skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [you don't have] access to all the details when you’re not in government

When I wrote this I was not talking about accounting details, though I am not sure whether all of those details are really publicly available once you get down into the delivery organisations and projects that inevitably get set up for something like HS2.

What I was getting at is that this kind of project is hugely complex, and develops fast both as delivery progresses (or doesn't) and as decisions are made. Anyone who can't be in the room for those decisions and isn't managing the relationships and receiving the day to day reports is going to be at a big disadvantage if they are trying to make major changes.

You can stand on the sidelines and set how you would do things differently, but I don't think you can credibly turn up with a detailed plan that's ready to go on day one for something like this.
> > The memory layouts don't need to be known to the user.

> This isn't relevant one way or another.

What needs to be known to the user of an interface is the most relevant aspect of describing that interface.

> Data types aren't expected to be cross platform unless they are specifically made for that, like file formats.

It's going to be difficult to reconcile that position with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_data_type

Data types can optionally specify machine representation but need not. They specify behavior (i.e. possible values and operations) first and foremost. In programming, nearly every use of data type is in the abstract, entirely separate from its hardware representation. The "Int", the "Bool", the "2", the "UTCTime" being specified in TFA don't care about bit arrangements. They're describing valid values and operations, not hardware.

> I never said that.

You're right. Apologies. It was the other poster at the top of the thread. But it still seems apt to the thread and to your specific portrayal.
I've been self-employed in IT for decades.

How I got here: The barrier to employment (in my market) was unnecessarily difficult (it still is).

I applied for jobs while seeking clients. For me, the latter was a less onerous & more productive process. I found clients to be more reasonable than employers.

Sometimes a client would eventually hire me, mostly in the same capacity. They were flexible and I still maintained my other customers.
I recall reading someone who proposed the need for what they dubbed "meta-science," and I think it's clear that this concept is becoming more needed as time goes on. Our publishing process, and the incentives therein, are obviously faulty and we are aware of it. We can do the math: I believe it's time we do away with playing speculative games with science.
I think it is interesting that you are imposing a value judgment on the humanist spiritual belief being better than the "reductionist" one through your adjective usage. It is perfectly possible to live well and enjoy life knowing that you are fundamentally not different than any other object in nature. No higher divinity required.
So this comment and the sibling mentioning square sensors raise some good points. Let me rephrase the technological challenge: Make all phone screens square. All phones are now squares. Use Generative AI to fill in the sides of non-square screens. Problem solved. I think I need to make this an AI photo startup.
>It's unfortunate people have become so hostile to each other, almost reducing society to a me (predator) vs others (prey) situation.

This stems from the same increasing winner takes all format that it is not only predating the internet but many other environments as well. Inequality is another factor in the equation. When you don't have a social net, it's a winner takes all/ everyone against everyone/last man standing situation..

It is sad. But I wonder if this is the average human, in its sedentary way of living as it has been for the last 14k years approx, situation. And what we've lived the last 60~ years was just an anomaly product of the huge and numerous industrial revolution benefits and advancements.
>Pay balance weekly to avoid ever paying interest.

Perhaps counterintuitively, that is bad behaviour. If you pay before the billing cycle comes due, the banks will first insist you don't need a high credit limit and they will also insist you're a financial risk.

The best way to pay credit cards statements is to wait for the cycle to close and then pay the statement balance in full. You should only make a payment in the middle of a cycle if you need more room in your card's credit limit for an upcoming purchase(s).
Honestly whether he was farming karma or genuinely asking, its still fun to look back through other developers history.
Not if you have packages and such, you really need a cargo bike or something. Weather would also play a role. I don’t see bike share as very successful, but I guess with better security and places for the bikes to hangout it could work out better.
A title is not enough to support a conclusion. Here’s another title for you: “If you need money, why not win the lottery”.

The answer to both is the same: “it’s not that simple”.

You can’t simply “create a job” and start earning money, especially if you want to do it ethically and don’t have a safety net or an established audience.
Having also had this adventure, note that #1 and #2 are both full time jobs, and #3 can be when #1 vets poorly or #2 fails to get the job done on time and on target (and sometimes effectively at random).

Still my favorite way to play, but you have to have time, talent, and interest in 2-3 disparate, full-time jobs.

