skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm belatedly warming up to the idea that the digit length of the number zero is actually zero in various senses. (A footnote in the article points out that we could define it this way and then some students' simpler solutions would actually be considered correct.)

Yes, we obviously normally use a single digit to write zero, but we could logically write it as the empty string "" if we had a way to indicate that a specific number was meant. (Relative to that, writing 0 is just as unnecessary as writing 00 or 000, because we can have a rule that all leading zeroes need not be written.)

As another example of this intuition, suppose that we wrote all integers with a trailing decimal point. In that case the numbers from 1 to 10 would be "1.", "2.", "3.", "4.", "5.", "6.", "7.", "8.", "9.", and "10.", while zero could quite logically just be "." with no digits (as it has only leading zeroes, or we could say "nothing in the ones' place").

Quite a lot of arithmetic algorithms would probably work just fine with these conventions! In fact, they might have fewer exceptions or special cases than they do when they expect an explicit 0.

For instance, using the "zero is written as empty string" convention, Python int() (here simplified to assume input strings of zero or more decimal digits) and str() could look like

def int(s):
n = 0
for c in s:
n *= 10
n += "0123456789".find(c)
return n

def str(n):
s = ""
while n:
n, d = divmod(n, 10)
s = "0123456789"[d] + s
return s

Seems pretty general! Yes, it's annoying or confusing if the output is going to be viewed by a human user in a larger string context without delimiters, as we probably don't want to see things like "I ate tomatoes" instead of "I ate 0 tomatoes".
I was wondering what kind of website this is given how obviously it is siding with landlords.

Squatting is only a problem that can happen if housing remains unoccupied. And it's more likely to happen if there is no strong communal network in the area (because most people don't want squatters moving in next to them because of the implications). The easiest way to have housing remain unoccupied for long periods of time and to have neighbors be apathetic about squatters moving into it is to destroy the local community through rent hikes and gentrification and to not live in the area yourself (e.g. because you're a real estate company and not a private landlord or because you're an external speculative investor).

As I understand it, Spain has also had massive problems with investors buying properties to put on AirBnB for tourists, often in defiance of zoning laws.

I understand the concern about property damage from squatting but unoccupied housing is wasting public resources (i.e. habitable land) and can often easily be solved by lowering rent - which from the tenant's POV is literally just giving you free money to use something you already built/bought (i.e. a sunk cost), unlike maintenace & utilities which actively contribute to its upkeep. If you want to think of real estate as an investment you need to understand that investment comes with risks and you shouldn't have a right to make a positive ROI (certainly not a moral one).

In a sense, I would argue (and I think some of the resident Georgists would agree) that keeping housing deliberately unoccupied because of inflated rents and real estate speculation is ethically indistinguishable from squatting - if not worse - because you're deliberately preventing society from making use of that land purely in the hopes of a speculative postive ROI. Housing is only valuable to society when it is occupied.
Might as well steal your sessions if they had that kind of access. MFA bypass is a lot more valuable than petty blackmail.
Brilliant Engineering Behind AirPods [video]
in most cases diode clamping to the rails is still active though? and that's what sinks those 2.4 milliamps and keeps your gate oxides from avalanching. i think the stm32 datasheet only guarantees withstanding 0.5 milliamps of such 'injection current' per pin

there do exist cmos chips with pins without input clamping diodes but they are rather exotic usually
From the article:

"...LockBit was set up by a Russian coder named Dimitri Khoroshev...He maintains the image of a shadowy hacker, using online aliases like "Putinkrab," "Nerowolfe," and "LockBitsupp." But, really, he is a criminal, more caught up in the bureaucracy of managing his company than in any covert activities.

Essentially, he licenses LockBit ransomware, allowing hundreds of affiliate criminal groups to run shakedowns.In exchange for the use of his software, he gets a 20% cut of whatever ransoms they collect from innocent people and companies around the world.

To help his affiliates succeed, he provides them assistance through hosting and storage, by estimating optimal ransom demands, and by laundering cryptocurrency.

He even offers discounts for high-volume customers."

It's a tough life for a ransomware CEO: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm thrilled to announce that this quarter, we've achieved an unprecedented 99.9% encryption rate, with ransom payments up by 20%. We're setting new industry standards, one locked file at a time. It's nothing personal, just business...
Operations research related studies and work for a logistics company or a company that does some logistics itself (e.g. oil and gas, airlines etc)
Not at all. Plenty of people are researching finding satisfiable solution that are quasi-optimal at scale. Once you reach a certain scale of optimization problem, proven optimality in a reasonable time-frame is often infeasible
What are the thoughts on Krita?
Is it even? Linux is just as good an on ramp to MS cloud as Windows. I cannot see how Windows is generating secondary income for MS. All their largest and growing money making products work just as well on Mac or Linux or the web.
Yes, it also states: "[...] We should also remember that 85-90% of the most powerful cyber-threat intelligence lies in the hands of those other than the United States government, which brings me to a final point about partnerships: Not one of our past—or future—disruptions is possible without exceptional partnerships [...]."

