skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absorption refrigerator:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator

Einstein refrigerator:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator

The principle is still used in some refrigerating devices (typically hotel mini fridges and similar small units for RV's) as there is no need of a compressor (i.e. the device is completely silent) and also in some HVAC machines.
> If you’re going to float something like this it would be great if you shared what led you to that conclusion.

ok i'll add "trust me bro i looked at the data" like you.
The Huntington Estate is definitely worth a day (and an excellent place to take the family) if you want to avoid the usual tourist traps in Southern California. Gardens, art, great food, not too crowded even.
CrowdStrike CEO requested to testify on global IT outage
Sorry, I understand. Just that this was a huge outage that's all.
Thank you. Is what you're describing what is commonly referred to as UBI? It sounds like a different formulation to me. Most of the time I hear about UBI, the emphasis is on it being universal—everyone gets it, not just people living in poverty. That's where the intuition problems arise: if everyone you are competing for real estate with has more money, why wouldn't the cost of real estate increase?
I don't think that is a very realistic jump.

Most people are not facing that binary.

Would you work 40 hours a week at McDonald's for an extra $20k/year if all your basic needs are met?

OR at that point, would you say screw it and spend your days hiking, reading, and laughing with friends?
It's really going to depend on the queries that you want to optimize. I think the best help might be to point you to a book: https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Multidimensional-Structur...

An RTree is the first structure that comes to mind, but the way you describe the problem, it sounds like the intervals never overlap, so I have my doubts. Sounds like you might be looking to optimize the query "what is the first interval of at least N days?" Maybe look at priority trees. They're good at queries that are bounded in one dimension and half-open in the other.
> I think $1000/month/person probably is "basic" income. You can survive on that indefinitely.

I think part of the problem is that people are assuming that you can and should pick a number for UBI that is sufficient for basic needs everywhere.

$1k/mo is probably not enough in San Francisco. But should our UBI be set up to allow anyone to meet their basic needs anywhere they'd like to live, or should it be set up to allow anyone to meet their basic needs if they're willing to leave the high cost of living areas and go out into the rest of the country where rent and food and transportation is cheaper?
My understanding is that miners wanted small blocks and have hobbled the protocol for them.
The first place I'd look is using binary search over a sorted `Vec<(u32, u32)>`. The `superslice` crate is handy for this, or just using the built-in binary search methods.

The improved cache behavior alone can make an order-of-magnitude difference. The cost you pay, of course, is on inserts and removals, but perhaps these can be ammortized in a read-heavy workload (build up a list of changes, and then rebuild in one go).
Isn't this about just the client, while your concern is only about the server?
To be fair, data protections in UK ministries are pretty extreme and taken seriously. At least, that's the case at Justice, I would hope that HMRC manages to do at least that.
There's also the option of making 120k or so working remotely while living in a LCOL country. You end up with about the same purchasing power.
Possibly reputation risk. Future employers may pass over applicants that worked at gambling companies if they consider it unsavory.
>"My favorite is always the Billion-Dollar Mistake of having null in the language. And since JavaScript has both null and undefined, it's the Two-Billion-Dollar Mistake." -Anders Hejlsberg

Assuming these mistakes are additive and not multiplicative.
You seem to be on the "statistical next token predictor" side. I'm more.on the side of those who invented it (they should know) that think these machines can understand things
> Your confidence that there is an obviously optimal way to model something

You're imagining things (uncharitably); that's not in the comment you replied to.
Can you imagine if one of the big anti-cheats got hit with a supply chain attack? That would be devastating.
"plenty" is relative.

You don't see many GAFAM products created in either, and that's because of the trade off OP talks about.
I like Abstraction Logic: http://abstractionlogic.com
Alderon are the people claiming 100% of units fail which doesn’t seem supported by anyone else either. Wendell and GN seem to have scoped the issue to around 10-25% across multiple different sources.

Like they are the most extreme claimants at this point. Are they really credible?
F# first actually. Then C#. Then Haskell. Then Python. Then TypeScript. Parent just has an axe to grind.
> Particles have a defined position and momentum

Which we don’t know precisely. Entropy is about not knowing.

> If you somehow learned these then the shannon entropy is zero.

Minus infinity. Entropy in classical statistical mechanics is proportional to the logarithm of the volume in phase space. (You need an appropriate extension of Shannon’s entropy to continuous distributions.)

> So now you are forced to consider e.g. temperature an impossibility without quantum-derived randomness

Or you may study statistical mechanics :-)
Healthcare costs are essentially meaningless to tech workers in America.

My salary works out to roughly $120 per hour. I pay a $15 premium to insurance from each paycheck and a $20 fee to see a doctor. Even if I had some catastrophic car crash and spent months in the ICU, my maximum annual payment for all healthcare is capped at $5,000.

