skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a Mathematician myself, but I totally agree with him regarding the benefits of choosing Mathematics as the career.

My father is a Mathematician with small fame. He was obsessed with Mathematics when he was a kid. In fact, Mathematics was the single thing that helped him to move through the political turmoil during his first 30 years of life.

I'll also quote a paragraph from Cixin Liu's "Ball lighting". It's related.

> "Of course I know!" Dad took another half glass of wine, then turned to me, "Actually, son, living a wonderful life is not difficult. Listen to Dad: choose a universally recognized world problem, preferably a mathematical one that only requires a piece of paper and a pencil, like the Goldbach Conjecture or Fermat's Last Theorem, or a pure natural philosophy problem that doesn't even need paper and pencil, like the origin of the universe. Dedicate yourself entirely to it, focus solely on the process, not the outcome. In the unconscious focus, a lifetime will pass. What people often refer to as a 'pursuit' is just this. Or, conversely, make earning money your sole goal, always thinking about how to make money without considering what to do with it. By the time you die, you can, like Grandet, hold a pile of gold coins and say, 'Ah, so warm...' Therefore, the key to a wonderful life is what you can become passionate about. For example, me—" Dad pointed to the small watercolor paintings placed all around the room. They were all very traditional in technique, well-painted but lacking any real inspiration. The paintings reflected the electric light from outside the window, like a group of flickering screens, "I became passionate about painting, even though I know I can't become Van Gogh."
Was browsepilot.com not available ?

(brows looks weird to me)
Yes, I added a comment as CNN seemed to update the story + headline to indicate that as you say, the injunction is quite specific to the plaintiffs.
You might have been leaving fire pits to burn out for 20 years when you go to bed, but it only takes 1 errant spark for the "overkill" of wetting the ashes isn't overkill.

There are various trade offs you can make depending on your filesystem, OS tooling and hardware which can mitigate risks in different ways. However non-ECC invites a lot of risk. How often are you checksumming your backups to validate integrity? It seeks unlikely you've had 0 memory corruption over 20 years, more likely you didn't notice it or your run a filesystem with tooling that handles it.
The vast majority of devs would take much longer than 6 hours if this task were assigned to them. Yes, the vast majority of devs might suck, but its actually a shockingly low percentage who are genuinely skilled. You are probably surrounded by rare skilled devs.
Dupe, posted earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870515
You think Disney has the wherewithal to win a fight against Microsoft?
No, I don't think so. Leaving a crappy company and taking one's skills to another that knows what it's doing is how the Valley's thrived. A noncompete would prevent that.

Dumb middle managers drive out the good people in CA. It's as simple as that. If they could prevent the good people from plying their trade elsewhere, there'd be no discipline on them at all.
Here in Australia there are thousands of ex-Lease Dell 7060 SFF and 7060 Micros PCs on aucation sites every week.

The Dell's coming off lease now have modern features including Intel 8th Gen CPUs with TPM and USB-C etc...
I predicted this as soon as they announced the ban on noncompetes. If you want this to happen then vote for politicians that have an interest in keeping corporations in check and get a bill passed in Congress. Otherwise, it will just get overturned.
The COSI / Compton spectrometer, designed to identify isotopes in supernova debris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Spectrometer_and_Image...
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This probably breaks my brains’ ability to predict the “hot” pixel, and is also really stupid and unnecessary. I want it

Pixels these days are too small anyhow

MacOS has a feature where you can shake/fling the mouse/your finger on the trackpad around and the cursor will get really big for a second so you can find it if it’s lost. Don’t remember if it’s on by default or an accessibility feature you can enable.

Maybe this could do something similar like fling the cursor around violently and it’ll start flapping and flailing around in circles from the turbulence to make it easier to visually locate on a big, cluttered screen.
> A useful habit that I've begun to follow with more complicated books—especially when reading them out of personal interest—is to actively avoid taking notes or worrying about background material on a first read.

I recommend using those little sticky tabs instead. If I come across something I want to look up later, or want to come back to for whatever reason I use one on the page itself to to highlight the line, and another at the top so I can find the page again. By the time I'm done reading it might be full of those little tabs but it doesn't really slow me down in the moment.
I honestly believe the FTC action was a corporate lobbied event. Why? There were various states where campaigns were ongoing to ban noncompetes. The FTC ruling basically derailed them.
I love reading books that I don't understand and not understanding them. As long as I know there is something there, which I could either look up what others have pieced together online, or reread carefully myself. Funny thing is looking that stuff up or figuring it out is optional, I still enjoy the read where I'm in the dark enough that sometimes I move on. And look back fondly on the book. Gene Wolfe books are very good for this style of reading.

