skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Texas is not only viable as an independent nation, it is more viable as an independent nation than the overwhelming majority of independent nations. It would be in the 95th percentile by land area, the 95th percentile by GDP, and the 90th percentile by proven oil reserves.

Texas independence can't come soon enough!
> The decision by the EU General Court does not affect our right to use the ‘BIG MAC’ trademark

Do they still have the trademark, or is BIG MAC up for grabs for anyone?
One of the problems with the global economic order benefiting people unequally is that we undersell how much that order benefits the US to the average citizen. It is so advantageous to do business around the world as an American, because you are coming from such a big, prosperous, unified market.

I am sure there lots of people in Texas, California, etc. that think they'd be better off as their own states. Its the same logic as Brexit and its hard for elites to take it seriously because it is so obviously dumb. But the benefits are so poorly spread around there are just a lot of people who don't care. "I will still get my pension." "This town was dying before." etc.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579660
It’s not nearly that simple:) Component values change with environmental factors like temperature and humidity. Resistors that have a 1% rating don’t change as much over a range of temperatures as 5% or 10% components do. This is typically accomplished by making the 1% resistors using different materials and construction techniques than the lower tolerance parts. Just taking a single measurement is not enough.
If we don’t pay our leaders more, they would have to carpool with us. Not fair!
Avoiding rich models is a great thing to do if you don't model uncertainty: a beginner that didn't get enough useful calibration data will see poor uncertainties in the results. So I now use the splined models in pretty much all applications, and there are very few downsides. In my experience, every lens fits noticeably better with the richer model (the mrcal validation shows you this explicitly). I think you should look at the tour of mrcal; it's friendly.
In this context, I wouldn't be interested in averages. Their systemic issues dealing with extreme weather (winter and summer) are pretty well known. The average reliability rates aren't going to necessarily show these events.
Spent many hours reminiscing over my past timeline. So disappointed to hear this.
With the most recent update, macOS notified me that I needed to allow new permissions. But macOS didn't explain that this was because the cert changed. When I Googled the issue, I found this support article: https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionIssues/

The support article doesn't mention the cert change or the new owners, and instead calls it "a known issue where certain apps, including Bartender, might not receive Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions properly, despite the user granting them in System Settings."

Highly disingenuous. I've uninstalled Bartender.
Well, why does it need a name? It just seems like a "correct argument". If somebody is claiming that AI is "not all that" because it can make stupid mistakes, surely it's relevant that humans also make stupid mistakes, so AI making them does not necessarily pose a hindrance to it becoming a human-tier reasoner.
There should be auditing of such access as well. Companies need to post videos early in order to be sure they are available as soon as they launch a product. I wonder what kind of insider trading opportunities this has created for Google employees.
> "Of the deleted comments examined across platforms and countries, between 87.5% and 99.7%, depending on the sample, were legally permissible. The highest proportion of legally permissible deleted comments was observed in Germany, where 99.7% and 98.9% of deleted comments were found to be legal on Facebook and YouTube, respectively.

Wow, that's quite a bit worse than I would have guessed even as a critic of these types of laws.
No way man. REPL is *more* useful the bigger, more massive the project.

I work on massive C# website that takes forever to warm up and get running. Stuck on old .net framework. A rebuild/rerun of the website after each little change is incredibly frustrating and slows down the feedback loop. Fortunately Microsoft implemented hot reload, and it has been a game changer. It still has all sorts of quirks and gotchas, but despite that I love it.

If there is one thing to take from common lisp, it's the live image development style. It's unfortunately hard to bolt on to languages not designed for it from the ground up.
That feels like a kind of useless conversation though, there are no facts involved.

Once Google had implemented the change they’ve outlined here someone can plug their phone into Wireshark and see what, if anything, has changed. Then there’s a conversation to be had.
Is AI Being Built for the Manager Class Alone?
Most Life on Earth Is Dormant, After Pulling an 'Emergency Brake'
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To be quite honest, I assume they made the restriction so that the models would fail.

This sort of paper is becoming a genre.
Wow it's been up for a full hour.
Yes, absolutely, especially now that any travel is at least five years prior I no longer necessarily remember exactly my favorite restaurants in Florence and Lyon :/
Cross-posted:

https://engmgrjobs.com/director-of-engineering-72065
In all 50 states it is legal for people 16+ to work full time.
> I can't imagine REPL-based "development" is good for anything other than one-liners and quick-n-dirty one-off stuff.