Healthcare costs can be a huge burden for low and middle-income Americans, but for a senior tech worker, healthcare is a tiny expense compared to income.
Sounds like a non-sequitur to me; what are you implying about the Maxwell's demon thought experiment vs the comparison between Shannon and stat-mech entropy?
> Temporary addresses are not enabled by default. Worse, the setting is ignored if it was enabled by sysctl during bootup. This is a major privacy issue.

Yeah that's a hard pass.

> Adding IPv6PrivacyExtensions=yes to the above exposed another issue: instead of using the fe80 address generated by the kernel, networkd adds a new one.

But... I'm not sure this is a big problem? One of the big ideas of IPv6 is that you can have many IPs on an interface; throwing on one more isn't ideal, but I don't think it's a hard blocker.
> Not at all like Guatamala and Mexico.

Guatemala gained independence from Mexico in 1820, and wasn't a fully independent country until 1839.

> There were lots of differences and variety because of all of that, but there was something German about them all. And some people even wanted (and fought for) unification.

My family is from what is now Ukraine, but was part of Hungary during the empire. They didn't speak German and aren't German, but I imagine the immigration conversation went something like this:

> Immigration: where are you from?

> Ancestor: zayer moykel, ober ikh farshtay dikh nisht ["excuse me, but I don't understand you"]

> Immigration: [checks off the German box]

I imagine this happened to quite a few families. Just because German (or Germanic languages) were a lingua franca for Central Europeans doesn't mean that the US assigned them into appropriate demographics upon immigrating. Immigration often couldn't even spell their last names correctly.
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There is a lot of truth to this comic: https://imgur.com/J3FHs7J
A free tool to quickly detect counterfeit flash (2017)
Just received 2 cheapo 64GB micro sd cards from aliexpress, they seemed legit, had tons of reviews with OK crystaldisk performance screenshots and... they're junk
This tool quickly identified that they were counterfeit of type "Limbo", with 16GB of capacity instead of 64GB.
Thanks to Michel Machado for writing this gem.
In the past for this sort of thing I've used an interval tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_tree

However, that was mainly for the case where I needed to detect overlapping intervals. Depending on your application perhaps a K-d tree, in this case, K=2 (one dimension for start-time the other for the end-time)? If you know that all you intervals are entirely disjoint (no overlap at all) I don't think you'll be able to do better than just an ordered map or list.
Also worth mentioning that not heaving healthcare almost doesn't exist as a concept here. You have to be an illegal immigrant or something to not have healthcare.
I could be wrong but I think a good way to have an edge is pricing. Email is generally a low bandwidth service with lots of cold storage, yet for most personal email services the price doesn't seem to reflect this.

Like for example Google One is $2/100GB and $10 for 2TB yet you can definitely get storage much cheaper than this, and bandwidth is close to, if not free on bare metal clouds.

I've been considering this myself. That or some IRCv3 offering.

If you go the commercial route you'll almost certainly end up building an ERP/CRM, as it's what a lot of companies seem want: a personalized ERP/CRM (not sure why, though it does kind of feels like just outsourcing an IT dept whenever this has come up in the past)
> This is just another instance of I-hate-systemd-for-no-reason whining

This is a person actually examining it and specifically spelling out reasons why it's unsuitable.
They use their product landing pages as a commercial but you can see they make that top nav easy to get to buying it or tech specs.

Personally, I dislike scrolljacking but the other animated elements that come up in the viewport are pretty well-done. It's all ultra-sanitized and corporate but there's a lot of effort and finesse put into it.

Phone comparison landing pages:

https://www.apple.com/iphone-15-pro/

https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-z-flip6/

https://store.google.com/category/phones?pli=1&hl=en-US
> "a + ogonek accent" and another (properly) sent "a with ogonek" (these print the same but are semantically different!)

How can these possibly be semantically different? Isn’t the point of combining characters to create semantic characters that are the combination of those parts?
Indeed. A type means assigning a rigid category to something.

There is not a single taxonomy that is universal, it ends up like the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge that decides animals into:

those belonging to the Emperor,

those that are embalmed,

those that are tame,

pigs,

sirens,

imaginary animals,

wild dogs,

those included in this classification,

those that are crazy-acting,

those that are uncountable,

those painted with the finest brush made of camel hair,

miscellaneous,

those which have just broken a vase, and

those which, from a distance, look like flies.

Then you have a new use case.
they did that too

https://youtu.be/wkrOYfmXhIc
I think one big difference between DEFLATE and most other standard compression algorithms is that they're dictionary-based. So compressing in this way, you're really messing with locality of tokens in way that is likely unrelated to the semantics of what you're compressing.

