skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "play with their prey" is hard to define. But since you seem to just want big cats doing that behavior whatever it is with humans, is 10-15 minutes enough?

https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/horror-footage-sho...

"The tiger was seen batting the young man like a toy as he held his hands in prayer. Masqood was grabbed by the neck as terrified witnesses began throwing sticks and stones, shooting at the animal in an attempt to distract it in a desperate bid to save Masqood.

One witness recalled racing over to the enclosure after hearing Masqood's screams. There, he saw Masqood locked in the tiger's jaws, "writhing badly in pain". He added that Masqood "kept suffering for the next 10-15 minutes" with another witness saying Vijay the tiger kept "roaming around" the enclosure, carrying Masqood by his neck."

I don't think it's considered unusual, I've heard it a few times before. Stories you hear will be animals with human exposure generally. If you want to get deep into it that's a thesis. But big cats not killing primates quickly seems not unusual.
> e is the unique real number satisfying 1 + x <= e^x for all x.

I think if you replace e by 2e, this still holds. Therefore your definition of e is not unique.
While I absolutely love this illustration (and frankly everything Jay Alammar does), it is worth recognizing there is a distinction between visualizing how a transformer (or any model really works) and what the transformer is doing.

My favorite article on the latter is Cosma Shalizi's excellent post showing that all "attention" is really doing is kernel smoothing [0]. Personally having this 'click' was a bigger insight for me than walking through this post and implementing "attention is all you need".

In a very real sense transformers are just performing compression and providing a soft lookup functionality on top of an unimaginably large dataset (basically the majority of human writing). This understanding of LLMs helps to better understand their limitations as well as their, imho untapped, usefulness.

0. http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
I wouldn't include codegen under biphasic programming, which is, according to the lede of The Fine Article:

> characterized by languages and frameworks that enable identical syntax to express computations executed in two distinct phases or environments while maintaining consistent behavior (i.e., semantics) across phases

Munging together strings into something which is hopefully source code is the ultimate escape valve for languages which have poor or nonexistent facilities for biphasic programming. You compile a program, it executes, it spits out a program, you compile that and run it. That isn't biphasic: it's one phase, twice.
The presence of a neck means the cat is more likely to play with its food? That is outside my world model having lived around wild predators, including wild cats, most of my life. I had a mountain lion kill a deer three nights ago outside my house on our property. It seemingly didn't kill it outright since I heard the deer 15 minutes later make a similar sound. I have seen the same behavior in house cats with mice and lizards. The case is on y'all to say why a primate as prey would be different
Nope, seems pretty quick. Well done!
Totally fair. The choice to name it "bring" instead of "import" or "use" was mainly to add some flavor to the language, and make it easier to distinguish from the top of the file that "ah, this is a Wing code snippet, not a Zig/TypeScript/Python code snippet".
The VPN is "well-done" but "useless"?
> Like the radio cookie tin the Germans were searching for, the problem is painfully obvious and immediately visible: we’re overextending ourselves with work.

At my organization, I think the reason is organizational structure and focus time. When I look at all the WIP tickets I have open, most of them would be easy to close, if only I could get unblocked on them.

Structurally, if you have a lot of managers with control over their little fiefdoms, and you need to get sign off from all of them to do something, that can take weeks: I have a couple tickets right now that can't be closed until I either find time for a meeting with 7 busy people, or schedule 7 individual meetings. In the middle of summer, with vacations and all, that's not easy.

Engineers at our organization, which is remote first, have done a great job of protecting their focus time. But one negative consequence of this is that they can't be interrupted even when they should be. If I need to ask the Lord of the Backend Engineers a question, I know he's not going to respond to me until the last half hour of his day, when he does all the stuff he considers beneath him, including communicating with other people. And it's probably going to be a terse, one-sentence response that requires another followup the next day.

I really don't think there's too much work for any reasonable company, I think the lack of throughput is due to communication issues, or in a larger sense a cultural issue related to how we expect to interact with each other. I'm not ready to say this is a remote work problem, because my last organization was 100% remote, and didn't have this issue at all.
This is not a bad idea but the payment was done through Revolut.

I tried, we'll see what happens.
I suspect nursing is exactly where a lot of would-be teachers have been going (education degree enrollment has been trending down).
This does look like something a single developer could pull off though?
Teams has supported a subset of markdown formatting for a while. I discovered it by accident when typing a temporary password to someone, enclosing it in `backticks`.
They almost certainly could, but also they would also almost certainly be prone to the same kind of embellishments of such stories as they are passed on.
There are more Quechua words, but yes, a few food names are not "language influence" in any seruous way. French influenced English and Russian, Arabic influenced Spanish, but the only linguistic legacy of Germans in Chile are kuchen, strudel, and some weird last names used as street names.
I hoped for insight about dingoes but instead it's just a pedantic jerk about things that aren't to do with dingoes.
Water Scarcity Likely to Increase in the Coming Decades
Tiny chip could enable super-secure quantum Wi-Fi
Most of Us Are Right Handed but Left Eyed
We still make the most potent iocane powder.