I didn't expect so much honesty, I would have expected "We and only we are the greatest and best".
Surely there's a term for "a team not understanding all the implicit complexity in a system, changing that system, and not comprehending the wider impact of that change." It feels like the "get LLM's into every product" push is lowering the quality of these established products.
Looking after children. If that is ever solved then it'll be time for the Matrix.
I like the way you put it "to increase my chances" because I've heard more than once from adepts of bio products promoting as it would be the holy grail. Bio producers can make mistakes too, they can be neglecting or even nasty too, it's just, chances are higher with them to get better quality produce. If you can afford it, that is.
Convenience yet again shows it will be downfall of humanity.
Others find value in forgetting.
Oh dear. This sounds terrible from a privacy and security standpoint. Secret passwords where you press the "eye button", sensitive info ...
This is a funny discussion, because "structuring" has a very specific meaning when it comes to finance. It's about executing your financial transactions in a way that avoids regulatory scrutiny (for example sizing transactions such that they fall just under reporting thresholds).

Structuring is explicitly illegal in the US.

This is the point that vlovich123 was making, and given you totally missed it, it seems like you might not be familiar with what the term means in this context.
# shuffle the combined batch to prevent the model from learning order
indices = torch.randperm(combined_images.size(0))
combined_images = combined_images[indices]
combined_labels = combined_labels[indices]

You don’t need to do this
What on earth is an "anti-woke" bank? Does it automatically decline your card transaction when you try to buy tickets to see the Barbie movie or something?
And why can’t you just use an AMD GPU? Is it because stores don’t sell them? Is it because motherboards don’t support them? Is it because you can’t rent one from a cloud provider? No, it’s because they don’t fucking work when you try to use them for ML.
What is the showstopper for GC? There has been a lot of development in the area, e.g. Java's ZGC has maximum pause faster than 1 millisecond (while the typical pause is much shorter). Wouldn't that be good enough for game scripting?
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“Yes, one’s attention is drawn away from the essential things and towards the inessential ones, namely, away from the music as an end and towards the means, the manner, in which the keyboardists and wind players and string players are playing it. But I’d like to point out that these irritating practices are well established in the techniques of all forms of mechanical reproduction. In radio and in many gramophone recordings one also encounters a predilection for accentuating so-called principal voices or so-called melodies out of all proportion to their place in the musical fabric. This is the fault of the sound engineers, who subsequently engage in fundamentally quite unmusical procedures by surgically extracting these voices, which is quite in keeping with their—if I may say this—unartistic intuitions and is also congenial to the highly problematic taste of the public. … What results from this is that certain middle-of-the-road so-called euphony, that culinary seasoning of the sound at the expense of all the structural elements of the music.”
This is basically the academic version of that.
Yes, for a search to be considered narrow, the resulting group should be small and specifically defined by precise criteria, not encompassing a significant portion of the population. *Notice once criteria are stacked groups can get small.* E.g. Which young males on your street (or in your building) who like Trump but not Israel were protesting at city hall today? Big datasets let authorities / advertisers / ... answer questions like that. The answer will often be a tiny "narrow" fraction of the population (of your city / state / country / ...).
To which you might add

In Hawaiʻi, Plantation Tourism Tastes Like Pineapple

https://edgeeffects.net/dole-pineapple-plantation/

Gradually, the social and cultural imperialism that the missionaries brought to the islands developed into the exploitative commercial power that overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893.

One such businessman was Sanford B. Dole, grandson of Daniel Dole and cousin of James Dole, who, despite President Grover Cleveland’s declaration of the overthrow an act of war and recommendation that the provisional government step down, was declared the President of the Republic of Hawaiʻi on July 4, 1894.

etc.
Even then, you'll be able to turn it off. It's much easier than switching OS.
Working at a company in the healthcare space, this raises so many HIPPA compliance questions for our customers it's hilarious.

And by hilarious, I mean bad. Screenshots of PHI? Sweet as, just chuck them in an SQLite DB, no worries there.
On the other hand they cleared an open source benchmark by a long way, for which people have had plenty of time to apply existing approaches, right?

This is just a PR article, it's hard to say what they did or didn't try before arriving at this solution.
> Compile-time reflection would help a lot with almost all crates. That's both for their compile times and feature set. (goodnight, sweet prince)

It's silly that people uncritically accept the narrative that all hopes of getting reflection implemented were lost when JeanHeyd quit the project.

