skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also huge in size compared to the screen dimensions. Could barely get my hands around it as a little kid.

Then the Nomad was even bigger!
One would think so, but, having read all the fiction nominees this year, I can't think of any who would have an obvious political agenda to back them.

One possibility I could think of is a certain state trying to boost their up and coming Science Fiction industry, but even that seems a rather far fetched prospect.
Can you give more constructive advice on how to find a lawyer that both can draft a non-trivial agreement with PE, and is affordable? What specifics do you look for?
It should be noted that this article talks about a pretty niche use case without really spelling it out.

Camera optics are generally designed not to exhibit this kind of distortion. As other commenters note, wide-angle lenses are ground to provide rectilinear projection where horizontal and vertical lines are straight. Further, if a particular lens does exhibit distortion, the usual solution is to measure the effect and construct a reverse mapping that can be applied in software.

There are relatively few situations where you have a distorted image taken with unknown lens, but where you have a regular grid of horizontal and vertical lines for the algorithm to rely on.
Kind of tangential. The thing that annoys me is people saying payments that they don’t believe cover basic needs still counts as UBI.

I think $1k does count as sufficient for basic needs, personally.
The final cost of an h-bomb at industrial scale was estimated at 10k in the 1960s (for low yield).

However for practical purposes. One simply needs enough missiles and warheads of sufficient yield to overwhelm opposing interceptors, avoid risks of pre-emptive strike/miss-fires+500.

After that there are rapidly diminishing returns for more warheads.
I take tactical to mean something like "< 100 kilotons", meaning the damage would be much more limited than a large device. Those devices certainly exist. Where it's somewhat plausible a nation could use one and face some retaliation that doesn't escalate into a global doomsday.

Depends a lot on who/where/why, how much primary and collateral damage, and so on. You may be right that any use of any nuclear weapon turns into a global doomsday. It's hard to say unless it really happens. I'm often surprised that terrible war related incidents end up not escalating beyond the general region where they happened.
This is the basic uncertainty I have about UBI, and I've never heard an argument against it that went step by step and explained how that wouldn't happen. It seems intuitively like it would. In response, I've hear the equivalent of "don't worry, they've thought of that already, and the math still works". Maybe, but I'd feel a lot better if somebody could walk me through it.
Not justifying their actions, but the movement was reactive to the general vibe of "vote for this one because the author is a ___".

I had been to several worldcons before sad puppies happened and that is literally what was being said about the nominees and winners.

Just compare to the lists of books from the 60's to 80's to the ones from 2000 onward. It's hard for me to say the quality is still.
I've seen many people arguing he's the most intelligent person that ever lived
ROI. only takes 5 years to make a good crop picker. much longer to make a good programmer.
Lots of drinking and therapy.
ΔS = ΔQ/T
How do they make your life harder compared to projects where the source is not available?
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They also don't account for the way these decisions would be made, if done at the government level.

Put simply: I'm looking forward to the study where the participants get to vote every year to decide how much money they should be getting from the people running the study.
I guess your post is rather charitable, and I'm a bit of a freetard (personally), but

> mostly happy with a 7840HS which tells us they're a laptop user and likely looking at workloads that would work on a laptop with spare time hobby levels of effort.

kind of triggered me a little. I'm an ML engineer and do not know any of my colleagues who run any serious training on their laptops, be it x86 or the latest Apple M-whatever. We all just use notebooks with GPUs hosted somewhere else. Perhaps the Apple M chips are a bit better at doing some inference, but at a certain level it is better to just use a dedicated GPU, and I think it will probably stay that way for a while (maybe forever).

I have to say, the Apple M chips do impress me, and I wish there was some x86 equivalent, but alas there is none. And Linux support isn't anywhere close where I'd feel confident sacrificing my time sending out bug reports.

I don't think any AMD NPU will replace NVIDIA GPUs anytime soon, and that wasn't the purpose of my post. I just wish AMD would actually put out a driver for me to be able to tinker with their hardware which so far they have not. And that sort of inability to even put out a driver to use their consumer-grade hardware does not inflict much confidence in their dedicated GPUs being a viable alternative to NVIDIA cards.
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I dunno...too hypothetical a question to answer, since we already have enough nukes to destroy everything and nobody is going to reduce their arsenal to one.
That one is mobile, this one is desktop, which they claim are different causes.
How would you create a competing ad network of the same scope?
> But also, capitalization isn't generally relevant for determining whether a noun refers to a defined term or not; for example "Connected Persons" "connected persons" and "CONNECTED PERSONS" are all read the same, unless there is something in the contract that specifically states otherwise. It used to be common for the first usage of a defined term to be all caps.

In my experience it is a common convention in UK law contracts for defined terms to have the first letter in each word capitalised whenever they are used.