I feel guilty mainly when I run into someone else who says they love the book, and I am totally unable to have a meaningful conversation about it because to be honest I didn't understand or retain much from it. And I end up looking like a poser a lot of the time I'm sure, and maybe I am in some way. But I still read and enjoyed it!
What's New in Joplin 3.0
Just wanted to plug Beau Miles further, his videos are definitely worth a try! My favorite that I remember is the “human bean” one. I wish he would open a patreon or something so I could give him my money.
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Chalmers in point 2 is not saying to imagine such a world, but that such a world is logically possible. Chalmers gives as an example of a logical impossibility a male vixen since it is contradictory. He states "... a flying telephone is conceptually coherent, if a little out of the ordinary, so a flying telephone is logically possible. Nevertheless, that zombies are logically possible, may be begging the question, that consciousness is non physical.
I didn’t understand this. You have to show up at a location once a day and stay there for an hour?
I have zero interest on relying on coworkers for my social life. I've made a select few good friends through work over the years, but generally the people I work with do not relate to me on the same level as the people I voluntarily associate with.
Why Designing for Different Cultures Is Impossible Almost
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” — Jeff Hammerbacher
We have iron in our water in Maryland too
It depends on where you work, like any place. If you work in a western (or westernized) company that uses English internally and where all your coworkers are expats, it's probably not too different from a typical US tech company.
True, they're similar... But what's also similar is that people make the mistake of focusing on differences in failure rates while glossing over failure modes.

Human imperfections are a family of failure-modes which have a gajillion years of experience in detecting, analyzing, preventing, and repairing. Quirks in ML models... not so much.

A quick thought-experiment to illustrate the difference: Imagine there's a self-driving car that is exactly half as likely to cause death or injury than a human driver. That's a good failure rate. The twist is that its major failure mode is totally alien, where units attempt to inexplicably chase-murder random pedestrians. It would be difficult to get people to accept that tradeoff.
Douglas Adams reference for those out of the loop (me).
Now, yes. It used to be a really irritating problem there too.
ResEdit and using it to modify Escape Velocity is 100% the reason I’m still in this industry.
I wonder if there’s much competition in the GDR milsat market.
Is there an out-of-the-box solution that just does all of this - as a hosted solution, a boilerplate, or a best-practices example? Maybe Supabase could do it? Would be nice to one-click deploy a Postgres with cache and auditing and the rest of it.
I think there's a bit more nuance than just ignorance. In some ways, I think reinventing the wheel is almost inevitable when we require backwards compatibility but prefer sane defaults. The expectations around what exactly should happen when making an HTTP request have evolved over time, but we can't change the way that `curl` behaves by default with potentially breaking stuff all over the place. In the same way that I don't judge people who use MacOS because it "just works" instead of using Linux like me, I don't think it's fair to treat people who don't want to spend a lot of time learning how to ask a tool to do what another tool will do without needing to spend any extra effort as if they're somehow failing as competent developers.
I prefer the framing of "the intersection of things you enjoy doing, things you're good at, and things that other people find useful". There are unhappy failure modes if any of the above are missing. The high-flying corporate lawyer who's a miserable divorced alcoholic is what you get when you're good at something others find valuable that you don't enjoy. The underperformer who gets fired from every job they like is when you enjoy doing a job others find useful but aren't very good at it. The broke Millennial guitarist who followed their musical passions is what you get when you enjoy doing something you're good at but nobody else finds it useful.

If you follow your interests, though, it at least guarantees you'll be interested in what you're doing.
I started reading the original edition of Don Quijote in Spanish with two years of high school Spanish under my belt. Ten years later, I finally finished the first book.
The tech sector in general went through 2 decades of growth. Smartphones didn't even take off until just about 12 years ago. It isn't just the interest rates but the fact the entire sector was the wild west for the longest time. Now it's reaching maturity. AI is the last "growth" avenue for them to market infinite growth on but eh.

There's still room for new startups and entrants in the tech sector, it just ain't going to be the wild west anymore. There's only so many variants of the same thing the market is going to support long term.
Well, while you might find it harder to find work, know this -- I'd take a single experienced engineer over 10 inexperienced ones any day of the week (of course, you have to actually be an experienced engineer/manager vs some Boeing-wannabe MBA to actually know this!).
In my opinion Elsevier and others charging for access to academic publications has held back the advancement of humanity to a lower exponential acceleration into the future at a considerable factor. Think of how cancer could have been cured a decade ago if information was allowed to flow freely from the 50's forward - if anyone could have read scientific publications for free. I have no respect for people that want to protect the moat around information that could be used to advance humanity.
The Possibility of Impossible Cultures
The answer: The question.

