skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story of GE under Jack Welch and his underlings that spread out from there is horrifying. Boeing got caught up in it with the MD reverse acquisition. There was an audiobook I listened to recently that covered a bunch of this but I can't for the life of me find the title right now.
Ignorance? I sub to several substacks via email, and just today (just now, from you) learned that the platform supports RSS feeds :) Off to substack I go! It’s become overwhelming.
Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me my friend. I would not define this heat as great; more like just this side of deadly.
This is the correct answer. News loves the term because it's eye catching and clearly not informative, that's why every article has to explain it.
tldr version: The numerator must be even and the denominator must be odd. The square of this taken modulo 4 must therefore have numerator = 0 mod 4, denominator = 1 mod 4 (1x1 and -1x-1 both become 1 mod 4). 2 times 1 mod 4 cannot be 0 mod 4. Therefore sqrt(2) cannot be rational.
The most important bit of this is in the conclusion:

Before we conclude anything, we should remind ourselves of its limitations. The tests run were on completely random data. Truly random data seldom occurs in real life.

Linus famously ranted about CMOV in https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html (2007, so potentially more modern architectures are better at some of this) and he says:

if you KNOW the branch is totally unpredictable, cmov is often good for
performance. But a compiler almost never knows that.

As usual with optimizations like this you have to benchmark and even then if your sample isn't representative it might not mean much.
Most of my office uses Excel for the web because it seems more responsive than the Win32 version.
Ah so my intuition is right.
I think everyone who has gone through the 2->3 transition will have to be dead before 3->4 will have a chance of even being considered. :-)
i certainly did. haynes is no substitute for clue
I frankly don’t give a fuck about PyPA at this point. They’ve proven themselves to be largely irrelevant in this context. Anything they get their hands on just seems to rot, so I’d unfortunately like them to stay far away from this. It pains me to say this. It’s against my philosophy. But it’s merely a reflection of the current state of things. I’ve been working with Python full-time for a decade. Other packaging ecosystems have essentially lapped Python’s.

At this point I also don’t care about nuances like “is it execution issues with PyPA, or that their set remit is faulty?” I’m sick of getting drawn into that stuff, too.
Do you think the video is a deep fake because you don’t like Republicans?
Yeah, people aren't paranoid enough about this IMO. Legislation needs to catch up with research coming out about the serious health impacts.

Reducing personal exposure seems possible. I mean, realistically there are only so many ways microplastics can enter the body, so it's a matter of managing your "attack surface".

Of course there's no way to know what the impact really is, but what we've done in our household in the past few years:

- Eating/drinking: started using glass food containers, ceramic cookware, silicon kitchen utensils. Got a good reverse osmosis water filter, stopped buying bottled water.

- Skin: lots of fabrics are derived from plastics these days, so try to get 100% cotton. Do research on skin products you use every day.

- Air: get a good air purifier and run it throughout the day. Even if the windows are closed, furniture can off-gas microplastics into the air. HEPA air filters for your car, pretty easy to install yourself.
Exhilarating? These are ~10% faster in single/multi than the 13900KS from 23Q1. Power consumption drops largely coming from everyone, including Intel this generation, using TSMC's latest nodes. Apple does have a pretty decent perf/w showing compared to the others but only if you want it for their walled garden. I'm extremely disappointed in the rate of competition this year, especially given all the hope I had for it.

Given how close the leading performers all are, the increase in total high end competition, and having alternatively licensed architectures in that mix we're getting the same types of generational improvements we did when Intel was the lone king. About the only people really floored are the ones rocking the iPad.

Who knows, maybe the X3D variants will still leave something interesting in the near term.
Additionally, there's a limit to how much "productivity gains" on the tech side can cause actual positive business results. Going from an ugly, slow website to a fresh one will only increase revenue a small percentage, same with building a better shopping cart, fixing some obscure errors, etc. The majority of the web already works pretty well, there is no flood of new revenue coming in as a result of the majority of tech innovation.

Which means that after a brief honeymoon period, the effect of AI will be to heavily reduce labor costs, rather than push for turbocharged "productivity" with greatly diminishing returns.
It is mostly the same but the support that the DCs are getting are completely different. Nvidia can and does give them slightly tweaked drivers. Data centers ship a set of enterprise distros with tightly managed set of software that's been vetted. Since there are no binary guarantees in Linux, anything can happen with consumer hardware.

