skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sensing a motte and bailey here where supposedly China takes you and/or your family away for torture or hard labour for posting online, and when you look into it, it's more like your post gets deleted and maybe your account gets banned.
There's a lot of big telescopes in north chile too
My three-year-old daughter plays this with cat. It's a cross-species thing that is possibly part of mammalian brain development in origin.

The cat is less than one year old. Our 17 year old cat does not engage in this at all and hisses at the kitten for even trying to start a game of tag. This makes me wonder if that origin is more related to predator/prey.
I'm not OP, but here's my two qualms with using Sublime Merge for blame:

* it doesn't do a good enough job following renames (in cases where you would need to use `--follow` to `git log`. `git gui blame` does.

* while there is a "blame parent commit" feature, it's a bit hidden and it's super slow to provide the updated blame.
The browser is good, but Mozilla has been consistently losing market share despite being well-funded. There is considerable debate as to what specific mistakes were made, but the foundation spent a lot of money on side projects that did not benefit the browser such as Servo, Rust and FireFox OS. Likely market share could have been improved had this been spent on marketing or engineering work that directly benefited the browser.
Absolutely. And frankly I think that’s very exciting. If I had to lay a wager I reckon if those problems will be solved by a human intelligence, the most likely method will be through taking advantage of that correspondence and proving some tractable representation of the appropriate program halts.

Like many people I had a casual go at it for Collatz. It was a humbling experience of course, but it did nothing to convince me some more capable person can’t eventually manage it.
> Using an LLM to generate 100000 letters is hardly free, is it?

No, but with further advances it might easily get cheap enough that spammers think it's worth it.

> Bayesian filtering (by the recipient) doesn’t require any knowledge of what other people has received.

Agreed. However, assuming people don't individually configure those filters -- which they currently do not and scaling this up would be something quite novel --, this seems quite gamable
The point is we don't need to change universal time. Thousands of years from now, when solar time drifts away from UTC enough for a particular country to care, that country can change its time zone. There doesn't need to be any global coordination and the process will be gradual enough that nobody will notice.
Another way to explain it, which I think is a "best" explanation in its own right, is that if you start differentiating exponential functions you can't help but discover e. The general differentiation of b^x, for b a constant and x the variable, is ln(x)*b^x. And of course to understand ln you need e.

Or, to put it another way, you will blunder into this somewhere around month two of calculus 1, unavoidably.

Of course, that doesn't show how it will show up in all sorts of other places; "the one and only function that is its own derivative" strikes me as more likely to be something we encounter everywhere.
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> last time I interviewed for IC jobs, which was around 2017.

2017 was a long time ago in industry terms. The FizzBuzz article came out in 2007, your interviews were 10 years after that, and we’re now 7 years after that.

Things have changed a lot. It’s rare to encounter actual LC Hard problems in most interview loops. Most of the reports of LC Hards turn out to be Mediums upon closer examination. The current trend is for people to call anything a “hard” if they couldn’t get it, not necessarily because it came from an LC hard problem.
I like to think of scrum as more a "build up to" than a start at type process. Start with kanban and add as you have time and see fit.

Need to forecast when something will be done? Do sprint planning and assign some story points

Want to track cadence over time? Set a sprint start/stop date so you can measure in time periods

Feeling comfortable in your process and want to continue to look for improvements? Add retros

Working on high collaboration work and need progress updates? Change frequency of stand-ups

Later, you might be in a crunch to complete a big project and sprint planning is redundant since you already have a decent amount planned
Thank you! If it is of public interest, I am happy to discuss it here. If you want to shoot me an email, that would be great.

My path is in "What I do or: science to data science" (https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2015/12/sci-to-data-sci)... and well, a bit more recent one in "Embodiment for nerds" (https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2021/09/embodiment-for-nerds).

Regarding the shortcomings of the Jupyter Notebook, I made a few notes in "How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests" (https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2020/03/types-tests-typescript).
When I lived on the west coast a native friend of mine spoke of how some elders no longer wanted stories to be written down. They have seen how their oral stories get documented, effectively transforming them from a living secret into a fixed text in a dead book. The book then goes on a shelf, fodder for the endless stream of anthropology classes taught ay universities in distant cities. More people read the story in the book than ever come to listen to the story in person.
After a few decades of this pattern, young anthologists are now hearing stories and asking questions about why the story today is possibly slightly different than what was written down a decade prior. There is an old stereotype of western Indians believing that cameras could capture one's soul. That is something to think about when we "document" an oral tradition.
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Ye 27000USD is a no go for like most or almost all prospective scientists if they have to pay it themself.