Edit: having read parent's article, absolutely agreed on the last point: Sales is hard. Not because selling things to people is inherently hard, but because it requires a long-term commitment to relationship and network building to find the people (you don't sell to companies) who are willing and able to purchase your services. Fail to keep that funnel full, and #2 and #3 no longer have a job.
Hey, thank you for the correction! I am not keeping up to date with how are the closed loops progressing, and from quite a few of comments here it seems like the future is already here :) Maybe just not evenly distributed - I just need to wait for it to get from US to CZ. I'm glad closed loops are already helping people around the world!
> And the teams say

i think it's equally as dishonest to believe anything these teams say about topics which relate to doping, performance enhancements etc.

of course not a single team says that they're using these methods to get performance gains, why on earth would they admit it?
Probably this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBxBhoaBc6I
And why is it "local developer testing" and not CI/CD. This makes them look like absolute amateurs.
Summary: Alternative chemical that occurs naturally in the enamel has similar cavity-preventing qualities, but does not have a potentially harmful side effect for children - something fluoride has, when misused.

If you're an adult and not swallowing your toothpaste, you are not missing out on anything.
besides which, if you're already importing, bananas make better shot glasses than pineapples?
Bill Gates controls the Gates Foundation; if you're trying to count his wealth, you should include its endowment, which it currently reports as $75 billion. (And it also reports that it has made $77 billion of grants since inception, so if you want to include spent money too, he's outclassing Ballmer without even considering his personal holdings. It's more consistent to just count held money.)
Keyboardminder: Set of tools to help you remember to use the keyboard more
Likely offering a very large premium to offset the risk of antitrust holding up the deal.

The Activision-Blizzard sale was at a premium of around 60% from stock price ($56 per share trading the day before the announcement, compared to $95 per share offer). Wiz was offered a premium of almost 100% on latest valuation.

Both Wiz and Google know that the FTC will hold up the deal, and in that time, Wiz has to convince customers not to jump ship (Google will likely not support AWS forever), and risk that the deal falls through - in which case they've gone a year without momentum.

If they really believe they can make a strong IPO, and keep growing past IPO, their decision makes a lot of sense.
I’m happy with Proton products personally but I see so many feature requests from users sitting for years on their core products. If anything I feel like the effort that goes into this instead could hurt Proton by branding them as “a crypto company”.
Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal
They exist on the Paris metro of course, which is why I called it out with “even”, just nowhere near the extreme on the Seattle light rail.

People who only think in binary like you are really annoying and aren’t very interesting to talk to though.
Could just say "yeah what I said was nerdy" and call it a day.
It would look like a perfectly flat track race. No hills. No use of gravity on hills. Solved.
I highly recommend the book "The Diabetes Solution" by Dr. Bernstein. It's written by a T1D-since-childhood who was a manufacturing engineer and used his engineering skills to "debug" his diabetes despite his doctor's efforts to the contrary. However the medical industry rejected his findings on blood sugar control because of lack of medical credentials so he went and got an MD and suddenly more doctors started listening. He basically got ahold of an early glucose tester and turned it into a CGM by pricking himself dozens of times a day and around meals to collect data.
Even if he didn't know how to do it, it'd only be proof that people grow :)
Yeah was gonna say exactly the same thing. Weird how the legislation allows releasing LLMs trained on data that is not allowed to be shared otherwise.
https://archive.ph/MqCpl
Or MacOS?
It's easy to miss the difference between "meteoric rise" and the OP's typo, "meteoritic rise".
The X-poster is trying to be encouraging:

>u can just do things. start.

Don't feel bad, you never had to actually be familiar with a particular workflow or certain language or syntax to be naturally capable of programming more effectively than some who are.

Whether or not you've done anything like that before.
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LLM workflows: Why not just run an experiment?
In so many channels I hear the question, "anyone know if this works" or "what's the impact of X" and I always think to myself, why not just run an experiment? Figured i'd outline a quick workflow that I think scales well for folks building LLM powered products.
Those signs are generally outdated. I've had cashiers tell me they don't take Amex, and when I tell them to try and run it regardless it almost always ends up working. PoS systems have evolved a lot in the last decade.
By virtue of it being Meta, it's automatically bad.

If we lived in a sensible world we'd have nuked Meta into a trillion tiny little pieces some time around the Cambridge Analytica bullshit.
Does ChatGPT Have a Mind?
> > Their work hours are no longer than anyone else, their pay is way above the average, and their liability is as low as possible.

> YMMV but as a software developer I am certainly not going to start throwing stones in a glass house. :)

I have absolutely no idea of what's involved when working as a GP/consultant, so I probably grossly underestimate their job, but in my interaction with them (involving my health as well as my family's) most of them seem to just put your case into a flowchart and prescribe along, because that's what reduces the liability to 0 and works most of the time. But if that's their job, they'll eventually be replaced by LLMs.

When you don't fall into the typical case, you'll have to go through retelling the whole story to all the flowchart ones (easily 80%) only to find along the way snake oil salesmen (10%), honest "I can't take your case" individuals (5%), and the 1-5% which actually feel like scientists and problem solvers.

