skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that it's an idea that's just not compatible with how Microsoft

You disagreed but ignored my entire point. No, I don't trust Microsoft, but my point was about even if we did

> I of course run Linux

I use Arch btw
> to uncover the (anholocratic) Bourbaki "leader"?

Holomorphic if not holocratic, how about HPC?

One might lexically (or even temporally) order https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3157c/f776.image before https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000349... ... at the risk of putting the Cartan before the Horwitz.

From https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartan#Carrière

> Continuant à garder des contacts en Allemagne durant [la guerre], il facilita à la fin de la guerre le rapprochement entre mathématiciens français et allemands, communiquant en particulier avec Heinrich Behnke et Peter Thullen.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9g4Md_huII

[note that Gen. CDSB was able to save over half his command (and 12'000 horses), despite the fact that near where he crossed the border it can get down to -40 (C or F, your pick) in winter; he ought to get more credit for an army half-full than he often does]
Yeah, cause MS has gotten this way "right now".
My RPS strategy is to roll a 6-sided die: if it comes up 1 or 2, I pick "Rock;" if it comes up 3 or 4, I pick "Paper;" and if it comes up 5 or 6, I pick "Scissors."

Let me know when you've got an LLM that can reliably outperform me in the long run.
Especially for the elimination of tabs
Isn't is just the noble savage fallacy as usual?
My take is that Saving Private Ryan is "pro-war" movie like most Hollywood productions on the topic and not about 2WW really.

The give away is how the save Ryan squad seem to have agency and do like cool self-govern manouvers, like the storming of the 80mm AA gun hill, etc. More like a teenage boy fantasy. Band of Brothers is another good example of cool agency.

The opening assualt on the beach is some sort of low point for things to get better and under the protagonists' control.

A true to history version would be soldiers getting shrapnel wounds from indirect fire and being shot at by soldiers they can't see. Then they redo it somewhere else becouse someone said so.
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this is talking about grant awards that are happening in the current year, so it's not like they were planned 10 years ago.

hindsight is 20/20 but some things like the growth of data centers was probably not predicted, particularly their location. As a general example, Ireland had to put a moratorium on new data centers until 2028. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/power-grab-hid...
The algorithm involved is actually very hefty: for each cell of a 9px by 15px grid over the image, compare each pixel of the cell to its equivalent pixel in each of the 95 ascii characters. To solve for optimal grid alignment, it repeats this for each of the 9x15 possible positionings of the image under the grid.
If GDPR says "this is okay to store forever and never forget", that makes my life easier. However, I don't live in the EU and cannot afford the cost to consult lawyers on this matter.
When Recall is enabled, it should have an overlay stating that it is active so that all users are aware. Something at least as obvious as the old Windows activation overlay.[0]

Otherwise, every creepy roommate, bad partner, bad friend, etc... will take advantage of this to do bad things.

[0] Ideally more obvious, like when Windows screen recording is running.
"The right path is never clear when you're in the valley of the moment."

Also in hindsight it is not always clear, if the choosen path was really the best.
In other news and by contrast, Scientology opened a massive, ugly storefront across from UT on Guadalupe St. in Austin, TX. (Look at this celebration of stupidity.[0]) I guess they couldn't get sucker enough tech people in Mountain View, CA on Castro St., so they had to try again in a different market preying on naive young people, influenced by TikTok and/or evangelical Christianity, who aren't as cosmopolitan.

If you're going to pitch people magical thinking, don't steal from them and don't fill them with awful ideas like ethnoreligious nationalism, suicide bombing, external locus-of-control, denial of science, "infallible" messiahs, excessive generosity harming individual survival, or shunning "infidels".

0. https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2346782/grand_opening_ideal...
There were wooly mammoths alive in 2000 BC, 600 years after the Great Pyramid was built. There is evidence of humans and mammoths being in north America together.

https://www.livescience.com/woolly-mammoths-in-north-america...
Yeah, Ive seen that, but it would be a hard sell getting macOS guys to run that and replace the spotlight keybind with that entirely. I tend to agree with them too.. I just would like to see Spotlight have the ability to do dmenu scripting stuff. There's no reason it couldn't except lack of vision.

