skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just heroin dealers: contract killers also benefit society according to this logic. They're in business, their customers give them money for a service the customers think is valuable, etc. They may not benefit you directly, and may make your life worse (if you're their target), but bruce thinks they're fine since they do "useful" things and have paying customers!
When I was working for Kink, as a joke, we picked MaleWank as the first site to convert to the new platform that we were building (as software engineers). Mostly because the site had been retired and wasn't generating new content. This meant working directly with all of the content, repeated many times, on the site for many months.

Trust me, I'll never forget it.
In other news today calculator solves math problem.
Maine followed in 1978. The way life should be.
People could be shoving square pegs into coincidentally square holes but having coded in Go for years I haven't seen this scenario in practice ever. It would take a lack of understanding of the objects you're working with combined with a pretty big gap in your tests to cause a problem and at that point it's still not the most likely bug you'll see
This is the key takeway, not hey you know what, I'm evaluating this person or poor me my job is hard. Unless this is for astronaut training for a manned trip to Mars to build a colony that time line is insane.
I think a lot of people here are being confused by all the talk about "implicit interfaces" in the article. It's not actually talking about interfaces in C# at all, just about the old-fashioned way of passing callbacks.

If you consider that a problem, you would also have the same problem in any other language with first class functions. Someone might define a `readSomething(string -> int) -> ...` function. Does that mean everyone who now defines a `string -> int` function must make it suitable for `readSomething`? Obviously not. It's up to the caller to pass correct arguments to the functions they are calling.
Hah. Washington doesn't ban billboards, but we don't have that many of them. They are also usually not too garish.

I was shocked by the number of "One call, that's all" accident attorney billboards in LA and FL when I drove through them several years ago.
> could mean in any one of the thousands of departments not even remotely related to Windows.

That's true. I was a dev in Windows though. I wasn't privy to any memorable internal discussions about secure boot.

Anyway, I'm just saying I'm not a kneejerk windows or ms hater, which I think I read as in discussions like this.
Thank you, this has really helped educate me on the possibilities of the wireless communication aspect.
Are you hiring? I'd love to port this into your framework.

https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat
El primo de nino
Same with yogurt. Whey protein isolate goes for $11/lb, which is ridiculous pricing as a side note.
Nice find. Never ran into this because I haven't mutated inputs in over 15 years.
> On average, the pivot will split the list into 2 approximately equal-sized pieces.

Where does this come from?

Even assuming a perfect random function, this would be true only for distributions that show some symmetry. But if the input is all 10s and one 5, each step will generate quite different-sized pieces!
this is really a common misconception mostly caused
due to confusing UI in the app. See https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/15/chatgpt-in-4o-mode/
I would hope all advertising (including online) isn't completely banned. It is useful at times for learning about products. But that's all it should really do: promote products (or services), and stop using psychological manipulation techniques and being such a cancer on society.

50+ years ago, the idea of advertisers harvesting your personal data and trading it behind your back to tailor ads for you was completely alien.
Deeply ironic considering Banksy has made millions plastering his products all over public spaces without any permission from anybody.
could the generator and challenger be cross trained against each other, so as to actually both get better? like a generative-challenger network (GCN) or something like this?
Been using llm for following usecase
Big llm like Claude and gpt for coding help
Copilot for coding
Local llm like mistral2 for
1. Parsing LinkedIn posts to find jobs and put them in Google sheets
2. Mental sparring by giving local llm a problem and asking it to ask important questions instead of answer. This helps me identify if I have thought it through or have i missed some things
Think GP was referring to this uh kind of custom

https://youtube.com/shorts/BSzmabM7J7M

And maybe a pun on ananas
name's taken I'm afraid
Why would a communist society need money in the first place? Isn't everyone given some fixed ration of goods? Or that he can take what he needs?
The bathrooms in Japan are crazy to me. Depending on where you are the toilet might be the most luxurious experience your ass has ever had, or sometimes it's a literal hole in the ground and not even toilet paper is provided.

I've never had a problem finding a toilet there when I needed one, but I kept kleenex in my back pocket because I never knew what to expect.

I still prefer the holes in the ground to pay toilets.
Is it really such a smart thing to train a non-human "entity" to beat humans at math?
I tried this with a question for an area I know well. It's pretty impressive but missed some key references.

I'd love to see limitations like this quantified and clearly flagged. Otherwise there's a danger that people may the assume results are definitive, and this could have the opposite outcome to that intended (much time spent working on something only to disocver it's been done already).
Genetically synthesized supergain broadband wire-bundle antenna
Real estate prices are very high here in part because it is a very scenic place with a lot of hills and trees and such

I have a hard time accepting the "in part" even, and sort of align with "the only reason it's expensive is because of the closeness to SV".

