skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're onto something. My take away is that you talking about elite overproduction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction).

FTA:
Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin that describes the condition of a society that is producing too many potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.[1][2][3] This, he hypothesizes, is a cause for social instability, as those left out of power feel aggrieved by their relatively low socioeconomic status.[1][2][3]
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The nonviolent unwinding of elite overproduction apparently happened in the 50s and 60s with strong labor unions improving the financial well-being of laborers and high taxes on the very well-to-do recycling their excess wealth back into society. I look at the current shift towards trades as another form of reversing the access number of elites.

IMO, It's worth spending some time contemplating this concept and its potential application to society today.

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Side note: every time I say or hear the phrase elite overproduction, I think of Bertie Wooster and the Drones club. You're welcome.
I think you can tell init not to allow any mode to launch cua-mode by default.
I was very much in the Google ecosystem and although privacy became an increasing concern, the final push for me was the horror stories who had their accounts suspended or were otherwise locked out with no recourse.
The behavior of electrons in a material depend on the material. Crystals and sheets of graphene are special because of their periodicity, i.e. the inability to distinguish one location in the lattice from another over long distances. The wavefuntions of electrons are to first order due to this periodic potential.

Crystals are also interesting mathematically because there is a finite number of possible lattices that can exist, and it isn't even that many. All the useful and interesting effects of doping semiconductors is the result of throwing some contaminants in to disrupt the perfect periodicity of the silicon crystal and therebey make junctions that can ultimately be used for computation etc. "Holes" are sort of emergent quasiparticles with charge +1.

I think a key term in the article is "moire". When two regular patterns are overlayed and then twisted or offset, they interfere to produce a new emergent pattern, sometimes with radically different periodicity than the original. The electrons must now inhabit this very artificial pattern of pottentials that is neither a crystal or a doped crystal and may not occur in nature at all. Plus there are probably effects caused by the material being nearly 2d.

Very exciting stuff, emergent complexity seems to be a major theme in physics so far this century.
They don’t need to if they can process a significant chunk of the queries on-device. Llama3-level inference works fine on M2-level chips today and the M4 is already in a mobile device.
Having a dedicated team doesn't mean anything about the end result.
thats the entire point of this. to generate mockup software
It likely has to do with the dollar amount.
That sounds like it was as easy as copy paste.

The day one of those formats changes slightly, it's really easy to update it. If you had a single code base, you now have to think how to refactor out the differences. In my experience when those differences appear is more likely to not be trivial.
Yea - I get that argument but these days it's just hard to do infra as true FOSS with the hyperscalers and current cloud economics. There is a community license and and the code is visible. Not saying it's ideal but Redpanda is further into the open source world than WarpStream.
Thanks for the comments, really appreciated! The entire team worked super hard for this.

> this means it is NOT a research project

Yeah, we’re quite proud of the system - the bugs in sync systems can be particularly insidious and it took us a very long time (years) to iron them all out. So we're happy to make such a mature system freely available.

Also - some bugfixes introduce performance issues too, another NB consideration for any component in a data pipeline. So along with the maturity comes a highly performant system: we can work with hosted and self-hosted customers to scale to millions of concurrent connections.
That has not bearing upon whether the Mozilla Corporation is for profit or not. It is for profit and the original statement was regarding a lack of understanding why someone would use a browser made by a for profit company. Firefox is factually made by a for profit company. One whose major source of income is the nefarious Google.

I'm also afraid how this usually turns out is the for-profit part takes over the non-profit part. See OpenAI or just about any major national non-profit in the US.
WWVB data transmission format is described here:

https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/05/09/NIST-...
The new iPad has 12 GB, but 4 are mysteriously disabled.
> sorry Debain, but it looks like Stable is a bit behind what I need hardware support wise

bookworm-backports has kernel 6.6, which is the very latest LTS series. Is this not new enough?
My apologies! I missed that you covered that variation too. (Good to know it works as I expected though!)
Yeah, but you're losing one of the things that you get from pure functional languages, which is determinism. The same function run multiple times may return different results.
Also and perhaps most importantly battery life.
Chrome is ahead of the curve, driving innovation and making the internet a better place, again and again and again.
A pixel (in the context of an image) could be “wrong” in the sense that its assigned value could lead to an image that just looks like a bunch of noise. For instance, suppose we set every pixel in an image to some random value. The resulting would look like total noise and we humans wouldn’t recognized it as a sensible image. By providing a corpus of accepted images, we can train a model to generate images (arrays of pixels) which look like images and not, say, random noise. Now it could still generate an image of some place or person that doesn’t actually exist, so in that sense the pixels are collectively lying to you.
It doesn't matter who was right. It doesn't matter how wrong or broken Wayland is.

