skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Historically every time the state gets involved it inevitably leads to substantial amounts of neglect and abuse

Yeah, having people without any professional training and zero oversight do the caring is the much safer option. Surely there can't be any abuse there?

The only advantage is that at home no one will see the abuse. And I am talking about abuse by both the carer and the one being cared for. Dementia changes a person often causing them to get violent. Plus caring for another being is exhausting but caring for a close family member even more so because you can not build a professional distance to keep you emotionally healthy. It is thankless and soul destroying work. Even the most caring person can grow bitter over time.

Yes, in state institutions abuse does happen because abuse happens everywhere but there are ways to implement oversight and reduce it. Not so much at home.

Plus in the case of underage children, making them care for family members is called parentifications and a form of abuse that can mess them up for the rest of their life.
Scientists find sleep may not clear brain toxins
Genuine question: how does not mowing your lawn helps bees / insects?

I'm guessing that the lawn itself is incidental, and by not mowing you're letting flowers (including dandelions and clover?) grow?

Also, I'm gonna be up front about my ulterior motive: I hardly mow my lawn anyways and would love to have another reason to justify / rationalize what I'm already doing :)

But still - genuine question.
Sorry, but very little is worth $26/month, in my view. If it operated as an uncensored model with guaranteed privacy, that might be worth something
When combined with other features. Unfettered private creation and knowledge generation is a proper goal with LLMs.
I think that a good part of that killed Amiga and Atari was the fact that IBM PC were the "serious" computers, the one you bought for work, and the Amiga and Atari were less considered. I know that they had some success in their niche like music and publishing for Atari, and graphism and design for amiga, I even saw Atari on a warship. But at the end most of the money at the time was made in a professional setting, and neither Atari or Amiga managed to get a sizable part of it.

I regret it because passing from GEM to DOS really felt a step backward
It might be a more fundamental constant than the speed of light as it relates the properties of space time and energy.

At some point if you change the speed of light the information exchange inside of atoms would be disrupted and the system collapses.
My Amigas rarely crashed. When an app crashed, I stopped using it.
I say this as a frontend dev--if your goal was to convince backend folks that adopting jsx/tsx is not that complicated, my guess is that your comment won't do that. The setup you described might sound simple to you, but it's not for someone who isn't already familiar with the FE ecosystem. The OP wanted a templating library that is simple to setup and use and would score well with lighthouse, but all of a sudden we're talking about lib.dom.ts files and copy pasting from @types/react.
Presumably, or else they wouldn't have bought it. Plenty of ways to make a profit while hollowing out a company: fire as many employees as possible, steal as much as possible from their employees and vendors, raise prices on customers, make closing customer accounts as difficult as possible, do some silly accounting tricks to make someone else hold the bag, try to find someone to fob off the brand name to for a few bucks once there's nothing left to extract. The usual stuff, they know the routine.
Datafusion-Python TPC-H Examples
A lot of fruits freeze pretty well too. When I'm in Maine at the right time of year and big boxes of "wild" local (low-bush) blueberries are for sale, often they're already frozen. I agree that local fruits during their short local season can be pretty good but stuff that's shipped in or frozen isn't necessarily bad. Depends on the produce.
Things like that do exist, the sad reality is that if the children care, the parents do decently well, the abuse kicks in when nobody cares (or nobody exists, there are many people with no living relatives).
> which plausibly has far more precision than a float32

+/- 1e-45 to 3.4e38. granted, roughly half of that is between -1 and 1.

When we worked with low power silicon, much of the optimization was running with minimal headroom - no point railing the bits 0/1 when .4/.6 will do just fine.

> Additionally, you can e.g. wire two values directly together rather than loading numbers into an ALU

You may want an adder. Wiring two circuit outputs directly together makes them fight, which is usually bad for signals.
Was the original CAMM from Dell ever used with LPDDR, or just DDR5?
> Cheating in an online game should earn you a ban from all online games, period.

That implies a level of consolidation and control that I'm definitely not comfortable with. No, I don't think botting in RuneScape should mean I can't play Helldivers 2.
I've always found that it's easier to code something from scratch, than to review and fix someone else's code, and that's been my experience with Copilot up to this point. I'm not sure if it's better than just writing code from scratch productivity wise, but it makes coding kind of unpleasant for myself.

