skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn’t mention this, but the planet is often speculated to be the home planet of the Klowns.

https://youtu.be/plUXguATsTQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space
Why cant we 'simply' get processor extension to mark data as pointer so that the prefetcher would actually know what to fetch.

From my understanding this is what led to the recent 'unpatchable' exploit in Apple's M1, but rather then trying to guess it by some heuristic, why not just give compilers option to make that optimization?
Anonymization is also weak sauce.
They may have retired. Past a certain point you are in it because you love it, and if you no longer love it, there are better things in life than gilding the lily of a nest egg.
In project management I found it important in many cases to explain why "normal" project management - the kind where every task gets a description and resources assigned to it and you can do critical path analysis and resource leveling doesn't work for software.

The reason is software tasks are often unique. The most important tasks are most often the unique ones. Therefore they are hard to estimate, and that makes your carefully crafted schedule useless very quickly after a project starts.

Agile, mostly in the form of Scrum is supposed to be the answer, but in many cases Scrum people keep banging their heads against the task estimation brick wall just like their Gantt/CPM chart predecessors.

That's why task uniqueness and the inevitable, intractable, why-even-try unreliability of estimates is an important part of the nature of software.
Why do people beat up on Siri so much ? It does all the basic stuff I need it to do fine. Could it be better, yes. But it’s made my easier and safer while driving especially.

I’m not even sure if people who rag on it use it ?
I have one from that line and it still works! Needs new printer ribbon/ink though.
Conversation with Knuth about automatic programming
I sometimes watch those TV shows about ancient civilizations. They often talk about "astonishing" astronomy they used.

In reality, all they did was track the sun. This can be done simply by putting a vertical stick in the ground, and marking the path the tip of the stick traces in the ground. This way, the calendar and solstices can be accurately determined.

The shows will also talk about the "amazing" technology that enabled, say, a hole in a wall to shine on a statue for one special day a year. Again, rather simple to do using the same idea as the stick in the ground.

The third thing that annoyed me was their "incredible" astronomical knowledge in predicting eclipses. All that is is collecting observations over decades and then recognizing the pattern. There is no astronomical knowledge involved. They still had no idea what the sun, moon, and planets were, nor even the layout of the solar system.
> There aren’t that many opportunities for people these days, especially at the senior level where titles and compensation is still inflated due to 2020-2022 grants.

You are joking, right? Apple, SpaceX and Microsoft are not the only game in town.
Just use capn’proto. No deserialization needed !
Is Firefox being sabotaged from within?
Learning for learning's sake, or without a distinct goal to use the information you're learning in the future, isn't necessarily a bad thing. That is, unless you think that learning so widely is going to translate into something more than it is, like magic or something. Being well-rounded is a good goal for people to achieve, imo.
Can you explain more? If there's no meaningful differences, what's cheating?
How do you get an object of 44 Earth masses with the average density of styrofoam?

The obvious starting point I guess is a core of very light elements, and a really really extended atmosphere. But an atmosphere thins out exponentially, more steeply the higher the gravity. So for an atmosphere to help much, those 40ish Earth masses of hypothesized core need to be spread out a whole lot already. It seems like a difficult planetary engineering problem -- spin it up almost to bursting?

So taking that to be too silly, the core must be only a small fraction of the mass: a big gas cloud with a nugget in the center. I'm not sure that could work, but it's what I'd try to work out next.
Sure is. That what you get for just clicking around randomly and not paying attention to what is where.
Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base
Whoever is writing these press releases for Firefox needs to reconsider their style. By this point in the product cycle, the only people left using Firefox are sophisticated enough to read through this level of corporate bullshit. Either take "privacy first" seriously or take it out of the mission statement, but don't piss on our leg and call it rain.
Your best bet for duck related products in the US is probably either an upscale grocery store or an Asian grocer like HMart. They tend to carry a lot of meat and offal products that most groceries in the US don't normally carry.
Tornado season is changing. That could have major consequences
The main reason I use Firefox is because it lets you deactivate search suggestions and the "awesome bar" will suggest only from history and bookmarks. Not having to go through a search engine for basic navigation is a killer feature, and better for the planet. Chrome does not let you do that for obvious reasons.