Source: once worked as an student system admin in my university HPC center.
Think about the reason, given by a fellow human and HN poster, why it's not possible to know exactly what happened that night. Now think if it makes sense for anyone to write something like that as a reply.
If it's typically nicknamed "dooring lane" then it must be common knowledge among cyclist that this can happen. So there must still be some significant negligence on their part to ride fast enough to be killed by a known hazard? This is risk taking, pure and simple.
afaik there are no residential loads in emergency response programs in Texas

ECRS is a program run by ERCOT, they trigger the battery discharge directly, or in some situations the resources might respond to an under-frequency relay.
Re: Understanding the cynicism: For example it is intriguing that they insisted on using a wheelchair to get in the car, but not to get out.
But what's even more revealing is that the child had to be in a car seat while on his mother's lap.
Ridding your home of plastic and avoiding buying stuff that comes wrapped in it, it’s probably a good first step and within your control. It may be hard to remove 100% these days, especially with electronics.

I’ve been watching Rajiv Surendra‘s YouTube channel for a while. While he has the occasional plastic item shown, it is pretty rare to see plastic in his apartment or wherever he is. Baskets are wicker, bowls are ceramic, silverware is actually silver, cutting boards are wood, textiles are cotton, wool, etc, paintbrushes are made from squirrel hair. It’s given me a lot of ideas and awareness for the different options out there and how people lived before the invention of plastic.
I feel like you have never bothered to fully learn SQL and databases, as if you had, you wouldn't have said most of what you have said.

Certainly some problems are not friendly to SQL databases, but many problems are, and lots of problems are being added into SQL databases too. I would not be surprised in the least if LLM's start getting stored in SQL databases eventually, as you probably can reduce their storage to tables and SQL databases are amazing at table storage.

I agree it's not really how many humans think(though that can be said about many computer things), but that doesn't mean you can't learn how to do it.
Every languages let you ignore errors, Rust included.
I fully hear what you are saying about being cautious and the only reason why I brought up title inflation was to emphasize that this person is not cut out for the job. I'm not worried about any blowback (I'm confident that our company would continue running if she were gone and I am in a key person role) and even if I were, I am extremely employable. I just wanted to know if anyone had experience with this dynamic between non-technical leadership and communication on tech issues.
I keep seeing stuff about the viability of the cable being laid. The thing that gets me though, is the timezone shift around peak solar generation is the wrong way around. In Australia at least, peak demand is in the evening, when people get home and turn on their ACs, or cooking devices etc. I don't know about the demand patterns in Singapore, but given their heavy use of AC, I imagine their demand for power does not peter off in the evening much.

Meanwhile the peak of solar generation around midday in Australia is being sent off to Singapore in the morning who are a couple hours behind us. Presumably the morning is when the least AC will be used there. By the evening in Singapore, it'll be night in Central Australia, meaning there will still have to be plenty of peaking generation or, will need a massive ton of batteries which has still not quite there for grid scaling.
If the shoe fits
I truly thought the title meant they are no longer tied to discord. Excited me for a minute
There is a saying "Some people have 10 years of experience. Others have 1 year of experience 10 times." The euphemism treadmill can be a tool to accomplish that.
On a related note: semantic bleaching

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/2...
I'm kind of interested in this space -- can anyone point me at an article that goes over why this is harder for python than it seems to be for, e.g., ruby? Is there something inherent about the way code is imported in python that makes it less tractable? Or is it just that the python world has never quite all come together on something that works well enough?

(Note that I can certainly complain about how `bundler` works in ruby, but these discussions in python-land seem to go way beyond my quibbles with the ruby ecosystem)
How come the chargeback value could be that much higher than the revenue? (NB: revenue, not profit)

If I buy a $3 product and chargeback, then I get $3 back, right? Or does the payment processor bill you $15 for each chargeback no matter the transaction cost?
Wow Signal Mystery Solved After 37 Years, Sorry Not Aliens [video]
Equating participating in walled garden social platforms to simply having a computer is bleak
> The 324-page report did not reach a conclusion about the risks of lower levels of fluoride, saying more study is needed. It also did not answer what high levels of fluoride might do to adults.

It also does not address the effects to children (and/or adults) when exposed to additional neurotoxins.

What's often not mentioned in the context of Fluoride's "success" is how improved diets have contributed to oral health.
No one knows what happens when we die. Everyone counts as “agnostic,” some people choose to delude themselves that they know for certain.

We have no evidence of an afterlife in the religious sense. We have entirely convincing evidence that reproducing passes on our genes, and that all life evolved with that singular goal baked into the process. Even if you reject all of that any religious tradition you choose will also have reproduction as an imperative.
> according to a civil lawsuit against the hospital.

Shouldn't this be a criminal case?
Do you really trust the literature? I was a scientist for a few decades and I find much of biomedical literature to be ... hard to draw conclusions from. My PhD is in Biophysics and I've studied viruses in detail; I don't have the level of confidence you do in your beliefs.
Ansel Adams Wilderness allows off leash dogs.
A Deep Conceptual Guide to Mutual Information
It's not that normal users are doing it in significant numbers. It's that other stakeholders are.