One thing I've found about Copilot is that it introduces me to novel ways to solve problems and more obscure language features. It makes me a better coder because I'm constantly learning. But do I want to be spending my time learning or do I want to make that deadline that's coming up?
Open source AI tool to improve heart failure care
There will be a shareholder vote, but they only need a majority to approve the sale (assuming their equity shareholder structure is "normal" and voting rights exist for common shareholders). However, the majority of any given public company tends to be owned by institutional asset managers like Blackrock and Vanguard. They owe a fiduciary duty to their customers to act in their best interests, and when a deal offers those shareholders a large margin over the market value of their holdings, it's almost impossible for them to vote against it, even if they wanted.
But Telegram uses it's own protocol MTProto which isn't extremely well know and tested.
I think that it might be accurate to say that it propagated slavery in a unique way even if it didn't start it. I.e. would slavery have been the same institution in the US without an international slave trade and industrialized cotton processing & manufacturing?
Wonder if this would potentially allow for swappable memory in GPU cards. Might be suitable for midspec GPUs.
It is also about trying to get the most of that hypothesis testing, defining success and failure the best you can.

I have encountered this "mediocre success" many times in AI solutions due to lack of problem definition. For instance, now with LLMs is very easy to write a prompt that gives you the output you want in 5 or 6 examples you have in mind. The problem is to build up your testing scenario from there, and gather as much data as possible until you make it representative of your use cases.

That is the only way to actually test your prompts, RAG strategies, and so on, instead of buying the last CoT-like prompt trend.
Conclusively was probably too strong of a word, as there are technically still two ways to get hidden variables to work:

1) If we allow information to be non-local, i.e. we allow information to travel instananeously. Allowing this would just be such a hit to the foundation of theories like relativity and quantum field theory that most physicists don't really believe this could be an explanation. These theories rely on nothing traveling faster than the speed of light.

2) We could allow for "superdeterminism". One of the assumptions of Bell's theorem is that a researcher is free to choose any measurement they'd like, independent of the particle they're measuring. However, if the universe correlated everything from the Big Bang onward, a.k.a "superdeterminism", then the researcher is actually NOT capable of choosing a measurement independently of the particle. Everything is pre-scripted from the initial conditions of the Big Bang. If I go and measure a photon from the CMB (the earliest light in the universe we can measure), superdeterminism implies that this photon emitted 14 billion years ago somehow "knows" exactly how it'll be measured in 14 billion years, and has hidden variables that ensure it won't contridict my measurements or quantum theory. This seems to open a whole can of worms about the feasabilty of all scientific experiments, and it doesn't actually make any predictions about the randomness anyhow.

Out of curiosity I went digging to see if there were hard numbers for what physicists believe, and I found a 2011 poll from a conference about the nature of quantum mechanics. Surprisingly none of the respondents believed that random quantum events have some sort of underlying determinism. I'm not saying you should always follow the crowd, but it, combined with all the laboratory testing of the Bell inequality, shows that your initial statement "randomness is an incorrect interpretation of quantum mechanics" is not something you'd say to a group of physicists without having very compelling and detailed reasons to back it up, because it's very much a fringe idea. The majority of physicists subscribe to theories of quantum mechanics that don't involve hidden variables, and treat the randomness as inherent to theory.

Link to the poll if you're interested: arxiv.org/abs/1301.1069. I'm talking about question 1.
My preference is to not have my email harvested at all when possible, even if I don't personally see the spam emails. (I'm not saying it's a critical privacy/security issue, but a preference.)
Neither impressed me. Quake did.
That is a cut segment of a larger lecture, probably this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY
Are Winograd’s algorithms useful to implement as a learning exercise?
Compared to other platforms? Generally much better, though that might be because standards on most social media platforms are on the floor... fifty feet below sea level. By comparison to the average post on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/whatever other large social media site you can think of, Hacker News comes across as thoroughly enlightened. It's like comparing a somewhat standard book club to an active war zone.

Compared to previous years? Probably worse, since just about every platform gets worse over time. Eternal September is in full swing by this point, and I've seen a lot more political arguments and barely disguised extremist talking points thrown around than I used to, especially in more controversial threads.
It's exactly as hidden/opt-in as the Stripe crypto settings, where Stripe was completely shit on in 20 comments about scams, scamming, and scam currencies.

Downvoters hate having their double standard revealed.
==without actually informing you by giving you the tools to use what you've learned==

The title of the article doesn't imply that it will teach you how to implement. The title explicitly states it is a map to show you the shift in zones, and it does that very clearly.
not just increase prices but likely saddle the company with mountains of debt (which happens to be owned directly or indirectly by the PE firm).

red lobster acquired by Golden Gate PE in cash deal in 2020 [1]

red lobster subsequently squeezed for any value at all costs (cuts in labor, switching suppliers) [2]

[1] https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/asian-inv...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/food/red-lobster-seafood-rest...
There's Wix, Webflow, and others already. Seems pretty crowded.
If the reliable granular data is 100 years or so, and the core samples are known to be lacking granular indication… how a you prove that the spikes and dips are atypical?
It's wild indeed. It's almost as those things are not the case, or are dramatically overblown when they do occur for Tesla (as they do for all companies but don't get overblown), and gullible people repeat them with fully good intentions.
I'm intrigued. Without the file based dependency stuff, is it all incumbent on you to add the logic checking and stating if something has been done?
In my opinion as someone who grew up inside it, the factors that created this fertile ground in Finland for young computer hackers in the 1980s and '90s were:

- High-quality educational system, but without pressures to perform (unlike e.g. many Asian countries). There are no standard exams in Finnish schools except a single national one at the end of high school. Teachers all have a master's degree, it's usually a lifelong career, and they have (had?) lots of latitude to create their own curriculums.