It does matter who is willing to work on code. And no one is willing to do the work on the X11 codebase that it needs.

That's it. Plain and simple.

Forking X11 and assuming Vulkan while throwing out everything else is probably pretty doable and would result in a 90% codebase reduction. However, nobody is willing to sling the code to make it happen.
Given that the perfect image from the fax barely worked, a photograph would certainly not do.
Well said. Simple, solid technology for the benefit of everyone.
Call it the Torment Nexus Foundation.
Didn’t quite work in my case.
Algorithms can't be copyrighted (though code can be), so this really depends on what level of copying is implied by the word "adapted".
Firefox's "Enhanced Tracking Protection" seems to break their React demo.

Turning that off though and things seem to load ok, even with UBlock Origin and Privacy Badger running.
> people probably believe nutty conspiracy theories like that today.

Executives were upset about the newsletter’s coverage, so their employees set out to ruin the lives of the couple who ran the website, sending a funeral wreath, bloody pig face Halloween mask and other alarming items to their home, authorities said. The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband’s name on it to their neighbor’s house and planned to break into the couple’s garage to install a GPS device on their car, officials said.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/15/ebay-empl...
Good to Have Ability to Change Career?
It's unsure how the market will be tomorow, so what's good to have in case of career change or/and layoffs?
What to learn or make?
(More in the programming fields)
Sure, but if we label the text as “factually accurate” or “logically sound” (or “unsound”) etc., then we can presumably greatly increase the probability of producing text with targeted properties
Any research on this?
ChatGPT thinks it was called 'TimeDraw' :)
Considering how stupid/unsophisticated an avg computer user is. The worlds scammers income is going to sky rocket in the next few years as more people get new computers with built in recall.
> The problem is that sentinel errors, as typically and idiomatically used, in fact are special, and are more expensive to deal with than other values. My suggestion to use boolean values outperforms them by a lot, 30x in fairly common idiomatic usage.

while I agree to some degree, but when performance comes into picture, what really matters more is normal path vs surprise path rather than happy path vs error path

it's hard to argue what is a happy path in the code, but it's not wrong to say that io.EOF check is a normal path of the code i.e. not a surprise in production. the bad performance of errors.Is is something to be improved upon but it's not a surprise in production when there are a large number of `errors.Is` checks during normal path of the code

now coming to the surprise path of the code, here's where performance gets really important, no one wants their code to suddenly hog 100% CPU because of some special error case - https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage . but such surprise paths often contain a large amount of business logic that weigh much more than how slow errors.Is function is compared to a boolean check

it would be interesting to see where this line of reasoning is valid but IMO performance isn't a good argument against why errors are not normal outcomes of operations in production

but thumbs up for the article, now I know what to reference for backing the below pattern that I often use, when I first saw the errors.Is it was pretty obvious that its going to be slow but just didn't have time to prove it and use below pattern

```

if err != nil && errors.Is(err, x) {

} else if err != nil && errors.Is(err, y) {

} else if err != nil {

// handling unknown error

}

```
In my experience, filmmaker mode often makes the picture too dark. Maybe that's ok if your room is dark like a theater, but that's not how people often live in their homes.

Motion smoothing is awful, though -- definitely keep that off.
I've been thinking a lot about effects systems recently. A few months ago I implemented an effects system based interpreter in Haskell for an embedded DSL prototype for a project at work. In our case, the effects we were concerned with were all some variation of reading data, and the effects based approach allowed us to statically ensure that data would be available, and let us perform some clever optimizations to reduce the overhead of large IO operations.

We've since rewritten the system and, while we still support an optional effects based style in our DSL, it's not being used very heavily. In practice, our user found the ergonomics of the effects system quite challenging, and it introduced some type inference challenges. The biggest problem was that our use-cases ended up with functions that would have hundreds of effects, and it was fairly unwieldy and the type errors were difficult to deal with. Since we've introduced the updated version, most users prefer to user our newer features that allow them to write more traditional code even though it means they don't get composable effects.

On the other side of the experience, I've come to believe that effects systems are a good idea, but when adding them to an existing language it's probably best to make them an opt-in feature that can be used to constrain specific small parts of a program, rather than something that should be applied globally. I also think we need a bit more research into the ergonomics before they are going to appeal to a lot of users. That said, the guarantees and optimization opportunities ours gave us were really nice, and were quite difficult to achieve without building on top of the effects system (our new system is about an order of magnitude more code, for example).
VarChat: AI chat about human genome variations
Possible steelier arguments:

- "iPhone's are generally more expensive, Android phones are generally cheaper", so having an iPhone signals financial "goodness". Same argument can be applied to lots of other products.