But yes it is very nice. And yes billboards would make it less nice.
I couldn't tell -- does this editor work with Remote ssh?
The exponential number of symmetries present in sudoku problems, means that once you've found one valid instance, you've actually found up to 9! * 3!^4 * 8 which are exactly the same.

The numbers themselves are all interchangeable, so you have 9! combinations: 362,880.

Columns 1-to-3 are all interchangeable, as are 4-to-6, and 7-to-9. On top of this, these blocks of columns (1-to-3, 4-to-6, 7-to-9) are all interchangeable. Read about wreath products in group theory to know more. Each of the above symmetries are 3!, combined to yield 3! * 3! = 36 combinations. As well as the columns though, the rows have the same property, so those can be combined too: 36 * 36 =
1,296.

Finally, there are the symmetries of a square. Combining all rotations and flips yields a further 8.

In total, sudoku has 3,762,339,840 symmetries. Owing to the starting state of the sudoku puzzle being incomplete, the orbit of the set of points (more group theory) will be smaller than 3 billion, but it provides an efficient method of recreating many more puzzles with the same property. In this case, human complexity.
Billboards tend to be used by cannabis dispensaries, casinos, car dealerships, and ambulance chasers.
Thanks, that's very interesting, bookmarked! I found https://github.com/thomashiemstra/fred whilst searching, which also uses dynamixel motors, but very expensive ones.

It does look very smooth motion-wise though!
I love the lo-tech idea. I hadn't considered this approach but I could see it working well for outdoor environments (with line of sight) where there is little infrastructure available.
Python's biggest weakness is the lack of a function that shows you how exactly a variable looks like. the var_dump (php, ha!) works like wonders. The best library ever created for Python ;). and now wat is also looking to be a close contender for best helping hand.
Ironically there's an AI filter that's classified you as an ad, and is erasing you from our field of vision as we speak. HN's spam filter is... not a frontier AI, to put it politely. You can email the mods to get your new account whitelisted!
fine line between gigs and jobs.

turn gigs into jobs then it loses the fun factor.
Khamar Daban incident: why did six die but others survived
The same complaint ("I did not choose to see this") could be done about anything that's out in public:

Why do I have to see your street art? Why do I have to see your clothes? Why do I have to see your face? Why do I have to see your car?

However, it's widely accepted that not wanting to see something doesn't justify vandalizing someone else's art/clothes/car/whatever.

Why should it be different for ads?
Bali: Updates on a JavaScript engine in pure Nim
i mean it loses its stickiness.

it becomes a fucking chore.

gigs thrive on lack of structure.

jobs thrive on structure, stability, consistency, reliability.
How does Rust solve this problem?
Because they're expensive and Berlin doesn't have money. They were also coin operated and thus frequently broken into and out of service because of that. They mostly have contactless pay now, which has disadvantages as well because its less accessible (especially for children and senior people).
Epic's New Game Strategy for Mobile Stores
I agree, but it's also pretty funny how so many of them have this tiny techie audience and 99% of the people driving past will just be like "wtf is that about, what are all those acronyms?"
Irvine, CA has an outdoor advertising ban. Driving the 405 through OC you quickly see the difference.
it is very likely that this ban might be prevented by lobbying, as one of the main providers (even visible on the picture in the article) is, let's say "well connected" to our legislative
I wonder, how is Allah's tolerance towards technotheological errors?

What if there's a bug in the calendar for Ramadan or Salah?
Do you have any experience with asynchronous local updates, rather than a global synchronized time step?
Marin County to SV is a really nasty commute, but I concede if it weren't close to downtown SF it would cost a lot less to live in Marin County.

Large numbers of high paying jobs are necessary for high housing prices except in tax havens like Monaco.
Impressive result. I will visit again
Yes, this is one of the most important aspects of the tool; in cases where you care about getting everything, make sure to take a look at the estimated percent of papers found at the bottom of the summary section. That gives you a sense of how complete the set of references likely are. We've tuned it to get around half of the total papers for the "median" user query on a first pass. If users desire, they can "extend" the search to have Undermind look for more papers. Additional caveat to remember with the current system is that it only accesses abstracts, so if you'd need to look in the full text to know a work is relevant, we wouldn't be able to catch it.
Good for annotating js files here and there, but lousy dx.
No, they mean that a job which few people want (and are qualified) to do tend to have higher compensation. Supply and demand
That's a good store.

My store has a few different brands of coconut milk. Some of the unit prices are per pound, while others are per quart. I make the approximation that coconut milk has the same density as water, which is two pounds per quart. The unit prices are all odd three digits numbers. It's a pain.

You could have one person who works in an office somewhere who's responsible for itemizing inventory for the whole grocery chain. They could solve this problem (maybe automatically!) with a spreadsheet. They could also solve the problem of tomatillos not being registered in the self-checkout catalog. But what is that person's salary paying for in the company's eyes?