For example, adding a repeated word somewhere in a completely different part of the document could change the dictionary and the entirety of the compressed text. That's not the case with the "compression" offered by converting HTML to Markdown. This compression more or less preserves locality and potentially removes information that is semantically meaningless (e.g. nested `div`s used for styling). Of course, this is really just conjecture on my part, but I think HTML > Markdown is likely to work well. It would certainly be interesting to have a good benchmark for this.
The EITC isn't as complicated as the child tax credit; that one is not refundable so you end up trying to calculate a way to get enough tax to get it fully.

Excel1040 is great for this - https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home
Nothing centralized about it and it's not a service. I can open a Lightning channel to my friend and make as many transactions as I want. Only the final difference is broadcasted to the Bitcoin blockchain. A similar method was originally suggested by Satoshi for scaling Bitcoin, so I don't know how it could be a "scam".
You said it yourself: they can’t do the more demanding parts of the job anymore and transitioned to management.

The president is a very special role that requires a lot of stamina. It’s also a role where there’s only one in the whole country. The travel schedule alone is extremely difficult.

If there is only one role to fill it’s logical to be selective. Why hire an 80 year old when there are a dozen qualified 50 year olds who are physically better equipped to handle the rigors of the job?

The president is the commander in chief of the military. The military forces retirement at a certain age, why don’t we do that for the president?

Let’s not forget that the American president is a massive presence as a global figure that impacts the whole world. If they die in office, get ill, misspeak, etc, it negatively impacts the entire nation if not the world.

Biden accidentally calling Zelensky “Putin” in public was an example of something that could have been a disastrous foreign relations blunder if Zelensky or other allies to Ukraine were less understanding and took offense.
Yeah I noticed that account is extremely new and only commented on this thread to vanish soon after. Their problem wasn't with the person that conflates schizophrenia and gender dysphoria and calling autism a terrible disease, it was with the person who dared to object to such vitriol.

I don't know why these people expect an honest and sincere discussion when they're repeatedly making new accounts to astroturf their views and endorse their own posts.

"Gay or Lesbian people are also being forced to get in line on what is happening(if you're a gay male who only dates other biological males, you're transphobic...yeah)"

Been a while since I heard this lie, the last time was when Lily Cade was interviewed by the BBC about a situation she fabricated. The day after she created a website talking about how trans people should be slaughtered. Frightening how quickly anti-trans people can go from fabricating stories to bolster their 'arguments' to creating websites graphically describing how they'd execute trans people.

On twitter these people repeatedly spout lies while claiming to just "not understand" despite having everything explained to them many many times and then going on to celebrate the murder of a trans person in a tweet the day after.

These people demand everyone else be calm while they send death threats to people on twitter or send bomb threats to hospitals.

One could maybe invoke Hanlon's razor but Hanlon's razor is a joke from a joke book. Some people are just evil. Someone who believes autism is a "terrible disease" and lies about schizophrenia and trans people probably isn't far off.
Don't become a computer programmer, the industry is being outsourced to India.

So I became a plumber instead. Don't have to worry about someone from India flying here to crawl under a house to snake out a line.
YMMV but the one hedge fund offer I got required putting 50% of the bonus into the fund itself, which then vests out over 4 years. I was told this is industry standard, so it's analogous to the 4 year RSU vesting you'd get at FAANG.
> written by the trusted party

This is the weak, and expensive, link.
Because it's often a lie (at least in my experience). When I worked in defense contracting people loved trotting out stuff like "the work is stable", "you can't get fired from a government job", etc. all while dealing with furloughs, government shutdowns, geographic consolidation of work to different states, contracts changing hands, companies being acquired, etc. Employment in the US is at-will and nobody is going to guarantee you a job, especially these days, and employers at the lower echelons of the industry are very fond of selling the dream of "stability" by sowing fear of the unknown to prevent attrition while building a culture of malaise and low compensation.

I'm not saying that one should work exclusively for seed-stage crypto startups that sell blockchain-verified probiotic dog food or anything, but at some point you should critically examine whether it makes sense to be someplace that's 10 years and tens of thousands of dollars behind the curve just because it's "stable" when it so obviously isn't.
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We seem to have read different chains of thought in this thread. The topic was "is it possible to encode things so that humans can understand but machines can't"?

Talldayo said "I really don't think there are any ways to guarantee that AI cannot understand you."

neon_me responded: "hence, we are doomed"

Talldayo responded "I suppose you could have said the same thing about the invention of books"

My comment was in response to that. Talldayo's response seemed a nonsequitor to me because books are providing data to the reader, not trying to collect and understand data from the reader.
Even if we assume that's true, all sorts of negative things are "in our nature", yet we collectively choose to overcome them.
These days most unplanned pregnancies would probably fall on physical prime as opposed to planned ones. And mental state doesn't really have effect on maternal death rates.

