skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly politics, where I have learned to stop predicting anything that can't be directly seen -- especially the future. For example:
1. Trump wins. I firmly predicted the opposite. To be fair, most polls predicted the same. But the lesson is to be less certain about the future.
2. No chemical weapon found in Iraq. I firmly predicted the opposite. To be fair, when that event unfolded, it was not that long since the world had last seen Iraq actually use chemical weapons against Kurdish insurgents. But the lesson is to be less certain about anything that can't be directly seen.
How Cicadas Make Noise [video]
The other part of this is that someone can be right, and an arsehole.
Seconding other poster that all those were already famous. Like if you bought a small set of plastic dinosaurs before that movie, those would pretty much be guaranteed to be in the set, plus some sort of hadrosaur/duckbill and maybe an ankylosaurus.

Land Before Time included most of those in the “main cast” but I think it was following the trend, not setting it.

Velociraptor (well, the fake Deinonychus-like “velociraptor antirrhopus” or whatever from the book/movie) and definitely Dilophosaurus got a huge popularity boost from Jurassic Park.
The basic ideas, the pictures, the diagrams, etc, found here, typically show up in enough books if you look for them that I don't feel that this was the main limiting factor in my physics education. The difficulty of Jackson (which doesn't show up until grad school for most students) is in the problem sets, not the ideas behind the equations (which most students have a had at least two courses in already).

I don't believe that having a more 'intuitive' idea of the equations really helps all that much, as the intuition needed for solving the problems isn't really physical, but mathematical. Which integrals are solvable, which order of integration will make this tractable, do I need to use properties of Bessel functions here, etc.

We can argue whether getting good at this sort of thing is actually useful for physicists, but I wouldn't know. Very few of us ended up becoming researchers in the field.
Yes. I will pay you $1 for 99% equity, during the concept phase.
the repo's <https://github.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments> readme points to the talk given on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbJu10Telc

the 2021 submission of the repo got some lively commentary https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25609321
If you’re going for very fast codegen, sure. But in a production build typically you have problems like “this shifted by one instruction so every non-relative branch beyond it needs to be patched”.
Most scenarios only warrant fractional assing. Also this philosophy provides the opportunity to say “ok guys, this time… we have to whole ass this one,” which is always fun.
I think it depends on the business. Maybe fixing 20 year old electronics might be hard, but it still work for (overengineered? underchanged?) herman miller aeron chairs.
Yeah. I often springboard into a new context by having the LLM compose the next prompt based on the discussion and restart the context. Remarkably effective if you ask it to incorporate “prompt engineering” terms from research.
> (they had more than todays)

Or at least they used to ;)
Even going back to Windows 95, there's a lot more visible effort made to let basic users become power users than I notice today. For example there's a shortcut to Task Scheduler right in the taskbar, which takes you to a very simple task scheduling interface.
IANAL but have about a decade of experience negotiating contracts in M&A, and I think the comparison is very apt for that particular context, at a minimum. Maybe more so than other parts of Law where there can be an element of persuasion to any given argument.
For Windows, PowerToys includes an OCR tool: https://aka.ms/PowerToysOverview_TextExtractor

Source available here: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/main/src/modules... (like ShareX, uses Windows built-in OCR engine: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.ocr?...)
It's called radix economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy

A non-integral number like e is obviously of limited utility in physical systems because having e adders in your ALU doesn't make much sense.

3 is closer then 2 to e, which also why ternary arithmetic was attempted for a while, but the massive advantage of binary in terms of implementation (it is much easier and far lower power to use transistors to slam a voltage high or low than keep it somewhere in the middle, and easier to arrange gates to have only on and off as inputs) won in the end.
Besides, it has been my experience that the more the programming part of a given quant's job contributes to their profitability, the less they enjoy using K. K is a neat language for research, but I don't know of many who still like it as a language to write code you intend to reuse or maintain.

That said, I would personally rather do research in python, especially now that the performance situation is reversed.
Genuinely asking: you think the bar exam is a low bar because you personally found it easy, even though the vast majority of takers do not? Doesn't this just reflect your own inability to empathize with other people?
I figure-eighted the cord onto those hooks to avoid that. Or alternated “over” and “under” with each pass around the hooks.

EDIT: When I say “over” and “under” above, I’m referring to the technique RedNifre linked to in the sibling comment.
It is remarkable that folks who tried a garbage LLM like copilot, 3.5, Gemini, or made meta LLMs say naughty words, seem to think these are still SOA. Sometimes I stumble on them and I am shocked at the degradation in quality then realize my settings are wrong. People are vastly underestimating the rate of change here.
Likely you are just moving slightly outside of its knowledge domain with your questions. Anything that is hard to Google will also typically generate bad responses, most coding problems are there but many programmers just work on the few common problems over and over.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted for this. I agree with you, fact recall is useful and necessary. If you have a larger and more tightly connected base of facts in your head, you can draw better connections.

