skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I saw as a recent grad student in probability, most texts do define a random variable to necessarily map into the reals, or the extended reals or perhaps a subset thereof, or occasionally the complex numbers, and the more general concept is a "random element" (when a more specific term is called for, there are "random vectors", "random graphs", "random processes", etc.). But this is certainly not universal even within probability. In any case, I don't believe it matters much -- it's hard to see how a mix-up here might cause any real confusion, though as always it is annoying that there isn't a common convention.
It’s quite rare to have bad memory, especially when not using an overclocked gaming machine. Most memory troubleshooting guides start with reseating the modules which means it’s not the memory that’s bad but the connector. Getting rid of the connector could mean it’s even more reliable.
There’s no point in making stuff interchangeable if it almost never breaks. We don’t have the L2 cache on a module anymore like with the old pentiums. And nobody seems to have a problem with throwing away good memory chips when just one on a DIMM module fails…
If there were ever a use for the EPA, surely “stopping megacorps from releasing toxic chemicals into residential neighborhoods and retaliating against whistleblowers” would be it.

We’re not talking about some agile startup that rents the nearest place where they can assemble their hardware. This is one of the three most valuable companies in the world, essentially purchasing residential real estate to use as a venue for unsupervised high-tech manufacturing that flouts all environmental regulations they’d otherwise be subject to. And the reason is so that their highly paid employees can have a shorter commute to their R&D lab.
Disagree here. Basically if you use docker (which for most of the stuff you mention, you should), environment variables are pretty much how you configure your docker containers and a lot of sever software packaged up as docker containers expects to be configured this way.

Building a lot of assumptions into your containers about where and how they are being deployed kind of defeats the point of using containers. You should inject configuration, including secrets, from the outside. The right time to access secret stores is just before you start the container as part of the deploy process or vm startup in cloud environments. And then you use environment variables to pass the information onto the container.

Of course that does make some assumptions about the environment where you run your containers not being compromised. But then if that assumption breaks you are in big trouble anyway.

Of course this tool is designed for developer machines and for that it seems useful. But I hope to never find this in a production environment.
You can have your own view. Nobody is taking it away or forcing you to believe otherwise. My point is why are people so upset when someone has a different view or doesn't agree with your personal view on Microsoft?
The vast majority of my bet would be on climate change. People aren't acting on it fast enough to turn it. It's been modeled very well, so you know what will happen in 2050 if things don't change. It will cause an insane amount of damage, especially in archipelagos like where I live. You can't just add more drainage and try to drain the sea. New York and Singapore are raising their shorelines, but most places just don't have this kind of terraforming capacity.

Property is the easy one, but it's useful to look at things like farms along affected areas.
If claims from this[1] video by Coffezilla are to be believed, the r1 is not their first questionable project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOHf20slZg
That was indeed interesting, although his claim that the rape charges were a separate issue that had nothing to do with the US trying to get hold of him, and that Assange made a mistake by not going to Sweden to fight them, has aged pretty badly.
> impress upon your countrymen to stay away from NATO

Well well well… the request to join NATO was done just a few months BEFORE the election, after several changes of government since the previous elections.

People in power specifically didn't want the people's opinion about that one.

But just to be on the safe side, they also did a lot of mediatic fear mongering about russia invading sweden very soon™, which is ludicrous if you look at a map and see that there's a sea in between.

Anyway in sweden the ruling class had wanted to join NATO for at least 10 years, if not more. But the people would have not liked severe welfare cuts to buy expensive bombs. However the invasion of ukraine provided the perfect excuse.
Many kids overfit to a very specific narrow set of games. The idea is to explore
In the Race to Artificial General Intelligence, Where's the Finish Line?
CSS Masonry is not even standardized yet. There is a draft spec: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_la... and ongoing discussion whether it should be part of CSS grid or a new `display` property.
Idunno exactly why, but the headline feels somehow slightly smutty.
Allen's interval algebra describes the 2*6+1 = 13 relations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen's_interval_algebra

It's possible to build a graph where the relations are nodes, and the edges are possible smooth operations on the intervals (e.g. translation). Then you have a state machine for smooth system evolution.
That's llm to me
> Your objection is he committed thoughtcrime by not taking certain gospel on a taboo subject at face value, has actually thought about it and discussed it with folks, and even changed his opinion on the subject in the end. Note that there is zero evidence he has shown any personal interest in having sex with children and this is some abstract analysis by a heterodox, and analytical mind, dare I say neurodivergent and on the spectrum, looking at it.