Perhaps your imagination would benefit from some elevation. Try shrooms or something :) I think your understanding of what a REPL actually is might be somewhat skewed due to a shallow understanding of how it works with Lisp dialects. The experience of working with the REPL in Python, for example, is not equal to the experience in e.g., Clojure.

There are many different companies that leverage Lisp dialects to build their businesses. Companies like Cisco, Apple, Walmart, Nubank, Grammarly, Funding Circle, Pitch.com, Rate.com, and many others are not using it for "quick-and-dirty one-off stuff"
I can count on one hand the number of "agile" projects I've seen that were actually iterative, regardless of what the manifesto says. It would be a mistake to confuse what this article is talking about (projects that profess to be agile) with anything based on small, self-organizing teams.
Yes, that is the correct answer, although you're missing the 'explanation' part for why this happens :)
As a EU citizen I think it would be neat if I had any sort of tangible representation or means of affecting the policies and decisions made by the EU or really if there was just an debate about these things where people could be heard :-/
Article source seems to be mainly an ad for some agile alternative which makes the whole thing suspect.

Most of the "results" can boil down to: scope creep kills projects. That's entirely independent of whatever methodology your team follows and they don't make it clear how their "Impact Engineering" concept would address it
I do, too. Stuff like "what was that restaurant we went to in <random city> in <random year>". I really liked this feature and consciously left it enabled, knowing the privacy tradeoffs.
That's not how things work. Shares can be freely traded on any of these exchanges at any time.

its where you list that we are discussing here.

Listing on an exchange is all about what reporting requirements you are required to make inorder to be a publicly listed company and what share requirement you are required to maintain to list.

ie

- share price above a certain threshold,

- report your financials quarterly, etc.

- often a minimum trading volume

- certain requirements about the viability of the company, ie not bankrupt, etc.

Foreign companies will often dual list in the US to get access to US liquidity as well as list on their own home exchanges.

But once you are listed in the US there is no benefit to list on multiple exchanges as all you do is make your reporting requirements go up. Your shares can be traded on any US exchange once you are listed on any of htem.
> Security aside, I'm genuinely unsure what problem Recall is even meant to solve.

The same problem as https://atuin.sh/ but for everything rather than just shell command history.
If you have confidential data don't upload it to Youtube, or really anybody else's servers.
He was never able to explain his reasons nor did he want to be told it made no sense. I saw similar behaviour in other orgs.
It seems hard to believe that offering the service via a desktop web app is any less secure - If it was, surely the same security concerns would apply to gmail, google docs, etc?

When I saw this reasoning my immediate assumption was that they made the decision first, then came up with this excuse in order to keep up appearances and conceal the _real_ reason, (which I would guess is something like "they're undertaking a project which involves making large changes to google maps in order to increase revenue, and the work needed to make desktop maps timeline compatible with these changes isn't deemed worthwhile since it doesn't have many users and doesn't directly create revenue").
The article also doesn't go into what kind of software was being produced, etc.

If you're building control systems for the ISS, or an interplanetary probe, of course you need requirements hammered out pretty well before you start development; you can't just continually push updates out incrementally.

But if you're building Yet Another CRUD App at your startup's third pivot, then getting every requirement written down beforehand is virtually impossible.
As far as I know Rudin focuses on Fourier analysis on locally compact Abelian groups. There's been plenty of attention paid to doing Fourier analysis on other objects, especially compact Lie groups or symmetric spaces.

Of course there are people who would say that this isn't Fourier analysis anymore but the same ideas are still at play.
Yes, but you had to re-enable it due to the cert change. Bartender doesn't explain this is what happened and simply states "there's a known issue where certain apps, including Bartender, might not receive Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions properly, despite the user granting them in System Settings."

https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionIssues/
Of course it's going to give an incorrect answer with that prompt. If the instruction fine tuning is neutered like this prompt, it's going to roll over to the foundation model and offer a completion - probably more influenced by the seed than the prompting text. Bad study.