To be fair, maybe the real explanation is "lots of stuff, shit happens." And it's only a factor of two (for watery goods, anyway).
An intuitive proof of the data processing inequality (2012)
The acquisition Dropbox failed to kill.
That would require brain implants or implanted lenses or some such, and no one would ever leave that platform open enough to be constantly tracked, and constantly barraged by it. Who would do that to themselves?!

And really, for it to be all encompassing, you'd need everyone to have to use such systems, such as forcing everyone to have such devices to log in to services, or even order food, or pay for things, and no one would force people to have a device to even pay for things, or eat.. I.. um, oh right, smartphones.

(I firmly suspect that within 25 years not only will brain implants -> visual cortex happen, but that if you don't have one you won't be able to work effectively, you won't be able to identify yourself effectively, and you probably won't even be able to pay for things)

mcmcmc: Nowhere did the GP state that AR would be inescapable. Yes, I know. I stated it. See above?

My whole point revolves around the fact that I believe, just as with smartphones, that people will be severely hampered without said tech. That it will effectively be a requirement to have such tech. Statements such as "But you can just...", fail to realise just how much is dependent upon it. In many respects there are NO workarounds without a smartphone, there are jobs that require you to own one, there are tasks/things you do in life that absolutely require it, and if you don't have one?

Often you cannot find a work around, or the work around is literally a monumental task, thus people simply capitulate.

This is what brain implants and AR will be like in 25+ years.
'OpenSSL installer for windows' website has awesome angry nerd rants in red font
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Blood_(video_game) ?
unsuitable for human habitation as Icarus would remind us.

Mercury's surface temperatures are both extremely hot and cold.

Because the planet is so close to the Sun, day temperatures can reach highs of 800°F (430°C). Without an atmosphere to retain that heat at night, temperatures can dip as low as -290°F (-180°C).

You could get sunburn while bathing in your budgie smugglers
> When you touch these ads, this will be vandalism and marketing company will dispatch security company on you.

They've even sued TV networks and movie studios for digitally painting different ads over their actual ads in movies and broadcasts.
Basic economics of investments and running a business? This is so basic that it's common sense: invest in new employees and train them to make them productive and eventually turn a profit or increase your profit. This is the simplest way to explain capitalism even.

Also shouldn't this be something that a hiring team or business owner should know? I can't see this to be helpful advice for a "junior" developer. Is this implying they should go ahead and explain such a basic idea that it goes without even saying to their potential boss during a job interview? That would be so condescending and outputting they would not be hired lol
There's lots of tools in this space. I work on https://github.com/systemd/mkosi for example.
Well, is that a perverse incentive? Maybe it just means the company is better off without another employee right now.

But the employees also have other things in mind besides profit, like their work load.
I used to work in an archive, and the Symbol LS2208 was a pretty great scanner. The model is also old enough, that you can find them branded Symbol, Motorola, and Zebra.

I had my own cheat sheet to reprogram it, eg. changing the final character to tab or enter, scan on trigger press or always scan. It struggled a little with black barcodes on navy blue labels, but that's a terrible idea anyway.
As far as I understand, and I may be wrong here, the system is composed of two networks: Gemini and AlphaZero. Gemini, being an ordinary LLM with some fine-tunes, only does translation from natural to formal language. Then, AlphaZero solves the problem. AlphaZero, unburdened with natural language and only dealing with "playing a game in the proof space" (where the "moves" are commands to the Lean theorem prover), does not hallucinate in the same way an LLM does because it is nothing like an LLM.
> Washington doesn't ban billboards

Not entirely, but it impose some very important limits on any signs near highways, such as requiring them to be advertising something that's available from the same property under them.

That effectively blocks the most spammy and egregious forests of signs, because one can't just purchase a small rectangle of near-highway grass and start auctioning space above it to a large shifting pool of national bidders.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.42.040
The worst are the super bright lcd/led screen billboards.

They are incredibly obnoxious. I’m surprised if they don’t case car crashes.
Not a dumb question. You are damn near guaranteed to get type 1 diabetes if you test positive for two or more T1D autoantibodies and/or your A1C is 5.7 or higher. Both can happen before you show any symptoms of T1D.

Get blood test for all five Type 1 Diabetes Autoantibodies: (this can be done for free)
GADA
IA-2A
IAA
ZnT8A
ICA

Get blood test for pancreatic C-peptide.

Get blood test for A1C.

Check out tzield if you test positive.

I can share sources if you’re interested. I’m. T1D.
Wow this is amazing! I couldn't tell from the demo but can you zoom out? I can't wait for the windows release!
The capital of Germany with almost 3.85 million people (one of the EU’s most populous cities) and it cannot afford public toilets.

Thanks for sharing ground truth, despite it being exceptionally depressing.
That seems to be one of the rare historical events where the USA seem to be the good guys. It's just the USADA (Tygart) though. The US teams will still dope as much as they will not be caught.
Roku filed a patent for technology that will play ads when you pause something on another device, such as a video game console.