I think I misunderstood the article.
Technically you are no longer forced to use them but the IPSs will try to make your life as difficult as they can if you want to use your own router while often discounting the rent for their AVM routers to $0 (meaning it everyone pais for them with their base subscriber fee even if you opt out of getting one).
Great! My first thought was "funniest XKCD". Loved the Self Driving one [0]. Thanks!

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1897/
Average ransomware payment demands soars as criminals grow more confident
chess should be a game for the masses too, and I think it is. People play that in cafes too
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Congrats on launching and building something. Unfortunately I think this is very bad for security. We have seen numerous accounts take overs from iMessage and sms based 2fa. This makes it even easier. I also don’t understand why password managers are starting to support storing totp. It is a terrible idea.
Maybe it's a parallel to "if it runs, it works" :)
e isn't really a fundamental physical constant and doesn't show up very much in famous scientific formulas. It's a number that has very convenient properties for performing calculus operations and shows up in that context. pi isn't really an important physical constant, either, but it shows up a lot because of two things --- it's useful for calculations involving cycles, and because things being spherical or circular is a useful simplifying assumption (and also because things particularly in astronomy end up being spherical or circular (or nearly) quite often in reality).

Neither of those things are sort of empirically measured, and in any formula where they show up, you could theoretically absorb them into other constants -- and in fact the Einstein gravitational constant does exactly that -- it's defined as (8*pi*G)/c^4, absorbing pi into newton's gravitational constant (for historical reasons, when using plank units, they set G and c to 1, so it ends up just being 8pi -- _reduced_ planck units set the whole constant to 1). It's just frequently easier to separate out e and pi for the purposes of actually working out the math.
"Exponentiation is actually just repeated multiplication (a^n=a*a*...*a, repeated n times), but you can't do that when n is a fraction or irrational anymore than you can do it when it's imaginary."

That depends on your point of view. You can also view exponentiation as "really" being e's infinite series, and it so happens that that matches what you get in the case of repeated multiplication. The advantage of that is now you can start exponentiating a lot more than just numbers. Here's 3blue1brown on raising e to the power of a matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O85OWBJ2ayo

In general there is fruit in viewing infinite series as the fundamental building block of a lot of math and non-infinite series as the special case. I won't claim which is "real" or "correct", though, just point out that there is value in viewing "repeated multiplication" as the special case rather than the "real" thing. Of course you can always view exponentiation as the generalization too.
Apple didn't kill KHTML, the web did.

As I've already stated, any company that may fork a similar project would actually cause more benefit than harm. KHTML died because the web started to get very complex very fast and KDE volounteers couldn't keep up with that pace, unlike Apple employees. Now that the web is a bit more stable, with less standards that are more thought-out (webassembly), it's a lot easier to maintain a web browser. So if tomorrow Microsoft hops in and announces it's intent to fork ladybird, then the latter would not only be fine, but it would probably recieve a new wave of contributors.
> We are selecting for the maximally pathological machines.

This is not quite right. We're selecting for maximally long-running (or mark-producing, etc) programs. Whether those programs turn out to be "pathological" in some sense is an open question, and a question that can only be answered (to a limited extent) by observing and analyzing actual champion machines. Apriori, there's nothing we can say about what a champion program will do or what its code will be like. The Spaghetti Code Conjecture says that these champion programs will tend to be complicated. I have argued in the past that this may not be the case. It's entirely possible that the code of a champion program will be written more or less straightforwardly, and its long-running-ness comes from executing some bizarre and exotic mathematical function.