Edit - I just skimmed the paper - they do use other more appropriate prompt types for reasoning. My initial response was based on the assumption that all prompts used that script prompt quoted in the parent. I retract my "bad paper" comment.
Not that I know of. I was adjacent to this work about 9yrs ago but have tracked it since. The technology is still too early and too risky to work on commercializing. Amazingly though, one of the lowest energy (read easiest, but still hard. The technology is not there yet.) applications is for use as a targeted radiation source for cancer therapies. This paper[0] covers that a little bit and offers a few other applications. I recall seeing a paper that proposed different applications at different energy levels. I'll see if I can dig it up.

[0] https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/16750/slac-pub-1...
They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. You see, they got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but they use a sesame seed bun. My buns have no seeds.
No. They get to keep trademark protection for beef sandwiches but not for chicken sandwiches and crucially not for operating restaurants.
Europe's idea of conservative is what Americans would call far left. It's all relative anyway. If you're just trying to conserve something left wing against something even farther left wing then it's still left. Mostly meaningless label. Almost no one even knows where the political terms left and right came from. People call Afghanistan right wing as if that means something.
This is such a strange phrasing. The problem with "agile" is when it becomes manager-heavy and meeting-heavy.

The last firm I was at was ridiculous. One project had about 30 hours of meetings a week. There's no time to get any work done. It's just lopsided manager bullshit.

That's the actual criticism, not some strange dichotomy of things being successful if only it was meeting, manager and also authoritarian focused with some specs decreed by some deputized opinion makers with holier than thou thoughts they wrote down two years ago.
Yep, and also the xz backdoor debacle.
Yay, thank you :-) going to take a look!
The Judgment is in fact limited, the challenge was all encompassing, but McDonald’s still retains certain Big Mac Trademark rights.

From the Judgment:

>106 In view of all the foregoing, the contested decision must be annulled as regards ‘chicken sandwiches’, ‘foods prepared from poultry products’ and ‘services rendered or associated with operating restaurants and other establishments or facilities engaged in providing food and drink prepared for consumption and for drive-through facilities; preparation of carry-out foods’.

107 The present action must be dismissed as to the remainder.

(Note: 107 is referring at least to “meat sandwiches” which McDonald continues to hold Big Mac Trademark rights.)

https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsession...
For anyone considering reading the paper and like me don't normally read papers like this, open the PDF and think you don't have time to read it due to its length. The main part of the paper is the first 10 pages and a fairly quick read.

On to the topic here. This is an interesting example that they are using. It is fairly simplistic to understand as a human (even if we may be inclined to quickly jump to the wrong conclusion without thinking for a few seconds).

The thing that really bothers me is that I just don't know is realistically we can fix this given the current state of what these tools actually are. They are not reasoning or thinking in any sense of the word and yet a lot of people are already considering them general purpose AI. It doesn't help that in many situations it can fake it enough that it appears to be reasoning, but it's not.

What is the chance that this paper actually has any impact on the AI rollout and overhype or will just be buried and never talked about again until the next time we see how dangerous these tools are like with Google's search rollout.
It's an interesting paper, but a big flaw is that this:

> Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?

...is not actually a simple task.

This can be quantified.

"1 + 1" is a simple task. It has a pretty small Total Complexity[1].

But to represent their task starting only with 1 and 0, you have to build a program of many, many lines. Orders of magnitude bigger than "1 + 1". Concepts like "has", "brother", "sister", "person", et cetera, have to be defined and built up.

[1] Counting Complexity (2017) https://github.com/breck7/breckyunits.com/blob/main/research...
I can't find any link to the actual study or even a description of its methodology. The research appears to have been done for the book Impact Engineering, which introduces the new methodology, and yet the research also claims to have measured projects following that methodology. From the marketing summary here [1], it seems like what they actually did was to isolate which individual virtues of various methodologies had an impact on project success (which also goes without a definition of course). Then they choose which of those individual virtues would be promoted by their new methodology, and use projects adhering to those virtues as a proxy for scoring their new methodology. And then claim the result as statistically significant. It would be interesting to see if this was the actual methodology, because if so, that's clearly nonsensical.

Also, it would be highly relevant to know the definition of success here. Evaluating an Agile project's success as "completition of the project's initial requirements on time" would be completely asinine, given the entire point of Agile is to adapt to changing requirements.

[1]: https://www.engprax.com/post/268-higher-failure-rates-for-ag...
Yes, McDonald's still has the trademark on hamburgers.