I honestly think Apple would be half keen to do it themselves, they just probably haven't seen the idea to steal it yet
> Plus, being from the 1970s, no attempt was made to make this look like a toy.

This probably isn't just a '70s thing, but a Japan thing.

Even today, toy guns in Japan don't have the tell-tale orange tips or plastic-y appearance; they try to look as real as they (cheaply) can.

While walking up some stairs in a public park, I once stepped over a toy gun left on the edge of the steps. Being an American, the sight of a pistol just left lying in the open a step in front of me gave me quite a momentary shock, before I remembered what country I was in.

My understanding is that this is because real guns are so uncommon in Japan, people generally wouldn't make the assumption that they're not toys.

Supposedly it has the added safety benefit of dissuading would-be-robbers from using firearms in robberies, because even confronted with a real firearm, the victims would assume it's a toy rather than the real thing, and so it wouldn't be as effective of a threat.
For those unfamiliar, the dog's name is quite taboo these days:

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-53446494>
I watched 'Band of brothers' again recently. It was well worth a second watch.
We aren't allowed to do the first suggestion at work. If you can, and it's literally Debian, then it's fine.
I'm going to take a guess not backed up by any mathematics - to be that close to a black hole, it would have to be well within the Roche limit and get torn apart.

Plus, I'd wager they'd be able to tell if it was eclipsed by the black hole at all.
FF should create a DRM that uses the bullshit webdrm standards and apply it to the entire sandboxed experience. Lock MS the fuck out. Oh you want passwords? Sorry bucko. It's DRM'd. What's good for Hollywood execs is good for End Users. (but we don't get the phat stacks of cash).
The Art of Building Ships in Bottles
This reminds me of University Physics by Young and Freedman. The things I already understood were really dumbed down, and the things I didn't understand were inscrutable. I ended up using it as a door stop for the rest of the year until it fell apart and I had to throw it away. It was one of the first ones where the book came with a code that you had to use online to do the homework, so the book was also useless as second hand, after being useless when bought new.
> own Harvard link supports the calories in/out theory

Calorie in / calorie out isn’t a theory, it’s a thermodynamic corollary. I compare it to flat eartherism because “things go down” is similarly a corollary of gravity. The missed link with the latter is that down isn’t what it intuitively means. The missed link with colloquial energy-balance interpretations is “calorie in” and “calorie out” don’t mean what people think it does.

If you have a healthy metabolism, cutting calories and increasing burn—cereris paribus—should spike a starvation response. That has some perks. But it should also reduce your resting metabolism, sometimes below even maintenance levels; it should increase your absorption and sequestration of energy; it should alter your taste to make calories more appetising, and increase existential anxiety around the procuring of those. (Counterfactial: I’m someone who is fine being hungry. )

Just as one can design short bridges on a flat-earth model and be fine, one can deploy this simplistic model (it’s not a theory, that’s the vastly more complex energy-balance model) to make short-term gains. But it’s fundamentally wrong in that it builds the wrong intuitions. Similar to how thinking of our brains as a steam engine or microcomputer sort of works, in some cases, or if you’re trying to be punchy in internet comments, but is fundamentally wrong and misleading.
It's amazing how far racists will contort and bend over backwards not to see racism. It's like they're pretending racism doesn't exist, and has been totally eliminated in the "real world", and all that online stuff doesn't count. Once they paint themselves into a corner by arguing Trump isn't racist because he hasn't actually been convicted of lynching anyone, so all that stuff about Mexicans being rapists and Obama not being American doesn't count, it's pretty hard for anything to pass their definition of racism. (Except Democrats, of course, they are the real racists!)
To be great is to be misunderstood, and Feynman was a great man. I'm still not sure who decided to abuse some quotes and invent this "razor".