Thank you for stating this.
Also: having Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion sitting on your windows.
I'm looking to add Rust bindings to ElectricSQL as that is a similar sync solution but it acts on the database layer so it's language agnostic. I'm using Rust on the server but Rust bindings would work on both the client and server. If you're interested in joining me on developing those Rust bindings, let me know.
Using intervals for measurements has some limitations. But for many use cases we do not need more than intervals, so it's nice to have convenient tools for them. Intervals are a convenient model.

That's because measurements are complicated.

You use a ruler (or some other instrument) to measure something and get a value x.

You are happy.

Then for some reason you decide to repeat the measurement and you get a slightly different value. And problems start.

You decide to write down all the values you get. You are happy again.

Shortly after, you realise you have to use those values in calculations and you just want "one representative value", so you take the average or "the most common value" or some other aggregation, use your intuition!

Things start to go wrong when you have to take a decision by setting some threshold like "I do this if my value is above a threshold". Because the actual value may be different from your averaged number.

So you take the standard deviation and call it the uncertainty x±s.

But one day you realise that your measurements are not symmetric. You start by saying "instead of x±s, I will use different upper and lower bounds to define an interval".

For instance some things are measured on a log scale and you have a measure like 100±"one order of magnitude" which is "100, but may be between 10 and 1000".

Then you add a confidence, because you are not 100% certain you actually are in that range. Your measurement becomes "with 95% confidence I can say the measure is in [10,1000], with an expected value of 100".

Then you want to combine and aggregate those intervals and you realise they within the intervals their regions are not uniform, you actually have a probability distribution.

In the simple case is a Gaussian distribution, described with mean and variance. It can also be a binomial (a "p out of n cases" scenario). Or a lognormal like un our 10-1000 example.

And now for each measure you take you need to understand what probability distribution it follows and estimate its parameters.

And that parameter estimation is a measure, so it has confidence intervals as well.

At this point adding two measurements becomes not so easy anymore... But don't panic!

The nice part about all of this is that usually you don't care about precise error estimates, because you can live with bounding errors covering a worst case scenario.

And you can use the Central Limit Theorem (sometimes it is abused rather than used) to simplify calculations.

It is a rabbit hole and you need to know how deep you want to dig. Intervals are usually convenient enough.
I've seen enough financial software to know that someone in your world may be used to slow, tire-fire software.

In that context, maybe Teams is user-friendly and high-performance!
Well, a lot of modern standard English is made of left-overs from the mistakes people made when they couldn't understand or pronounce the earlier systems.

That's how language evolves.
“…evidence suggests ancient hyenas and other predators also took refuge in these tubes…”

Together?
Wow, infinite free travel.
You can make an argument to convince people of your personal point of view, but there is no reason to be all upset if someone has a different viewpoint. Thankfully we are all at liberty to have our own view on this topic.
it also requires iphone 15 pro or iphone 15 pro max. so the target audience in all likelihood is the combination of,
a. doesnt have a pc/console/handheld or likes the game/genre so much they want to carry it around
b. has the disposable income to buy an iphone 15 pro

so yeah, tough ask
Indeed. If you don't plan on smoking them, you have to sell the cigs to make this work. Flight costs $N, so you buy enough cheap cigs here and sell higher there so that you make $N back, plus commission for your effort.
Can someone please advise me on how to donate money to help Ola? There's a relevant web site but it hasn't been updated for a long time - http://freeolabini.org/en/

Thank you!
The Poco Legend album cover art is exceptional.
https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php

Yeah, I don't see Windows in the top 5.
How about 'The soup that eats like a meal' or a 'pick-pocket'?
Waymos ads are obnoxious and it keeps selling my travel data to everyone, I'll better get a car
It's not a competition
> It's great that American software monopolies [...] and that Korean companies can create jobs hiring Koreans and add to the GDP.

Largely agree with this, but this

> do not have access to Korean data

> safeguard PII of its citizens

Is incredibly ironic on a post "I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app". Zerodium pays $1 million for a WhatsApp (the Western equivalent of Kakaotalk) one-click exploits. As a consequence, any new exploits must be incredibly involved, else they'll already have been cashed in (and patched after being reported/exploited). Whereas this Kakaotalk exploit is trivial.

Americans share their PII with the FAANGs, us in Korea share it with the entire world because, as this article shows, security is absolutely atrocious.
> How do you mean

He means like letting their troops cross sweden, sell iron to them, ask them to specially mark the documents of jews. Perhaps he's seen the photos that nazi and swedish soldiers were taking together at the time, on the border with occupied norway.

> Otherwise the social democrats wouldn't have flipped and had us join NATO

Or… hear me out… they're corrupt and got something from the owners of weapons factories?