In fact, a good friend of mine works there: https://iocane.com.au

One of those sentences is true.
strategic - adjective

done as part of a plan that is meant to achieve a particular purpose or to gain an advantage

strategy - noun

a plan that is intended to achieve a particular purpose

How many fewer blog posts and / or twitter threads would be needed if people just used a dictionary to look up a word? There is no content in this article that is relevant as the author appears to have come up with an off label meaning for words.
Dogs seem to want to play until they're physically unable to.
The cat might not want to move as much anymore if it has arthritis.
> It’s really both fine and up to our grand-grand-grand-grand-etc-children to decide.

I'd rather build gradual adjustments into our systems so that they have to be resilient to this sort of thing. Sure, leaving it up to our distant descendants is enticing, but then they're going to have a Y2K-sized problem to fix. I'd rather leave a legacy of systems that were designed to be resilient.
It's not the first time that I read hypothesis of Aboriginal oral traditions that stayed for much longer than anywhere else in the world. I wonder why it would be the case there and not elsewhere
Then you should welcome the announcement as it offers yet another alternative for hosting docs. I don't think Proton implies that you must use the entire bundle of services — you could always mix and match them with other providers (or self-host, for the ultimate freedom).
it's only able to operate on header information, which isn't encrypted while in transit
> Differentiation of sin x and cos x is the same independent of the unit of x, and nothing else is used in the series.

Implicit in that statement is the use of the series definition of sine, which is a "meaningful" or "natural" definition insofar as it represents some function we care about. I'll address at the end what happens if we assume that definition regardless of its independent plausibility, but first consider:

The semantic meaning of sine, at least from its historical roots and how you might independently uncover it from earlier fields like geometry instead of later fields like differential equations, is that given an angle (in some units, we'll touch on that in a moment) we'd like to know the ratio two sides of a particular triangle associated with that angle inscribed in a circle. Given a choice of units for the angle, the triangle is fixed, and so the result (that ratio of side lengths) is also fixed.

Suppose you want to know how that ratio varies with respect to the angle. You can imagine a change of coordinates `y = cx` and consider the derivative of `sin(x)` vs `sin(y/c)`. The latter will have a numeric value `1/c` times less than the former. E.g., imagine a whole circle represented `1` angle instead of `2pi`. Then converting from our normal radians baseline to that new unit you have `y = (1/2pi)x`, and the derivative of the semantic ratio we're considering with respect to the new measure of angle is multiplicatively `2pi` greater than the original.

Going back to your series definition, suppose we pick that series as the definition of sine, independent of units. The problem that arises is that particular uses of sine do have units, and converting from the problem you care about to your particular from-on-high chosen definition of sine will run into the exact sort of problem our `y = cx` paragraph above touched on. The derivative with respect to the quantity of interest still has an extra `1/c` factor, and the fact that our God-blessed choice of sine is independent of units didn't actually solve anything in the composite problem.
Yep.

In the end I switched away from proton due to their negligence on this core product suite.
Really, hidden motors in the tour? That would be an interesting read.
Related: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/2/24191049/mastodon-built-in...
nine sounds like a german word also, and our colleagues in germany joked about this and pinned memes in the break room about it
The comptime keyword is only needed in Zig if the code could execute at runtime. It forces compile-time evaluation, but it isn't the only way for it to happen.

So Zig actually does what you seem to think it should do (and I agree! it's great!): if something can be calculated at compile time, it is. Only when the compiler can't statically deduce a compile-time construct is it necessary to use the `comptime` keyword: in fact, it's an error to use the keyword when the context is already comptime.
Just make leap seconds first class.

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/make-the-leap-second-first-c...
Well, then maybe write a blog post explaining exactly what happened here and submit that?

Because, even having re-read the article you linked, it does not support the conclusion that "[an] exchange[...] was totally ruined because of [weak isolation]" at all?
(I'm working from memory, so I may bungle details)

Speaking personally, I enjoyed Sublime Text, so I was happy to pay for a license back in the day ($70 if I recall?). When v2 came out, I paid to upgrade, and again with v3. When v4 was released, I paid yet again, but after a period of normal use (a year if I recall), I got a popup informing me I'd need to pay again to keep using ST4. I felt like I'd been hoodwinked--they had sneakily switched the license from perpetual to subscription.

