skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I want is to automate the manufacturing systems I depend upon while also structuring things in such a way that I am part of a cooperative that owns and operates that equipment. Then me and everyone else in this co-op can receive the benefits of automation instead of being kicked to the curb so capital owners can get another super yacht. Point being, automation isn’t the root of the problem, the structure of firms in our economy is.
other(maybe more) important points: indexes vs non-indexes and heavy batch updates vs smaller updates and inserts.
The big problem of serials is their monotonic grow. Each time adding new record you go beyond statistics boundaries and challenge PostgreSQL to guess..
Kind of, but not really. Nix is extremely complicated. Programs / projects including their dependencies is exceedingly simple.

Also, Windows is my primary dev environment. Any solution must work cross-platform and cross-distro. Telling everyone to use a specific distro is not a solution.
Compare: "When will we finally cure parasites", or "limb injuries".
There is also a the man in the tower for terrans - doesn't count towards supply.

https://old.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/iod6dr/in_respon...
like a sibling I paid around $4.25 / lb butchered and packed for a grass fed quarter cow in 2023 in Seattle. Farmer just advertises on craigslist and beef is great. you can also find them by asking at the rural meat packer who is selling.
The core philosophical truth of healthcare is you can never have a system that prioritizes care above all. Such is economically intractable. Imagine millions of immortals with artificial heart/lungs (called ECMO, exists for a long time), artificial kidneys (dailysis), etc, costing LOTS Of econonmic resources per day, living for years. The truth of this transcends government. A communist or socialist government still must confront resource allocation.

What we need is something that looks at that efficiency-care-quality tradeoff curve and finds something like the markowitz efficient frontier. Now.. that hospitals operate at such efficiency ought to be a consequent of capitalistic competition even in a for-profit context. The american health system is so crooked and bureaucratic and overpriced, perhaps the most we can do is demand our hospitals be non-profits. Many "non-profit" hospitals seemingly have megabooms in growth, which makes me wonder where the money is coming from to fund the growth, if not profit.
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I was born in 1971, my first exposure to a computer was an Apple II running Logo in one of my gifted classes. I was hooked at that moment. My main hobby today at 52 is still coding. At work I am an analytics architect. Pretty much means I help design everything, but I also do a lot of the coding. I hate web development, especially the Angular/Typescript stuff we do, but I make up for it by doing my own thing (assembler and C) on my own stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever stop enjoying it.
There's more to AI than LLMs though, like Alpha Fold figuring the structure of 200 million proteins for example. You can link those systems to your LLM so you can ask it what do you think of this protein and what experiment could I do on it and so on. There are many such avenues to explore. I don't see things getting stuck at a maxima for quite a while.
> Because of those design tricks, the regulator says it found instances where players were charged while [...] pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item

This kind of deliberately vague phrasing makes me immediately suspicious. This 'button adjacent to the preview button' - that wouldn't happen to be the buy button, would it?
Looking at the facts and references sections is an exercise in absurdity: by and large, they contain neither objective facts nor credible references. Until the thing can automatically fact-check it is useless, once it does I suspect it will become useless, as knowing what information to trust is most of the problem when trying to gain wisdom from something.
Good thing they didn’t make a movie of this.
"Aviation startup" means building planes of selling flight tickets?
Sounds like it. My house in Miami was subject to Adelphia (a notorious scam company) while my friend 20 miles away had fiber to the curb in 2002 or something.
It’s well known that middle managers love to grow headcount. That doesn’t matter.

If teams aren’t resulting in profit, they’re gonna get pressured to make cuts or will have RIFs imposed on them. I’ve seen this happen at every company, even big seemingly inept monsters like Oracle and IBM.
If you'd like something more technical, these two are fun (especially if you read them in order):

• Feynman Lectures On Computation
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

The first book is a nice way to get started with reversible computation and quantum computing.
Licensing is a thorny issue. Office follows the Universal License Terms [0] which have various restrictions, such as not offering Office to 3rd parties and all users internal to a company who use a service like yours would require an Office CAL themselves. You would need a Volume License subscription for Office client. Retail copies are most definitely not licensed for this use-case. This would include anyone using your software -- they would need to have a volume licensed copy of Office.

I would suggest talking to a company like CDW who can assist with license terms or Microsoft Licensing -- don't take an HN or any other forum reply as a definitive answer. Microsoft typically doesn't let you get away 'cheap' when you use their software like this. And they've covered all of the bases you can think of to be cheap.

Since docx is 'open', any masochistic third party can write a library to interact with it -- or just take from the likes of LibreOffice and adapt it for server-side software. This avoids the Microsoft licensing discussion.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/product/ForallSoft...
This has been the bane of my entire career. I have never, not once, encountered a CI system that could run the test suite faster then my development machine.

