be summed up in two short sentences: "You will not replace us. Machines will not replace us."
I think this is missing the creative aspect of taking an idea and turning it into reality. Developers spend all day finding the middle ground between an idea that won’t work and a simple realistic solution that will
Just leave a bad review. I've seen restaurant reviews mentioning this, and I always up vote those reviews as helpful. Thanks to California legislators, I won't have to worry about this in California anymore, but I'll still have to be wary in other states.
What is Expresso?
Yes, my bad. I meant 10% of the normal average generation.

Here is an example: https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&... - for about a week the renewable generation crashed in Jan 2019.

And it can happen for almost a _month_ of sustained low performance.
"Have"?
He took money out of the machine and donated it to good causes. Arguably he was anti machine
What makes it not matter is if you believe the opinion of the best before date to be true: if the stuff is just fine for a year, then it being a month older makes no difference.

I'm of the opinion that fresher is fresher.

What's my incentive for taking the older stuff, if it's not discounted?

Only this one: saving a few seconds by not looking.
The Postgres documentation seems to disagree:

> A user may perform SELECT, INSERT, etc. on a column if they hold that privilege for either the specific column or its whole table. Granting the privilege at the table level and then revoking it for one column will not do what one might wish: the table-level grant is unaffected by a column-level operation.
from sheer curiosity, I had to try to see what was in that image. just a meager push of the exposure revealed some color on top of the horrid compression:

https://imgur.com/a/D7MGjoS
Apple steals _everything_ and never apologizes.

https://www.theregister.com/2012/10/12/apple_licenses_swiss_...
AI Bots Are Taking over the Job Application Process
Seems like this would be double encrypting OPAL self encrypting drives in the places that use those, potentially adding a further failure point.
salted American butter lasts a long ass time in the fridge.
Any place with that much snow in mid-May is just make believe to me at this point in time.
Can't see it from where I am in North Carolina as it's sadly overcast, but I'm sseeing photos from friends as far south as Georgia and Alabama of vivid pink auroras.
I think the blow back from this is due to people over thinking and looking for something to be upset about. The "symbolism" in the ad isn't creative tools being destroyed, it's the tools being combined together.
The FT232H you linked in the default UART configuration has no GPIO pins according to the datasheet pin description table. You need to change to MPSSE mode or similar using the flashing tool.
LookAway 1.5.0
> A report on Thursday emphasized that iOS 18’s AI features will be powered (in part) by Apple data centers with Apple Silicon processors. The majority of iOS 18’s AI features, however, will be powered entirely on-device, allowing Apple to tout privacy and speed benefits.

I wonder if this is the gpt2 we saw recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40201486
A cooked dish was sterilized. It won’t go bad for a day or three, depending on how often it is opened. Before refrigeration this was very common.
The longer exposure doesn’t seem to affect other aspects of the night sky though, I can see stars way better with the naked eye than my phone will show. That’s probably just because of stars being point sources and hard for the camera to focus on in an otherwise black night sky.
Like, visible visible? I’m a lot farther north than that and if I hadn’t known there was something going on, I’d not have noticed it. It kinda shows up on camera, but naked eye viewing is not even worth a walk to the nearest window. Nothing to see, really.
just like all of the 80s military action films with red filtered flashlights or CNC rooms on ships. sometimes, meme like content isn't just made up. as an amateur (at best) astro type person, you learn very quickly how true how quickly a brief flash of white light can ruin your night vision. walking around during the day without sun glasses can also extend the amount of time it takes your eyes to acclimate to the dark. however, once you do allow your eyes to acclimate to the dark, it is amazing to me still how much we can actually see.
Again? They had one 12 years ago!
Keep in mind military operations generally aren't supposed to be disaster scenarios. And someone marching 10+ miles a day in full kit, possibly through heavy terrain or while under fire, is probably going to sweat a lot more than a normal person.
Shortcuts, the things that actually make keyboard faster, aren't mandatory in a TUI
That’s subjective… I didn’t find it problematic at all.
They probably mean affogato and espresso.
I tend to think of the database less as a filesystem and more as a block store. The filesystem layer in a real system is in fact implemented by the driver (and OS), and it might be implemented in terms of primitives that are persisted in the block device, but the block device doesn’t have a magical internal scripting language or query engine that the driver delegates to. The driver is in charge, and the persistence layer stores and loads what the driver tells it to.
> governments don't

That's a fancy way of saying people don't care.
Every time I tried to use dating apps my mental health declined sharply, an AI concierge won't change that. I think those apps are just broken by design.

