skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like a USB rubber ducky (https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky) would probably work great for this use case. They market it towards pentesting but it's useful for automating general system administration as well.
I might be talking out of my depth, as I don’t live in Europe, but I’ve heard the same paraphrased headlines like these since at least 2016. Has status quo been swayed one way or another since then? Theoretically speaking, wouldn’t legislating away the top US players open the market to the local companies a la Naver in SK, WeChat in China or Line in Japan? I understand I’m dumbing it down, but assuming such legislations are supported by the local residents. I don’t think I would support it, personally, but I can see their point as well.
I never understood Zappa until I listened to his orchestral and chamber music. I thought he was a rock guy and doing the usual trite “with Symphony Orchestra” music that rock guys did. I was wrong. He knows what’s he’s doing, and he’s outstanding.

I find his later compositions for rock ensemble are way out there but brilliant. Earlier stuff like in Burnt Weeny Sandwich (Igor’s Boogies, Prelude to Holiday in Berlin) I find brilliant and hilarious. I don’t understand the attraction to some of his pure rock music, but I can understand his interest in the vernacular.

Beefheart bore obvious similarities and parallels with Zappa in some respects, but I don’t think one way or the other about his music. He’s clearly one heck of an all round artist though.
Isn't this how some UI frameworks work(ed)? You had graphical design tool that then generated some blob (or xml) that you then included in your application.

More extreme example would be the various business process etc things, like KIE/Drools/jBPM, or BPEL/BPMN, that also allow various ways of mixing various visual and traditional practices.

I think the common thing with all of these is that in the end no developer actually liked them.

Now thinking of this, one of the problems is that there is no suitable generic graphics format that could be used as a base for these sort of visual programming ideas. So there isn't any text-editor analog for visual programming currently, instead all visual programming environments I've seen use some specialized custom tools and formats.
I have been really hoping that these myths would not be as prevalent today as they are.

Personally, I've been greatly influenced by Feynman's great autobiography Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman![1].

In it, the Noble-prize winning Scientist conveys a worldview that has none of the scientism derided by Grothendieck in this essay. It is a vaccine against scientism, if you may - and a triumph of curiosity, common and uncommon sense.

Feynman also coined[2] the description of physics (which I use to describe mathematics as well), that annihilates the high-priest narrative of "reason" as the driving force:

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it

In the end, we do things because they feel good and because they feel right.

Mathematics more so than anything else; we are guided by a sense of beauty and what's interesting. It's an art of story-telling and surprise.

Much of science is motivated by emotion and little else: the curiosity to untangle the patterns of how things work, drive to be the first to solve the mystery, the mission of doing the right thing.

Without those, science doesn't science. Feynman gave one straightforward example: the military wasn't telling some of the lower-ranking researchers of the Manhattan project what they were working on, and why. They were lagging behind. Once they were told, at Feynman's insistence, that they were a part of a project to build a bomb that would end the war, they exceeded all expectations.

Because with that, their work gained a purpose, and gave hope.

In the end, how we feel about things is everything. Scientists are just those people who feel good when they find out how things work, just like engineers are those people who feel good when they make things work (or make things that work).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe...!

[2] Disputed, but it's definitely in his character: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
I tried to like Zappa. I like the idea of Zappa. My brother got a tattoo of Frank Zappa's face on on his bicep in the army, and we agree on a lot of music. Imagine my dismay when I admitted I couldn't like any of it. On the other hand Trout Mask Replica is at least an interesting album.
> A streetcar is just a bus that can't be rerouted or go around a road obstruction.

A single-lane BRT can carry 9000 people, while a single-lane streetcar/tram/LRT can carry 18000:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Passenger_Capacity_of_dif...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_capacity

Rail gives you more capacity. Of course if you don't need that capacity then the value proposition is questionable: perhaps better to start with a BRT and try to get things to grow.
And the bits are basically free. If we had very cheap 24-bit floats and nothing bigger, maybe we'd use those, but we've got cheap 32-bit floats, so those are fine.

The most important property of floating point is "infinite headroom". In integer space, sixteen times quieter means 4 fewer bits of audio, get the levels wrong badly enough and people can hear your mistake even if you fix it later - but in float space it barely makes any difference, so long as the levels are correct in the final consumed audio nobody cares.
It's easy to say "F2P bad" or "live service bad", and I'm usually inclined to agree, but in this case, the entire game was carefully designed around the monetization model from the very start of development, to the point that it probably wouldn't work very well without it.