As far as I'm aware, the only thing JeanHeyd posted was an initial design exploration. Not a formal RFC, not code, just some design theory-crafting. That's good, that's something people need to do to advance the language, but it's a little off-putting how some people are treating that writeup like some Graal lost and not like one design exploration among many of its kind.

Especially since that design work would likely have stayed purely theoretical for a while, given that the compiler's team reaction to a similar proposal, variadic generics, was "We won't have the bandwidth to even evaluate the proposal for at least a year".
someone got a Rust error in console when tried to run Rust game?
This experience has given me first-hand experience of a PE takeover, and the standard line of PE guts the soul of a company and sells off everything is crap.

I don't know how many meetings I've been at where the PE team blatantly states over and over, let us help you, tell us what you want to do, tell us what you need, and we completely flub it. Sometimes our CEO is too paranoid, sometimes too prideful, sometimes too oblivious, but mostly just doesn't have the knowledge on how to run a software company.

PE is going to run out of patience soon, and it won't be good for us. There's going to be headlines of how PE gutted us, but in reality, we gutted ourselves.
It's a total waste of taxpayer money and an extension of the pork of the military/government-aerospace/industrial complex. And they're still using Russian-made rocket engines on Atlas V prior to switching to Vulcan Centaur, another expensive platform. The American taxpayer deserves to have billions in waste cut out and capital used more efficiently at SpaceX and other vendors where there is value/$.
In the same way I would find it hard to read praise on a Jimmy Saville story, I find it hard to read praise on a company which is making the bombs which are killing little children en masse in Gaza.

Whacky is the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_materialism_(anthropo...

Essentially, the material and structural factors around us shape our ideology.
The whole drama around with how Recall store data is misguided. The problem is not how this data is stored, it is more fundamental i.e how windows doesn't have a proper app sand boxing. MS App store apps have sandboxing and permission model but most of other apps on windows are still just bunch of DLLs and EXEs that run with all the permissions that the current user have. Until MS solves this problem there is no way to secure such things.
Even making it a proper market would help! The problem is that people in general are very averse to changes, and cities are stuck in a very bad policy pit. (Building is hard, but even when finally a project is greenlit it barely moves the needle, adding supply is not happening fast enough because there's this fear of high buildings. And, on the other hand, there's no quota or lottery for moving, which means prices going up ... so the system is completely neglecting to care about pricing out incumbents.)

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/market-rate-housing-will-make-...
It also might be a way to create a purpose to live in a world that is absent of purpose.

Nietzsche would strongly disagree, but between Darwinism and utilitarianism, I find science has a utility for living in the present.
i dont understand why everyone is so confused and outraged. first off, it doesnt affect you. even if you do buy a microsoft laptop that is being marketed as the "ai powered technology revolotion" (or whatever), its shipping from the start with almost all the tools i can think of to help you only recall what you want. application exclusion by ifn, pause the stored data / purge stored data / or opt out forever. if you use edge, you can have it ignore incognito tabs or certain websites. The feature needs to be opt in without these restrictions set up because the people who might actually benefit here are people who don't want to be bothered with those power user features. like my grandma.

anyone who is worried about screenshots leaking, do you guys remember photoshop?

we already have keyloggers, banking trojans, infostealers, and for someone to access your recall screenshots they'll be in a position to infect your laptop with all the usual suspects in commodity malware. so they could start logging your keystrokes, pilfer your chrome browsing data, or they could start downloading a 25 GB file that they can't even decrypt, and (lets just allow them to decrpyt somehow). now they get the pleasure of looking through 25 gb of cat pics and reddit hoping they might find a picture of you logging into your bank where you toggle the show password field button. or maybe you don't ever reveal the password so he gets really mad because his ISP only gives him 30GB down / month and he just burned nearly all of it. he decides to dox you and your data, but there isnt anything connecting your real identity to these screenshots (which again, couldve been photoshopped, or you could create your win11 username as Sam Altman). And none of this is even going to happen this would be the first time ive ever heard of a hands on keyboard commodity malware controller who is targeting whomever he can breach and rather than just sitting back while keyloggers and bots phone home and exfil sensitive data as text in an automated way, he's at home dealing with these massive encrpyted archive files and bajillions of screenshots.

everyone be triflin' over some bullshit here, you guys know why they did this right, not because its useful or a good use of AI. all the big guys are racing to cash in on the consumer AI market and they want to tell wall st on the quarterly earnings reports that theyve got a new go to market strategy with AI and its going to lead to N revenue, and instead of slightly faster hardware the next surface launch is gonna be huge marketing event and if you guys in nyc want to bet on ai for consumers, buy more microsoft stock.