The question: What is the answer?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06824 for an unpaywalled version of the paper. I (kind of) understand their argument, but am unclear on how the physical shell is supposed to be filled with energy, eg is one supposed to just get inside and hook it up to the terminals of a battery or other power generator?

Also slightly unsure about their insistence on propellant as a means of locomotion, as opposed to hanging out a sail and riding solar winds toward the nearest gravitational slingshot.
I'd wager it's the average person not understanding and the marketing team just appealing to them to make it less confusing, kind of like that third pounder story.
The difference between strategy and merely plans is strategy needs an enemy.

It's a plan on how to achieve something that someone else is also trying to achieve.

Most people misuse strategy when they just mean a plan.
You know I hear ChatGPT is pretty good at summarizing.
> The response was that politics are not welcome there.

This is the ultimate response. Huge respect to the lead dev.

And this is very political. "They" is plural, it's usage in singular form is fringe, only very recent and originates from within political activism. For the majority of English speakers this is incorrect, and will remain incorrect as the belief system associated with it's usage is fundementally wrong and incompatible with their world view.
Probably because the title of the article uses 402,000,000 Mbps and I think there’s a rule(?) on HN about not misrepresenting titles or rewording them too much, though I’d wager 402 Tbps is fair alteration.
But Chalmers doesn't think that approach works, nor any other physicalist attempt to explain consciousness. The problem with what you stated is that you're substituting ideas about consciousness for sensations. And those aren't the same thing. We experience sensations as part of being embodied organisms, and then we think about those sensations.
Yeah but it was all bullshit as you admitted. The idea of actually preventing things via actual medicine and hence “preventative medicine” is new. Whatever you’re describing is not that.

Your entire comment is essentially “people used to pray and have rituals to stop bad things from happening” and you equaled it to preventative medicine. Do you understand how retarded you sound?
I remember there used to ways to turn off the creation of .DS_Store but they removed it, I can't figure out for life why they would make such a change. I had to write a program [0] to watch the entire file system and delete .DS_Store as soon as they're created.

[0] https://github.com/slmjkdbtl/dskill
There is an intersection, and Christian nationalism is certainly influential in some ways, but if the question is what is more well-organized and well-funded, the DoD is the single largest employer in the world, and the US defense budget is on the order of a trillion dollars annually.
Oh come on, Gorons do not look technically worse than in OoT/MM. You might not like the cell shaded characters but that is an artstyle and not a technical limitation and pretending it is is just disingenuous
The MicroDrive is absolutely fascinating and allowed the creation of the highly influential iPod Mini.

I'm not an engineer, but to my layman brain, fitting a spinning hard drive into such a tiny package is the kind of engineering feat that, had it been presented to me as an April Fools' joke, I would have believed it as a funny prank because such a thing is clearly impossible. Like, there's a motor in there? No way.

I mean, this image is obviously photoshopped to shrink it - except that it's not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive#/media/File:Seagate...
Passing on personal productivity gains to management is always a HUGE L for the individual worker.

As a dev, you can use the saved time to slow down and not be stressed, spend more time chatting with colleagues, learn new skills, maybe improve the quality of the code, etc. Or you can pass it on to management which will result in your workload being increased back to where you are stressed again and your slower colleagues will be let go, so now you get to feel bad about that and they won't be around to chat with.

I have never in my life seen workers actually get rewarded with pay raises for improved productivity, that is just a myth the foolish chase, like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

I have also tried being the top performer on a team before (using automation tools to achieve it), and all I got was praise from management. That's nice, but I can't pay for my holidays with praise, so not worth it.
Company A makes Widget for $20. It takes 1 Employee B hour to make a Widget. Widgets cost Company A $8 to manufacture. After accounting for management overhead, logistics and the cost of storage, Company A clears $10 per widget. Company A can only afford to pay Employee B $10 to break even, this is not a living wage.

In this scenario, you'd prefer Widgets not exist and Employee B not have a job.

Since you're going to say, "Raise the price of Widgets!". $20 is the ideal price point for product, any more or less and the volume sold * profit falls and the possible wage for Employee B will drop.
No, you have to take that argument in context of his other arguments against physical explanations for consciousness. What he's saying is that the physical facts do not adequately account for conscious experiences, which is why we can conceive of a universe physically identical lacking consciousness. Why he (and some other philosophers) think this is so is part of their larger arguments.
I managed to get negative RPM - cool!
That's Hertzog in a nutshell!