Completely agree with the broader point though - capitalising a term that happens to be defined in some legislation somewhere doesn't generally mean it has the same meaning as in that legislation unless explicitly linked to the legislation.
The Sad Puppies were a response to the sorry state of Hugo voting, not the start of it. The Hugo process was designed (and to use that word at all is overstating things) for a world where there were enough independent SF magazines to both avoid groupthink and hopefully cover most of what was worth reading between them.
He was really brilliant, made contributions all over the place in the math/physics/tech field, and had a sort of wild and quirky personality that people love telling stories about.

A funny quote about him from a Edward “a guy with multiple equations named after him” Teller:

> Edward Teller observed "von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."
Bait and switch. This happened to me, the day before I accept their offer they tell me it’s changing to hybrid. To make up for it they offer me relocation compensation. An entire $5k! Mind you that doesn’t even cover my mortgage and, maybe more insulting, this position was the equivalent of an L9 role at google.

Anyway I happily accept because money. I never had plans to go to the office but I did make a few trips on my own dime to meet the team. The entire time “it’s so hard to find candidates like you”.

After 3 months I left for a job that pays double. Play stupid games, lose exceptional candidates.
Funny enough, I know a little bit about this one. We have them, but they are all come-from-behind missiles, so the launch site has to be as close to Russia (or wherever) as possible, which angers the Russians.

The head-on hit-a-bullet-with-another-bullet-is missile still impossible, although many would like us to believe they are already here. Nuh uh.

Plus those are still useless against nukes delivered inside ton of cocaine.
Show HN: Guess the one-word LLM image prompt
> The worst thing an eBPF program can do is to merely consume more resources than is desirable, such as CPU cycles and memory.

This is obviously not true. It might be the worst it can do, by itself, to the currently running kernel. It's not the worst it can do to the machine or its user(s).

There are infinite harmful things an eBPF program can do. As can programs solely in user-space. There is a specific class of vulnerabilities being mitigated by moving code from kernel to BPF. That does not mean that eBPF programs are in general safe.
The mobile issue seems more anecdote than data? Almost as if people on Reddit heard the 13/14 CPUs were bad, then their laptop crashed, and they decided "it happened to me too".
Some probability distributions are objective. The probability that my random number generator gives me a certain number is given by a certain formula. Describing it with another distribution would be wrong.

Another example, if you have an electron in a superposition of half spin-up and half spin-down, then the probability to measure up is objectively 50%.

Another example, GPT-2 is a probability distribution on sequences of integers. You can download this probability distribution. It doesn't represent anyone's beliefs. The distribution has a certain entropy. That entropy is an objective property of the distribution.
>Some people then do that way past the point they need to, and end up at risk of being caught for tax evasion.

Only because we tax people's income. Instead, tax only the income of corporations and other shareholder based limited liability entities. Income tax should be the insurance premium business pays to limit the legal liability to the owners and shareholders of the business.
I personally wonder why we need a central registry system at all. Couldn't we just use a DHT or similar? I understand why it was created this way to a good degree, but why we continue to use this I don't get at all, there have been wonderful practical advances in networking and distributed computing since this was all set up and I can't think of one good reason not to use those advances to make the internet better.
There was a display at an airport I read about. Had a projector showing the average speed for a champion marathon runner. Most normal people couldn't match it over the short distance.

Couldn't find the link but here is a similar video of people (mostly amateur runners) trying to match a 2h marathon time for two minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRYtn0j5ccA
I think Plasma Bigscreen is trying to do so: https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

Haven't heard any news about it for a while, but it looks a bit like "Android TV except not Android".
Pit production is likely the rate limiting factor.

We disassembled a bunch of AFAPs so have a lot of weapons grade plutonium around. But Pu is nasty to work with & Rocky Flats--the previous pit production facility--closed down years ago. Pit production moved to Los Alamos but it is at a much reduced capability.

Also, Pantex--where nuclear weapons are assembled--isn't exactly the model for speed & efficiency.
Using open-source is a liability too, with added problems of code licensing conflicts, supply chain attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, relying on maintainers that don’t work for you, etc.
It's very Hackernews to throw LLMs in there, but I agree. LLMs don't have experience though. They have training data, and a probabilistic output.

Designing things have two goals:

- Make old things seem new

- Make new things seem old and familiar

Both need a lot of knowledge about how humans work and how we have made sense of the world up until now. Design can't be made in a vacuum and without input.

Edit: To expand: An LLM would never have come up with touch input. It would have regurgitated the existing ideas of using a pen or a mouse to point at things on a screen. To come up with touch input was a huge feat of human engineering that was a combination of design (making touching a obvious for any human, old or young) and engineering (making that interaction actually work).
Let me add "Inventing Accuracy" to your list of recommended reading. It's fascinating, and it's a powerful microscope to reveal the relationship between strategic need and technological development

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262631471/inventing-accuracy/
That's an interesting theory. At least one of the nominees is known to be on hostile terms with a group with a past record of trying to interfere with the Hugos.
Sure, someone needs to do something, but due to automation we need less labor for the same value, even if it isn’t fully automated luxury space communism (yet?).