And even though legal practice tends to be fairly slow and deliberative, there are settings (such as trial advocacy) where there is a real advantage to being able to cite a case or statute from memory.

All that said, I still maintain that it’s a poor way to compare humans with machines, for the same reason it would be poor to compare GPT-4 to a novelist on their tokens per second written.
I fail to see how any of this proposal can be claimed to have "user consent".

The nice aspect of this is that it will create millions of "illegal" users overnight in the EU. I wonder how it works with Signal when everyone just sideloads the app anyway and keeps using it.
For example, the easiest way to make programs avoid use-after-free errors is to never free things.

Would you rather get a program that constantly use all of your RAM until you restart it, or one that consistently uses very little, but someone crashes in edge cases?
I think most databases have some method of turning your Reads into Write locks without needing to actually do a write.

Like SELECT FOR UPDATE.
https://archive.today/1PrXc
I've caught them in bays of the Gulf of Mexico. They must be everywhere.
Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd
Get alerted when your Playwright checks degrade in performance [video]
I do wonder why, though. Constraining output based on logits is a fairly simple and easy-to-implement idea, so why is this not part of e.g. the OpenAI API yet? They don't even have to expose it at the lowest level, just use it to force valid JSON in the output on their end.
There should be a label telling people they need the protocol first, as soon as I entered I wrote "google.com" and nothing happened, confused me for a bit and thought there was something broken or maybe it was a victim of a HN hug.
LLMs does compose answers from its corpus, it doesn't refer to it, so it doesn't ensure factuality at all since it can still compose questions in stupid ways just like it always did.

Most of the wrong thing it says is just invented by the model, not things it has seen, cleaning up the input doesn't add much there since it writes the same kind of bullshit as bullshitting humans do.
Another point to consider is that record labels also love money and may be ruining Spotify as per PP's comment.
> You'd think that he beat me at one thing by neglecting another, but nope, the guy was excelling in every category.

This is literally impossible. A person cannot be Einstein and Picasso at the same time. A person cannot be Steve Jobs and Pope Francis at the same time. We all have limited time in life, and it is only possible to excel in one thing by focusing on it and, as a result, not focusing on something else.

This is a beautiful thing. I watch the teachers in my kids' schools and they do a great job and I think "that's why they're teachers and I'm a lawyer." I watch a great play and I think "that's why they're actors and I'm a lawyer." I hope I'm as good at my work as they are at theirs. But I can't excel at what they do. I don't have time.
I get a feeling in older times people wrote better. Do you find such depth, poetry and beauty in contemporary writings?
Yes obviously. It wouldn’t have made sense to say “we are going in circles” otherwise!
Hey if you consider that my greatest weakness then I’m doing great!
Is 'curl E' a standard notation nowadays? When I was at uni we used 'rot E'.
GPT-4 has amazing translation capabilities, too. Actually usable for long conversations.
There's also the small matter that the Goiania incident involved a gamma source, and the source here is an alpha source, of which all the radiation is blocked by an inch or so of air.

There's some hand-waving about the source self-sputtering. It seems highly unlikely that the source a)is not coated b)is pure enough for that to be a risk

Even if it did, the amount of dust generated would be so small it would be inconsequential compared to numerous natural radiation sources, including alpha emitters like radon.
JS is really good at FP, but it doesn't have any real concept of function purity and isolating side effects.

Rust has constant functions, for one: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/const_eval.html
No, it's a smoke detector. Specifically, ionization-type smoke detector, which are based on Americium-241 (half-life of 400+ years): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_detector#Ionization

The amount is usually negligible, but this is more of a reference device than a normal smoke detector and it definitely looks sketchy enough to warrant such a response. If you look through its manual, you'll see plenty of warnings: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml0037/ml003770968.pdf
I will agree that there is a lot of overhead per engineering hour in this market area. But, I also think there's a great deal of misunderstanding about how government contracting works. Cost-plus fixed fee means the fee is agreed upon at the outset. If you overrun you may get the cost of the extra work performed but you get no fee (profit) on it. When the corporation sees that dilution, there is usually hell to pay. If the government gets tired of the overruns, it can and does cancel the contract.

There are different contract types with award fee and/or incentive fees each with its own peculiarities.

The Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) make for interesting reading:

https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-16

" Part 16 - Types of Contracts"
There are so many of these places I've encountered what used to be publicly available pre-COVID and are no longer. The reasons/excuses vary.

Example: Sometimes it's a symptom of a small business already wanted a reason to pivot to a new venture, and they keep the old thing going to profit from some old whales while in transition.
> My Macbook goes off when I shut the lid and right back on when I open it up. Try doing that on my early 90's Toshiba Satellite.