I don't believe Feynman ever meant to overconstrain and corrupt information based on (likely incorrect) assumptions about his audience. There's no need to "dumb down" anything ever, not even for children.

The information is either there or it isn't regardless of who can comprehend it. Losslessness is non-negotiable. The real problem is how you present that information, not whether you should leave it out. The only time you should leave something out is if it has little to no relation to the rest of what you're trying to say.

> This message has been deleted from the mail server, but Outlook still has it in its temporary cache on this device. You can copy the message contents, or discard it from the cache, at which point it will be permanently deleted.

Oh yeah also let's solve the "puzzle" from the middle of the blog post in Microsoft-y language everyone is familiar with by now.

"This message was deleted due to your organization's retention policy, spam filter, or administrator. It temporarily remains on this device, but is at risk of being lost forever. Do you want to save a copy?"

I believe in the real world Outlook doesn't even bother and has you and your message eat shit. If it was deleted it will never tell you about a cached copy and to the layperson it's just gone. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and indecision only makes communication harder.
>was the importance of getting the features right.

Yeah, but also knowing which features to get right. Right?
Goodreads is faang?

The problem isn’t manufactured or conspiratorial, it’s just baked into sorting so much content on so few metrics. And needing to account for what the user is currently in the mood for something specific, something generic.
vinput: A collection of virtual input device drivers for the Linux kernel
> At the present time we are not distributing the modified TeX sources that generate these tagged examples

Why not?
Lots of management from the old guys for a long time, IMHO explaining their (not) rapid progress.
I did - I had a Macbook air on and off on the side, but Windows was home base for 30 years. I ditched Windows for good when 11 came around, it has become untenable.
My biggest challenge with explaining things to people is the stuff they already know that's either wrong or not relevant. To save the effort of finding out later, I now ask people to explain it to me first, tell me everything they know about this, before I can figure out how far back I have to step before explaining it all.
I think if you want a hard boiled egg and boil for “6-7 minutes”, you’ll be in for a surprise.

https://cheatography.com/spaceduck/cheat-sheets/kitchen-remi...
Is it though? Are you saying it has no positive benifits, because lots of consumers and researchers would argue otherwhise.

Anyway, I don't care. If I want to have a drink, I will, because I enjoy alcohol. Not always, but sometimes. What does irritate me are the teetotallers. They lost the argument over prohibition, thankfully. But they never went away.

The war on drugs people are losing the same argument.
Hah yes, fixed.
From what we know their async/await should be noticeably distinct from the usual, otherwise the previous revert was for nothing.
Book Review: The LaTeX Companion (Third Edition) [pdf]
I don't think that's correct because of battery only makes one round trip a day while the other numbers are for continuous production. To compare units Apples to Apples I believe you'd have to multiply the battery cost by a factor of 24.

You are comparing $4/(watt-day) to $1/(watt-hr).
The thing about modern publishing is that it is too much driven by genre, so if you read a few dozen novels of a particular genre there are no surprises left. I am similarly unimpressed by new books, so I either read old ones or just don't.
Related, the horror story of climbing the Eigerwand:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J3wemDGtsy5gzD3xa/toni-kurz-...
I've had a print copy of this document on my shelf for a couple of years. I use it as a reference about a dozen times per year.

The NASA Software Engineering Handbook [1] is also full of interesting stuff. Unfortunately it's all in an incredibly slow Confluence wiki.

[1]https://swehb.nasa.gov
I encourage you to read some random self-published e-books on Amazon.
Or a disclosure that their ancestors were for or against a secret society.
Yes, it's surreal to read the first hand accounts.
USSR didn't terminally stagnate until 20, 25 years after Stalin died, though. They still looked pretty capable under Kruschev.
I don't necessarily disagree with the rating of 10 here (I know anything about the actual impact of this vulnerability), but please note that CVSS really isn't a perfect system, and it is quite easy to reach ridiculously high CVSS scores with even minor vulnerabilities, if you are 'maybe a bit too literal' in its interpretation.