Impish, obliquely egotistical, kind and gifted.

He's the most palatable example of a Nietzsche-an superman
Facebook doesn’t really use vanilla mercurial but its own scale-oriented rust fork. It’s open sourced as “sapling”
Fascinating. I saw this earlier via waxy blog, who got it via colossal, which pointed to an interactive version that also referenced some short videos/documentaries about it: https://www.rioleo.org/kowloon/

It reminds me of "Doubling Up" the 1946 drawing by Saul Steinberg that was one of the sources for Georges Perec's "Life a User's Manual" which - no spoilers - is a book set in a similar densely populated building (aside: a couple of years ago I pitched a Playdate game based on these things) https://www.fitzroyandfinn.co.uk/journal/georges-perec
Are the second-tier cloud companies really seeing big margins? Why is it not competed away to zero like airlines?
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My point is that the Happy Birthday song is an oral tradition which has lasted more than 100 years. That seems corroborated by the 1924 date you cited. That's all.

Of course I don't think oral traditions go unchanged for 12,000 years. Some very old oral traditions, like the ones from ancient India, stayed relatively unchanged only because their emphasis shifted suddenly and dramatically from active composition to ritual performance, to the extent that most people had no idea what the actual language used meant. Their opacity became a feature, not a bug.

However, despite the details changing, consistent storylines and story fragments exist across many ancient cultures, sometimes because they are derived from the same narrative source, and other times because of shared experiences across divergent cultures.
Non-racers appreciate light and comfortable bikes too (if anything it's much easier to load a 20 pounds bike on a car/bus rack than a 30 pounds one), this is why carbon is now even in the midrange consumer segment. And with the tubeless tires even on the road bikes nowadays, the magical suspension properties of a steel frame are hardly noticeable over the effect of lower pressure in the tire. So I don't think steel frames are ever coming back.
Using AI to Read Aircraft ID Numbers on Navy Carrier Decks in Testing
So? The tools are miniscule. Use the right tool for the right job. Shoehorning curl into the role of wget is silly.
I just got into Trackmania recently. Very difficult game, especially on a keyboard, but fun! It's crazy to see how dedicated the pros are. I got into it after watching the streamer Wirtual try and beat the hardest map the game has seen (Deep Dip 2), for a prizepool of something like $30,000. It's an insanely hard tower climb map, where if you fall, you have to start completely over. A 1-2 hour run could just disappear. Anyway, over just a few weeks, Wirtual put several hundred hours into the map, with over 1,500 falls... and then gave up, understandably :P
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abdf6e

> provide optimizations for the Alcubierre metric that decrease the negative energy requirements by two orders of magnitude

It still requires negative energy
Looks cool. How is the input/output latency on this? For example if you were to use it as an effects processor (which would use both input and output), or a MIDI keyboard controlled synth/sample player (output only)? I had a Mod Duo which I stopped using due to the quality of the sounds/effects not making the latency it had worth it.

For reference, I currently use a Motu M2 which gets roughly 3ms in, 3ms out at 128 bit buffer size and 6ms in 6ms out at 256 bits. The 3ms out is fine, but when I get to 6ms out I start to notice the lag when playing virtual instruments from a MIDI keyboard.
Some Playstation 1 were setup to also play the game soundtrack if you put them in an audio CD player.
> I've just had GPT-4o write me a full-featured 2048 clone in ~6 hours of casual chat, in between of work, making dinner, and playing with kids; it cost me some $4 in OpenAI bills, and I didn't write a single line of code.

This kind of example always confuses me. I don't see the value vs reading an article like this: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-2048-game-in-r...

If I said I built a 2048 clone by following this tutorial, noone would be impressed. I just don't see how reading a similar tutorial via a chat interface is some groundbreaking advancement.
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> parallel downloads, retries, following redirects

There's aria2
I’ve recently started reading The Iliad. I find it challenging because characters can be referred to by a variety of different things, even within the same paragraph or two, so it is challenging to follow the conversation or who is being discussed.

I’ve taken to asking ChatGPT to summarize chapters and key characters within the chapter after I’ve finished each chapter and it helps give me feedback as to whether what I thought happened was what indeed happened. It’s also given me little contextual tidbits that are helpful and apparently would have been known to audiences of the time but for me would have gone unappreciated.

It’s helpful, though I think I’d prefer an annotated copy over ChatGPT so I have realtime information as I read without the lag of finishing a chapter first (or added friction of stopping to search and starting again)