skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profit-seeking is just another way of optimizing everything else out of existence, and that's an excellent reason to overrule it.
Capitalism - love it or leave it!
I've been using `systemd-boot` for many years, which comes with the system. It's a bit simpler than Grub and LILO (team 90s, represent!). Most BIOSes have variable support for booting random images, but last time I got a new system, it was confusing to use and a bit of hit-and-miss.
> Artists’ work has been harvested in order to train large language models

The idea of publishing something these days has become quite unappealing. For me, there's something dehumanizing about being used as LLM training data. Not that my thoughts are unique or interesting or special. But, man...
This instructable seems like a decent intro for a home gamer with a kitchen oven if you wanted to experiment:

https://www.instructables.com/Home-Oven-Steel-TemperingColor...
I'd also like to see the results of hand-tracing of variable values done separately by the developer for each copy. Maybe have several developers do it as an extra check.
maybe they could call that different site eBay?
Maybe choice was stronger than I needed. Thinking about it more, I think the problem is that BB isn't even definable (that I can see) without LEM. There's an "either the machine halts or it doesn't" baked in to the computation of the integer.
GNU/Linux is Free as in Freedom, Windows is free as in free beer, MacOS is free as in free airplane pretzels.
Tech itself. The hard skill. A lot of people realize that soft skills are important, but IMHO they are now the mainstream now. Everyone, including new graduates, know that. But many people are ignoring the hard skills, or simply do not have the time to dive deep into it (we can practice soft skills in time slices, but cannot do that for hard skills).

Some obscure hard skills from top of head:

- Replicate what John Carmack did for Commander Keen in DOSBOX (or a more accurate emulator, or a physical computer) against the 80286 architecture.

- Write a complete 2D game engine, or a complete but simple 3D game engine.

- Write a complete compiler, with code generation for a real architecture instead of a VM, for a simple language, such as Minimum BASIC.

Disclaimer: This is just my personal opinion. I know these projects are probably of minimum value, but could be great learning projects. They either force you to certain resource constraints (like Project 1), or read specifications and manuals (like Project 3), or learn to structure and organize larger projects (like Project 2).
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I wish Amazon would consider the same.
Attention Is a Proof of Love
A delta-V limit would be “constant” in that the teenager would build it into their mental model of how a car drives, and take it into account if/when exceptional circumstances do occur.

The greater risk comes from the car spinning out of control from a standstill because of enthusiastic acceleration.

As for safety, it’s not often we need to outrun a pyroclastic cloud/tornado/airplane crashing into your path.
Photoshop is the one kicker for me, too. Nothing comes close. GIMP is a dumpster fire.

Lately I have been doing pretty well with Figma though. Been daily driving Debian 12 w/ KDE for about a year now and it has been rock solid and quite enjoyable.

I never imagined I would ever admit this - but I find myself frustrated by the latency of macOS on my Macbook Air more and more after how instantaneous certain things are on my workstation.
I’m not advocating widespread filtering in this answer.

This article is essentially referring only to edge cases which require context to determine if images are CSAM. There are other cases where context is not needed and determining if something is CSAM is sadly easy.

For example, there is no appropriate context for images or videos of adults raping toddlers or infants.
I don’t know if I’d consider that hand picked, but we’ll see.

As for your second point that would be almost impossible to enforce, and the line isn’t super clear. What if I generate an image and then make a depth map from that to 3D print? Or do a screen print on a shirt with it?
> For each Julia set, one of these 5 machines will correctly draw the set.

That's really interesting. Does this essentially correspond to a proof of being able to compute the correct set with probability no less than 1/5?

For the question "which of the 5 is correct?", is it presumed that there exists a proof that hasn't been found yet or that this is undecidable (e.g., within ZFC)?
> The fact that the knowledge of how to achieve this is closer to black magic lore than foundational educational knowledge is sad.

It is sad, doubly so since the things you need to get within an order of magnitude of what your hardware can do aren't the arcane assembly and "premature optimization" boogeymen students picture. Forget the 10x engineer, going from the 0.0001x engineer to the 0.1x would be a massive improvement and it's low hanging fruit.

They're simple things: have your code do less, learn what good performance should be, understand the hardware and internalize that the point is to program it, and use/build better tools (e.g. perhaps your programming model is fundamentally flawed if it essentially incentivizes things like the N+1 Selects Problem).

> Performance is surprisingly often a feature.