You couldn't pay me to own a TV with Roku as the OS.
I remember the good old days when a bingo card generator was enough to sustain a lifestyle business
I always fantasized about a pure diamond planet being shot with a gargantuan laser. So people could watch the light show.
I tried a few topics, e.g. neuroscience and language (a minor variation of the query in the blog), and the results are rather useless. It certainly doesn't show users with knowledge of the topic. Perhaps too fringe?
I find the ethyl acetate processed to be the better of the decafs. It's my go to these days.
Speculating on what is next for Ctrl Labs' wristband neural interface
It would be useful in testing, mocking (faking) sealed classes etc
You are right and I apologize - My original post made it sound I believe it was a driver of human evolution. I do not actuay believe that, but I do believe it was a factor. it’s very very difficult to prove either way and I do think the science has not been decisive either way.
No, it just means you can't avoid the reality and the complexity of the problems you'll be dealing with and you won't be able to tackle them unless you bring in more tools or programming languages, be them visual or special languages invented just for the purpose, or some clever way to use excel sheets and generate code from that, for example.

Or it means that, yes, you can choose the easier language, the more intuitive one instead of the abstract beasts and it all goes well for a while. But eventually you'll have to go past the "they did this and then they did that", past the simple to understand if's and else's of everyday life. Then you'll realize that yes, we need this special extra feature here, this clever way of doing things there and before you know it, you've developed dozens of tools, standards and languages just to make up for the lack of power of your initial language. Or you could have chosen the harder language, harder to learn and wield, that is, and it would have offered you better abstractions, it would have offered you better means to develop your ideas and put them into practice without you needing to invent your own tooling.

That's how I've seen it happen in practice. I've expanded it in this article, but it came the other way round. I had a feeling that all this tooling is actually unnecessary or just the result of having bad tooling to start with. Once I've developed these ideas I've remembered about Greenspun's Tenth Rule that I've read and heard about all these years without quite understanding it 100%. Now I think I do. You have to see it with your own eyes, though. If you read it once and it doesn't make sense, re-reading it probably wouldn't.

I hope this helps.
You can accept e.g. IImmutableList. (Looking it up it seems like there isn't an IImmutableCollection, but you can see how the language makes it possible to implement one).
That is possible. Mine would be more or less "someone who knows what they're doing"
I would love to ship my source code (.ts) to npm. But Typescript team was very much against this, as there'll be tsconfig issues and other performance issues. But still fingers crossed.
Are you sure you want less accurate meters? There's a lot of losses in the network itself, and without accurate meters it's hard to pinpoint where they are and if they can be fixed.

In Norway we quite recently switched to more accurate networked meters and at that time they said that as much as 30% of all electricity produced wasn't accounted for, which you end up paying for, one way or another. Some of these losses are from the network itself. But a not insignificant part was from people illegally tapping the grid or last-mile losses due to poorly maintained infrastructure that was hard to pinpoint without using expensive manpower to physically check every single connection.
Oh no, you’re fine, thanks for responding in kind, I get where you’re coming from now too. Maybe it’s clearer to label my use of it as a software manager or something like that. It does end up being my main interface for nearly everything that matters on my home server.

Like, I’m damn near running Docker/Linux, in the pattern of gnu/Linux or (as started as a bit of a joke, but is less so with each year) systemd/Linux, as far as the key parts that I interact with and care about and that complete the OS for me.

As a result, some docker alternatives aren’t alternatives for me—I want the consistent, fairly complete UI for the things I use it for, and the huge library of images, largely official. I can’t just use raw lxc or light VMs instead, as that gets me almost nothing of what I’m currently benefiting from.

I haven’t run into a need to have dependent services (I take the SQLite option for anything that has it—makes backups trivial) but probably would whip up a little docker-compose for if I ever need that. In work contexts I usually just go straight for docker-compose, but with seven or eight independent services on my home server I’ve found I prefer tiny shell scripts for each one.

[edit] oh, and I get what you mean about it not really doing things like solving software dependencies—it’s clearly not suitable as, like, a system package manager, but fills the role well enough for me when it comes to the high-level “packages” I’m intending to use directly.
Don't have any issues playing 5.1 audio on the shield or my old google tv stick, it might be a problem with the sources you're using. The only time I had an issue was with the AppleTV app refusing to realize a particular show had dolby vision and surround sound available, so I had to force-stop and clear the app's cache and then it worked fine.
> We’ve been hard at work on Zulip’s next-generation mobile app for Android and iOS, built with Flutter.

Interesting choice to choose Flutter ... will be interesting to see if that was the right choice in the long term. I get the impression Google has more people working on Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform.
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Kudos for thinking out of the box ;)
Lots of people cannot cope without doing things to control ppl...