Even the first Mac Portable[1] had fast sleep/wake. As did the Radio Shack Model 100[2] from the early 1980s. Early Apple laptops could spin down the hard drive (vs. modern Macs where you can't easily shut off I/O-intensive background daemons like mdworker, syspolicyd, photoanalysisd, etc.; fortunately SSDs mitigate the issue somewhat.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
There's a typo, clearly the second transaction is removing C and not D as stated.

> The first transaction modifies fields in records A and C, while the second transaction modifies fields in records B and D.

> Under Snapshot Isolation both transactions will commit, which means that the doubly linked list will be left in an inconsistent state

That's not how the DB we use works[1]. Both transactions will run, but as soon as either touches a row the other has already modified it will raise an "Update conflict on snapshot transaction" error. If the first transaction races the second, the second will be blocked on the row's write lock until the first is committed, and then raise the same error.

And yes, I verified this just now, and I verified the connections are running snapshot isolation.

So does SQLAnywhere not implement the standard way?

[1]: https://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.syba... (old version but hasn't changed)
What if she had said mandrake?
Journaling just one time is a success, so how could you fail? There are no rules--just write what you are feeling. No technology is required.
This article has convinced us to RTO. /s

Hear me out!

We will return to the office:

1) For not more than an hour a day

2) To talk to Kurt Godel, and nothing else

Sadly, Kurt died some 46 years ago. Our grief cannot be approximated, even by Godel Numbers.

Therefore, we will not return to the office.

---------------

Ps: Assuming Bankruptcy Risk Prevents the Sale of Your Office

Sell the office anyways. Write the loss off, file for bankruptcy protections if needed, and try to bounce back on good will.

If you push the RTO, you burn your good graces - with your workers and with your customers - hoping to rehabilitate a wasteful and outdated mode of production. You might easily run out of good will while finding yourself nipped to death by more up to date and worker friendly organizations.
> I don't think that this is a valid assessment of the underlying problem.

Inmarsat is an insecure, 2 Mbps (at best) connection with satellites at 22236 miles above Earth and a latency of about 900-1100 ms.

Starlink is a secure, 100 Mpbs (typical) connection with satellites at 342 miles above Earth and a latency of about 25 ms.

Odds of getting a video link on Inmarsat are low, and even if you do, it's potato quality. Source - have been using these systems operationally since the 1990s.
Moving to China and learning Mandarin. Trying to express myself in a foreign language has easily been the most intellectually humbling experience of my life.
Indeed, the article is quite misleading by supposing that atomic variables are magic at the hardware level. On some hardware yes, on others no. As an example the original AWS Graviton is vanilla armv8-a without atomics, so atomic concepts in languages are simulated with retry loops having unbounded latency. Your thread that wants to increment an atomic may be blocked literally forever if there are enough contenders for that cache line. Library mutex implementations are usually hybrids with limited atomic spinlocks, with pauses or sleeps, then fallbacks to heavyweight synchronization with fairness features such as futex. On certain Intel hardware we also have lightweight userspace notification when a given address has been written. That can be used for adaptive wakeup on atomic values but it is "lightweight" relative to futex, since it still requires a rdtsc and still amounts to an efficient spinloop. On Intel Atom CPUs you can do this with up to 4 threads for free, but 100 threads will still be a mess.
Sony Will Use AI to Cut Film Costs, Says CEO
Upcoming Changes to the AWX Project
A great article. Good to see they give Heavyside the credit he deserves for what everyone now calls "Maxwell's equations".
It has a lot of upfront costs, but that is separate from "hot" performance once everything is loaded.
The purchase of Zynga was the dead giveaway that working at T2 was going to get bad.
While I agree with the second point, let's be honest: SpaceX has had a lot of help from NASA.
I love simple solutions because my default settiing is usually to build out the hardest thing possible, lol
Can you do this with software defined radios?
Great looking widgets and graphs.

What tool is used for these ?
Yeah, and that's why scrap yards in Germany are required by our OSHA equivalent [1] to scan all incoming and outgoing scrap for radiation and that all workers be regularly trained on how to properly deal with contamination.

In 2009, these checks led to the discovery of at least 150 tons of contaminated metal across the country, the source here were Indian steel plants who melted down cobalt-60 sources together with regular scrap [2].

[1] https://www.bghm.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Arbeitsschuetzer/G...

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/giftmuell-import-...
Such platforms should be ignored by everyone way before they become big.
When I was working in a queue feature (for example to buy tailor swift ticket), and was proud of my complicated real-time solution using websockets and CRDTs...then a more experienced guy came, rearchitected in a much simpler way using just the DB with long-polling, not real real-time (but who cares), and it ended up simpler to deal with network splits or crashes. Learned the hard way you can never rely on the network if you require consistency, and it's also often simpler code-wise.
Even Ada is not that closed. But yeah, Ada proves that some will pay, a lot.
Pjax, 2011. We can probably keep going back further. No-one has a monopoly on this idea.
> If you're not familiar with that, or aren't aligned with that, then the most efficient thing in your mind might be to quietly change a copy of engineering document, to say whatever is most expedient in the moment.