Which is absurd. Cloud resources on servers with more CPUs then I have, and yet the difference in timing is measured in tens of minutes.
OTC medication is not typically strong enough to fully fend off a migraine (no, excedrin migraine doesn’t count). Go see a doctor, explain your symptoms etc and get prescribed something like rizatriptan.
I just want to say that killing some one with a missile is a very American thing to do. Killing some one with a missile with swords on it is a VERY VERY American thing to do.

For as much as people dying is bad, one has to appreciate the abject insanity that this was proposed, engineered, built, used and worked.
writing can be so pervasive, even compulsive, especially nowadays and in digital spaces, that it might be due for a counter:
how to just think. how to think freely. think unburdened by having to put thoughts into a form, written or spoken, out loud or internal, or even verbalized in any way at all, without being slowed down by any of those things
Also what other structures are left out because they haven't been discovered because staining techniques don't make them visible? The dark matter of biology, is anyone even trying to look for such things? Though you would think electron microscopy would reveal everything.

Everything I read in the article makes it sound like vaults are part of the immune system, but nobody understands how they work. It seems really weird that there can be a major structure in a cell "thousands in some cells" and research has not found what role they play after decades. Probably a noble prize waiting here.

They knocked out the vaults in experiments, but did they then challenge the vault-deprived mice with viruses or did the mice live in an isolated environment to keep them away from confounders? If you remove part of the immune system and there are no immune challenges then it would seem like that part of the system does nothing. The environment matters a lot in such experiments.
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If every commit of software had the potential to put someone in prison or ruin their life based on a law that didn't exist though the agency itself interpreted for their own self-interest, I would certainly want a meeting for every commit.

Furthermore, it's not "every commit" - it's commits that are questionable or have varying interpretations. Most litigation occurs relating to known laws that has substantial case law relating to it. The edge case situations are the ones that are not accounted for, and they're the far minority of litigation. It's these edge case situations which will require a meeting, and deservedly so. I'm sure you wouldn't be against that, however if you have facts to provide that would show this would be a bad outcome or what I stated would in fact lead to an absurd result, then please go ahead an provide it.
Perl has lots of weirdness, that's not surprising to anyone. It's still quite consistent in how it interprets sigils though, even if it's irritating (I don't find stuff like "@{$foo->{bar}}" all that beautiful either). It's not like there was some universal norm around sigils, programmers intuition is informed by the languages they actually use.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"

Can't remember where I saw this pointed out, but this Gibson quote from neuromancer won't make any sense to anyone young enough to have not been exposed to analog TV. And most radios by default do channel scan, so you aren't even exposed to audio static as much anymore either.
That is what they say though.

I am Christian in a very literal sense, would use AD dating etc. and have no problem with it whatsoever, I just don't feel the need to suffix (or sometimes prefix) it with 'year of our lord' the way some Americans do; I find it quite jarring.

It's like feeling the need to say 'day of rest' or 'sabbath' every time you say a particular day of the week, or some other (possibly areligious) descriptor of something whenever it's mentioned.
Right. I read it as merely an argument again “this thing Google did to be evil.”

It’s more complicated than that and there’s no way to discuss things if someone takes that stance.

The article wasn’t trying to convince you the changes was good or bad.

People can do what they see as the right thing (limiting plugins) for the right reason (they had WAY too much access to data), and despite no evil being intended or agenda to protect the ad business existing, people come to that conclusion.

This facts are just all more complicated than the common talking points you see. That’s it seems to be trying to show.
Explaining a point is part of an argument. And the premise is unsound and illogical and if we had an LLM firewall their post would have been blocked until they cleaned up their reasoning.
Definitely haven't been getting worse at the riffle shuffle. But one of my more nerdy gaming buddies doesn't allow any of his cards to be riffled as it degrades the cards.
This came up with my first search "openai security": https://trust.openai.com

At the bottom is a link to report an issue. Seems like there are multiple ways to report issues. And they come with the potential for bug bounties.

And so many companies don't follow the security.txt standard that it puts OpenAI well ahead of most companies.
The real issue is companies are incentivized to be hacked, and to collect everything so they can sell it as a subscription.

They have almost no liability for improperly securing their own systems and they allocate their budget accordingly.

There is a general presumption of no liability for software flaws. The execs gamble at whether or not they'll be hit with a data breach, or hit the jackpot (before they move on with their shares vested).

