skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don’t you contact the develop(s) and see if they’ll add it for $X?I did that once for an open source charting library that I was using. I really wanted a different graph than one of the defaults that was close but not quite what I wanted. I gave him ~$300 and he added it and emailed me later and told me he took his family on a nice day trip/lunch to some museums with the money. It can happen.
To attempt another perspective on this...

These days we have organized crime, drug cartels, human trafficking, government corruption, terrorist activities but from that all the way to simple crime as three dudes sharing pictures of a girl they gangraped while she was unconscious..
All this, happening on encrypted platforms.

Mass surveillance is probably not the silver bullet to deal with it. And yes, most hardened criminals will certainly find a way around..

But, then what are effective measures, in terms of time and cost?
I've always thought that ethically "right" forms of insurance (and other financial products, like equities, futures, etc.) is that they should enable individuals to take actions that are riskier than they would normally be able to, without unduly increasing the aggregate risk of the entire system. Of course, this is 1. Hard to measure and 2. Hard to define "unduly". For example, I believe mortgages are a "good" financial instrument, because they enable people to have homes and roofs over their head without introducing systemic risk... except when done in 2008. The devil is in the details and the implementation, I suppose.
Any developing country that has cheap labor costs and no tariffs. The retail cost for panels is $205 per kW, inverter $115 per kW, then add another 30-40% for labor, cables and mounts.
Please, I beg you, let's say it's the shape of a bagel. Ideally an everything bagel.
Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Jerome Carcopino
Can't even enact free free lunch programs:

https://apnews.com/article/states-rejecting-federal-funds-su...
The Grad student teachers and TAs in my math courses - including discrete math - were at best ambivalent to us lesser Computer Science students and at worst under-trained and contemptuous.

University of Oregon ~2014ish
I personally did about 18 months ago and it did cost me blood, sweat and tears, but in the end, I'm happy with the results (although there are still some caveats).

I wanted something repairable and open and although I'm still convinced that the Apple M-series devices are ahead of everything else, my development work does not really suffer from a little less battery life or a little less performance. The hardest problem to solve was the sheer amount of options you have when choosing linux. There are not 3 options, not 10 options, but hundreds of them. Hardware compatibility, different distributions, UI Frameworks, Window Managers, Filesystems, etc. etc. How could anyone new to this stuff find a solution for this in a week?

After tinkering around about 4 months I made a final decision to use Fedora on a used Lenovo T480s with a replaced glass touchpad (Today, I would probably go for a Ryzen Framework Notebook), and so far it is great. High resolution screen, good battery life, replaceable parts / repairable notebook and still good performance. Fedora with GNOME really feels most similar to macOS. I also considered Pop!OS and Debian.

However, my workflow still has some issues. The things I miss most are the touchpad (although with libinput-config the experience comes really close to macOS), the default Apps Suite (Mail, Calendar, Preview, Contacts) and the ability to deploy software to other Apple devices (e.g. iOS). Since I also switched to GrapheneOS on a Pixel 4a recently (long live the audio jack), it is no longer a problem, but working with PDFs and documents is really a pain. Window Management issues are not that present, but sometimes there are minor problems like the apps overlapping the screen, moving in a strange way, etc.

I still thing that the switch was worth it. Never having to deal with hardware repair issues or apples other shenanigans let me feel walking the extra mile takes half the time :-)
It is intended to disengage upon any physical movement of the throttles.

Normal usage of the TOGA buttons would be to push them and not move the throttles - assuming the throttle has normal non-worn or adjusted throttle friction.

Abnormal usage may well be that the throttle friction has worn or has not been adjusted by maintenance (afaik it's not crew-adjustable on boeing aircraft as it is on smaller light airliners), and thus pressing TOGA may shift the throttle lever enough to disengage A/T.
Looking into it a bit, it appears that this particular fun fact was first thought of (or at least put to paper) by von Neumann in "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" in 1951. Yuval Peres proves in "Iterating von Neumann's procedure for extracting random bits" that if N goes to infinity it approaches the entropy limit.

So for particular small choices of N there might be more clever schemes, but for large N you can't do a whole lot better.
"Junk DNA" was a terrible name. But the article really should have mentioned something about how much of it actually codes for proteins (for both the fern and us).
It's always humorous when people turn nasty and throw ad hominem's rather than actually addressing the topic.
An Evolutionary Arms Race (2022) [video]
I switched about 15 years ago and had started migrating shortly after OSX came out, they kept changing stuff with each release of OSX, ceased caring about backwards compatibility and then dropped the classic comparability layer which was the last straw for me. Primary importance in an OS for me is a stable userland which stays out of my way, so I switched to slackware with ion/notion wm which turned out to be perfect for me. Thanks to who ever it was on irc that recommended slackware to me all those years ago.
> “This problem is at or above the level expected of an undergraduate math major, and it’s startling to learn that a sixteen-year-old girl was studying such difficult problems.”