That excess time could be spent on leisure, instead the insatiable hunger for more is driving us to drudgery.
Probably promote cancer cell growth as well
I'm just going off what the hacker said.

> the compromised list of services:

> their database (containing PII)

> their AWS

> their salesforce (never checked, account may be limited)

> mailgun (arbitrary emails from a16z domains, and also could read older emails)

> ... and probably more
I'd say yes, but then I'd say the same thing about reading Dostoevsky (if talking with this mindset), so I'm not really on GP's side re: novels being more valuable than sports.
No they’re not, you ignored the rest of my comment and the context and (perhaps accidentally) cherry picked something to disagree with. The statement about not knowing the risks was made immediately after saying OSHA requires an on-site supervisor, which is what prevents people who don’t know the risks from jumping in the hole, and also what provides a worker safeguard regardless of whether or not they know the risks. Same point said two ways, same reason in both cases, and you agreed and repeated the same point I was making. Cheers!
How do you know how old he is?
I've heard that 80 is the magic number when your life gets harder due to old age. The body starts breaking down much faster after that. Does anyone have any sources to back that up? I know that people I've known seem to have more health problems as they get into their 80's. Any way you look at it, life is short.
This can be made to work for ASCII and EBCDIC simultaneously for extra esoterica points:

switch (my_char | 'A' ^ 'a') {
case 'A' | 'a': /* ... */ break;
/* ... */
}

I don’t know if this is too fancy to have ever made it into real code, but I believe I’ve seen places in the ICU source that still say ('A' <= x <= 'I' || 'J' <= x <= 'R' || 'S <= x <= 'Z') instead of just ('A' <= x <= 'Z'), EBCDIC letters being arranged in those three contiguous ranges.
Except they didn't. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2326812/intel-is-not-recomme...
Even better than random bytes is 5 GB worth of text files with wrong facts, like “57th President of United States was Jim Carry” or something. So that when they train their AI on your data it spoils their training.
> mastering the luck

I feel there are multiple notions of "luck" in common use and the ambiguous term leads to misunderstandings.

In my mind, the purest form of luck is, by definition, not something that can be mastered. It is 100% beyond one's control to influence. Examples might include: your genetics, flipping a fair coin, etc.

But lots of people talk about "luck" as though it's something that somehow one take advantage of in a willful way. They say "make your own luck." Or perhaps "put yourself in situations where you're more likely get lucky." Or maybe "master luck"?

That's all fine, and is a worthwhile topic, but I would call that "skill". Maximizing one's odds of something (even something involving luck) is a skill.

Perhaps by "mastering luck" they mean not allowing it to psych you out — even if you're on a long losing streak, even while doing everything right. But again, I'd say saying level-headed is a straightforward skill (difficult though it may be).

Anyway, that's my little rant on the ambiguity of the term "luck" (:
I use a series of scripts to make daily Borg backups to a local repository: https://github.com/gchamon/borg-automated-backups

Currently the local folder is a samba mount so it's off-site.

The only tip I'd have for people using Borg is to verify your backups frequently. It can get corrupted without much warning. Also if you want quick and somewhat easy monitoring of backups being created you can use webmin to watch for the modifications in the backup folder and send an email if there isn't a backup being sent in a while. Similarly, you can regularly scan the Borg repo and send email in case of failures for manual investigation.

This is low tech, at least lower tech than elastic stack or promstack, but it gets the job done.
man ascii

is never far from my fingers. combined with od -c and od -x it gets the job done. I don't think as fluently in Octal as I used to. Hex has become ubiquitous.
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As a player, I do not really value performance unless we're talking sub 25fps.
It was 80 years ago though … If you combine the lack of large scale war in the area with the very low level of inter-personal violence, you've had three generations there who have lived in a situation that most people from before would have deemed impossible due to the nature of men. And yet it happened.

Incredible to see how the nuclear bomb and welfare state were able to perform such an incredible feat.
Are you saying that just because the great circle from US to NK goes over Russia? Can we not fire on a less optimal trajectory? Or from a submarine?
> You are acknowledging my point - in this case they ARE the same thing. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck - it's a duck.

Ok, so two programs with different code that perform the same task are identical to you. There are never any merits or drawbacks on implementation according to you.

All the extra features that SFTP has but SCP doesn't don't exist, because "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck." SCP being faster but not allowing resuming interrupted transfers doesn't matter, because "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck."