Now I am afraid of enshittification, that they will try to shove search suggestions one day and hide/remove the option to deactivate them.
Creativity see things behind (apparent or not) randomness.
And indeed: what is really -randomness-?
In that case it's really hard to pin it on RTO.
State Lawmakers Slam Cannabis Contract with Private Equity Firm
Story points are unitless. Therefore story point velocity is measured in the inverse of time.
How many SpaceX employees really want to live in downtown LA?
If they erected a statue of Steve Jobs across the pathway I bet it would be pretty well travelled again :) I'll have to check this out on my next visit, I don't think I've ever noted it before, central park has a ton of little discoveries to make.
Fair enough but: how's it going giving people regular clickbait? How's it going trying to get people to stop caring about clickbait? My point is that I can't really see the difference between what we already have and what we're going to have with AI, other than that AI will do it better. The idea that meaning matters in social networks does not pass the smell test for me; I haven't been able to confirm it.
For me there are still black thumbnails
Ipads/tablets are very common business devices used for a variety of applications. We issue ipads to our field techs to do inspection checklists, take pictures at job sites, write notes, etc. Its a great device for that.
Exactly: It's an app you watch TV in, similarly to how the Camera app is an app you take photos with, despite the app not physically containing a camera obscura :)
If you have a compacting GC you are going to move the nodes anyway, so why not reallocate them sequentially?
It's important to remember though that these words, i.e. "virtual particles" are just words used to convey a-priori what are purely mathematical constructs. It in no way is declaring that such things are tangible instances (e.g. detectable in a cloud chamber or through other empirical means.)
I still use Firefox because I'd like there to be more than one web browser in the world, but boy oh boy they're trying as hard as they can to get me to quit.
Go into a lab in the first floor of the physics building at my Uni and you are likely to find a femtosecond laser inside which sprawls over an optical bench which takes up most of the room. At the heart of it is a fiber laser that costs about $250,000 but they usually have added a lot of stuff to it.

A femtosecond laser for medical use is about $400,000

https://crstoday.com/articles/2014-sep/pricing-the-laser-cat...

which is one reason you might not see this become widespread.
People like to be able to either share or monetize their experiments. Neither is really possible here.
Are Google's cookies / ads / analytics used by TikTok? Does TikTok send notifications to your email address (is it Gmail?)? Do the TikTok accounts embed YouTube / related links in their profile anywhere? Quite easy for Google to get tracking info. So many ways that metadata gets leaked.
I'm not at all sure what predictions you are referring to. I don't recall any universal collapse predictions that had scientific consensus aside from the one we're talking about due to climate change.

Which ones came and went without coming true?
> That's interesting as a programming exercise, but

why is this a "but"? does the existence of HPGL negate the work being presented here somehow? modern plotters seem to have less capable control languages such as whatever the axidraw does, or G-code for most of the open source controllers. I guess folks assume you'll just be programmatically generating or converting to the output format anyways.

inkscape can output HPGL directly. there's also chiplotle which is a python library. i've tried to gather up all the other HPGL-related software i could find here: https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters#hpgl
Deezer does not have native linux support.
Oh, well that's pretty funny because most of the time I'm complaining about code I wrote...
Brexit will hit Britain's overseas territories hard. Why is no one talking about
Gen Dino
Isn't the iPhone SE, which is now on its third generation, selling pretty well? That kind of made the mini redundant, no?
> From what I saw when I worked there, they don't have the talent to produce their own models (which is, I think, what we all expected to see)

The talent is repeatedly run off by managers and executives who don't know how to manage talent. At this point, I'm convinced it's actually part of the Amazon culture to not excel at AI/ML. Mediocre, or else. It's so weird (and abusive) to be around. 10/10 not a rewarding place to work.
> Anonymized data is not always anonymous, collected server side or otherwise

If anything, I think it's both safer and more accurate to start from the assumption "anonymized" data can be de-anonymized and and require evidence to refute that rather than starting from a place of assumption that anonymization works and then trying to find a way to attack it. In practice, there's just not a good track record of this being done effectively, and I think people should generally be skeptical of whether this is even possible in many cases.
https://archive.ph/UdX0d/again?url=https://www.foreignaffair...
Not everyone has the same view as you. There are plenty of segments that Apple caters to including captive devices for field techs, education, retail, kiosks etc.
> Must be sequestered away in a subdirectory ... Must NOT be sequestered away in a subdirectory

In case you were curious/interested, docker has the ability to load context from a tar stream, which I find infinitely helpful for "Dockerfile-only" builds since there's no reason to copy the current directory when there is no ADD or COPY it is going to use. Or, if it's a simple file it can still be faster

tar -cf - Dockerfile requirements.txt | docker build -t mything -
# or, to address your other point
tar -cf - docker/Dockerfile go.mod go.sum | docker build -t mything -f docker/Dockerfile -
At least to me, TV is a service/abstract concept as much as a device (but then again, I didn't grow up speaking English, and my native language has a different word for the service and the device).

So if there's a thing that can show me a bunch of TV serials and movies, why not call that TV?