This is the least startling part. I was repeatedly told "you can't study that, it's postgraduate-level mathematics" by my teachers, starting from primary school, when asking obvious follow-up questions about the material we were covering. An undergraduate mathematics course starts by covering basic arithmetic, and doesn't progress much beyond that. Anything beyond plugging numbers into memorised formulae, or reciting taught proofs (perhaps slightly-adapted), is post-graduate level stuff.

In our system, people are actively discouraged from pursuing problems outside of a curriculum that's fairly standardised across the Occident. Of course, if they had a lay tradition of mathematics that wasn't based on that curriculum, they wouldn't have such barriers!
> I've always thought that ethically "right" forms of insurance (and other financial products, like equities, futures, etc.) is that they should enable individuals to take actions that are riskier than they would normally be able to, without unduly increasing the aggregate risk of the entire system.

What are some examples of an "ethically right" insurance product?
sounds exactly like bloatware. it was designed for something, it just doesn’t happen very often
Well, damn. Got me, too. That's teach me read things more closely and to be way more cynical.
That got obnoxious quickly when the "Hey look everybody I'm drunk! Am I not the most awesome!" tweets got mixed in...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1799457232607985698.html
I don't really understand the reluctance to fire them? Is the shortage of good developers so dire that you need to keep a bad hire?
And sometimes member states do it anyway https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/05/29/polish-surveillance-l...
He has his own youtube channel as well:
https://www.youtube.com/@dottotech

Fantastic show for sure.
LLMs Terminology; quick intro to popular terms on AI Models/Videos these days
Gambling isn't wrong. Gambling is stupid. Hedging risk is not stupid. That's the difference.
This distinction and overlap also comes into play for the medicaid "asset spend down." If you share any financial assets with your parents, be sure to separate entirely 5 years before they apply for medicaid or you will need to either count it as gone or buy it out at FMV.
GPS Navigation in all EU cars by 2024 (2021)
Fantastic tool. Been using it for years, saves me the headache of loading my trusty USB drive with the latest Linux ISO when setting up a new machine. I also keep a few other ISOs like a recent Windows version just in case I need to perform a repair on a friend/family's machine, memtest86, dban, etc.
So, how does it actually work?
Right -- states are very often ahead of the EU on all sorts of legislation, though.

It was always amusing to see Brits complain that the EU imposed GDPR on us, when it was pretty much our own existing legislation (the Data Protection Act of 1998) that gave the GDPR most of the structure it has.
How do you think CGI for photorealistic found footage would be optimized? What new methods might be used?
> Mass surveillance is probably not the silver bullet to deal with it. And yes, most hardened criminals will certainly find a way around..

So should the government be reading every piece of mail too? And record your private conversations? Why not put a microphone and camera in your home to ensure you are not gangraping anyone?

> But, then what are effective measures, in terms of time and cost?

Effective measures need not be time or cost efficient. Maintaining a free society is expensive.
The point here is that it is actually viable to reimplement such bugs without incurring significant performance penalties.

A software emulator has to be able to execute a single PS2 instruction in the same amount of wall time as it'd take on the original hardware. With a regular multiplication that's fairly easy: x86 also has multiplication, so you can do a 1:1 translation and be fairly certain it's within your time budget. With a bugged multiplication you need to do a regular x86 multiplication, and wrap that in a few dozen other instructions to add the buggy behaviour to it. There's a pretty decent chance it's simply too expensive!

When you're writing an FPGA emulator you are able to recreate the buggy multiplication directly in hardware. There's no additional wrapping needed, so (beyond figuring out intended behaviour) it's not any more costly than emulating a non-buggy multiplication. It's far easier to do a cycle-accurate emulation because you have direct control over the transistors!
How can one calculate the cost of hurting someone else? How much should X pay a country's government to lower everyone's life expectancy worldwide by 10%? There is absolutely no objectivity to be had here, only bribery. It is so silly that it's not even funny.

Moreover, money is an inflationary national currency, which itself is subject to heavy dilution. What good is a fixed rate going to do when it accomplishes the most damage in the decades ahead? Or how is it going to benefit animals and people of other countries that are not affiliated?

We already have a system for regulating extremely toxic agents like deadly viruses, explosives, radioactive materials, and other very hazardous materials. It works.

In truth there is no moral right that one has to emit pollution that hurts others.
I'm so interested to see what non-ML pipelines end up being possible & useful. Can we cobble these things into sound DSP processors? Or image convolvers? I'm not sure what architectural constraints there would be that would limit things down beyond what llvm can compile.