The official CVSS3.1 example score for a stored XSS is 9.0.
The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium
That is a big “IF” . 99.99% side projects are not successful, you should not be planning architecture expecting to win the lottery .

Even if you did, on premise self-hosting does not save from scaling costs or problems .

If you are successful with firebase , all you get is the bill, firebase will definitely scale without sweat or intervention, for most businesses (side or small) that is better tradeoff .

If you are successful with a self hosted solution , you are likely to be down when the peak traffic or hug of death hits that is when you need it most to work, the app will fail.

This is even assuming intimate expertise on how to scale quickly and having many done it many times before with no mis steps and no researching on what to do.

A professionally managed service at firebase level which is shared infra has already both the capacity and code tuned to scale for any one tenant without effort or lag .

Self hosted infra is optimized for cost and usage pattern of one small tenant, no matter how good your scale out skills and autoscaling code is , there is going be a lag between you and something like firebase which will never notice your spike and issues around it.

This is the crux of success behind multi-tenant IaaS and PaaS, the reason Amazon opened up their infra to the world originally.

All the way even to Amazon.com scale of SRE skills and budgets, hosting on AWS will always be better and cheaper for them than using isolated infra only for them given their load pattern fluctuates pretty heavily .

Amazon.com would still run AWS even if was losing money a bit ,because it would make them more resilient and their infra costs cheaper .

The best analogy I have heard is it similar to insurance, works better with more and more users with diverse usage and risk patterns
> Or are you arguing that you should always try and teach complex numbers and the Euler identity to avoid strained analogies?

I think it’s okay to be explain complex numbers. I think it’s just best to additionally explain why. That is, show why (real, imaginary) is a better numerical system than the more broadly taught (x,y) of the 2 dimensional space being explored.

As for the Euler identity I suppose you could include that when explaining why we use the exp() function, which is because it plays nicer with integration and derivation than other numerical representations.

I want the analogies to be representative of the work rather than my own mental model of it.
The whole of Microsoft should be switched off
Not just power grid …

US infrastructure overall is in need of a “jolt” (updating).

Bridges, highways, power grid and more are all aging and in need of massive updating / refresh.
Oh, Duck Hunt! I was a big fan of this classic in my childhood during the 90s, and I was always wondering how the gun does know if I am pointing it to the flying duck. Until recent years and, from nowhere, YT suggested this video to me where I finally deciphered this puzzle:
https://youtu.be/cu83tZIAzlA
Wade Davis was a speaker at the 2012 American Alpine Club meeting at the Ford Assembly Plant in Richmond, CA. He had a line that stuck with me: death is the price we pay for living. Side note, Davis is mentioned in at least one episode of the X-Files, owing to his work on zombies in Haiti.

These aren't Everest specific recs, but if any of you are looking for mountaineering reading:

_The White Spider_ by Heinrich Harrer

_The Beckoning Silence_ and _Into the Void_ by Joe Simpson

_Eiger Obsession_ by John Harlin. Part of my enjoyment came from my familiarity with the geography of the book.

_Solo Faces_ by James Salter, fiction, loosely based on Gary Hemmings and Royal Robbins.
Strongly agree with this. Most folks assume that big tech will keep their data safe because well they're big corporations with 'rules' and therefore they must have people working 24/7 keeping customer data safe right? right??. This is just like how we assume data centers and servers keeping all are data are safe and secure, when in fact tons of data have been accidentally deleted by companies all the time. We just don't hear about it as often.
WebGPU-accelerated in-browser speech recognition – Transformers.js
Only if major browsers are disregarding HTTP cache headers, which is a pretty major allegation. Do you have any evidence to support that?
Extensions can simply download and update their own code, eg by loading new stuff from localStorage.

I have seen Metamask update itself randomly, and it has access to read every website
The Privileges and Immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, more or less.
Yes, writing a complete SQL DB engine like MySQL is a huge amount of work, but that is not what this article is talking about.