For example browser makers do that. Safari on iPads claims in the UA to be OS X on Intel, not iOS on ARM.

Another common use is for bots that are trying to hide they are bots. That might be malicious scrapers, non-malicious scrapers probing for whether changing the UA also changes the page content, or benign bots like software running phishing checks against links sent in chats or emails. It's not enough for these bots to just hide who they are, they want to look like a real browser.
Chatgpt does it
It was before valgrind. Besides, valgrind isn't always available, it requires all code paths to be tested, and it can be really slow making it impractical for some code.

Default initialization, on the other hand, gives 100% coverage. Experience with it in D is a satisfying success.
Honestly the way I learned not to use a ton of global variables was because I used so many and would forget what they'd do. But that was back in the days of Apple // BASIC so when I was introduced to C I rejoiced. People need to learn from mistakes.
Makes me think of the videos I saw of the 2011 Japanese tsunami and cars driving to escape it. Imagine the same scenario today but your car stops you from going over 25mph when water is coming directly behind you at 50moh.
You should convince them of the need for an independent third party who they trust and has tech expertise to come in and make “digital transformation evaluation and recommendations”.
He specifically didn't check himself out.
There is something called a FAR/FRR (False Accept Ratio)/(False Reject Ratio) where parameters on a UI system are tuned to optimize accurate interpretation of user intent (or user identification) for a given environment and action. Limiting response rate (eg debounce) to 2-3x the report rate is a common parameter change. There are always outliers in both user intent and experience, but a typical setting of <1% false reject and 1-100ppm false accept rate is achievable and usually acceptable.

I'd also note that under video review people are notoriously bad at actually knowing how they interact with a touchscreen. Interestingly, fast response rates (and tactile response) reduce user complaints about proper operation even when UI errors remain constant. The users often assume they made the error rather than the machine. There are also interesting cognitive load effects.
> If the books are accurate

A big "if." That seems to be what the trial was about, although I have to admit I haven't followed the evidence. I didn't even know this trial was taking place.

Usually the auditors have to sign off on the books, and they're the ones who get sued if they fail to detect fraud.

But yeah, HP management's got to be making Dave and Bill spin in their graves. The real carrier of the HP legacy is Agilent and its spinoffs.
Intel was so embarrassed by the failure of itanium they invented a Time Machine and went back and added the instruction to a 1995 CPU. Deceptive and anti-competitive!
American doctors want the public to believe they are powerless victims of the system that makes them wealthy while bankrupting patients.
These seem like reasonably unbiased answers, policy positions that maximize individual citizen's freedom. How about that? It is unbiased!
This is a state that should basically be peppered with residential rooftop solar.

Of course, there's zero chance of any sort of state governmental policy to help incentivize it in deep red state land.

But if recent history has shown anything, I would consider it a primary feature of any home in Texas to be relatively grid independent with its own generating capacity and storage.
I am fully done with Google. Fuck that. This isn't 2001 anymore. We have better alternate choices available to us now. RIP.
You can tell we made a lot of progress because we started with "colored people" and ended up at "people of color".
It's called pig butchering because the scam relies on a long con where the scammer often "feeds" the mark with either real or fake small wins to entice them to provide more money to the scammer. They're "fattening" the pig.
This. I can't count the number of times I've been at an intersection with lights, waiting to turn but being forced to wait because the arrow is red - even though there is NO competing traffic from any direction. Behind me, cars start queuing also waiting to turn, and I'd put money down that the same thought occurs to them. Then, in the distance I start to see a wave of cars approaching in the oncoming lane. I look at them. I look at the lights. I look at them again. And I know what's going to happen next. Lo and behold! Just as the oncoming traffic approaches, the lights turn red for them and the arrow turns green for us.

It's pretty hard to believe its 2024 when this happens.
277 comments at the time of this post and nobody is going to point out that technical analysis is the astrology of the stock market world ?

I expect better of HN.
There are some circumstances where people don't realize they can just say "no".

I suspect this is one such case.
Robosigning, directing employees to sign fake names on contracts and repeatedly submitting fraudulent statements to the courts, among other things, in a largely successful effort to steal people's homes on a mass scale.

>Reuters has found that some of the biggest U.S. banks and other "loan servicers" continue to file questionable foreclosure documents with courts and county clerks. They are using tactics that late last year triggered an outcry, multiple investigations and temporary moratoriums on foreclosures.