Its a simple calculus of headcount affected by cost of identity protection services for x time vs. ongoing recurring costs.
With limb injuries, are you predicting that we'll never figure out a way to regrow limbs? It is my understanding that there's nothing inherently impossible about regrowing limbs, we are only limited by our lack of knowledge and existing capabilities.
The Root of all Evil- more sayings
As a quick follow up. When I started development professionally in 1996, it definitely wasn’t for money. My roommate who was a waitress in a nice restaurant here in Atlanta made twice what I brought home. I just loved that I went into work each day and got paid to solve problems. I see so many developers these days that are just in it for the money, and they’re really not enjoyable to work with.
It's been rumored that the SemiconductorAnalysis GPT-4 arch leak might be from here.
Don't follow. Can you explain the political connection?
This comment helped get me over the barrier to take a closer look...
This came up with my first search "openai security": https://trust.openai.com At the bottom is a link to report an issue.

Did you click the link? What happened when you did?
The first one doesn't help with remembering times tables. The second one is outside the 1-10 times table we were talking about.
He does. You can hear his New York accent all the way through his books.
The absurdity in the constitution is getting to be almost biblical, where we have different generations of priests giving their interpretation and reinterpretations of what the founding pantheon ordained. In reality, it was meant to be a living document that evolved with the times, not an immutable ledger of all our misdeeds and misjudgements.

I don't know what the ideal kind of government is, but when the weight of it can crush some and shield others depending on the will of a minority it's no longer a government for the people, by the people.
The author is describing two cases of poor management. The first are self-interested managers. The second are laissez-faire (in a bad way) leaders who have all but abdicated their position. Both are bad.

There is no "healthy laziness." This is a cynical term that does a disservice to leaders who skillfully practice with a light touch.
> The name — dopamine fasting — is a bit of a misnomer. It’s more of a stimulation fast. But the name works well enough, Dr. Sepah said.
“Dopamine is just a mechanism that explains how addictions can become reinforced, and makes for a catchy title,” he wrote in an email. “The title’s not to be taken literally.”

At least it contained this out.

Cringeworthy techbro quests for increased productivity and the whole thing morphs into product placement. Good time to touch grass.
> Imagine a clocked-down Turing computer

You brought up infinite machines, hence my and the other person's comment. Turing computers or machines have infinite tape. Maybe you meant to just say "computer," not "Turing computer."

Humans can use computers but only for human readable tasks. There is no guarantee that we could comprehend a superintelligence running off a supercomputer, we already don't understand neural network internals at even their current stage.
The tree thing is state-wide. Most of my complaints and examples relate to Hornsby, one recent tree within Kuringgai.
As a counterpoint, I really enjoyed the UI. I never really messed around with shortwave, but the UI really reminded me of the hyper-skeumorphic software that used to be more common. I didn't have an intuitive idea what all the buttons do, but the design encouraged just clicking around and experimenting to see what they do. I found it fun at least.
The problem I see a lot of JS developers having when they start using Python is they try to do the "import the entire world" strategy of development that's common in JS, and there isn't good tooling for that because Python just doesn't have that culture. And that's because it's a bad idea--it's not a better idea in JS, it's just more part of the culture.

Pick one package source. Stick with it. And don't import every 0.0.x package from that package source either.

There are obviously reasons to use more than one package source, but those reasons are far rarer than a lot of inexperienced devs think they are. A major version number difference in one package isn't a good reason to complicate your build system unless there are features you genuinely need (not "would be nice to have", need).
You wouldn't, you would use JSR.
Two months ago I got 6.8kW installed on my house for $13,000CAD. Some of that was DIY, but I just bought the whole system retail.

So just under $2 CAD/kW installed and running - inverter, licensed electrician and permits, everything. (That's under $1.50 USD/kW)

The panels are now cheaper than when I bought them too :)
I still use tkinter for apps that I make for my own use. Those are often for lab automation, where a primitive GUI lets me avoid needing 3 hands while running an experiment, and the support for live graphs is extremely useful.

For stuff that I'm likely to share with others, I've been moving over to Flet, because it lets me build things like webapps and stand-alone Windows apps. Both of those things can eliminate the hassles of installing Python apps as experienced by non-programmers.

I hate writing GUI code, and in both cases have written crude wrappers that let me throw together a functional dialog with tolerable defaults for everything. This approach works for "programmers who shouldn't trust themselves to write GUI's," similar to the old Visual Basic.
> It's unlikely that any of these systems are 'hack proof'. Physical access, and all that.

Surely, but if you don't even try... It's just theater.
There is another way.

Reinvent the way academic careers work. No need to even have the concept of tenure. No need to get a PhD degree to be recognized as someone researching something.