(percentages pulled out of my rear but that's roughly my experience)
The highest atomic number of any synthesised element appears to be Oganesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson . Only 5 atoms have ever been synthesised. It's speculated to be a solid at room temperature despite belonging to the "noble gas" family. Chemistry is fascinating.
Very few studies report a single statistical test as the sole conclusion. Most papers should assess some outcome in multiple ways using complementary data, multiple analyses etc. not always of course, but there are lots of ways of making sure your conclusions a robust without relying on a single analysis result.
Is this a joke? We are supposed to get excited about the (alleged) best minds of our generation spending their talents on better ways to kill people? The idea that beatniks and college professors control America now is something asserted by these types but never proven. Seems like a vibe-based judgement.

I’m amused by the main character of this article who’s building cloud seeding technology too. I admit I have no idea if such technology is safe but surely nothing could go wrong from more Promethean attempts to master the Earth. Has this man not heard of the Tower of Babel?
> In most jurisdictions it would be illegal for the likes of Meta to release training data.

How come releasing an LLM trained on that data is not illegal then? I think it should be.
Was also going to say this. I've seen so many people fumble around figuring something else, then write a doc for how to do it, just to find that someone else wrote effectively the exact same doc 5 months ago.
Most drives don't have any special functionality for adjusting overprovisioning. You just don't touch a large chunk of the LBA space and you get more or less the same effect. Leaving part of the drive unpartitioned, or creating a partition but not putting a filesystem in it will accomplish that purpose.

Drive vendors can tweak this in firmware to make the drive appear to have lower accessible capacity (or higher, for fraudulent drives). But as I've said several times, doing so to make a 10TB product would not make sense. The drives that expose a 12.8TB usable capacity from 16TB of flash already have far more overprovisioning than almost anybody needs. Further reducing that to 10TB would be throwing away capacity for little or no performance gain and a useless improvement to write endurance. It's not a product any rational, non-fraudulent vendor would create, because there's no demand for such a strange configuration. The fact that it's theoretically possible to create such a product does not actually make a 10TB SSD less suspicious.

(Side note: you don't have to tell me about what Anandtech tested with SSDs. Been there, done that.)
9. color variants

10. code points where the appropriate glyph depends on the language (CJK unification)
To be fair, the difference between meteorites and meteors is that meteors burn and die BEFORE they crash, according to NASA. So not much better. The idiom is still a thing though.

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/
> They are doing things like drafting requirements, designing, defining, simulating

Which is design; captured in the definition.

You're welcome to invent whatever meaning for engineering you want (although you kind of need to define it, in that case – we can't read your mind), but going by what most people consider engineering to be, either all software developers are engineers or none of them are.
No. I just don't think using the current hot technology as a metaphor for human behavior is as smart of an idea as some think it is. In fact I think it displays the opposite of what is necessary to reach actual artificial intelligence.
Not really. What it really means is that some function in this callstack is expensive. Async Await bubbles to the top of your program. Eventually, you might just read this as this application as a whole might be expensive.
TL;DR: accelerating titanium ions to 0.1 c into a plutonium target made 2 atoms of Livermorium.

The difficulty here is that such a collision leaves the result very "hot", so it tends to decompose. This tendency is minimized by reducing the energy of the incoming ion, but that reduces the rate of fusion.

Needless to say, this doesn't present much in the way of practical benefit from producing some new science fictional material. It's purely of scientific interest.
Yes, it does, and Go is perfectly capable of it, and many libraries exist for you to choose which exact method suits your problem and temperment.

One of the common pasttimes in the threaded versus async debate is to present code in which one side uses all sorts of helpers and patterns and libraries and the other side is presented through writing it "raw". The great-grandparent of my post here is guilty of this. While there are interesting reasons to debate threaded versus async code, this is not one of them. Both of them are absolutely capable of writing the moral equivalent of "output = parallel_map(myMapFunc, input)" and all similar operations to within practical epsilon of each other, and anyone citing this sort of thing as an argument on either side should probably be ignored. And both languages will feature code written by people who don't know that, and it shouldn't count against either.
And why legislation allows them to use the data to train their LLM and release that, but not release the data?
Research should require pre-registration like clinical trials so others have visibility into failed outcomes
It's worth while reading the literature on pre-insulin treatments, but for type 1 diabetics, the answer is: you might be able to live, if just, for a while (a decade or so), but lifespans are greatly shortened. Probably depends exactly on the particular characteristics of the disease for a patient.