> Note that these accelerators include an array of processors, while the LLVM backend only supports a single processor. Support for devices as a whole is available in open source tools based on MLIR

Would be neat to see what interop with something like IREE looks like. Sure seems like MLIR is leading the rest-of-industry's (non-NV) efforts.
Mario Builder 64 [video]
AI Assistants Are Now Organizational Accelerants
Yeah. So something like a 50-digit number. I guess your point is this would require a BigInt?

From a performance perspective it's negligible. Like when doing RSA for example the primes are usually 2^512 in length.
small world - me too!
Insurance is different from gambling because if you pay and things go well, things go well. If you pay and things go badly, things go a lot less badly.

In fact, insurance is the exact opposite of gambling. Gambling is all about risking it all. It's an activity that sits at the extremes of the bell curve. You win it all, you lose it all. Insurance on the other hand is a small price you pay that, through statistics, allows you move your odds from the ends of the bell curve towards the center. If you win, you win a bit less because you have to take into account the Insurance money you spent. If you lose, you lose less because the insurance premiums will kick in.

Basically, insurance is a PID controller.
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Commodification
Depending on what those hobbies are they may not be nearly the same though. You’ll only get to ski with a 20 year olds knees when you’re 20, for example.
The link to the document because this post is a pretty undetailed blogspam: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/06/2024-05-22-Rec...

In general, most of the document is set as a "information collection" proposal from different "expert working groups" (expert names redacted). It's mostly proposing standardizing who collects data, what data is collected, jointly buying surveillance software/technology and in general harmonizing EU-state laws when it comes to that.

However, AGAIN there's the outright demand to collect and expose data:

22. Implementing lawful access by design in all relevant technologies in line with the needs expressed by law enforcement, ensuring at the same time strong security and cybersecurity and providing for the full respect of legal obligations on lawful access. According to the HLG, law enforcement authorities should contribute to the definition of requirements, but it should not be their role to impose specific solutions on companies so that they can provide lawful access to data for criminal investigative purposes without compromising security. To that end, experts recommend developing a technology roadmap that brings together technology, cybersecurity, privacy, standardisation and security experts and ensures adequate coordination e.g. potentially through a permanent structure.

also two new fun things:

33. Developing a mechanism to ensure that Member States can enforce sanctions against noncooperative Electronic Communications Services54, and that such measures act as a
deterrent against those entities. Both administrative and criminal law measures should be
available and should be applied depending on whether a provider is merely non-cooperative
or is deliberately hosting activities of a criminal nature.

34. Harmonising at EU level criminal law measures to enforce cooperation, including
imprisonment. The same should apply to non-cooperative hosting providers (in addition to
Electronic Communications Services) to ensure that such companies, when hosting
communication services of a criminal nature, adequately comply with the judicial orders they
receive. [The coherence of this recommendation with the rules established by the Digital
Services Act Regulation should be further assessed]

They seem to be seeking to make sure that every EU member state enshrines data collection in their law (even ones that are more privacy obeying) and punish companies which refuse to implement backdoors into communication systems.
Governors in the US aren't formally the main source of federal legislative proposals, nor do they represent their states at the federal level in any formal way. They can propose legislation in the same sense that any citizen can, but a petition signed by all 50 of them would have zero legal force in terms of requiring Congress to take anything up.

The Commission is a lot more integrated into the process.

Governors of US states are also directly elected, and have to be careful about annoying the voters too much... and it would be noticed if each of them individually signed onto something like you suggest. It'd be even more noticed if they did it over and over every year. Commissioners are at one or two levels of appointed remove, and are also somewhat sheltered by the Commision as a collective. They can more easily get away with repeatedly raising unpopular proposals until they manage to wear everybody down and move the Overton window.
I switched, maybe 2018? The _only_ reason it happened was because of the shitty MacBook keyboards. There wasn’t any good way to avoid them.

So I got a used Dell 9360.

Sway and wayland.

Changed the way I use the computer. Switched back to Mac with the ARM MacBook (and working keyboard).

I use both very similarly and am comfortable on both OSes. But for now, Apple Silicon is _very_ nice.

Also, just having all the devices and suspend work. I will take that as a side benefit.
Why Automakers Are Invading Your Privacy [video]
In that case I'm sure current FPGAs are already capable of emulating the MIPS CPU of a PS2.
Anyone managed to install Ventoy on a SSD/HDD (so not a flash drive) partition with preferably working with GRUB? Like a persistent install on the disk with its own partition alongside my regular stuff.

Apperently it is supported but it never worked for me for some reason.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/faq.html

https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_disk_layout.html
Your use case seems very specific. I personally am very happy with ocrmypdf[1], which is free and puts an invisible text layer into the pdf. However, since it is free, I'm pretty sure it cannot compete with the commercial solutions you tried.

There also is an older version PDF XChange viewer, that has the ability to do the same thing, although it is presented as "viewer".

