skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m surprised this isn’t making a bigger splash on here. Maybe people just have AI/LLM fatigue. But this sounds really incredible and has so much potential to lead to economically significant inventions in the near future.

Ever since deep convolutional NNs started doing well in molecular biology stuff (predicting small molecule drug effects from the structural descriptions of the molecules) around 2012 or so, I’ve been expecting there to be a big leap like this where we can basically dump in the massive databases that have been compiled over the last 30 years of gene sequences and protein structures/functional information, and have these powerful models figure out the hidden structure that is probably just too complicated for human minds to understand using “simple” math (obviously not that simple, I mean like partial differential equations) that assumes lots of symmetry.

It looks like the step up in power of Transformers is what was needed to make that next leap in explanatory power. Ironically, I feel like this is one of those cases where if you really had a model that worked well, you’d probably make more money by keeping it secret and using it to generate new and useful inventions (eg, bacteria that eat plastic, electricity generating algae, etc).
You are experiencing the power of television/media for sowing division. The more you watch, the more misinformed about the mean you are :)
The experiment in California is much better. Give a contractor $2500 per homeless person per month for a tent in the park. Data suggest that this increased the number of apartments the contractor owned, as well as the number of homeless people, which will then increase the number of apartments the contractor can buy
It would be pretty slick if the export also included a versioned text spec defining the schema for the data..

So even if the software and all supporting software is no longer available you can still make something to read the data..

This is kind of getting into r/Preppers territory, but still... There's something nice about that.
ntp has been replaced by ntpsec in Debian. (I am the Debian ntpsec package maintainer.) By default, NTPsec on Debian uses the NTP Pool, so no NTS. But NTPsec does support NTS if you are running your own server and supports it opt-in on the client side.

As far as I know, the Debian “default” is systemd-timesyncd. That is what you get out of the box. (Though, honestly, I automate most of my Linux installs, so I don’t interact with a stock install very often.) AFAIK, systemd-timesyncd does not support NTS at all.

Doing NTS on a pool would be quite complicated. The easy way is to share the same key across the pool. That is obviously not workable when pool servers are run by different people. The other way would be to have an another out-of-band protocol where the pool NTP servers share their key with the centralized pool NTS-KE servers. Nobody has built that, and it’s non-trivial.
Actually, it's neither.

The two most important factors that determine whether a business will succeed are good decision-making and capital.

For example, if you'd had enough cash to finance three years of operating at a loss, your business probably could have survived Covid.

That's how many businesses survived Covid: they had a lot of cash in the bank, and they made the good decision of cutting costs to the bone until demand returned.

There are a hundred little decisions that need to be made wisely, and the businesses that fail are usually the ones that made the wrong choices. Anything that affects margins or your competitive advantage is a huge deal. Smart accounting is the backbone of any business that's built to last.

What type of business to start, of course, is one of those key decisions.

Hard work is remarkably ineffective at moving the needle once you scale up a bit. That doesn't mean you don't have to work hard, you still do, actually when you have something good going on, you tend to realize that you'd be an idiot to screw it up through laziness.

But you only have to hit about a dozen employees to be at the threshold where your personal time makes little difference beyond maybe a few key accounts or something. What will make the difference in the long run is the systems you put in place, which of course comes down to some very nuanced decision-making.

Luck, well of course it helps, until it doesn't, no one's lucky forever.

So I maintain that the name of the game is making consistently good decisions and having access to enough cash to weather any storm.
Depending one what one means by "usage" I have connected iCloud and Obsidian to 10+ year old Macs. Sure, I can't air drop, screen support, etc. All of those features and updates you generally want on your 'new' system. But as far as booting and running a lot of compatible legacy software, browsing, email... what most people use a computer for... you could pick up any fair condition Mac from the last 10 years and chances are it will work for most things (without Linux).
Ask forgiveness.

Did Microsoft already wipe out Slack during these four years of bundling since the complaint of 2020?
Ebury is alive but unseen: 400k Linux servers compromised by the Windigo group
Elon Musk confirms reallocating thousands of Nvidia AI chips from Tesla
I'm still holding out hope that the next guy pardons him.
Ok, why don't you publish the contents of all of your text messages, emails, and recordings of all the phone calls you've ever made and put a video camera in your bedroom streaming 24/7?
I suspect that people come to the conclusion that Django has performance issues by looking at synthetic benchmark rankings between frameworks. In that sense it may or may not be relatively slow, but it is probably fast-enough for almost all web services in-practice. And if you measure with all of the speediest HTTP interfaces and find out it isn't fast-enough, then frankly Python is probably not the right choice at all.
my philosophical take is this all revolves around what constitues "one system"

on one level, something is a subsystem of a larger supersystem

on another, it's all the one and only system. but why wouldn't the components be systems in their own right?

and sure, it's all about the 'appropiate' level of abstraction. but my point is that any "science of systems" must give a working theory of levels; or at least say something on how to grapple with this. it's not sufficient to leave it as "that aspect is an art"
Just this year at WWDC they announced a new tool that can port Unreal engine directly to Metal. It will only get better and better for gaming on MacOS.
Thanks for your code post, but your fused-multiply-add Horner coeffs seem like they are not from the same power series I was discussing / the article was promoting.