- "iPhones are generally better, so if you have Android you're compromising for some reason", e.g. lack of money to buy one, "weird" political/social/other beliefs, etc.

- Messaging systems are like accents; some people might prefer dating someone who speaks their language in a more similar accent, and others might prefer dating people who use the messaging system they prefer.

Also, a lot depends on your definition of "shallow".
That's brilliant! You could even expand each input character to multiple characters to build an error correcting code.
Sorry, I mistranslated “clock” (hence why I differentiated “wristwatch” in the sentence before). We owned a Funkuhr-Wecker in the 80s, so, an alarm clock synchronizing to DCF77, in the 80s. The wristwatches came a bit later, yeah (not that I’d have known without looking it up whether that was earlier or later than 1990).
I dunno ... when you see some guy from RedPanda on twitter throwing around petty "trademark compliance" [1] threats to memory-hole an entire project ... honestly, it would be malpratice _not_ to immediately fork everything.

[1] https://x.com/emaxerrno/status/1796219957589786810
I say "no" every time, and people asking for it are flabbergasted and make it seem like I'm committing some sort of social taboo. "Why should I trust your company to protect me from identity theft?" is usually my retort, which they never have a compelling rejoinder.
We had to wreck 2 spans of copper on one fibre installation job, maybe a total of 60 meters of 2 cables - a 200 pair and 400 pair cable. That netted us CAD$350. Downside is that the incumbent telco initially denied the permit citing lack of spare capacity, despite the fact that both copper cables were abandoned. Oh the joys of telecom...
Containing effects _in general_ is the natural next step after containing unsafe code. Memory safety issues are just one category of side effect that can have unpredictable effects on your code -- any time your code interacts with the "outside world" there's an opportunity for unpredictable behavior, and the more you can quarantine it, the easier it is to reason about the remaining code.
This was the problem we saw in practice building an effects based system at work. It had a lot of nice properties, and type inference worked better than you might expect, but there was no way around the types with 100+ effects in the type signature, and people really disliked it.

There are some things you can do to make it more ergonomic. One mistake we made was not focusing on ergonomics early on, and that lead to people having some pretty sour experiences. It's something you really have to pay a lot of attention to.
Oh please, let's lose the persecution complex. If there is any discrimination against men happening in academia it's in the clown show departments that no one cares about anyway.

As for "struggles", study history. The minor struggles that modern men in developed countries deal with are nothing compared to what our ancestors faced. I was never drafted and sent to assault the beach at Normandy.
I understand the argument of “what’s the practical impact”

Practical impact is important to recognize but the concept of potential impact, otherwise known as risk, is most certainly valid; having the most intimate details of your identity stored outside of your own control can have profound risks for any bad actor especially when our methods of securing our identities haven’t kept up with the pace of it being collected.
Can someone explain the strong casual relationship between myopia and high IQ?

This is just one of the many studies which have shown this relationship: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19127804/ and https://www.ajmc.com/view/nearsightedness-correlates-with-hi...

Seems to validate all of the stupid lore of "four eyes" being objectively on average more nerdy and smarter.

Seems time spent outside trades off with time spent sharpening the mind in the way that benefits IQ tests - do I want my kid to be a nerd or a jock?
Smart TVs certainly have the hardware capability to do this already. Many already run content detection. It's purely a problem of will and software. I never understood why there is no open source smart TV firmware.
Well, I assume they can do better than a £10 USB endoscope from AliExpress!

But even if you have some ultratiny thing hot out of a classified lab, fibre optics also keep the active electronics further away and harder to detect.
Updated Formula on Alien Intelligence Suggests We Are Alone in the Galaxy
The linked article says this:

> Worse still, the government even pushed vaccine mandates when it was increasingly clear the vaccines did not stop COVID-19 transmission, they argue.

But the sole reference of the linked article (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40592-024-00189-z...) does not say that.
Install a low power FM transmitted and use old analog radios as receivers. A friend did this at their island cottage.
I don't think you want to be caught calling it "Benthos", FYI [1]

[1] https://x.com/emaxerrno/status/1796219957589786810
Part of that problem these days is streaming compression, even "4K"/"8K", doing awful things to black levels.

(The other part, of course, is bizarre directorial nonsense like the last season of GoT.)
> If we can detect at compile time that a function is called more than once with the same arguments

Just to emphasize, effect systems can let the compiler chase down whole chains of functions calling functions and libraries and so on and know that at no point is there going to be anything non deterministic happening. Something you can't do, btw, if you follow the OP's advice and allow file reads.
Just one example of why this might be overturned. Typically (almost always) the defence has the last word to the jury. (presumption of innocence). In this case the judge let the prosecution go last. Why is this a problem? The prosecution did not reveal the second crime (they gave a set of possible crimes) needed to elevate the misdemeanour to a felony, until they spoke at the end.
So you literally have a situation where the defendant went through a whole trial not knowing the full set of specific laws he was alleged to have broken. And the set of those laws were only revealed to the jury at the last moment. Literally denying the defence a legal opportunity to respond to the laws that the defendant was alleged to have broken.