I suppose you could be nitpicky and say "TV means linear broadcast or cable TV, not VOD"; it should be called (Apple) VCR" – but now we're really talking outdated technologies :)
If it's using classical regex, without backtracking or other extensions, a regular expression is isomorphic to a state machine. You can enumerate combinations doing something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1248566

kids these days and their lack of exposure to finite automata
> The circular specification problem

> The only way to know exactly what software we want to build is to fully specify it: without doing so, there will be gaps between our vague ideas and harsh reality. However, a complete, abstract specification is, in general, at least as much work as creating the software itself — in many cases, it is substantially more work.

Well, there is a way to do this: it's called requirements. There's a whole subfield of Software Engineering called Requirements Engineering that deals with exactly this. The fact that we don't stop to write down even a one page description with bullet points of what software should do is damning as a field.

We'd instead rather just jump right in and then later spend hours, days, weeks, months, even years later refactoring the wrong thing we started with, or banging on it with a hammer every time a new (often anticipatable) requirement seems to appear.

Sure, software development is a young field, but it will never mature if we constantly ignore and even forget the basics.
It doesn't seem to add any more value than Indeed. The old SO jobs site had job postings tagged with technologies (like the questions have tags). There were filters for compensation, tech, etc. There was a remote checkbox. I remember there being a better geographic filter. You could see the SO profiles of the people at the company. I am not sure what this adds vs going directly to Indeed.com. The current search removes the # from C#, so you are left with C jobs. The Cities drop down seems to be missing the states. It is Arlington VA or TX? No jobs in DC? Really?
Harsh reality, but so true. I wish the whole education system wasn't at this point
True ;)

But the current situation is like "Out of the frying pan and into the fire"

I was using ChatGPT first then when Bing Copilot was released, I turned to it only to find out, it was even dumber and needed more prompting and there comes the prompt length

I prefer using the HN search engine instead..
Microsoft's Cybersecurity for Beginners
> What are those employees doing for upwards of 10 hours per day?

The government shouldn't regulate the work hours in the first place.
Arkenfox, Librewolf, Waterfox among others might be the best bet, plenty of trade offs like updater scripts at times.
And there's the rub: it's always about the beauty.
How was it not? It's a text interface. It was given text.

The deaf example now is like asking GPT "What am I pointing at?"
Perhaps relocate to Hanna, WY? They need free heat [1] for a rec center than can't afford the fossil gas bill. Only about 120 miles away [2]. Does not apply of course if the purpose of the installation was espionage or similar.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2024/05/06/in-a-boom-town-gone-b...

[2] https://maps.app.goo.gl/PU9kWtEL9ygr9YV68
Going to the cinema is a data visualization problem
My memory of doing this is rusty, but I believe you can do this as a "civilian" with the Classroom app and without Managed Apple IDs. Somebody correct me with a citation if I am wrong.

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...
> They went ahead and did the Apple thing, it's all Google TV as far as consumer branding.

Cool, where do I buy a "Google TV" then?

It's still called "Chromecast with Google TV" as of today: https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv

Google TV is an app/portal/service (with somewhat ill-defined boundaries, but I generally like it on my Chromecast, as it's able to pull in recommendations from basically all available sources, unlike Apple TV, which seems to have some feud with at least Netflix); the Chromecast with Google TV is the physical device I can plug into my TV to make it display Google TV.

The streaming protocol is currently called "Google Cast", as far as I can tell.
Maybe it is something like a small planet that has a giant ring complex that happens to be aligned perpendicular to us?
Why have you let it go for so long? This isn’t a new issue and it’s been going on for a long time. What does the CTO have? There has to be something because otherwise there’s no reason this should have festered for so long. Fundamentally, you’re a minority shareholder who has taken cash down to zero while waiting on someone who has never delivered anything. If the CTO has an immense amount of talent, that might be a reasonable reason to keep them employed. But if the CTO has different kinds of leverage over you and/or the patent, it could become a problem.

It would be worth spending a bit of time thinking that over. You’ll learn a lot for the next time you start a company. And in this case, you may be adding to your strategy to get rid of the CTO.

Have you spoken with a lawyer about your potential liability? If not, you should likely delete this thread, talk to an attorney and if you repost this, you should only include the information she tells you to include.

As well, you sold 75% of a million dollar company for 1/3 of the value. Is there a reason for that? For example, if you’re close friends with the investor you and the investor may be able to figure out a way to get the patent, defend it from the CTO and roll out a totally new company.
Yeah, some good points in here.

You can have multiple profiles in Android, so you can, for example, have your main GrapheneOS profile be google-free and have a "spyware trash" profile for things that won't work without tithing to Sauron.
Each model seems to becoming more efficient and effective so maybe it's a trend that doesn't continue on the average use side.
Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
The logo SUN Microsystems had is a 4-way ambigram with rotational symmetries. Designed by Professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford, the logo features 4 interleaved copies of the word "sun", forming a rotationally symmetric ambigram, with the letters U and N in each word forming the letter S for the next word.
You can read the word "sun" if you rotate your head by 45°, 135°, 225°, or 315°.