They have lost it for the "Chicken Big Mac" and in relation to opening/operating restaurants.
I think the original disagreement was due to McDonald's blocking the Supermac's brands expanding outside of Ireland, their reasoning being that customers would be confused between the Big Mac and Supermac's.
Supermac's defense was that McDonald's hadn't exercised their Big Mac trademark with respect to operating a restaurant for over 5 years, hence now they've lost it, opening the door for Supermac's to expand into the rest of the EU.
> If most of your cores are idle you will add more work to the server, or you will have bough one with fewer cores to begin with.

I don't think you understood the issue.

It's not that cores will be idle. It's that the bulk of their workloads is not performance-oriented. They are there to context-switch while handling IO-bound tasks. You'd be wasting money if you pay a premium on high-performance cores if you're using them in IO-bound workloads. You waste money buying the processor, and you waste money powering performance-oriented cores to run workloads that do not benefit from this performance. For the same budget, you are far better off having a larger number of efficient cores than a smaller number of high-performance cores. Because you are running more efficient cores, you can cram more of them in the same package without ramping up cooling needs.

Think about it for a second: where is the performance bottleneck of your server if the bulk of its load consists of IO?

You should turn your conspiracy theory upside down and ask yourself how come a cloud provider is interested in running more cores in smaller spaces and in spending less energy cooling them.
maybe it's for the best? fail fast and move on with what you've learned.

268% higher failure rates over waterfall is a feature not a bug.
ok, will look at the issue and add an example if possible. The code I was executing was one of the example code present on the site. So nothing special.
> I'm genuinely confused as to how McDonald's could have lost this. McDonald's sells Big Mac sandwiches (using the Big Mac name) all over Europe. So none of this makes any sense to me.

My understanding is that their trademark was NOT specifically over beef burger but much larger, and Supermac was thus able to prove they didn't use that name for the categories covered by the trademark for over 5 years (which is the limit to invalidate).

So they lost THAT trademark.

> I don't know why this article seems to be presenting this as a fight over chicken sandwiches

Because the one notable category that got them invalidated is chicken sandwich, that mcdonald registered the big mac name over.

TLDR : the lawyers screwed up.
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Actual article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-i...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40553438)
The right answer depends on how Alice identifies I guess? :)
One thing I found really interesting abou the Graphcast paper (I appreciate this is not graphcast, but I think it is still relevant) is that it doesn't understand climate change. The model requires the training data to be recent to get the best quality projections.

While there are some factors that influence predictability in the weather forecast, as the fortran code is based on physics (at least in a broad sense), it doesn't suffer from those issues in the same way.

This doesn't mean that the ML forecasts are wrong (obviously), just different. Given the relative computational simplicity of running them, I wonder if the issue is not just expertise, but also understanding how they can best be used to generate reliable weather forecasts?
> But my fundamental reaction is, what does failure mean. Because in my world view failure should be expected and accepted and learned from.

That's fine in some domains. It's not acceptable in others (i.e. you cannot just try things and see if they stick).

But regardless of that, you still want to minimize failure. So if one methodology (Agile) pushes to spend less time on fixed and clear requirements upfront, and this leads to higher failure rates, this is still an issue.
From Classroom Haiku to Nobel Prize: The Story of LIGO's Birth
I’m sure that agile done right is great.

I’m also fairly sure most organisations don’t do Agile right.

At least within my organisation, we do not design anything up front. We’re agile.

We don’t think about proper api modelling. We’re agile.

We also do barely any testing. We’re agile.

We do rewrite the UI a dozen times based on user feedback. After all, we’re agile.
I’ve been using this for the last six hours or so, and it’s decent. You use Cmd+drag to move icons between shown and unshown, which at the time of writing isn’t clear from the Readme or site
It's funny, the root of the idea is that Agile allows teams to change how they are doing things midstream so we can constantly improve. But I have never met a scrum master or PM who has both the authority and the desire to advocate for changing how work is done. So all it ends up being in practice is a series of rituals that people sleepwalk through.
Well, until some system comes along that relies on the directory for the tags only and just splits the record using the separator characters. Which is a valid enough approach to either work around bad encoding or if your record is on something other than a magnetic band and you don't need to know what exact offset to move to.

Hidden is a very relative term there.
> The latter option is valuable because when interest rates rise, the price of mortgages fall.

Can you explain how that works under this system?
Or just run your own runners on-premise. You'd be amazed at how fast builds can be with OTS hardware, or even something like a laptop or Mac mini.
Another description, from 2023: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/03/in...