- An economic boom in 1984-89 that enabled many households to acquire home computers.

- Long and dark winters that left kids with plenty of time. Combined with the aforementioned educational system, you had teenagers who were already pretty good at math and English playing around with computers on ample free time.
> how they get people to loan them money when they know that they are just going to strip mine the company

Because on average, target firms of leveraged buyouts become more productive [1]. That lets them pay back shareholders and lenders in most cases.

The reason public perception is off is the size effect and availability heuristic. The first shows that big deals do badly [2]. The second means the last widely-reported deal is likely to stand in for private equity in the public consciousness [3]. Add in inflation, which makes each sticker price seem more historic than it is, and the fact that the last deal in a cycle is doubly cursed by being financed and priced at precisely the wrong time and you have a consistent pattern of the most recently-memorable deal being a clusterfuck.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/43495362

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03044...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
Yeah, though people have explained to me that there were things in the Amiga that kind of "stayed primitive". While I think it's insanely cool how early they got preemptive multitasking, something that I think hurt them was the fact that by-design it didn't really support any kind of protected memory.

The Amiga was a bit before my time, sadly, so I'm getting Wikipedia-depth knowledge of this; my dad had one when I was very young but all I ever used it for was playing games. Still, it's easy to look back at these things and feel like things should have been different; particularly I feel like Microsoft got way more slack than it should have. DOS, which felt really primitive by the early 90s, still seemed to be more-or-less standard until Windows 95.
The lack of encryption between myself and a business is less offensive than replacing an open standard (plain old telephone systems, eMail) with a proprietary and closed one, backed by a single, private corporation
They must have super-voting shares...probably from being early (pre-IPO) investors.
They have 1800 employees and have been dancing around profitability each quarter. Also, yearly revenue is ~1.2B. PE is thinking with some ok management they can turn this around pretty quickly with some efficiency changes and keeping the ~18% YoY sales growth.
Some definitions:

1) ability to do as you want

2) ability to do otherwise

3) ability to control choice

4) be an author of choice
> It's good enough that Facebook, WhatsApp, and Skype use it for E2EE messages.

Wait if it's the same why don't we just use Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype instead of Signal?
I currently use google but am thinking seriously about self hosting. For those few times could the clients send it to you via WhatsApp?
Also in Austin. We have almost all native species, so no maintenance in theory but it's getting harder. We're focusing on drought resistance. I can do my best to cover the ones in danger of freezing on those few days, but harder to water everything constantly.
"This plant is zone 6"

"Old numbering or new numbering?"

"I don't know, just says zone 6"

If you reuse your numbering system, you have to specify which version you're using. Using an all-new numbering scheme eliminates that.
> There are a fair few sites, where most all content is perfectly readable without JS, except things like "1920x1080@60Hz" are displayed as literal "[email protected]" text.

Do you have one on hand? That sounds absurd and I've never seen it
Many insects lay their eggs in the grass which hatch in early spring. By mowing early you may be destroying all of these eggs before they hatch.

There's debate about how effective it is, but that's the theory at least.
Setting up shopify integrations, building a domain name registrar, and writing new web templates is not R&D. It carries no technical risk and the product is already known to be valuable. The only chance of failure is that you build it and nobody comes to buy because there's no reason to choose you over all the other people offering the same thing.

I am sure that most software projects fail, but I am also sure that as a software developer, almost all of your work ends up in production. Sure, you will have minor technical setbacks, but not on the scale of actual R&D projects. In contrast, people doing R&D in pharma or other similar fields will spend months or years working on a single project that doesn't go anywhere because it is too hard. The same goes for civil engineers building bridges, for example: the work is highly technical, but it is not R&D.

I very much disagree with you that pushing a 10-line bugfix is anywhere near R&D. There's no uncertainty, and there is no research.

By the way, the act of thinking or problem solving does not make your work R&D. If it did, retail workers and construction workers would be doing a lot of R&D, too.
Buffering usually means that a higher layer needed flow control but doesn't have it.
Hallo! That was really interesting to read through!
I just wanted to clarify that by bias I mean a skew towards one side that causes scores to misalign with SPEC. In this case, this bias against high-latency ICC is one of the causes of such 'bias'.