* Objectively according to me. :P
NASA Lost Its Mars Climate Orbiter from a Metric Error
So I guess they're building their own index, just like Brave, Perplexity, Exa, and others. A much smaller arms race that seems to be going under the radar of most folks.
There is nothing predatory that I know of booking.com's practices. I know that hackers have a categorical hostility towards any large company (but not towards large governments or large banks of course), but could you explain what Booking.com does wrong?

Are they supposed to provide a central search engine with availability and reviews and a large customer base for free to any hotel owner? And when any guest makes a booking, the hotel owner sends them a message "Hey, cancel your reservation on booking and book with me instead and I'll give you a little discount." I guess hackers think that is marvellous, but how is that fair to booking? It is the hotels that ask to be on booking, they are free to do without and many do with great success.

Awaiting the responses saying "The government should provide an online booking platform and ban all others".
"Can be mitigated" -- how, exactly?

No one has an answer to that question, at present (in terms of solutions that work at scale, and without unsustainable secondary effects).

Which brings us back to the subject of the article -- magical thinking.
I'm sure that the people who primarily use the iPad for drawing are happy that they don't need to have a keyboard attached at all times.
>The GPUs used to train them only existed because the DoE explicitly worked with Nvidia

Do you have a source for this claim? Isn't eg. an H100 basically just a RTX GPU with more and faster memory? (Or, at least, an RTX GPU with the same VRAM as an H100 would perform similarly.) And these GPUs were created to run video games. Unless you are referring to something like NVLink?
Phones have a far shorter shelf life.
Is it new, or is it just a big jump forward?

The previous ChatAI app was getting pretty good once you learned the difference between run on sentences or breaking it up enough.

The tonality and inflections in the voice are a little too good.

Most people put on a spectrum/average aren't that good at speaking and communicating and that stands out as an uncanny valley approach. It is mindbogglingly good at it though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
It works in everyone’s favour. Founder got what his culture sets out to build. Customer got their features faster. Senior engineer clearly knows it is not the place for him and moved on. Everyone wins.
> I imagine many of the students there don't really care about physics.

This has been my experience, time and time again. If the student is interested in the subject matter, almost any educational method works tremendously well, because the failings are compensated for by the student.

If the student is just there to get past the class because of a requirement, it's quite hard for any method to work tremendously well. However, some methods (say small seminar vs large lecture) can be more conductive to triggering that interest "for its own sake".

But I well know I went through seminar-style classes of 15 or so students in subjects I didn't care about and didn't want to care about, and I performed as necessary to get through without repeating.
WWVB is great if you can get the signal -- I have two of those clocks in different rooms, and only one of them synchronizes.
Is there a way to use this with a simple docker-compose, no Kubernetes?
Here's a news story about stalking: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/business/apple-airtag-law...

Here's Tile adding anti-stalking features: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/17/tile-launches-its-anti-sta...

So which is it? Is it unjustified moral panic with 0 evidence of harm & Tile isn't doing anything or are you just upset that these big companies aren't building the product you want to buy?

With 5 you're now shifting goal posts by introducing a non-sequiter to my point 5. I've clearly highlighted that Apple always balances money-making opportunities against their values around privacy & public safety. No one is forcing you to buy this product. You should also fully expect to see Tile utilize this standard so that they can leverage the reach of having every smartphone in the world scanning for these instead of just other Tile customers.
Guy still doesn't have to sell his shares, he still might want more and you cannot force someone to sell off his shares - only way is to agree on price he will accept. You still might make reasonable arguments but yeah making arguments doesn't make the deal, other guy agreeing makes the deal.
It may be worth having a look at Raia (https://raia.live)

I'm actively developing this product.

One of the things I added is something called "Assistant Profiles". Given the fact that you know the DB structure, you can create a custom Assistant Profile and adjust it to fit the underlying DB better, which improves the results quite a lot

You can then expand the connection to other external systems and automate a lot of the analysis processes your users may have

I'm happy to work with you to make it work for your use case
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Anyone wants to build out an id checking system to satisfy these silly things, I might be interested in building / promoting / running one that actually has privacy things in place.
I don't think this is accurate?

The flow I've seen is "Wireguard server has its listening port open. Clients (with all ports closed) connect to the server on its open port."

After that, all connections can still happen. Server -> client, client -> server.

> NAT Traversal: The NAT entry created by the client's outgoing connection allows the server to send packets back to the client.

> VPN Tunnel: The established VPN tunnel enables bidirectional communication, allowing the server to reach the client without the client needing an open port.