Actually, I think the more likely outcome is that some champions will be spaghetti and some will be clean. If they were all spaghetti or all clean, then that fact could be exploited to speed up the search process by discarding all programs not matching the property. And that sounds too good to be true, so it probably isn't. Maybe BB(8) champion is clean, BB(9) is spaghetti, etc, and there are no reliable trends.
Qwen2 LLM interview with Junyang Lin [video]
They have moved on from pharmaceutical doping due to the extensive testing to what is referred to as "mechanical doping". Motors are hidden in hubs/frames and the organisation is busy doing everything they can to pretend that it isn't a problem.
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Why is the danger sickening? Of course the equipment is dangerous -- it all exists so you can kill people and not die well beyond any natural level, and there's no such thing as a free lunch.
this ritual likely had a real effect on the person (similar to placebo effect). They probably wouldn't have kept it up for 12k years if they weren't getting some tangible improvement.
That's exactly how it is done in code too, but visual designs are easier to detect and cross-reference.

Another proof that AGI will never work, just used for marketing and fund-grabbing purposes.
This is reminiscent of the US government considering PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) with keys larger than 40 bits to be munitions and so could only be exported under license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
Edit: they have since added support for this, my bad
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I am still bummed that ProtonMail doesn't support automatic forwarding. Their rationale is that E2EE makes this impossible, but most of my incoming mail is unencrypted anyway, and I could decrypt the rest myself with Thunderbird and GPG. Lack of automatic forwarding support makes it harder to switch mail providers, on the other hand.
Social media is a likely cause of confusion in modern mate selection
Happened a second time :-( although this time my opponent still had a chance.

Both games where my opponent left, now show as wins in my history.

Also, I like the dice addition, but on desktop, the dice images are not matching up with what is rolled and displayed in the log.

How long does an opponent have until they auto forfeit if they don't move?
As well as anyone's general thoughts/experiences, I'd appreciate opinions on the error handling mechanism jb uses to detect errors in upstream jb processes that jb is reading from.

Normally, detecting errors on the other end of a pipe requires care in a shell environment (e.g. retrospectively checking PIPESTATUS). I used an approach I've called Stream Poisoning. It takes advantage of the fact that control characters are never present in valid JSON. When jb fails to encode JSON, it emits a Cancel control character[1] on stdout. When jb encounters such a character in an input, it can tell the input it's reading from is truncated/erroneous. This avoids the typical problem of a pipe silently being read as an empty file.

I've got a page explaining this with some examples here: https://github.com/h4l/json.bash/blob/main/docs/stream-poiso... I can imagine using control characters in a text stream being rather controversial, but I feel it works quite well in practice.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_character
> You should be forced

I think you answered this yourself.
One of my favorite parts if the excellent book Visual Complex Analysis is where he explains that e is defined in terms of the derivative of the exponential function. E is e because that’s what it has to be for the exponential function to be its own derivative.
since we use django, its own migration works best.
Does the other person need a proton account to use it as well?
Paying customer for many years.

I like Proton Pass and switched to it about a month ago from 1Password. It's not quite there yet; I'm thinking of switching back. There are still some sharp edges like lack of support for credit cards, addresses, etc.
I'm thrilled to see Vectara here – they have one of the top Product Managers I've ever had the chance to work with and be mentored by.
Also a paying customer. I completely agree. They keep doing this, widening their scope constantly while every new product launched seems to get less ongoing attention than the last one.
"Company President Brad Smith also revealed that China accounts for only 1.5% of Microsoft’s total revenue at a recent congressional hearing, raising questions about its future in the country."

1.5% sounds like a number massaged to please the particular audience.
Another one to watch out for is mud diapirs. In coastal deltas where thousands of feet of infill has occurred over time the interaction between hydrocarbon formation and organic silts can create mud volcanoes.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-signatures...

These can be anywhere things that shoot liquid mud out of the ground to areas of very deep low seismic velocities where you could drive a pile thousands of feet to the bottom of hell and barely get any resistance.

Much the same, one should be careful when drilling into mud layers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow
Technically "Alps" is the plural of "alp", which means a very high mountain.
TIL that "Piledriver" wasn't invented by WWE.
Have you happened to have read Visual Complex Analysis?

If not I think you might like it.