isnt this obvious my friends?
Too long to read on my phone, but sounds a really promising direction to go. Kind of like the reinvention of analogue computing. They should include "quantum effects" in the title because that's going on all the time but it would spark more interest! Would be a big win if it can be scaled.
You are absolutely right. That's how I do it in my game project. Just ignore the ignorent downvoters.
It's probably no coincidence that Bill Gates was also. Bet the farm 2-3x at least.
How do you come to this conclusion? They way I read it rather sounds like they use the CP-SAT solver with LNS and LS workers, parallelized over multiple machines
> briefly grounding the reset pin of a discrete TPM device with a pair of tweezers

Ah, the tweezers strike again, just not for Nintendo this time. Truly the most universal hardware hacking tool.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/the-21-billion-lawsuit-...
One red flag should be that nowhere in this news article is the reader made aware of the exact nature of the manipulated images or their implications. If you go to the linked pubpeer review page you'll find why -- it's much less dramatic and all the findings were also replicated following this inquiry to show that any image alteration, that might have been made for editorial purposes, does not affect conclusions....

Drama drama drama, feed the people more drama... sigh
I thought Briar could provide this functionality without any previous pairing using BLE? I don't know too much about BLE but you should be able to just broadcast data without any pairing. Could be encrypted with a pre-shared secret. If the payload is small enough, it shouldn't be that much of a problem.

Also Apple Wireless Direct Link is pretty interesting as well. It can do a lot more than Airdrop.
“[They are no longer by any means coming into contact with the thing itself but rather with a predissected, cliché-ridden product of the culture industry, which gives them the illusory sense that they could become actively involved in culture.”

It's more about having the choice of what to look at being decided for the viewer.
If a process fails most of the time, then the process is wrong. You can't keep blaming the implementors.
Schneier used to talk about "the Exxon Valdez of privacy", the idea that there would be a single giant spill that had significantly bad effects enough that it would force change.

That has basically not happened. It sometimes seems that the situation has got worse in terms of public debate, due to the usual bad-faith actors. For example, the TikTok discussion is not framed around privacy in general but focuses on "China bad". With the implication that an algorithmic megacorp controlling political sentiment through feeds is completely fine so long as it's Americans doing it. And the voting security discussion: there were questions about voting machines long before 2020, but partisan attacks focused on discrediting valid results.
most VGA txt mode machines have a BIOS function to dump the font out of the device to mem. easy to grab it if u want a specific one and have the hardware. (this also works in qemu if someone needs a font in early boot and dont wanna grab their own font). nice for if u wanna go to gfx mode but dont want to load ur own font / keep same style text between the stages.
Thank you -- I appreciate this comment.

I have "dabbled" in OpenGL for 20 years. I am not a pro games programmer, but I do make 3D content for fun in my spare time.

One thing I have not had time is converting over to Vulkan. I guess I just need to pass the init and setup hurdle. I do think once I pass that, there is no going back (to OpenGL)

Point is - your message was a little inspiring.. kinda triggered a part of my brain to do it.

Have a good day.
> With the amount of technology today, we should be the happiest <...> generation alive.

Only if you think that wealth is what makes people happy, but we just need to take a look at all the unhappy wealthy people all around us to see that that is not the case. Poverty can make people unhappy of course, especially the stress that comes from uncertainty. But prosperity alone is not sufficient for happiness. Generations of social researchers and philosophers have thrown themselves at this problem.
Is it better to train without the shuffling or shuffling has negligible effects?
Sometimes I like to go on StackExchange, find questions I'm deeply knowledgeable in and where people are saying things like "it can't be done" and reply with a code example doing the thing.
I don't think you can evaluate if an LLM is reasoning by looking purely at the mechanics, because if we looked inside a human brain we wouldn't be able to conclude that it can reason either (our test is 'i think therefore i am', not all these neurons look like they are plugged together in such a way that it enables reason).
You cracked me up! This made my day lol.
You should make a short video of that.
Unfortunately I think most OSs will prefer IPv4 over using IPv6 ULA returned from dns.
Good

But the question here is why any of the shipping companies should adopt this given the fact that Google likes to deprecate things at a whim?

Shipping companies mostly do this internally already
> Microsoft can't access or view the snapshots.

And yet..

> Q. So how does it work?

> A. Every few seconds, screenshots are taken. These are
automatically OCR’d by Azure AI, running on your device, and written into an SQLite database in the user’s folder.

Heads up, Microsoft runs azure. They likely get it before the local users database does.
It's still quite commonplace in Germany in 2024. Typically, they claim around 1000€ in said letters, and refusing will have the case go to court, which usually rules in favor of said legal firms.
In theory I bet it's an efficient option. But I'm curious about the risks and costs involved in dealing with such "services", and how easy it is to find reputable thugs.
SLS + Orion should be in that second category.