I assume that the switch to subscription licensing was disclosed somewhere in the small print that nobody reads. I feel that the concealment was deliberate (I suspect they'll disagree, but you know the old chestnut about the relative volume of actions and words). At that point I'd been using v4 for a year, and rolling back to v3 with my previously perpetual license would be a big hassle, and obviously I'd lose functionality.

I would have happily kept paying for upgrades, but now I doubt I'll ever spend money with those folks again.
I'm not hyping anything. This is how I've worked for over two decades now. Every time I've deviated from this path, it's been annoying and painful.

It's great to see products like GitHub start to bake it in. In my context, the cloud hosted solution makes perfect sense. I'm a GCP user, and Google has a competing offering that I would use in a heartbeat if GitHub would allow for direct integration, or if Google would get off their ass and launch a GitHub competitor / purchase GitLab and make it a first-party offering integrated directly with Cloud Workstations.

I've used VMs on Windows, netboot on *bsd without VMs, Vagrant on Mac, and random wrappers around Docker. Personally, I like that MS has integrated VS code with the remote execution part. For developers that want that style of IDE, it's freaking magic. For the rest of us, you can just continue using vim/emacs like you always did.

My other personal favorite, is using the same base VM/container image you use for dev environments for your CI/build environment. Guaranteed to have the exact same tools/versions available in both places. Let's you easily do testing/validation before updating / changing things. Makes on-boarding new developers easier. Makes recovering from a lost workstation trivial. Allows you to scale your dev environment on-demand vs. over-provisioning your dev workstations and barely using them. Makes isolating your dev environments behind a firewall/vpn much easier.

It's not a _simple_ cost/benefit analysis. But it's still just a cost/benefit analysis.

Personally, I wish the GitHub Desktop application on Mac/Windows had the ability to launch local workstations using a cache of your repo's devcontainers in the event you want to try and work off-line, or if you actually have headroom on your local machine that you want to use.

Even if you are doing native app development, a lot of folks still use VMs because testing on different OS versions is such a PITA. The nice thing about this approach, is you aren't just walling off the version of your test environment, you're also walling off the version of your dev tooling and all the supporting bits.

Oh, and last but not least, I can do my work assuming a Linux environment regardless of whether I'm hosting on Windows/Mac/Linux.

If I'm here to hype anything, its to convince developers who use Macs to stop trying to treat it like a Unix. Put your Unix in a VM and treat your Mac like a Mac. Life is so much easier.
France generates around 70pc of its electricity from nuclear.

Who cares about this?
> You are free to use TAI instead of UTC in your computing projects, and don't have to try to change the definition of UTC.

Not if you want to interoperate with basically any other system that uses time.
Discussion a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40815097
>So let's just wait until there's 15 minutes of error - a couple of millenia from now. Then move the UTC prime meridian about 3.75 degrees / 400km, fixing the error while keeping UTC monotonically increasing 1 second per second.

Shifting the prime meridian 400km seems like it'd have some unintended consequences akin to the Y2K problem. Its physical location is used as a reference point in some coordinate systems, ECEF for example.
> IMHO LinkedIn is a waste of time.

I couldn't agree more! I don't know why this site is still relevant these days. It should be a sign of an entry-level or mediocre employee/job by now. I haven't updated mine in about four years or so.
>What is tig/tag?

the chain is broken..
Open-Source Particle-Based Viscoelastic Fluid Simulation Implementation [video]
The persistency that you're describing is key. I'd like to think that previous generations were far more content with time and what is associated with it. The mundane of the day-by-day, aging, death, etc.
OK, so it's a passkey for sites that don't support passkeys. I'm fine with that.
BATS was a little heavy for me as a testing dependency for my own use (I ended up writing what I intended to be "the most minimalist shell testing library possible", see below, I think it still needs work though!), but I at least want to commend you for having what looks like a great test suite to begin with!

https://github.com/pmarreck/tinytestlib
So Fermi problems are considered brain-teasers? We considered those especially useful for PMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
Sidekiq 7.3.0: Job Iteration
The solution is obviously to have a leap second every half year, even when the difference with solar time is too small. Just alternative positive and negative leap seconds, and for additional fun, don't have a leap second when the difference with solar has shifted (in the right direction; it should be possible to keep the difference less than 1.5 second, probably much less). We could even do this every month, just to make sure there's enough testing opportunity.
> I disagree, 10^100 seconds in the future is perfectly valid time in any time system

Professor Einstein would like a word...
Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)
We made it possible, you can learn more here: https://proton.me/blog/email-forwarding
I see that they claim all of their apps and libraries are open source[0]. But they only link to the OpenPGP libraries they're using. Is this actually open source? Following the "Open Source" footer link[1], here they only link to the ProtonMail Github account with nothing mentioning ProtonDrive.