And a tangent from your username: I quite like how complex numbers and functions like CIS made it into Common Lisp.
Did Engadget jump the gun on this one? I don't see a link, blog post or press release on any of Proton's sites, and I don't see a link in the article.
Sounds like regular lora adapters
Nice article, really like the survey bit. I know titles are just one tiny aspect, but they do set the tone, and in this case framing as a negative ("sad state") might put people off and may undermine the goal of getting people to adopt property-based testing. Though perhaps specifically this article is about stateful property-based testing, so it kinda comes off as negative against the existing library authors. I assume your intent is pure so rephrasing as "property-testing could be so much better" might be more positive. I am likely on the far end of sensitive on this only because I've spent a decade stuck in the negative view ("sad state" "everything sucks" "why did they design it that way" etc) and I'm trying to work my way out of it now. Anyways, too long rambling and mostly not even directed at the author necessarily but comment readers more generally.

As for how to get more adoption of property-based testing and/or stateful and/or parallel property-based testing, is there any way to do this from outside the language level? So you'd write your tests to consume commands and produce results from stdio, then an external process can drive the testing process. Can you run these in a VM to get deterministic thread scheduling for any language? Fakes could be implemented in any language and use the same stdio mechanism. And then build up a public set of known-good fakes. Ideally the fakes could be composable but not sure that is easy. Of course for bespoke things you'll need a bespoke fake, but I am thinking of the general stuff like a dictionary, queue, etc. This is all sparked because I've been thinking of how to build a giant inter-language inter-library testing database, initially with unit tests but this made me think about how to incorporate property based tests.
And maybe the remaining physical evidence ruled out other limbs.
It’s misleading marketing. They sell their email service as “E2EE”, even though the majority of emails flowing through their system are in fact NOT end to end encrypted, they’re visible to Proton in plaintext upon receipt. This is a fundamental limitation of email protocols. You only get E2EE by using PGP at both ends.
You’ve read Bruce Pascoe? His reputation tarnished or otherwise, Dark Emu was a brilliant book for me.
TFA also covers that - desert in the north and rainforest in the south.
> They are falling into the hole of adding products on top of products, while their core apps are decaying.

It's not a hole, it's only natural. It's easier to add new products than it is to improve existing ones (tech debt), and new products can bring in new customers, make existing customers happier, etc. which is easier to see and justify.

That being said, the Android app has some weird gaps (like can't snooze an email) that probably won't take long to fix.
I agree. The /s marks end of joke/sarcasm fyi (which itself is abbreviated from 
joke
).
> (...) and these models must account for how physical properties scale.

Tom Scott made a video about similar facility in Poland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jplrbxI5GN8
The story of Pleiades might be as old as 100 000 years.
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two replies - legal regulated exchanges "define value" and/or markets that have demand and clear participation "define value" .. in fact it is both, and more than both.. good to discuss this generally in the USA at this time imho
JLPT N2 129/180 after 4 months of lesson,

JLPT N1 160/180 after another 10 months of self taught. Vocab & grammer full score.

Ask me anything, because I am bored.
Or maybe the other way around. Maybe that to do something interesting, it would take at least 34 qubits.
Why would a backgammon game need multiple threads?
Indeed. The dynamics created by Google do not favor this approach.

If you spew garbage, your page gets de-ranked. If your page is de-ranked, the page doesn't "exist" (effectively un-findable by most of the world).

So it's the classic rock and a hard place. For me, I still strive to create high quality, useful content because I hope it helps others. I've given up concerning myself with scrapers feeding LLMs and AI.
That's how how leet code questions are presented now hah
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They are becoming like SAP though where initially a company buys one service and it soon finds itself buying every adjacent service from them. If they manage to do that successfully they will be quite profitable.
ChatGPT suggests self-assuredly and completely wrong "The famous cyclist known by the acronym EDB is Egan Daniel Bernal".
This specific case seems reasonable. Mail implies Drive (you want to keep large attachments somewhere), both imply Docs (you want to preview those docs somewhere and maybe add some edits).

If you want to diversify, Pass may be a good candidate for not using it.
You can post this sort of thing without the Show HN but Show HN itself is for a more specific kind of thing, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.
On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
Reminds me of the "What is my purpose" scene from Rick and Morty.
You and I must have worked at the same insurance company. Except my time was before k8s. They had a multi-million-dollar data pipeline rewrite that somehow turned out to be slower than the old one.
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