Performance is, unsurprisingly, often a missing feature in most software. Every day I need to boot up Teams I feel we stray further from Moore's light.
Oh my, it was difficult to not chuckle with this comment immediately before: "Shorten it to the first letter and the last three and see how long it lasts."
Servo is tagged as dead but the revival seems to have somewhat worked. I guess nto nearly as many full time people than when it's was under Mozilla umbrella but not dead. And by the look of it neither is Pathfinder the rasteriser.
I understand the business logic behind that. The point is, maybe they should consider paying the upstream developers to backport the stuff themselves instead of dabbling with C code they somewhat understand?
Apple has a long ways to go before they get to Microsoft levels of enshittification. The News app has ads and premium-only content mixed into the content you do have access to. They know I don't pay for News so stop showing me the articles I can't read, please. I know that's the whole point. They want me to get annoyed and pay for it. And I think there are random nudges throughout the OS to pay for iCloud. But it's a far cry from the ads and clickbait and unwanted notifications and resetting user preferences (Edge browser, etc.) that Windows does.
Are you claiming rye came up with the first mature alternative? Tons of people have been using solutions like Poetry for years. Don't discredit that.
When you start digging into outbound dns traffic from consumer routers you can find a baffling amount of data sent. On the order of 50,000-100,000 dns requests a month to their company servers (sometimes hosted in china).
Years ago I went to a BBQ cooking class run by the owner of a small, one-location restaurant in Chicago. He said that Sysco and US Foods reps called him every single day to talk about outsourcing his pulled pork and brisket to them.

This feels oddly similar, except there's only a couple Sysco's and US Foods' and probably thousands of AI Content Farm startups at this point.
I keep my 3rd party libraries to a bare minimum as I actually know how to code.

The time it takes to write a utility function is less than the long term pain of dependency hell and all this tooling.

I suggest you go read through your CS 101 textbook.
> Most artists, like most programmers are working in a commercial capacity. I see no reason why "their passion" should overrule profit-seeking.

The obsession that everything must go in a financial box or be relegated to the increasingly diminished "free time" available to oneself is a cancer that is destroying our society.

Things that are profitable =/= things that have value to people. They often coincide but it is not a direct correlation. Tons of things that make absolutely unethical amounts of profit have zero value to society. Conversely some of the most valuable things in human experience have zero monetization, in practice or theory.

Money is not everything.
I have the same opinion. I don’t see the value in having this discussion in an interview - save it for your blog. That being said, there definitely is value in being capable of discussing type safety as a tradeoff when making architecture decisions, I don’t think anyone competent would argue that there are zero scenarios where type safety is part of constraints/worthy of discussion. And OP has some great opinions about this, given they have actual experience in a project where that had to be addressed, which gives them context about a problem their colleagues might not have (which is why we hire people).
So much stuff has moved to the web anyway that I think a very large percentage of people could move to Linux and it would largely have no negative effects at all.

My sister in law, who is not technical in any way, ran Ubuntu for multiple years (to keep using a Macbook that didn't get any more updates) because virtually everything she did was in the browser anyway; she did her homework with Google Docs, she listened to music with YouTube Music, she talked to her friends with Google Chat or Signal, she did her taxes with TurboTax online.

We can (correctly) complain about how Google is eating the internet, and that's fair, but at least in the regards of making Linux viable, Google has (probably inadvertently) done a very good job.
I recall the example used in many white papers being the scanning of a pallet of soda cans inside of an open truck or shipping container. All of the multi-path interference would've made it one of the hardest environments I can image for getting reliable reads.
It's not 3-5X, not even close. It's under 2X. Net migration was negative during COVID.
I believe most memorization in school comes from using a concept so often you end up just knowing. Memorization for the sake of memorization does not work in my opinion.
Some commenters are pointing out increased AI usage as the cause, but I think it's probably this as well:

> While those are actions that should help the world tackle climate change, experts have found that the purchase of the emissions-avoidance offsets does little to actually reduce emissions.

Basically their emissions are on the rise and instead of writing a big check to a somewhat grey to downright fraudulent industry of carbon credit they will try to reduce and invest in carbon capture which is another somewhat grey industry.
Curiosity is no requirement of course, but at least an understanding of the limits of one's own knowledge and authority on a subject is desirable. Sometimes things other people do don't make sense to me, and seem like they could be improved. So I can:

1. Assume they are doing it wrong.

2. Assume they are doing it correctly for reasons I'm not privy to, at least by their own assessment, incentives and constraints, and dig no further.

3. Do #2, and then allow my curiosity to lead me to uncover their reasons and motivations.

I don't like #1, but numbers 2 and 3 seem like reasonable choices.
In that case, either of "return false" or "return true" are valid computable functions depending on the domain you're operating in (with CH or without it).