1: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/
No :' Please take back the popups about cookies, and these silly plastic caps.
Insurance is stupid if you are wealthy enough to cover the damages on your own.

Insurance for your phone, computer etc for example is certainly stupid for most people.
Relevant: <https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008>
I wish they would stay away from the books too. People like this ruined nonfiction, have you tried reading any new science books? Can't read anything without first going through pages describing the stain on the carpet owned by great-aunt of the researcher being interviewed.
Because the implementation on your computer or phone behaves slightly differently from actual hardware, sometimes to the point of being unplayable. If you can't get your hands on a genuine working console, cycle-accurate FPGA implementation is the next best thing.
Eh, it's a Wordpress site.
This article explains Podium, a search relevance algorithm created by the OLX Brazil Search team to replace the globally renowned BM25. It resulted in increased clicks, contact intentions, and reduced complaints about search quality, and was launched in April 2021.
The difference is that gambling increases the overall variance of outcomes to an individual whereas insurance decreases it. I wouldn't say insurance is a form of gambling but that they are two ends of the same spectrum. The difference in intention is a clear distinction to me.
> Edit: found the torch import, but it’s just for a single torch.load to deserialize some data

Torch is quite heavy though, isn't it? All for that one deserialization call?
+1 to everything you said. Before I had an elaborate USB setup with several partitions for my multiboot stick, mostly for installation and rescuing. Now I just need to copy the ISOs and I'm done. So easy to use and update.
One example that the article gave is how Ghanan farmers couldn't risk to expand or specialize their crops because of the risk of drought. That feels like a need that could viably be met with sensible insurance.

One form of insurance I've always been a fan of in the US, at least, is mandatory car insurance. Considering that the cost of a collision can be extraordinarily high for all parties involved, but because most people don't crash, amortizing that risk out among drivers enables more people to get vehicles and transportation without freak accidents putting people into financial distress.
This would be valid if it was a small natural amount of sewage from a few humans, not tens of millions of gallons. Penguins shit somewhere, so the ecosystem probably won't mind if a few humans shit where a few penguins shit. But this is like noticing a few burger wrappers on the side of the road so you dump your commercial trash bin there every week.
Scaling MongoDB from Employee #8 [audio]
I have contemplated whether every law should be explicitly time limited. There are some theoretical arguments for it - all uncontroversial laws (e.g. no murdering) should be renewed, and other laws can be re—evaluated (e.g. a number of US states enacted laws in the 90s preventing under—18s having pagers, which are at best irrelevant today, ignoring all other facts)

The trouble is that perhaps our societies are now so polarised we’d never be able to agree to pass uncontroversial legislation without partisan horse trading.
> but a petition signed by all 50 of them would have zero legal force in terms of requiring Congress to take anything up.

Well it's not an exact analogy as I say; I edited a bit for clarity earlier too.

But as it goes, I'm not sure the Commission can compel the Parliament to take up legislation anyway. The fact that they usually get their way is more due to realpolitik; I'm pretty sure a formalised gathering of delegates of US states would ultimately be able to wear down enough senators and representatives to get legislation drafted.

The EU system is a bit more realpolitik than the US system, at this point; the USA has abandoned realpolitik except for the times when the House majority wants to undermine their own speaker.
The number of bits that are important is the number of 1 bits in the which bits are important mask, yes. I thought you couldn't remember how that mask worked.
> Building software iteratively leads inevitably to tech debt because we choose to deliver systems before we have looked at all the requirements. Not knowing what’s next distorts our designs, and that distortion is the tech debt.

This article frames technical debt as something that happens passively because you can't know future requirements. That's sometimes true, of course, but in my experience the majority of technical debt is accrued deliberately in a much more active process.

When developing a new feature that doesn't neatly fit into the existing system, you must choose between two compromises:

1. Build it the "fast way", shoehorning the feature into the system just enough to work, compromising quality for velocity and accruing technical debt; or

2. Build it the "right way", adapting the system to accommodate the new feature, compromising velocity for quality to avoid technical debt.

This is usually a deliberate decision, so choosing to accrue technical debt is an active process. The only way it could be passive like the article describes is if the developers don't know or otherwise don't consider the "right way" and go straight for the "fast way". I hope to never work on a team that operates like that.
Wonky spaces seem to be a fairly common thing in dreams. One that I used to have every so often was walking around inside what at first seemed like a normal room, then looking up to see that the ceiling was several tens of stories high, as if the building were a skyscraper with only a single tall and narrow room inside. The unexpected height of the ceiling always caused an intense sensation of vertigo, causing me to fall backwards in my dream (and sometimes wake up IRL).
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40616689
That’s actually not as unrealistic as it seems. Units in Civ have maintenance costs that represent feeding, housing, replacing people when they die, etc.