They had been waiting for a literal casus belli for several years.
That is the essence of anti-trust, it's nonsense. It's merely losers complaining.
The law is limited to yes-no question. If the answer is yes, then the headline would be like "weed causes strokes".
CS was weirdly like a dream. When waking up, it took some moments to grasp where you are now and what time of day it is.
Unfortunately I don't think the market of third party support vendors for open source software is robust enough to have enough competitors that can provide the same quality (or at least promise of quality) as traditional vendor support from MSFT or another big company.

You can say the market might emerge if the large corporations or government agencies started shifting that way and generated demand for it, but those entities aren't known to take risks.
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Because prime ministers who don't tend to get shot.
In particular for software, instead of gaussians we often have the sort of distribution of completion times where "if the expected completion time is T1, but empirical observation says it never actually got done in between (0,T1], the conditional expected completion time is T2, and T2>>T1": ie, the longer you work on something without success, the further away into the indefinite future the horizon of expected success recedes...
> I have not, partly because the most recent build I've found is still Android 9.0, which uses kernel 4.x, while the Radeon 780M in Minisforum V3 requires at least kernel 6.4.

Ah it's a shame the Android-X86 project seems to have entered the abandon-ware territory. But you can look into another OSS project, BlissOS (their latest release bases on A13, still kernel 6.1.x), should be fine but not everything would work seemlessly I assume.
paranoia and conspiratorial thinking does not lend itself to trusting others, so could go either way. e.g. paranoid people do not feel safe getting close with people.
If you want Teams you can install it.

And if Microsoft wants Teams, Microsoft can install it. Perfect logic according to growth-oriented project managers!
This isn't accurate.

> Similarly, even though the messenger app does have integration with its payment platform (cleverly named KakaoPay), the service itself lives in a dedicated app.

Just like WeChat, KakaoPay is fully integrated in KakaoTalk to the extent that the large majority of users use KakaoPay only through KakaoTalk. The existence of the separate KakaoPay app doesn't have much of an impact. You can transfer money, receive money, and make payments through KakaoTalk, without using the KakaoPay app.
That’s what I do: VTSAX and chill. I set it and forget it and it has performed very well for me over the years. Also worth noting most institutional investors struggle to outperform this fund over extended periods of time
Man, you must be fun at parties. Why do you need to put down the person who made a fun little project because it has been done in the past differently? It's a weird thing that we do in the tech community, I can't imagine people who knit to say the same kind of things.
I'd say these drivers are in the lower 5%ile because what usually happens is that they now block two lanes or almost crash trying to go into the corner together.

It was luck that the left lane was moving and that there was space. I don't want to see this kind of move from a driverless car.
In Enterprise settings, I have never seen anything than MS bundling over 20 years for that many clients.
To my European eyes, Slack and Zoom have been always an US centric or Linux first small companies centric tools.
RustDesk 1.2.6, open source remote desktop, better Wayland support
Yes and now we have to manage the identities of processes to ensure they are entitled to given capabilities.

Also any system as described needs security audit and analysis to truly understand it strengths and weaknesses (or glaring compromises).

Alternatively - secrets via environment vars weaknesses and mitigations are well understood.
It never fails to amaze me how JavaScript still has so many inconsistencies and weird behavior.

My biggest pet peeve is the lack of decimal in the main language.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/04/12/economic...
Makes sense if they're nearby frequently, but if vehicles are serving larger areas, that would happen less often.
Most spatial databases use the R-Tree or one of its variants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree

e.g. PostGIS has GiST-RTree:

https://postgis.net/docs/manual-3.2/using_postgis_dbmanageme...
Right. This is a prototype. You've got a whole empty seat not being used, and a steering wheel sat there baiting someone to play with it. The vehicle was never designed for the purpose for which it is being used.

I totally agree we will start to see very specific driverless designs that are very easy to clean.

Either that, or Johnny Cabs. I'm easy.
Technical Issues Cause EU Power Price Spike
It's illegal in a number of countries. In the Netherlands you may only import fags for personal use; reselling is explicitly prohibited. The amount of fags imported is limited too — tools like this one pretty much have to assume the user will illegally import their cigarettes. For the UK any amount over 200 cigarettes means VAT will have to be paid.
> How can I know if an installer is not official?

> A: On Windows, when you open the downloaded .exe file, you’ll see a pop-up with a “Verified publisher” name. If “Mozilla corporation” is the publisher you have an official installer, else it’s not.
Assange is alleged to have released unredacted info that exposed informants in warzones. This while running a service - not an infrastructure, a service - for exposing information.