>In recent months, servicers have filed thousands of documents that appear to have been fabricated or improperly altered, or have sworn to false facts.
Reuters also identified at least six "robo-signers," individuals who in recent months have each signed thousands of mortgage assignments -- legal documents which pinpoint ownership of a property. These same individuals have been identified -- in depositions, court testimony or court rulings -- as previously having signed vast numbers of foreclosure documents that they never read or checked.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/special-report-banks-s...
That sir is called an ad hominem. Judge the information, not the messenger.
I have to generously conclude that people who think all is well live in communities of similarly educated high achieving adult.

At least 20% of adults are incapable of following a schedule, let alone holding a white collar job.

To put it another way; I don’t know a single person outside of well educated circles who is doing ok in employment (and a lot that aren’t anyway).

The bias in institutional reporting is not toward collapse. Its toward institutional status quo.
This is me almost every time I interact with ISP support.

Except… recently I completely misdiagnosed something. So while I was getting politely frustrated with the support clerk, he was stepping me through a set of irrelevant seeming procedures which, indeed, resulted in identifying that a piece of hardware was broken.

In this case it was the fiber to Ethernet adapter my ISP uses. He needed me to verify that, at every step of the way, pieces of my infrastructure were not the cause of my flaky connection (they weren’t). However, as a final step he had me reboot the adapter and it didn’t start back up. Turns out this is a rare failure mode and the flaky network I’d been seeing was an early, year long, symptom of this issue.
Maybe I’m reading it wrong but that was the impression I was getting from that comment. I’m happy if I’m incorrect though.
UX is actually pretty good than Splitwise.
I think it's easy to think that the name is somehow descriptive of the mechanics of the scam (which tends to be how scams are named). But in this case it's more about the payout patterns. It is usually a relationship/investment scam, i.e. one where the victim is conned into believing they've formed a close relationship with a wealthy individual, who then offers them investment advice, pointing them towards a fake investment app.
No problem! Agreed that restart from idle is a little dumb especially with connections that go idle all the time. IMO whatever timer it uses should be in minutes not round trips.

Thankfully newer congestion control algorithms like BBR (which you can enable, though linux currently ships an older version) do not suffer from this and do not go to slowstart.
I've seen this on YouTube, especially around the Ukrainian conflict. Many creators are saying things like "became KIA" instead of "were killed" or even more euphemistically "loud noises were heard at XYZ location" instead of "XYZ was bombed".

Perhaps related in the sense of being self censorship of restricted topics, although not liguistic, is the recent trend of firearm-related YouTube channels showing disassembly but not assembly. Of course assembly is mostly just disassembly in reverse, but one is permitted by platform terms and the other is not.
It's not. Just that Guido never cared about packaging, so it was left to a ragtag unpaid motley crew to piece together and later learn from industry practices that solidified a decade or two after they started.
Labor is just way too expensive. At this point I wonder if I should stay a software engineer, or switch to construction.

We've looked down on construction workers a bit too much.
I remember being extremely struck by how general this proof was. In fact it made me suspicious that it would even apply to perfect squares. Running the proof on the square root of 4 took a little while to sink in.
it's never aliens
Testing all code paths means all code paths must be available to the compiler. This is not always practical.
24 Hour Party People

Dogtown and Z Boys (Documentary)

Godzilla

Rollerball

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

Star Wars

The Hunger

Caddy Shack

Fear of a Black Hat

Straight Out of Compton
These responses are telling me there is in fact room in the market.

Take pdf viewers for example. I hated all of them until I found Zarthura. I’m glad someone took the time to make that.
There are batteries included as part of this project. So I don't think time really matters.
CUDA Utils – Simple CUDA utils/helpers for simplifying ND tensor memory access
MJ can't do it, but took me 10 seconds genning locally on an SDXL checkpoint:

https://gondolaprime.pw/pictures/sporks-generative.jpg

It's a rather arbitrary metric. All it proves is that the token "spork" wasn't in midjourney's training data. A FAR better test for adherence is how well a model does when a detailed description for an untrained concept is provided as the prompt.
Martin Kleppmann has some interesting thoughts on Redlock:

> I think the Redlock algorithm is a poor choice because it is “neither fish nor fowl”: it is unnecessarily heavyweight and expensive for efficiency-optimization locks, but it is not sufficiently safe for situations in which correctness depends on the lock.

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distribute...
This reminds me of finding out (the Hard Way) that Perl’s sort used internally[0] the same $a or $b that I happened to be using.

[0] https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sort

If the subroutine's prototype is ($$), the elements to be compared are passed by reference in @_, as for a normal subroutine. This is slower than unprototyped subroutines, where the elements to be compared are passed into the subroutine as the package global variables $a and $b (see example below).