And if it is actually open source, I'd love to see a comparison to CryptPad[2]

> which is why we’ve made all our apps and encryption libraries open source

[0] https://proton.me/drive/security

[1] https://proton.me/community/open-source

[2] https://cryptpad.org/
As I remember it e^x is the only function which is its own derivative, which I guess makes e “natural” in some sense.
do you think this can be done at the level of commits in a PR, or is there a big advantage to making it multiple PRs?
Or unless one wants to write formatted output, or unless one wants to handle IO errors with RAII...
Yeah, the problem is that different people/groups in a company have different long term goals and thus want different strategies. Since the CEO is often setting them, "line go up" and 3-4 years align pretty well with incentives. Of course you have to put pretty words around them because everywhere but crypto feels a need to hide this.

Sometimes you get weirdos who want to help a community, build big things, or keep customers more than 5 years, but those aren't the majority.
Ramp Up Quick to Deep Learning
AWS lays the groundwork for liquid-cooled data centers to house new AI chips
Weird focus on ‘pivots’ as being the vehicle through which strategy happens.

The contrast between saying ‘opening another Macdonalds isn’t strategic; investing in Chipotle is’ is emphasizing big bangs as the way strategy is executed, rather than steady execution.

A valid strategy for macdonalds could be ‘ubiquitousness’. Then every new franchise opening is an execution step in support of that strategy. And in that sense opening a new branch is strategic.

Buying a stake in Chipotle is strategic if it’s in support of a business goal around managing the competitive landscape, diversifying branding, accessing new markets, etc.

But if it’s just a place to park some excess capital based on expected returns, and the choice of chipotle was arbitrary (could just as well have put the money in Nike or Microsoft), it could be entirely tactical.
It's funny. You can replace every word to be the other way, and it's even more accurate. E.g:

Many Democrats have shown themselves to be unabashedly evil. What has happened to them? Apart from ballot stuffing to win and using exective power to target political opponents? And what has happened to the principled ones who put country before party? Apart from losing or being pushed to retire?
One single indiscutable example: Biden is a racist. How many diversity-supporting, inclusive-praising Democrats support him?

Oh, another one: Biden is a liar and a pedophile. How many Democrats who focus so much on calling out lies voters and officials have refused to vote for him after his perpetual lieing?
Also to make it a sports contest and not a pharma contest.

It's the same reason there's a minimum weight for bikes used in the race: people tend to disregard security when making lighter bikes, and the cost of experiments means that some competitors exit the sport because they can't compete on funding.
This is just anecdata regarding two people I knew personally. As with everything, reality may be quite different in the aggregate and individual experiences will vary.
Anything can be strategic if you want it to sound more important.

I do like Iaan Banks' take on the strategy/tactics divide in his Culture novels, in which the shipminds believe that a distinction between the two is confused.
The situation with USB is a lot more complicated than it appears. See things like this for instance: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120368/make-a-compu... The controllers that sit between the port and the computer can create significant limitations versus what is theoretically possible if you were directly bit-banging the cords.

You can do this with an ethernet cable, if you have one and an ethernet port on both ends. You can manually set up a network on just that cable and transfer at full speed. (AFAIK all modern ethernet ports are capable of figuring out that they need to crossover in this situation and you haven't needed a special crossover cable in a long time.)
I can imagine that slow static loading could allow sinking whereas dynamic force would not. Soil liquification is a weird thing, analogous to silly putty where it can be soft when manipulated slowly but hard when impacted quickly.
Both Discourse and Discord seem entirely inappropriate for FOSS projects -- they are both proprietary walled-garden SaaS applications that aren't themselves consistent with FOSS principles, and they are both exclusively web-based with close coupling between the UI and the underlying functionality, which makes it difficult or impossible for users to access, log, and archive messages with tools most optimal for their own workflow.

FOSS projects should communicate over open protocols with a variety of interoperable implementations -- whether with tried and true tools like NNTP, mailing lists, and IRC, or more novel solutions like Matrix -- instead of allowing a proprietary third-party web application to present a one-size-fits-all interface and function as a single point of failure for project coordination.
Actually it is because you need car insurance for accidents against third parties. This must be bought before going over the border. Usually there are shops in border towns that can help you with the paperwork.
> a few food names are not "language influence" in any seruous way

Your conclusion is then that Chilean Spanish has no Quechua language influence in any serious way?

> the only linguistic legacy of Germans in Chile are kuchen, strudel, and some weird last names used as street names

You forgot bocha, polca, and murra.
Who's betting on Obama? Now that would be a twist...
> Doesn't seem to be much of the latter in this thread (but then again, this is HN...)

Insert famous "Dropbox is just FTP, who would pay for it" comment here :)
And they were a leadgen/SEO expert a few years ago. These technogrifters just move from one hot topic to the next trying to make whatever buck they can smooth talk people into giving them.
It turns out that security at the expense of usability is at the expense of security.