I thought this was a neat discussion:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062586/

A transcript of a speech Joslin gave
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1827782/pdf/can...
Fake money wastes real energy and creates a real public nusiance.
Amex has the highest fees but also the wealthiest consumers. So business have to begrudgingly put up with it.
Eh, more likely OP is a shareholder of Alphabet.
Just playing back what you said because it's surprising. You're saying that explosion was not caused by water that was superheated by the supervolcano below the greater Yellowstone Caldera? It was heated by some other source?

Interested because I was there a few weeks ago.
Typo for DJT?
"Science of Science" is a good book / overview of this field!
In the US, my experience has largely been that it's not healthcare, it's sickcare. Wait until sick, get treated. Annual checkups are a weight check, blood pressure, a few questions, maybe a blood panel if you're lucky, and then a "you look great see you next year", aka, come back when you're sick.

I spent the last few years seeking proactive healthcare and the "system" is very much stacked against you. If you're fortunate enough to have the resources to push through, you can get all sorts of stuff done -- broader blood panels, body scans (eg. Prenuvo), VO2 max, metals tests, mold tests, genetic tests, GI tests, etc etc. But these are luxuries and if you ask most doctors, you'll get back "you look great why would you do that?", aka, come back when you're sick.

A friend of mine in the middle east says you can do all that for almost nothing by walking into any hospital, but it's subsidized by government (oil) dollars.

[edit] Reading more of the comments this seems par for the course in many "wealthy" countries.
I think dd might be more reliable. (Is dd POSIX?)
I misread the title at first. "Why would you opt out of a font?"
> Do 20 experiments with a p<5% criterion, and it’s likely that one will be a false positive.

That would be true if p were the probability of null hypothesis being true given the data observed, but that’s not what it is.
"In this paper Turing gives a topological argument that every written alphabet must be finite."

I searched Turing's paper and the word "alphabet" does not appear. I guess the author interprets Turing's use of "symbol" as an "alphabet". Can anyone familiar with Turing's paper clarify?
10 years' worth of user survey data on WordPress hosting (doc)
Hi there, no offense taken! As in the copy or the design? The design is a very stripped down NextJS Boilerplate template I use for launch pages :) https://github.com/aquaflamingo/nextjs-product-boilerplate
They announce it as an unrelated tangent, reread the first sentence
... but a bunch of companies were, and a lot of the claims about what web3 was going to be were really vague
For those unfamiliar - historically*, American Express was the card of the well-connected and well-to-do. And at least statistically, that's still the case. So between how well AmEx treats it's "members", and their awareness of the social status - AmEx's business model has a pretty good moat.

*Meaning back to the late 1950's. Things get very different if you look at the century before that.
It's also worth noting that an engineering degree does not make a person an engineer any more than a JD makes someone a lawyer or a beauty school diploma makes someone a hair stylist.

Except we allow people to call themselves engineers without having professional accreditation.
Why is Dash frequently touted as so much faster than Bash? What is different?
The Ridgeway: The 5k-year-old pathway that's Britain's oldest road
This feels very true in Rust but not sure about JS. In JS you can `await` non-promise values without issue.
https://archive.ph/u7Bp9
Almost every real cybersecurity company in the world has ex-Unit 8200 / Mossad employees. As well as ex-NSA and other intelligence agencies.

You gotta know what you're up against to defend properly.
I started to consider HA deployments but stopped to make this post; this is a high-effort feature that needs to be well integrated and tested.

Once I can sync two appliances on one site (for rapid failover) the inter-continental syncing should be easy.

Backups are straightforward. A cron job runs a script that dumps all data and builds a debian package with some control files that perform the restoration. The goal was to be able to deploy a new controller with terraform and restore it to a known state. I'm not sure if this is a great production strategy for other companies (do they already have a secure way to sign/encrypt/distribute packages of their clear text configuration data?), it just made my own ops very easy.

Also, for porting out of the product, a seasoned windows admin could probably transfer the LDAP data into Active Directory in an afternoon -- faster, if I took time to document/test the process.
The introductory example is quite illuminating. No theory behind, just a random hypothesis tested (by comparing the preferences of 10 fishes from populations separated from as little as 50 meters, what effect size did the authors expect?), with claims of generalisation (climate change ok bad?? Or climate change bad bad??)
Gonna be a decidedly "low-brow"(1) look. (Do it! :-)

(1): As in, very low forehead.
> "in which Bretzel do I need to twist myself in order to make woman like me"

Much of it is even worse than that - it's oriented towards people who want to get a woman in order to impress other men. The Andrew Tate school. The woman in this is a trophy. Unsurprisingly women are wise to this and want nothing to do with it.

Once you see that, suddenly the contradiction of a womanizer who hates women makes sense.