Arguing that he hasn't personally killed anyone is not a strong rebuke against such allegations.
Crazy to think he died 26 years ago.
Tesla suing Cybertruck owner for $500k for modifying his vehicle [video]
Its already been blocked by Ublock filters - badware risks: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/...
> Why is excel and word any more connected than teams and excel or teams and word? Or even outlook? If outlook can be grouped with “office suite”, and EU didn’t have a problem with that, why not Teams?

It's not.

The argument you're replying to is remarkably similar to the ones in the EU+Apple threads: Why should iOS be considered a "general purpose" OS? Because people consider it as such. Why isn't Xbox or Switch a "general purpose" computer? Because people don't consider it as such. The whole thing boils down to circular logic of "it is a general purpose computer because it is".

The same thing is happening here: Why is it ok to bundle Word and Excel, but not Word and Teams? Because people consider the first one ok, but not the second. Ok, but WHY?!?

It's like arguing with a religious fanatic. You are wrong to assume there is any logic behind it.

If you really dig into why Microsoft and Apple, and why not Spotify and SAP, the only real answer is: because the EC defined the boundaries of the DMA to include the types of businesses that are run from America and exclude the types of businesses that are run from European. When you finally back them into a corner, the defenders of the DMA fall back to "well $AMERICAN_COMPANY is a gatekeeper, but $EURO_COMPANY is not a gatekeeper".

Spotify and SAP easily meet the quantitative thresholds that catch MS, Facebook and Apple, but the EC carefully defined that a "gatekeeper" belongs to certain categories of businesses (operating system, social media, etc.) and does not belong to certain other categories (music streaming, business software) so that it does not catch them. And as we saw with iPadOS, the quantitative thresholds don't even matter if the EC feels like ignoring them.
> so you know what will happen in 2050 if things don't change.

Sure, Siberia will be open praire cattle country; cossacks and reindeer herders will be cowboys mustering steers.

Russia knows this also, hence the hiring of US cowboys to train russians and the recent prevalance of Russian Rodeos in both the US and in Russia.

This all goes to the question of long term investment, projected affected areas are being abandoned by deep investors who have turned to probable new prospects.

Farming real estate questions here in Western Australia have already turned to what land will be prime in 20 years and what used to wet boggy questionable land is already fetching a climbing price in anticipation of when it becomes "sweet".
But how do you return it when you "don't buy them!", as you proudly suggested? :D

You never read what you are answering too, like "The fact that you can't even get refunds" or "how do you return if you don't buy"? :D
> it's hard to see how a mix-up here might cause any _real_ confusion

I really appreciate comments like this.
Prompt Engineering IDE to Craft, Test and Collab on Prompts for LLMs
It still makes sense to separate them when thinking about theory.
Differences between print editions can be important scholarly material. Did a printing error in the third run end up getting reproduced in later runs? Did an editor change this word at some point after the original publication, which wound up migrating into later editions of the work? Was that in agreement with the author, or done on their own? Was there originally a chapter break here to accomodate an illustration? What was the typeface like? What kind of ink was used - is the green tint on the chapter headings intentional, or did it fade over time?

On a purely aesthetic media-nerd level it's also interesting. Books aren't just their plaintext. There is craftsmanship and artistry involved in how a work is intended to be presented, and without examples of the original prints this context can be lost.

On a similar note, old movies are notoriously eclectic about different cuts and editions with scenes missing or added or lost to time. Having and preserving original reels is invaluable (especially because they're much more fragile in storage than books).

Imagine watching Buster Keaton while a guy is actually playing live music and breaking out slide whistles while the crowd cheers and smokes and waves their hats - it's an experience that's closer to going to a club and seeing a comedy act, than streaming movies on the couch. That particular experience is largely inaccessible to us today because we don't have pristine fully staffed 1920s cinemas that we can walk into. But if you have an original printing of a book, you can in fact just 'walk in' and see what it was supposed to be like. :)
The key insight on hiring technical people that I have gained over the 30 years of my career is something that seems very logical and natural, but seems to be forgotten too often: you cannot have more junior people evaluation more senior ones.
This was a nice read, well-written and informative!

I could add that in my mental model, the reason that an object property with an undefined value is different from an actually undefined property, is that since JS objects are basically key/value maps, there is a difference between a key existing with an undefined value and the key itself not existing at all.
Volkswagen invests up to $5B in Rivian
If labour ran on a manifesto of higher taxes and reverse brexit this election would be a shitshow.

I don’t actually agree that our taxes/spending have to increase in order to get a better standard of living - what we need is services which function better for the same costs.