It's the same essentially as a function that returns true if any two lines will eventually intersect. The correct answer depends on whether you're in curved space or not. That the correct answer depends on the domain or axioms doesn't make it non computable.

There's just no case where a constant function isn't computable in the technical sense.
A couple years ago I set up a new account with my new e-mail address. Someone thought it was a spoof account and reported it.

And just like that I can no longer use my e-mail address on FB, and have to maintain a legacy e-mail address because FB is useless.
I think it's just in Python's DNA. I dunno, even going back to the Python 2/3 debacle, it's just one language and ecosystem I've never felt "has it together". Despite being a language for beginners, I've never felt it especially easy to use.
Rational agents in the real world should realize that conspiring with others to make the world better gives them more benefits than being a greedy shit.

It is only in academic exercises where collaboration is made impossible that sociopathic behavior is optimal.
Boeing to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud FAA Aircraft Evaluation Group
Yes, you don’t need a concert hall, a grand piano, or a team of recording engineers to push a key. You are correct.
Don't they? I thought a huge part of the EA racket was selecting the most efficient way to give away wealth. Many have even given away organs.
> I am trying to explain how you have misconstrued the OP's comments.

I did not misconstrued the OP's comment. I understood them completely, and exactly as you explain them. I even understand the meta level. Saying " After all, they know only 30 people in the entire US bought the thing" sounds strong, and authoritative. Even with the disclaimer it sounds stronger than saying "I think not too many people bought the robot."

> they were saying that whatever the number is, Amazon knows it.

It will be very hard to convince me that the original phrasing is fine by rephrasing it. It just further proves it that you can say the same thing without having to make up a number.

> It would be great if you could take us as arguing in good faith.

But that is the core of my argument. What I'm saying is that the form of the argument "strong and concrete statement (followed by sideway, weak disclaimer)" is manipulative. It is not a good faith form of argument. There are other ways to say the same thing and I recommend using those forms.

I also accept that you are saying in good faith that you think this is fine. I truly believe that that is your opinion, and you are communicating it in good faith. There is no problem there.

What I further believe is that you hold that opinion because you have encountered many cases of statements subtly manipulating, or subtly bending the truth and you have become desensitised to them. That is what I believe makes you think it is fine.

Things like "asterisk illustrative image" on food packaging where in truth you will never make those ingredients look like the illustration. Or "asterisk your experience my vary" on a battery life or gas mileage claim where in real life you will never get those numbers. Or a breakfast cereal claiming it improves concentration, but when you read their studies you realise what they tested is that it improves concentration over not eating anything for breakfast at all. None of these are actual lies, but they are all meant to manipulate you into thinking something other than the truth.

Our memetic landscape is saturated with these "half-truths" because they work. I don't like it. I think we would be better of if we would not let these slide. I'm seeing the same pattern in the comment we started talking about, and I called it out for that. I believe I said that in as civilised way as I can.
> I think this is an advertisement, but it’s for a service people might actually want

I don't think that's what makes Apple's in-OS ads acceptable. Whether somebody "actually wants" iCould or whatever, is dependent on that person. What makes Apple's in-OS ads acceptable are that they are for Apple services that are totally in-context to where you are in the OS: an "ad" for iCloud appears in the Settings dialog hierarchy where iCloud settings would normally be. Also, they are really subtle and hard to notice, tastefully integrated with the OS/color scheme.

Unlike Microsoft's ham-fisted ads that are in your face, thrown into the Start menu without any context, for services that have nothing to do with what you're doing, and design-wise garish and tacky: I'm in the middle of launching a text editor, and Microsoft shouts "BUY CANDY CRUSH LOLOLOLOL" with a blinding ad.

Big difference.
Miele vacuums have classic designs and colors. The Miele C1 I bought recently is even made in Germany.
It's hard to get reliable data in this space.
PE funds also sell to each other and mark profits on both sides of transaction. Hard to unravel.
A lot of stuff in math doesn't work the same way without the law of the excluded middle, but it's always assumed unless it's stated explicitly that we're working under some other logical system.
i love that passing down fables beat the ever-finite span of life. stories last beyond our lifetimes.
>Most artists [...] are working in a commercial capacity.

How do we know this?
It'll be the environmental orgs bringing the cases that will be doing the venue shopping, not the corps.

> while its bogged down, its business-as-usual.

Uncertainty is bad for business.
They were significantly more polite in their response than I would have been.
One of the main bullet points on the page is automated tests.