I've thought about what a non-live service, $60 one-time purchase version of Genshin Impact would look like, and I've come to the conclusion that it probably wouldn't be anywhere near as good. Even assuming it had the same amount of content it has now (which is quite a lot), the large and diverse roster of characters goes a long way in avoiding the feeling of repetitiveness and tedium that plagues most large open world games nowadays, and having to carefully pick and choose which characters you want to obtain and invest into (if you're not a whale, at least) and having to dedicate time to build up each one makes you care a lot more about them.
Jails/Zones are just heavy-duty containers. They're still not VMs. Not that VMs are enough either, given all the side-channels that abound.
Oh the irony of this article being covered by a consent screen that starts with:

„We & our 735 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store and access personal data on your device.“
Yeah but it turns so niche you write visual 3D interfaces in Unity for your specific application. Terminal editor improvements are visual programming.work iterm2 I can see command history and dig into problems.

There’s a huge advantage to see programming for non programmers. Do you know how hard it is to explain hypervisors, VMMs and OverlayFS to non programmers? I gave them a simple example they need to make a simple text update to a Photoshop file. It costs a renewed font license for the latest but essentially an application library they can open the legal version they bought on windows see it look sort of okay looking on osx make changes to the file and be done with it.

One thing ChatGPT taught me was people don’t understand code. SQL was supposed to be ChatGPT of the day. Executives had no concept the “power” of essentially an NLP on top of structured data.

And for developers a high level AutoCad like view of what’s talking to what, etc. is valuable. I don’t need to visualize a merge sort but maybe a realistic abstract demo non programmers and programmers can work against.

I got tired of corrupt paste programmers mocking up design in Figma. I want to show you acquired Product X on SAP and it’s a different version. Using token data I want to be like as of right now you see realistic data and users, zoom in, show it merge in a datalake and produce an auditable report.

And that it runs strategies so algorithms (probably AI) can show aggregated date and where things might be failing. Zoom out see two icons from two company’s on different software and a generic data lake, zoom in and see and update data. See a message in Skack/email/etc. indicating whatever. Show elementary that consultant leads products like Twilio run off AWS and telemetry shows they don’t use but one feature and we can swap it out. All ok a running system without awkwardly switching windows. It helps executives get the big picture,’itnactualu works and you drill down enough you see type forwarding and an IDL for the programmers.

When was the last time you used merge sort not in std library or visualization would have helped you solve it? And yes I’m not talking just about corporate software.

Just the other day I was wanting to show an overlayfs/squashfs. I mean I’ll go down to C or god help me ASM so it’s not technical ability. It’s usually not even big vs little indian that trips people up but the big picture.

I wish so bad things like Salesforce would release their code, it is very rare someone would “steal” it and companies I know would benefit greatly and still pay full cost if I could rip out things and see their documentation is wrong and not have to go to COBOL or disassemble to me that’s visual programming. “INT32 actually a mutable type oh yeah they also made up their own types. That’s in red. In fact here’s a point map of all types that don’t match specs. First question why (in 1994 a driver didn’t work right so we did some weird type forwarding) ok… but in huge systems I’m not sure visual programming would help. Maybe weird things like btree in rust is better until you make an roc call outside of rust for some reason?
The no iteration thing is very real and I don’t think it’s even for particularly bad reasons. We iterate on models to make them better, by some definition of better. It’s no secret that scientific work is subject to rather perverse incentives around thresholds of significance and positive results. Publish or perish. Perverse incentives lead to perverse statistics.

The iteration itself is sometimes viewed directly as a problem. The “garden of forking paths”, where the analysis depends on the data, is viewed as a direct cause for some of the statistical and epistemological crises in science today.

Iteration itself isn’t inherently bad. It’s just that the objective function usually isn’t what we want from a scientific perspective.

To those actually doing scientific work, I suspect iterating on their models feels like they’re doing something unfaithful.

Furthermore, I believe a lot of these issues are strongly related to the flawed epistemological framework which many scientific fields seem to have converged: p<0.05 means it’s true, otherwise it’s false.

edit:

Perhaps another way to characterize this discomfort is by the number of degrees of freedom that the analyst controls. In a Bayesian context where we are picking priors either by belief or previous data, the analyst has a _lot_ of control over how the results come out the other end.