The effects I mention are pretty clear if you run my code with both `x = 2/3.0` and with `x = math.sqrt(0.5)`, even with a much smaller `m` / coarser granularity.

For example { for the python &| copy-paste impaired &| lazy :-) }:

$ python3 j.py | headtail 3 3 # [2/3..4/3], m=300
0.6666666666666666 3.7747748309890916e-06
0.6688888888888889 3.5668329603222304e-06
0.6711111111111111 3.3693446750415745e-06
---
1.3266666666666544 -3.120628879194065e-07
1.3288888888888766 -3.2510972441945896e-07
1.3311111111110987 -3.3859621345611046e-07

$ python3 k.py | headtail 3 3 # [rt1/2..rt2], m=300
0.7071067811865476 1.279804798859363e-06
0.7094638037905028 1.19727672415193e-06
0.711820826394458 1.1195756742798935e-06
---
1.4071424945612245 -1.1572535666970474e-06
1.4094995171651796 -1.1970089550117358e-06
1.4118565397691347 -1.2378520898859158e-06

Note in the 2/3..4/3 case the exponent changes from e-06 to e-07 - a whole order of magnitude difference in |error|, while in the rt1/2..rt2 case the nearness of |error|. This same pattern manifests for higher numbers of terms like 8 or 9 or higher resolution like m=3840.
What if we just make them bundle their competitors products if they want to buy dle their own?

That means that Firefox nextcloud and bitwarden are installed by default on windows/macs
Decker Fantasy Camp 2024
At that point I think you need to ask yourself why you're using Bash to begin with. If it's just meant to be a quick script that's run occasionally then this is good but probably overkill. If it's going into prod to be run regularly as part of business critical, then it should be in a language that has a less convoluted way to _ls a directory_. There's an inflection point somewhere in there, where it is depends on you.
They tested their models on both a conventional gpu as well as a custom FPGA.
You're welcome. I dread these Assange threads on HN because they often seem to devolve into people shouting past each other, and this is the most thoughtful piece, with direct and lengthy access to Assange, that I've read.
Pentagon background-check systems at risk of hacking, GAO says
Trying Out Chrome's Gemini API
> I think people just give up at some point and stop trying to stay current with this stuff.

Or, they realize that 90% of it adds zero value to their lives. When you get older, you really do start thinking about how fast the years went by and how they are going to be gone before you know it, and do you want to spend any significant fraction of that time sitting at a computer, yet again wasting hours on "debugging tech issues" that a 20-something developer in California or Oregon has yet again foisted upon the world.

Also as you get older you have figured out that if you don't want to do something, you just pretend you don't know how, and eventually someone else will do it for you.
I second the cost per hour as someone who just glowed about quality
If the PLA is plasticizer-free and derived from vegetation, it can be burned without pollution. It's not like there's a bunch of chlorine or fluorine atoms in the molecule.

> If you put PLA in your home composter it'll still be exactly as it was in 5 years time.

More interested in learning to make it myself. Daughter and I have been extracting starch from potatoes, and we can reliably ferment to lactic acid. Distillation's trickier, and everything else after that's just bugshit crazy. Have to ferment M. hexanoica, it needs to be fed very specific nutrients to produce capryilic acid, extraction of that will be even more insane, and there seems to be no good source for tin in modern life. I've found a dozen tin scrapping videos on Youtube where you watch them and think to yourself "did they just screw around with soluble lead salts without even mentioning it?".

Also, I've had spontaneous combustion in our compost before. Maybe your compost game's just weak. Be sure to spread grass clippings until they're no longer deeper than about 3".
That is what I assumed at first, but reading the thread @ctoth linked to and the Wikipedia article with many examples, changed my mind. It’s a good reminder that history has often come to a different conclusion than logic.
Efficiency of AWS Gravitons beats everythin
I think it's a combination of two things - one is that we are in a monopoly friendly environment gilded age for business that was not there in the 90s, and two is that MS was an easy target in the 90s because they were really the only target. But if you're the US government, if you go after MS you have to go after like 6 other companies for effectively doing the same thing even if it's not OS level. It's just not possible. Digital business has won by deluge.