Thanks for the thoughtful and informative response though.
This has more to do with anything tangentially related to or funded by central govt (like public education) failing to accomplish stated goals, rather than mindfulness being bad.
Conservation Is About More Than Saving Species from Extinction
Those patches are usually backports, for security, or better integration. They do not break something on purpose.
That's what "propagate" means...
Falcon 2
The problem with refactoring test code is twofold:

1. It can make it harder to see what's actually being tested if there are too many layers of abstraction in the test.

2. Complex test code can have significant bugs of its own that can result in false passes. What tests the test code?

Thus I generally see repetitive or copy/pasted test code as a necessary evil a lot of the time.
It’s impossible to define it or do anything requiring verbs if you don’t have free will, so it’s tautologically impossible to satisfy this class of solipsistic ideas.
I agree with your science, but tell a pug owner that.
Lunar lander company ispace sees opportunities in Japan-U.S. Artemis agreement
Thanks!

Extra round trips -- yes, the page I send back to the user will not be 100% waste since that page gets to have another collection of ads. For the server load and Internet data rate, good news would be when need more of those two!

In a sense, the round trip can help make the user interface (UI) easier for the user: The dialog can be really explicit and easy for nearly every candidate user in the world to understand immediately effortlessly. In contrast, an active UI based on a lot of JavaScript will look unique and need some thought, trials, and experience by the user. My UI is built with links, single line text boxes, and push buttons -- ancient controls billions of people understand. And the Web pages are in a hierarchy that people can understand easily because it is natural.

I'd likely prefer to minimize the JavaScript I send to a user and have my main software run only on the server side -- all in one place instead of distributed around!

You mentioned the issue of quality for software from someone else: Reasons I'm going with Microsoft are that (a) they actually do know how to write and document software tools and (b) everything my Web site is asking of those tools the tools have long since done successfully at thousands of Web sites.

While I've done a lot of programming, etc., this is my first Web site. Thanks!
"Wow, that guys wife is hot and I thought about having sex with her, oh no I guess that means I am an adulterer so I might as well actually have sex with her".

If you turn off binary thinking and start thinking in degrees of effect, the fact you may naturally have some aversion to people that are not like you isn't a fucking excuse to genocide a group of people because of what they look like.

Almost all the excuses worded like the ones above that I've seen are from hard racists on why they shouldn't have to change there harmful behavior to others by wrapping in infantile sayings like "Jon was born gay and I was born to burn crosses".
GameStop rockets, as 'Roaring Kitty' returns; shares halted
I think you may be a few steps behind, what you're explaining is the rationale for the ST and MT individual scores. This is something all modern benchmark software has.
Commodore could have been Apple if it had been better run.
Eh, try like 300 years at least; you can get data from 1662 to now easy from NOAA. Governments love to collect data about mundane things; you could probably get a larger archive from a country that existed prior to 1781.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets
> SquareSpace has ~44% of the self-hosted website market. Shouldn't that be enough?

They’re making hundreds of thousands of dollars of profit on hundreds of millions of dollars of gross profit [1]. Most of the cost is marketing & sales. Private equity is actually about focussing less on growth and more on sustainability; the logic of this acquisition is that 44% is enough.

[1] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001496963/d08174f...
This seems like a good use case for Spanner? The pain would be in migrating the backend to gke, but is you are hitting the limits of what azure can do you are going to have to migrate at some point.
That's the tune of every Russian oligarch that doesn't want to get caught up in a sanctions regime that makes their Paris/Milan shopping trips a pain.
You can think something is better without believing that they are as much better as they claim to be.
Yeah. I actually agree with the other comment that the C128 was better than my IBM Compat at the time, but my parents weren't looking at the present. They were looking at the future, and even said so.

My first was a 386/20, which had a problem and Circuit City's guarantee saw us trade it out for a "better" computer for free... That turned out to be a 386/16. I didn't know enough about them at the time to spot the problem.

It wasn't long before I had a 486, though, so the problem wasn't long-lived. I've never forgiven them for the deception, but they went out of business, so I guess I won? (I see they're back now somehow. Wow, what a joke.)
> No one’s gonna buy an enterprise AMD card for playing with AI

My hypothesis is that the buying mentality stems from the inability to rent. Hence, me opening up a rental business.

Today, you can buy 7900's and they work with ROCm. As George pointed out, there are some low level issues with them, that AMD is working with him to resolve. That doesn't mean they absolutely don't work.

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates...
I paint random stuff like rocks in my garden.

Regular acrylic paints degrade after a few years of regular exposure. I hope some of my work survives and someone thinks I was a high status shaman, but more importantly I know that little children walking by have been delighted by a rock painted like a bug. It's the little things.