I think this is why fields have trended towards a set of ‘standard’ tests instead of building good statistical models. These take most of the knobs out of the hands of the analyst, and generally are more conservative.
I guess I just don't see the problem that you are seeing for expression-based languages + visual programming. Are you saying that it would be cluttered if there were too many things without names?
Visual programming has a long history. See Nassi-Shneiderman-Diagram's, which are even a German (Now eu) DIN standard. And you have Drakon from the Russian space program.
So basically I would now need to show my ID for every purchase? Not trying to make it sound like some massive obstacle, but it is just one extra annoyance I can totally live without.

And that’s without even getting into the weeds around the fact that there is a non-insignificant number of US citizens born and raised here without an ID (hence the endless controversies around proposals to implement a mandatory voter ID requirement for voting, which pop up every election cycle).
Spotify benefitted from starting in the EU.
Software for a TSB absolutely should be free. That, sir, is a bug fix.
Information architecture is a non-starter because it reveals that the business processes are not auditable.
Thanks, I didn’t know about that technique. I’ll definitely fix it for the next video! I was on a time crunch while making the voiceover for this one. I didn’t have a pop filter and thought I could get away with a software de-plosive. Turns out popping is pretty difficult to fix without warping or trimming audio.
Which version was released first 7.11 or 7.9? The terminology can be a bit ambiguous. I wouldn't count that as much evidence that AGI isn't coming.
Now available from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-wat-git
The kicker with some of those math competition problems, there will be problems that reduce to finding all natural numbers for which some statement is true. These are almost always small numbers, less than 100 in most circumstances.

Which means these problems are trivial to solve if you have a computer - you can simply check all possibilities. And is precisely the reason why calculators aren't allowed.

But exhaustive searches are not feasible by hand in the time span the problems are supposed to be solved - roughly 30 minutes per problem. You are not supposed to use brute force, but recognize a key insight which simplifies the problem. And I believe even if you did do an exhaustive search, simply giving the answer is not enough for full points. You would have to give adequate justification.
This seems to make sense in your head but I fail to see this argument. Increase/decrease seems to be something you’re deciding on in your head.

Marketed price for billionaires: $1000
Middle America discount price: $20
Price for you: $100 because you’re not a billionaire but richer than middle America.
The Dirty Secret of Olympic Swimming: Everyone Pees in the Pool
Besides the sibling replies, it can also be powered better, from direct connection to the electrical grid. More efficient than lossy conversions from battery storage or combustion fuel, and also saves the weight and complexity of those components.
..because not all systems are of the same quality.
Tech is very interconnected though, and the article points out an example where what you state is very much not true: "How would Mistral, a leading AI firm, survive if Nvidia exits the French market due to regulatory concerns?"
oil refineries are also quite a weak point for gas vehicles

caltrops could also paralyse entire highways

also bridges

I could also imagine that it's not difficult to insert sugar into gas stations
You don't need to make your markup language programmable. Just write a library for a full-featured programming language which outputs the markup you want. Then you don't have to re-implement parameters, variables, loops, and such. See Lucid or Blaze in Haskell for good HTML DSLs. You can do more in one of those, combined with all the features of Haskell, than you can with Slab, Haml, Pug, or whatever else. And you don't need to write plugins for VSCode, Vim, Emacs, or whatever else just to edit it. See also Elm, which has an HTML DSL built in.
https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/swimming-paris-games-poo...
Having a railroad functional enough for military purposes is easy enough: get the rails hooked up. Put soldiers at switches to flip them, use radio for coordination. For high speed high frequency passenger travel it's more complicated: you need automation flipping switches at the right times, automatic block signaling to ensure that trains are where they're supposed to be and won't crash into each other, etc.

That's why they were able to get some of the trains back to operation: they can't run them as close together as before, but can still use the tracks.
You will probably be interested in this:

# Alexandre Mirlicourtois (Xerfi) - J.O. de Paris : le revers de la médaille économique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8UrLNd1t6Y
"/s", I thought, means "end sarcasm", which is the lowest form of humor and not every one thinks other person's funny actually is
This company screams “Stripe please buy me” so so much.

From branding to the all UVP, it was a fast exit because it was meant to be.

Still a massive achievement
Why would you sell for less than the market price? If I can sell something at $10/sq ft and my costs to produce it are $5 and my competitors are $9 then there is no reason to cut prices. We will both profit, I will just make larger profits.
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We could make our railway more resilient to such attacks, but in general why bother ? It is probably cheaper to pay the cost whenever the disruption happens.

At least in times of peace.

There are two issues here though. The first is that the Olympics is a special event and it is more likely for somebody to try to cause the disruptions, and as such more control is probably warranted.