You might be joking here but in case you're not, there is serious configuration control and change management at play. Documents go into a controlled repository, are watermarked, and have other protections applied to them. Anyone trying this especially on a government contract is risking a lot.
Apart from Synapse, server implementations are stuck in permanent beta.

Clients outside mobile OSes are not interesting if you are considering Signal replacements. On mobile, you have element and maybe fluffychat.

It is still a messaging thingie that lacks a decent server implementation, and lacks a good client app.
OP isn't saying the person they were referring to is a world-class figure in everything (or even two things), just that they seemed to be producing better results in the categories OP cared about, which is very achievable.
> In a way, meeting those people was liberating. I will never be a world champion at anything, so I might as well play for the love of the sport.

Beautiful!
Quite complex though.
Find out someone's gender by name for free
You may be missing the point that these activities can potentially be in your backyard if you don’t live in an apartment. My kids can swim or play privately in my backyard and I still have plenty of space for my gardening hobby, bbq-ing with extended family, various outdoor games, or just hanging out watching tv in the backyard. I’ve known people who have basketball, tennis, or pickle ball courts in their backyard. Outside of very specific museums or live music/sports venues I can’t think of any activity that is available in a dense city that isn’t in my suburban neighborhood.
Here’s my monad tutorial for programmers

A monad is anything you can flatmap with

The monad of list is you flatmap a list on a list and instead of getting a list of lists, as you would if you just mapped, you get a single flattened list

Thanks for attending my ted talk
I was going to write something very similar to this. Not only does the world not revolve around me, but looking back on my sadly somewhat recent behavior in early-mid 40s, and feeling ashamed and embarrassed at my behaviour and how I've treated people in the past.

This is still a learning experience, probably always will be one, and an opportunity to always grow.

My impetus wasn't a child, but a break-up and almost lost business. I saved the business in the end, but it didn't grow to what I had expected, and then I realized how much I had given up, just to try to make that work, and how much I had taken for granted the people around me.
I tried to learn to dance (hated it). It is a bit of a weird thing though, there as social events where people feel like it is OK to really try and pressure people into dancing. It is really annoying.
I like the idea.
Workflows are going to be the make or break aspect of the product. It can’t be a thing that leads to distractions or additional work. I’ve had coworkers who just love to talk, and I hate it when I’m trying to get something done.

As an example, maybe requiring the talk button to be held down might naturally limit conversations to a few minutes. (Just an idea, maybe it doesn’t)

A way to sync voice with screen recordings would be killer for product development or software testing. A quick “hey, this button doesn’t work when I do this” would be so much faster than making a screen recording and attaching it to a new bug report.
The boy scout was attempting to do that, but did not come anywhere near achieving it. It's wrong to say he built one.
Meh.

The comments about it being "dangerous if disassembled", the general tone of "this is really important/urgent!" and the follow-up saying that it's more dangerous than a smoke detector because these devices contain "considerably more" Am241, lead me to believe that if they do actually "work in civilian nuclear" (and it's not as an accountant, sysadmin, or janitor) they are trying to milk this for attention, even if they know better.

The source could be the size of a golf ball and it'd be completely harmless if you were more than a few inches away because alpha particles are stopped by an inch or so of air. Thus, alpha sources are only dangerous if ingested/inhaled. Am241 emits a very small amount of weak gamma radiation that isn't really worth mentioning.

They mention risk of dust inside the chamber of the device from self-sputtering. That seems like a non-issue given the likely purity of Am241 used and the fact that Am241 sources (such as those in a smoke detector) are bound in a matrix of another material, so if there's sputtering, a good bit of ti will be the matrix, not the Am241. Even if it wasn't in a matrix, the quantity of any self-sputtered material would still be completely inconsequential. We're talking about single atoms of the source being boinked off at a time here, in a really-not-that-radioactive source.

Given that there are no warnings or markings about there being a radioactive source inside, my guess is that the case is just, well, a case - an outer shell, and the actual instrument is inside the outer shell- and if there are any warnings, they'd be on that instrument, which you would see if you were to open it up.

Everyone really needs to understand that this was a near complete non-issue and that the person who retrieved it exposed themselves (and the people around them) to more risk of injury/death just driving to and from where the source ended up.

This is just some furry doing what furries do best - seek attention.

Edit: the person in question is now referring in other 'toots' to themselves as a "protagonist" in "the story of orphan sources." This fuss was definitely for attention. I'm guessing the wikipedia article already exists...
Grey area? Entire disciplines and research areas (theoretical macroeconomics, string theory, ...) could be so.