They are wrapping another database that solves these hard problems for them. This is a fine program to write. They will be able to hire other people to maintain it. Its not rocket science
> What are some other cultural views of cats?

Cats were given ritual burials in ancient Egypt [1]; killing one carried the death penalty [2].

Puss in Boots is based on India’s Panchtantra; they feature positively in Persian, Chinese and Japanese literature and mythology, too [id].

The exception to the rule, in fact, seems to be the Norse, from whom I presume the Britons acquired their disposition. (We continue to treat pets as property under U.S. law.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_in_ancient_Egypt

[2] https://www.worldhistory.org/article/466/cats-in-the-ancient...
Then why don't you do that? It's an open ecosystem. Start a company to create those (and more).
Yelp can sue reputation company for promising to suppress bad reviews
I don't think that the scientific consensus on nutrition as unsettled as you say. As an example, there are a lot of people making money selling various diets as well as promoting uncertainty and doubt around the issue, but there seems to be pretty definitive evidence in favor of cholesterol and fat increasing cardiovascular disease risk. People love to misrepresent studies, or cherry-pick poorly designed studies, and use them to claim that the consensus is wrong.

I'm not talking about observational studies either, but actual controlled feeding trials where they put you on a strictly controlled diet for a period of time.

Even if you look at what humans are evolved to eat -- evolution puts selective pressure on reproductive fitness. As a process, it does not put any pressure on you to live a long time, as long as you reproduce successfully (which is why insects like the mayfly can even exist). So looking at what primitive people ate does not really give us information about what is healthy if you want to live a long time (aside from avoiding things that are obviously immediately poisonous).

Even hunter gatherer tribes that eat a meat-and-dairy-heavy diet like the Maasai have been examined and have pretty significant cardiovascular disease -- but they are also so ridiculously active their blood vessels are much wider than people with a modern sedentary lifestyle, and that mostly balances out the narrowing from arterial plaque. Native people who eat a traditional diet heavy in whole grains, legumes, and tubers for calories have them beat by a mile when it comes to arterial health.
related topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390751

"The Beauty of Concrete" (20 days ago: 89 messages)
Some nice archaeology here, but I think it's important to say "pid 0 is part of the [Linux] kernel" (much less the further details) is only useful from a certain perspective—if you are debugging the kernel itself, using its more idiosyncratic interfaces like trace points within e.g. eBPF to examine the system as a whole, etc.

From the perspective of a userspace process using standard APIs, I think a more useful approximation is "pid 0 refers to myself". It's what fork returns in the child. It's what you pass in to kill(2) to signal your own entire process group. Probably other variations too.
Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon.

Edit: I realize I misread your comment. Disregard!
> They make the earth extremely hot as they absorb so much heat from the sun

What are you smoking? The sun is not sending more light to the places with solar panels. It just absorbs light that is already hitting earth. If anything it makes earth cooler as it absorbs light that would otherwise just hit the ground and make ground hotter.
It's not hotly contested.

Certain political interests object to the natural and obvious explanation that humans arrived and killed all the megafauna.

It's like when creationists can evolution controversial. It's not. You just have a political problem with things that are obviously true.
Might be the most worthless SaaS, but not the most worthless site. That would be the classic famous Zombo.com

https://zombo.com/
How to Train Your Large Language Model
I should have stipulated that the humans don’t have access to an RNG.

But fine, let’s say they do. In that case pick a game where completely random moves don’t win, eg poker. My point was that in a battle scenario, you can’t really surprise a computer by bluffs and feints in the long run.
… and lots of those are kinda bad.

But it sells almost as well as a decent book, and you don’t have to spend as much promoting it, so it’s still what they want.
Plus a very visible Doppler effect. We know many stars orbiting neutron stars or blackholes because the Doppler effect, indicates that it's moving fast around something that we can't see.
I am reserving judgement.

But extincting megafauna sure sounds like something we would do.