How do you write automated tests for documentation? Somehow require that blocks of code have documentation linked to them?
I got hit up over several emails by a startup doing AI recruiting. I never replied back because it was hard to tell if it was actually the CEO reaching out to me because of my experience, or his AI system reaching out to me.

I thought, if I’m having this sort of issue figuring out if the contact is genuine, how will I feel working on this product? Even if it is genuine, is it ethical to have been recruited by a real person to work on a product that fools people into thinking they’ve been contacted by a real person?
No way that happens. Apple makes too much money from Google paying them and I’m sure if the DoJ case fails they’ll find a new way to milk Sundar.
Yes, most people and most countries are evil. In todays age I'd say the US has the largest concentration of evil.
yes you feel very creative and cool! (and slightly disappointed in others for not having come up with this yet!)
Sipser is just taking advantage of most people not understanding the difference between computation and empirical investigation. "Does God exist" is probably an unanswerable question, but that is beside the point. Answering it is not within the realm of computation at all. Computation is simply a procedure that maps inputs to outputs. In this case, whether or not God exists is one of the inputs. It's tripping people up because we can't actually know the value of the input, but the program still exists and is a trivial program. Replace it with some other binary empirical question.

Let f: {0,1}* -> {0,1} = 1 if Paris contains at least one porta potty and 0 if it does not. This one is both computatable and you can actually run it with a true input. The one about God is also computable but can only be run with a guessed input. You can't guarantee the output corresponds in any meaningful way to the universe you live in, but it is still a computable function.

Maybe it's better to just consider f: {0,1}* -> {0,1}. "God exists" and "God does not exist" are both possible bit strings on their own. Can a program exists that outputs 0 if it gets one of these inputs and 1 if it gets the other? Of course it can. It doesn't matter if the input is empirically true or not.
How can I turn off "Accept or Reject Suggestion" pop-up in Word?
> I doubt anyone on the other end will read their reply

Hell, I doubt anyone on the other end even wrote the original email.
if you have too much paper you cant cover the rock like a single sheet can. it's like why 2D spaces can wrap up 3D spaces.
How much do people value leisure?
> but I'm really confused as to why they always choose the most random obscure bank. Why not partner with a major bank.

Because major banks won't support startups looking to compete with them. Why would JPM, BoA, etc. service Mercury who is going after their SMB business banking vertical? Banking is a cartel in the US. The bank lobby makes it as hard as possible to compete with them.
Sorry what? Why would your first step in building planes be to build a jet engine? That's crazy.

If you want to build a jet engine then go for it, but if you really just want to build planes then you can buy electric/piston/jet/rocket engines for much less than it would cost to build your own.
A good way to treat CSAM is to see it as radioactive material. You always want it to be accounted for. Some people have legitimate use for it (x-ray machines, nuclear power plants, etc...) these would be the doctor example in this article. and then you have the actual illegal uses of it, like someone trying to build a bomb in their backyard. In that sense, a CSAM filter shouldn't assume anything about the content, just be able to identify that its content that needs to be accounted for.
Couple weeks ago, I took my kids to a class at the mall, then decided to use their free wifi. I logged in successfully with my laptop, but it said no Internet.

I checked the default gateway and it took me to a cisco modem. It had all sort of diagnostic tooling including the list of devices connected to the modem. However, it showed no Internet connection. I googled the model on my phone, and the admin is supposed to be the serial number with blank password and there was an example of the pattern. Surprisingly, one of the devices connected to the modem had a name that looked like said pattern.

And just like that, I was in. I toggled the Internet button, 15 seconds later it turned green. I set a new password on the device.
Direct Connect to Excel from Databricks or Snowflake Through Cube
Modern cloud data warehouses lack the capability to direct query Excel, making cloud migration difficult for organizations needing to support Excel workflows.

Cube solves this problem by creating a multidimensional layer with semantic models on top of tabular data in cloud data warehouses, allowing Excel users to maintain familiar multidimensional pivot table workflows.
The Silence Doctors Are Keeping About Millennial Deaths
The mantra is "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes".

- Joanna Maciejewska (https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238)
The key to keeping debit card fees down isn't to legislate a fee cap, it's to make payment rails more open and competitive.

Why are regulators still attacking stablecoins, for example, when they represent one type of innovation that could actually lower transaction costs? Creating a legislative framework that encourages innovation rather than stifles it would make a lot more sense than trying to micromanage fees.
That’s what I was thinking as well.
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Violation of Bell inequality by photon scattering on a two-level emitter
It reminds me of working on campus IT, and the sort of person who, at the end of the semester realize there are pages remaining in their "free print" allotment, print out every page completely covered in black ink to waste as much as possible.