I mean, throwing co-pilot into everything is literally the 2024 version of inlcuding IE on everything in the 90s and MS does it with impunity because they can.
Utilities report batteries most commonly used for arbitrage and grid stability
LMAO, at the bottom of the "switch local to Microsoft account" instructions, they say "Sign back in with your new local account". This was also the case before they removed the Microsoft-to-local instructions.
JFrog to Acquire Qwak to Streamline AI Models from Development to Production
Working in consulting this rings true a lot. You need to get your foot inside the door, but if you then work hard to deliver it can open new opportunities and if you work hard with those you will get more of them. Reminds me of one of our customers where I saw this working. Started from small thing and then expanded to multiple services in different areas. And I don't feel our work is anything special, but it is at least good enough. And I believe that none of this work was at loss either.
It’s not Chrome specific, the “mark of the web” is applied to any downloaded file:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_the_Web
> things that people reasonably can assume would work but are UB anyway (signed integer overflow.)

No, they cannot. You don't have the right to make any assumption about integer overflow in C.

Most of the whining about UB is from people who still refuse to accept that you don't have the right to think about your processor family once you write in any language that is not assembly.
We can turn this around and ask "why make a video when you are just going to talk to the camera?" and part of the answer is "that's where the money is", as Willie Sutton apparently did not say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton#%22Sutton's_law%...
Looks like it has expanded significantly from what I recall replying to
On the other hand its not that hard to find people in former colonies who think colonial rule was better - if they have been sufficiently badly run since independence. Colonial rule is obviously worse than honest democratic government, but that is not what a lot of countries have had.

I am a citizen of both a former British colony and a British citizen and I have fairly recent ancestry from another former British colony. I suspect some of my ancestors support the British (because they seem to have up to my grandparents generation) because it allowed them freedom of movement, or because they had been oppressed by the previous ruling castes.

Colonial rule in many places was only possible because it had significant local support. A good example is that a tiny number of British people were not holding places like India through force of arms.
I encountered HM a lot in my working life as a programmer. I did not expect that when I first encountered the names.

From the article:

> HM type systems can't implement heterogenous lists [...]
> [well it does when wrapping the elements in a sum type, but then]
> it can only accept types you know about in advance.
> [which makes it] a massive pain to work with.

Sorry, I totally disagree... Heterogeneous lists without the sum types are a massive pain! Maybe it is easier for the initial development effort, but if you need to maintain code with heterogeneous lists (or dynamically typed code in general) the pain will come at some point and likely when already in production.

I much rather fix compile errors than runtime errors. And a massive thanks to Hindley and Milner for advancing type systems!

Found their photos in gratitude just now:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/J-Hindley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Milner
To me it's 98% about the book buying consumer's right to get the product they paid for!
Targeted ads require the collection of personal data that I don't want to be collected. Untargeted ads don't.
Legal precedent is just what aboutism then. Doesn't make it any less important in a normal judicial system
> language specification doesn't define what should happen during execution.

this is subtile misleading unspecified and undefined behavior are not quite the same

UB means it's (simplified) specified that the compiler is allowed to do whatever it wants (or more concretely in most cases is allowed to assume that a specific thing is impossible when optimizing to a point where of it does happen pretty much anything can happen including things like it seeming that an int is two different values at the same time or (which might still be one of the more harmless wtfs which can happen))
I think most philosophers would be fine with treating "there is no bear there" and "the amplitude of the probability density function of a bear is negligibly low there" as the same statement for this discussion :)

An entire bear spontaneously tunneling across a large distance or spontaneously forming out of vacuum fluctuations is really, really quite unlikely.
My phone mostly functions as a text machine with encyclopedia attached, which I greatly enjoy. When I see unusual construction or some curiosities I do not understand, I look them up. angle-of-repose, hill reinforcement techniques, average lifespan of whale shark, salps, concrete blocks underneath vending machines, stacked wires on electric trains, staged turbos on desiel trains, those circular dimples in japanese concrete blocks, etc. This is what I have always mostly used the internet for. After reading about something like this I enjoy just stewing on the info. This is the mode of existence I enjoy the most.

Only in the past few years was there much temptation for forever scrolling. Turning off my phone is good but then I cant look up interesting stuff, which is the point of being alive for me.
He put me on to Sun Ra and Azymuth, it's high praise coming from Madlib. Other highly individual/stylized artists also share the love for Ra; Earl sweatshirt and members of sLums New York group.
Right, my point is that the check is "useless", but it is not necessarily a symptom of "not knowing enough about the language"
I dunno about OLED, but now that you say it the costs do make some sort of "smart" coffee disturbingly plausible.
Im a member of the wg14 and the Undefined beahviour study group. We are producinga technical rapport about UB and one thing we specificly point out is that staticly known UB should be treated as an error, not as "this cant be called" aka "unreachable". From what i have seen LLVM sometimes issues poison when it should just issue an error. The implications can be quite severe. Instead of assuming that a UB is programmer error, it assumes its the intention of the programer that the code will never run, therfor it can use this information to make assumptions about branching behaviour.
1. It uses Calamares, which is the GUI used by many distros. It was no different from installing any other distro with a GUI, including partitioning.