The second is that somebody else (Russia) is not acting like they are at peace with us so we should act accordingly
If the answer to that question is in TFA, I couldn’t find it (I admittedly did not read every word). The very end of TFA supposes that the tipping point might have already occurred (though unlikely) and we wouldn’t know for years. So I’m guessing no one else knows the answer, either.

Worth a skim, the general premise is interesting.
> should be banned everywhere

Totally agree. Particularly vexed by New York letting Sidewalk Labs put these billboards across our streets [1].

[1] https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/u...
Funny enough, I came here to say that I watched that without sound and it was still very interesting and easy to follow. This person is a really great educator. Their other videos look equally intriguing and well done: https://www.youtube.com/@argonautcode
Also, Dwarf Fortress. :)
no fix available means people will need to buy new chips to replace -> for an investor this is a good thing, and stock prices will speculatively rise.
It's so clunky, IMO, because bluetooth is a dumbass protocol with things in the standard that should not be there (including which audio codecs are supported with which levels of bluetooth). Rather than just being a more simple network of wireless devices, it's a very complex protocol which makes everything more complicated.

Why you may struggled could be anything from the firmware blob for your bluetooth device, to the kernel driver installed, to bluez, to the sound server you are using. Any one of those things messing up will lead to a bad experience.

I've had a relatively good experience with kde-plasma's bluetooth management stuff. But I still have to do dumb things like manually selecting which audio codec to use when I go on a call.

How could bluetooth be better? It should be at least 2 standards. 1 defining the wireless data transfer and network capabilities, a second which defines how a computer negotiates with a device to send audio. It shouldn't be 2 standards merged together like it currently is. Wifi Direct is more what bluetooth should be.
Hardware gets more nuanced and Linux needs to accommodate it. Otherwise we'd be stuck with blurry fonts and no UI scaling like it's 2014
Google DeepMind AI becoming a math whiz
When you're ready to make the switch, I recommend converting your own with a Bafang mid-drive to avoid vendor lock-in. A lot of LBS's won't even touch pre-builts, and if you work on your own bike you can work on a conversion just as easily.
Who launched attack on the French rail network – and why?
Isn't this about to happen to the Guinea-worm? I don't even know if they are human-specific.
In particle physics, it was quite fashionable (and may still be) to iterate on blinded data (data deliberated altered by a secret, random number, and/or relying entirely on Monte Carlo simulation).
I’m sure there are creative ways to misuse bayesian statistics, although I think it is harder to hide your intentions as you do that. With frequentist approaches your intentions become obscure in the whole mess of computations and at the end of it you get to claim this is a simple “objective” truth because the p value shows < 0.05. In bayesan statistics the data you put into it is front and center: The chances of my theory being true given this data is greater than 95% (or was it chances of getting this data given my theory?). In reality most hoaxes and junk science was because of bad data which didn’t get scrutinized until much too late (this is what Gould did).

But I think the crux of the matter is that bad science has been demonstrated with frequentists and is now a part of our history. So people must either find a way to fix the frequentist approaches or throw it out for something different. Bayesian statistics is that something different.
Vox had a video from a few years ago:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWKjBMYfBw
The real problem is that the requirements for a social platform are getting very onerous, to the point that it takes at least several engineers working full time on the problem.

That really hurts a startup's ability to initially launch in the market, especially one with less VC money. (Certain BigCo new products can be thought of as a startup too, with limited budgets.)

This doesn't just affect social media companies, it affects almost any product where a user can upload data, or any product with a social feature, no matter how peripheral the feature is.

Turns out that's a wide swathe of technology, and that social features are fairly valuable.

Of course the big companies will eventually get around to launching in Europe anyway, it will just trail behind the rest of the world.
Because if you cut prices, you'll get a larger share of the market. So even if you make less profit per unit, you make a larger profit overall. Also, as you scale, some costs stay fixed, so your costs per unit might go down as well.
Zappa is technically breathtaking; for instance, Steve Vai is listed in a few of his orchestra tracks as "doing impossible guitar stunts", and there are many more examples.

But Zappa was never, like, serious, he always was ironic, sarcastic, or downright clownish, and always, it seems, looked down at the audience. This makes his music sound great at a Saturday night show, and less so elsewhere.
It's a great album, but I probably wouldn't start there. Safe As Milk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_as_Milk) is a more straightforward blue album, or the more "experimental-yet-commercial" Clear Spot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Spot).

Edit: I wanted to add that the first few times I listened to Trout Mask Replica I really didn't like it and didn't get why anyone would think it was good.