Breaking law A = misdemeanour

Breaking law A + another law = Felony

Prosecution never revealed the other law Trump was alleged to have broken until closing arguments.
Trial is about breaking law A. But closing arguments are about breaking law A in combination with another law.

The prosecution gave a set of possible other laws at closing arguments, in which they went last. The judge instructed the jury that they can individually select which other law they think Trump broke.

How can this possibly be a fair trail process, when you can defend yourself for breaking law A, but get punished for breaking laws A + X. In which X is not revealed to you during the proceedings of the trail, but only to the jury at the last moment.
I’d suggest battery replacement options by third party also doesn’t matter to most people.
Very well put together. Did you report his dev account? I did.
"I read this code and then reimplemented it from scratch in a different language" does not release you from licensing obligations. If that were the case then brb while I go reimplement unreal engine in rust.
Just started getting into nixos. Zfs on luks with tpm unlock is easy peezy
That's the relative optimal loss given the alternatives presented.

The absolute optimum is zero.

>It being easy for people to grab thousands of dollars worth of stuff and run out of the store is a choice they made intentionally.

Risking rape or death when I leave my house is a choice I make intentionally. That doesn't mean that murder is optimal or should be tolerated.

There are straight forward ways crime could be reduced if the public chooses.
If you get malware, these malware will only begin to record things once they are installed. They do not automatically get years of computer use history. Until Recall.

It seems like you live in the same kind of detached echo chambers as the people at Microsoft who approved this feature. No wonder you find this nonsensical. I bet the product managers responsible for this also find this article nonsensical.
One could also find-and-replace in Word to pick a set of 16 characters that avoids OCR confusion…
One time during a long screen time session I happened to notice by accident that looking at the reflection of the screen in the office window produced almost no eye strain even though I could comfortably make out all the text off the screens reflection. Made a mental note to research into this for a potential solution but never got around to it. Find myself imagining if some setup based around a semi-transparent screen which absorbs/reflects away just the right amount, combined with a mirror to simulate long distance could be worth experimenting with for someone sufficiently motivated. Think of the setup in the opticians office where you read letters off a mirror, but semi transparent. Has anyone seen anything akin to this?
It helps if there are less affluent areas nearby where police are more overworked, as it easily shifts the problem to those areas instead. For example, King county in the Seattle area is notorious for not locking criminals up, but as long as Bellevue police send a bunch of cops to each incident, no longer how small, detain people and even send them to jail (even if they are quickly released), it’s enough of a disincentive to send the problem back to Seattle or to southern suburbs where police don’t have time for that.
tldr:

"Planetary scientists Robert Stern from the University of Texas at Dallas and Taras Gerya from ETH-Zurich, the two co-authors on the study, suggest that the presence of both continents and oceans, along with long-term plate tectonics, is critical for the emergence of advanced civilizations."

If true, advanced civilizations are rarer than we previously estimated.
Apple ran macOS ads for years, with good reason. Canonical needs to get their priorities straight. “Build it and they will come” works to some degree for enthusiasts, but not for the masses.
I love this! And even more is true -- you can read off the Euler characteristic from adding up how many fractions of a circle are lost over all the points.

For the cube, at each vertex you've lost a quarter circle, and there are 8 vertices -- hence the Euler characteristic of a cube is 2.

For the two-disk model of the sphere, a similar thing should be true, I think, but I haven't worked it out in detail -- the integral of "circles lost" over the sphere (the support of this integral is the shared boundary of the disks) should be 2 as well.

This is the Gauss-Bonnet theorem.
The lobby had public access all this time?
Taking money for symbolic titles seems good (for Britain). Gets money out of their hands into British hands.

Actually handing out power is more questionable, but I'm not sure whether Britain is worse or better than other countries in this regard.

Eg in Germany or the US you can also get some influence for money, you just won't get a fancy noble title with it.
I’m curious according to you what news organizations are not?
Hudson Rock exposing the name of the employee whose credentials were stolen shows me that Hudson Rock is not a serious company. I hope Snowflake is supporting her.
I honestly found it easier to get a course through UDEMY. Passed my CCNA with the help of a $10 course.
I initially read 'Dendra Armor' as 'Daedra Armor'
Some are written, while the rest are just generated by LLMs?

Omitting one word makes the title imply something else entirely!