I decided if I ever get serious about dating, I will use other methods. At this point, most apps are just milking lonely men (see also the rise of AI girlfriend).
Yeah, I hated that too.
Non-smoking Asian women getting lung cancer at a high rate [video]
Is it better to have nothing instead of a hamburger menu like this app does (according to its screenshot)? Also, what isn't flat in this app?
PyWinAssistant [video]
Someone has to go first in admitting they experience this and I guess that's going to be me... Do not that I am a rather cheeky fellow and it took everything I had not to start this post off with "Well shit..."

If were confessing things that other people know that Americans dont lets just bring in Tartle:

Tartle is a wonderful Scottish word meaning 'the moment of panic when you are introducing someone and realise you've forgotten their name'.
> Aren’t electric cars in America subsidized by at least a 7500 dollar tax credit

Yes, which is bad in my opinion, however subsidies in the form of US tax breaks stimulate US consumption it doesn't distort foreign consumption significantly, but also major foreign consumer markets put tariffs on US vehicles imports anyway for the same reason we are doing so.
It's written in an ambiguous way and you interpreted it incorrectly. "G5 Conditions were first observed at Earth at 6:54 p.m. EDT today." should be read like "today, G5 conditions where first observed at 6:54", not "G5 conditions where first observed today (at 6:54)".

G5 is defined as K_p = 9. That happened in Oct 2003. https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/geophys/kp-ap/kp-freq/kp2003.frq
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
> Hopefully the Simons empire has enough people who will keep executing his vision and stave off bureaucratic rot.

I think that fear is why the Gates foundation (or was it the one by Buffett or both?) have to spend down their endowment within a few years of the founder's death and then close shop.
How would you objectively measure the sound level in a restaurant? If we could sort that out we could start making lists.
CLI's are composable, TUI's usually aren't. They are just a GUI in a terminal with extra restrictions. I do prefer CLI's for most things over a TUI.

> Just look at this thread alone - people accidentally deleting files because navigation and actions are so undiscoverable that if you don't just blindly copy vim, even highly technical people will have no idea how to use your tool.

But is that even a problem? If you are going to use a tool for years, does it matter that in the first few hours it's not super discoverable?
Which network in Portugal provides this service for free?
Reducing food waste.

If everyone optimizes for taking the ‘fresher’ product, the older one will sit on the shelf and eventually the store will throw it out.
> Looks like 14.5 years life expectancy

And I assume that's for normal people of her age and gender? She's probably far from normal.
I work for an FDA regulated company and I presume the handling of complaints is handled similarly. Cases like this fall into a weird regulatory case. If a problem is identified by someone internal before it rises to a certain level of risk, it's treated as "no harm no foul". But if the same thing is reported from someone external, it triggers a mandatory investigation, audit, and possibly recall.

I think the idea is that if it's not a significant enough risky event, and the only person to ever even identify it as a risk has detailed internal knowledge, it's not as big a potential hazard and possibly much worse potential consequences were addressed before they became a problem. But if someone not privy to the same level of internal knowledge notices it, it's maybe not still so insignificant that it was headed off without serious consequence.

It would make sense in this case that the jump seat pilot mentioned it, and it was corrected early. Possibly if it hadn't been corrected that early, it could have still been caught and corrected differently. But instead, the FAA got a report from a third party, which normally suggests it was significant enough that an unrelated layman could notice and probably wasn't so insignificant.
Not a dumb question at all; one of the hard constraints of cou design is signal propagation time. Even going at 1/3 the speed of light, when you only have on the order of a billionth of a second (clock frequencies in the GHz), a signal can’t get very far.

I haven’t heard of a clocking mechanism in brains, but signals propagate much slower and a walnut / crow brain is much larger than a cpu die.