Anyone should be able to publish research without being on such restrictive terms. The article's main takeaway is that the institution of academia has perverse incentives that hold back innovation. I believe the way jobs and degrees are structured are part of that.
Docs > Getting started's only code is in a screenshot? (That doesn't render properly, legibly, at least for me right now, on mobile?)
Seconding Rizatriptan. It's a game changer. It also seems to work better earlier, before the pounding really sets in, but in the worst case it still turns it down a lot.

In addition to triptans, there's another class of migraine medication that's relatively new, but given the cost and back and forth your doctor will have to do, they prefer to start with triptans: *gepant drugs like Nurtec and Ubrelvy.
> definitely in 2007 the general agreement was Microsoft was losing to Google and Apple

In 2007, [1]

MS had market cap 274B (#4), revenue rank 49.

Apple had market cap 80B(#33), revenue rank 121.

Google had market cap 143B (#17), revenue rank 241.

MS had, and still has, many billion dollar sub-businesses. Google and Apple have never had as many highly profitable lines as MS does (and did).

I think only pop media sold the story that Microsoft was "losing," and maybe only that in areas MS didn't historically compete in or make much money in. Google had almost all revenue from ads (and still do, a very one trick pony), and Apple had a few lines (iPhones, iTunes, not much else), while MS had Client, Server and Tools, Online Services, Business Division, Entertainment and Devices, each with many billions in revenue (and many of them containing yet more billion+ subdivisions). Even Visual Studio had over a billion in revenue annually.

Apple and Google had very little effect on any of these revenue streams in 2007. At best, Microsoft was late to the areas Apple and Google were in, yet took markets anyways in some areas (Azure vs google?).

[1] https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/perf...
The constitution is not readily amendable. So basically the only way of changing the constitution to fit present day need is to have judges do creative interpretation.
That will only really be solved in a post scarcity society, it cannot come about before then because there are always more people to squeeze.
The other thing is that the chaotic pile on the table, well-mixed, is about as fast as 7 riffles mixed with cuts and probably (my personal experience) equally mixed.

Just makes you feel like a child.
Hence, more savvy researchers would rather get private funding instead of jumping through grant hoops.
Math progression looks roughly like the following:

1. "Concrete" math, where you learn how to manipulate mathematical constructs, usually guided by worked examples. Little proof involved. (up to advanced HS / junior college level)

2. Proof driven math, use of worked examples becomes more rare (undergrad math)

3. Highly abstract math, where worked examples are more or less entirely abandoned (grad school math)

The vast majority of world will never be exposed to math beyond (1), and even people in the STEM field will only be limited to (2). You almost need to study math at a high level, or something very adjacent to math, in order to reach (3).

But it should be mentioned that one part of why worked examples diminish as you work your way up, is that you're kind of expected to make your own examples - meaning that you can take highly abstracted mathematical constructs/objects, and relate them to something tangible.

Some people have no problem learning math that way, while others struggle. I personally struggled to learn math without any examples, so getting my mind into graduate level math was rough.

Luckily there are so many resources to higher-level math, these days. You're not bound to a handful of "bibles" that are filled with "... is left as an exercise for the reader"
>If the people weren’t providing some positive ROI then the execs

The majority, the vast majority, of executives are not capable of measuring this any way you slice it.
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I had a math instructor in my small, unknown technical school for my mechanical engineering program. He took a huge amount of initiative to work with the profs in the engineering department to make our assignments into word problems showing us exactly how what we were learning would be used later on.

I think it was a lot more useful because we could see how each of the subparts in a multi-part question worked together to solve engineering problems.

I know this isn't possibly in a generalist class with students from many departments, but there are some ways to make them less boring.
Dialogue is good. I am unconvinced think it’s more effective in a video form.
I like 'proj' for my own projects, 'git' for stuff I clone and may or may not contribute to.
Whether or not she was improved or worsened, she was luckier than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Eckstein#Surgery anyway.
The entire premise is based around the idea that one still has to appear busy or has a desire to demonstrate something that will justify a raise.
It's exactly as readily amendable as it ever was, and previous generations were demonstrably able to amend it.
I sure hope you are right (but i dont thonk you are) k12 costs are the second biggest line item on most provimces bidgets after healthcare and way more than half of that is salaries. being able to fire 80 to 90 % of those jobs would be amazing.
It seems as if the two party system cemented everything until an absolute disaster is at hand. I have hopes that RCV and National Popular Vote can at least add some dynamism to the system.

But, besides that, I am at a loss for solutions.

Although I found this recent discussion with Jon Stewart left some more breadcrumbs in my mind to follow. https://youtu.be/n_EofYXRBnM?si=6GL_bT6siM9A7IHn