I agree with GP that IVF probably provides motherhood to a lot of people who have preexisting medical issues.
You can install all those on a Mac book. The main thing I have to adapt to with a mac (and my iPad) is that there is a different CTRL key you use to type CTRL-C for a terminal and an OPTION button you use for typing OPTION-C to copy in a GUI application. Personally I have no trouble switching between that and Windows or Linux.
Interesting. I'm about to start doing a MAL-like again, but this time (I used C# before) using Rust and building a VM as in Crafting Interpreters rather than following the MAL guide. Macros are one of the things that I anticipate being a challenge.
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There are three situations from what I've seen, one is toxic workplaces where PTO is closely tracked and people who use it are punished (socially or otherwise). That happens more often in unlimited PTO places, but absolutely happens in places with traditional PTO plans too. Second you have the more common situation where without a use-it-or-lose-it resource people end up taking less PTO than they would normally, this happens naturally A LOT. Third are people who have never worked somewhere with unlimited PTO who are justifying to themselves and others why it's bad :)
The 90 day window is an industry standard for zero-days, how the author worded it is neither here nor there. 90 days is ample time for even a half-functioning organization to address the issue in some way. I agree with Red Threat’s decision to not show their hand in the first email. The altruistic take on this is that they do not want the email to fall upon deaf ears (or even a bad actor within a company) and would prefer to have a channel of communication open with the security team before outlining the details.

The biggest problem when faced with a zero-day is that it’s unknown who else knows about it. This helps the the company’s security team justify the work due to the fire lit under the company to take action - especially if their corporate structure does not allow for more “elective” fixes.
Sure yet Spirit's planes are newer and smaller then that huge old United plane (Boeing... Spirit uses Airbus) where the bathroom sat in the middle of the plane. THe stenched was not cleaned up and being in the middle of the plane affected way more people then bathroom in the back of the plane affecting only a few of the rows in the back.
Just from memory, but it has a significant correlation to testosterone levels. Also, the disparity in grip strength is especially large between men and women, when compared to other strength indicators.
I believe it's not intended to be a trap; it's not to encourage taking more or less than a typical amount. Rather, it's done to avoid paying out on termination in places that require doing so as mentioned earlier.
I mean... I've never seen a single audio issue on Linux. It does "just work" in my experience. I realize the people citing issues in this thread aren't just making shit up for the fun of it, but I think there's a lot of going too far and saying it sucks for everyone when it seems to work just fine for most.
FWIW, no I have not worked in a place with unlimited PTO. Heard a lot of negatives though and that's what scares me off it. The peer pressure to not take PTO would make it difficult for me to actually relax. Everyone is different though and I'm sure there are places where it works. But it's hard to determine that during the interview process. So I'd rather have the guarantee of x number of weeks of PTO where x>5.
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> Many range queries also have a minimum duration requirement, so it could be useful if a data structure could take advantage of this to quickly exclude intervals during the search.

Check out priority search trees. They search two dimensions, one of them being half-open (that would be your minimum duration requirement). Depends if the other half of your queries fits the closed dimension of a priority tree or if you can adapt it to fit your needs.
Maybe the thing to be focusing on is maximizing savings on the high average salaries that we all can command instead of trying to maximize earnings.

Controlling spending is something one can control to some extent once the necessities are paid for.

And then that’s the way to accrue and stay wealthy or become independently wealthy over time.
Black mothers in England twice as likely to have NHS birth investigated
FWIW I think having your descendants live in a HCOL country is underrated.
it’s also a terrible stability test these days for the same reasons Wendell talks about with cinebench in his video with Ian (and Ian agrees too). Doesn’t work like 90% of the chip - it’s purely a cache/avx benchmark. You can have a completely unstable frontend and it’ll just work fine because prime95 fits in icache and doesn’t need the decoder, and it’s just vector op, vector op, vector op forever.

You can have a system that’s 24/7 prime95 stable that crashes as soon as you exit out, because it tests so very little of it. That’s actually not uncommon due to the changes in frequency state that happen once the chip idles down… and it’s been this way for more than a decade, speedstep used to be one of the things overclockers would turn off because it posed so many problems vs just a stable constant frequency load.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41040445
GitHub Copilot vs. Codeium cheat sheet
Tangential to this topic, but are there publicly traded companies that pay only in stocks? I'm curious to know if someone who gets paid only in stocks will come out ahead in terms of taxes they owe than someone getting a comparable base pay.
bravo, I guess?