2. I'm using a laptop with AMD/NVIDIA on Wayland with KDE, this is no problem. This question is in the domain of your display server and compositor, not the base distro.

I choose the previous build from grub, and then rollback my config files from git and rebuild. Every build creates an entry on the boot menu so I can go back to any previous iteration of my setup (I do have it set to only keep the last 15 builds)
> I don't see how it's wrong to use an if statement to check that nobody's passing in a zero to your function that later does division using that variable.

Indeed, it isn't. The check becomes useless if it happens after the division, though.
Sure, and racism, and lots of other bad stuff. Doesn’t mean the bar for being a functioning male in society has fallen through the floor since then. My point was that the contrast is striking, not that 1940 was a time we should go back to.
> It's politically toxic.

I think you're probably correct, as only the Green Party seem to be committing to moving back in (one reason I'm considering voting non-Labour for the first time in my life). I wonder though, do you think this will last forever, especially in the face of consistent polling suggesting that twice as many people think it was a bad idea as think it was a good one? [0]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-po...
>you found nothing except that you know they asked where they might buy weed.

And that they gave money to someone for what they thought was weed
To quote Stephen Colbert, "reality has a well-known liberal bias."
Oh, is that what my coworkers use when we get the "a user from outside your organization is waiting to join" message?
Rounded corners is much like semicolons, and rebasing / merging something impossible to discuss. Most people either strongly dislike the one or the other and are unable to reconcile.
Most of the time, old projects just work.
How do you define "not related" - why would a collaboration tool not be considered part of something called "office suite"?

Also to the parent's point, why is it that Google are allowed to bundle Meet as part of their Google Workspace - it does seem like the violations are only applied based on retroactive decisions.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40788641
You’re not downvoted because of “hasbara bots”. You’re downvoted because your comment is nonsense.
Your example makes the same mistake as the one in the article - linking to a (development) branch rather than a specific commit. Unless it is just example code written for the article (in which case why link to it) stuff is eventually going to move arount and your referenced line numbers will be stale.
People who are demanding benefits for free (ie selling your products in somebody else's store), are parasites. Those who cooperate, or set up their own shop if they don't want to cooperate, are not.

Let me know when I can start selling stuff on Amazon without giving them a cut. Or put up a stand in the local supermarket where I sell my produce directly to customers.

If App developers made iOS such a profitable market, why haven't they made Android an equally profitable market? There's more users, more liberty, more potential money to be made.

What it comes down to is whether it's better to get a big piece of a small pie or a smaller piece of a big pie. Apple offers a bigger pie of user spending for developers, while cutting out a bigger chunk for themselves from that pie.
Well it's been like 2 years since the US left, so idk? How much time until the Jews can't talk about the Holocaust? That's how asinine that question is
I encourage you to give it a try again. Almost every use of xargs that I ever did looked like this:

ls *.jpg | xargs -i,, resize 200x200 ,, thumbnails/,,

I just always define the placeholder to ,, (you can pick something else but ,, is nice and unique) and write commands like you do.
If the compiler threw it away, then the check was ill formed or just arrived too late.
Effectively yes. They sold to Salesforce for $30B, but they easily could have won the market if not for this move on Microsoft’s part.
I feel like the real problem here is the way that research has to be sold in order to get funding (I assume the same was true in the 1960s). There is no inherent harm in trying to find a universalizing science, but market imperatives drive the creation of intellectual hypecycles with the associated booms and busts. That can then discredit entire fields.
Off the top of my head: saving the NHS from decades of under-investment; introducing the National Minimum Wage; putting in place a huge school repair programme; ending the Troubles in NI; writing off the debts of poorer countries; Scottish devolution; and, for the majority of their term at least, fiscal stability and consistent economic growth.

The other side of the coin is, of course, the Iraq War. We needn't debate that, because we'll surely violently agree, but let's not pretend the Blair/Brown partnership didn't lead to many positive things for the UK. It did.
How can it both have no side effects and have undefined behaviour?
Not the GP, but from the top of my head:

- semiconductor manufacturing

- Internet and social media, streaming services, etc.

- Cryptocurrencies

- Smartphones and related app stores

- Electric cars

- Self-driving cars

- AI

It certainly feels like all the technological innovation happens in the US, and sometimes in China, but never in Europe.
We've also never before had a party like Reform splitting the right-wing vote in two.
> I think that qualifies. 12 years of no freedom.

It absolutely does not quality. Being on the lam is obviously not the same as serving time in custody.

You can only sum up to 12 by making false equivalencies and ignoring important differences. It reeks of having a self-serving preordained conclusion (or being downstream from one) then distorting everything until it fits.