If this is the level of thought you put into your tech, you don't seem worth arguing with, but you also don't seem like someone who should be "teaching" anything to anyone in your own comments.

> Who is using a pre-2022 distro reading this comment?

Plenty of enterprises. That's only two years ago. People still use systems far older than that.

This does include Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which shipped OpenSSH 8.9. It would also include RHEL 9, which shipped OpenSSH 8.7, if Red Hat hadn't specifically patched it with the updated behavior.

Here's Red Hat talking about SCP being deprecated in RHEL 9, specifically: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-... Interesting how much they have to say about the topic since there's apparently no difference, according to you.

> And I have been using scp (with SSH, SFTP) for a lot longer than since 2022. Like over a decade.

You probably weren't, you were probably using SCP. Optional SFTP support wasn't even added to the SCP command until 2020, committed in 2021, so "over a decade" is just factually impossible: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/197e29f1c...

This is why you need to know these things, because now you kind of look like an idiot for not even knowing the tools you use.
Beyond Meat is pretty neat.

Ceph? (Inktank was founded in 2011 by Sage Weil and DreamHost, which then it raised 1M in 2012 from Mark Shuttleworth, then RedHat bought them for 175M in 2014. Seems like a nice startup stort, no? The project itself was started around 2004 by Weil at LLNL, and then he worked on it as part of his PhD still in 2007, then the work continued at DreamHost, probably because Weil is one of the co-founders of DreamHost.)
We have plenty of ubi tests taking place as we speak in the form of people with their own trust funds.
One downside of ASCII is the lack of two extra “letters” (whatever they might be, e.g. perhaps German ß), as it makes it impossible to represent base 64 alphanumerically. So we ended up with many alternatives picking two arbitrary punctuation marks.
Easy: stereograms. Although, it may be hard for a large proportion of your audience to read them.
One question, why use rclone for the Backblaze B2 part? I use restic as well, configured with autorestic. One command backs up to the local SSD, local NAS, and B2.
"Transparency".

No mention of who "Finalist A" is.

Not very transparent, really.
> It has an unlockable bootloader, root, can run custom roms, all the good things.

What are you able to do?

(I have an LG tv, never hooked to ethernet/wifi, only used as a display for 4k bluray)
I'm not sure I follow... You feel that his skills as an illusionist somehow helped him win on that scratch lottery ticket?
I read it as all the human essentials are covered without work (sufficiently nutritious food, safe, clean, shelter with sufficient heating and water for basic needs, basic healthcare, basic internet, and a small extra for discretionary spending) with the assumption that most people will happily do some work to upgrade their circumstances and get more fun and interesting food/entertainment/shelter.

If quitting your job doesn't put your life or your ability to get another job (because you're not capable of maintaining basic grooming, for example) at risk, then the "free market" model of employment can actually work, and people can opt out of jobs that treat them poorly or underpay them. At that point all the most essential/difficult/unpleasant jobs would actually have to pay the most, and cushier jobs with more reasonable hours could pay less, and people could do the amount of work it takes to get the amount of money they want. Think of how hard people work just to make a bit more money even when they're financially stable, just because they want a house or a cool car or a nice vacation. Why would that change if you didn't have to bleed yourself dry just to eat and sleep under a roof?
airflow and Temporal has teams dedicated to maintain and extend their system. And these systems are business critical for astronomer/temporal, respectively.

And they develop them in a way that works for many customers and use cases, not just netflix.

But for netflix this is just another auxillary system, out of many others. Just a nice GUI to schedule cron jobs basically, does it make sense to sink resources into custom cron?
I still suck at minesweeper.
There's not really a unified "anti-trans movement", as different people have different reasons for opposing this.

Like for instance you mention homophobia:

> that the previous anti movement (homophobia) has effectively failed

But one of these reasons for rejecting the ideology of "trans" is because it's homophobic.

Consider the conventional understanding of homosexuality: a sexual orientation directed exclusively towards others of the same sex. The "trans" belief system overwrites this definition to instead be those who are attracted only to others with the same "gender identity".

This means that a "trans woman" (male sex) who is only interested in "cis women" (female sex) would be a lesbian by this new definition - which effectively erases homosexuality in its original understanding, by including heterosexuals. In this case straight males.

In the past few years, LGB organizations have been springing up to counter this new type of homophobia. Often driven by or allying with feminists, who have their own set of reasons to be critical of "trans".
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not a fan of his totality, but he is an epic troll and memester in a way that has broad resonance.

It doesn't seem sophisticated, but it is perfectly engages one audience, and perfectly enrages a second target audience.

Examples that come to mind is mocking Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" or rebuking the question of him as a dictator with "No, no, no, (other than day one)."
> The country was supposed to look more like New Hampshire than New York.

Really? Where is that written, and by whom?

New Hampshire as of 1491?