skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used this a while back to do an awkward integral that no other CAS was able to do and was able to show up a paper that had claimed there was no closed-form solution.

Unfortunately the answer was in terms of hypergeometric functions and was scarcely more useful than the unevaluated integral. In any case I found Rubi to be very impressivein terms of results.

Digging into the code wasn't much fun, as it's just a colossal Mathematica rules engine, like reading Gradshteyn and Ryzhik, but with square brakets everywhere.
Microsoft Basic Multiply Bug
It will not happen. OpenSearch grows fast in the last four years. There is no incentive to go back to ES.
This makes me grimace. I recall trying to install an SSL cert inside a very restricted environment. I had to build a special mode into our application so the IT person could use cURL to hit an endpoint with the base64'ed cert, and then scan the log files for the chunks and then reassemble them by hand with vi. Imagine coaching someone to use VI and bash and grep who only knows how to click around in Windows, everyone feels like a complete idiot. They completely disabled all ports other than HTTPS, did not allow copy-paste into the VM. Inbound HTTP was disabled (so no wget, can't even install extra software with yum). What a nightmare.

The irony of these locked down environments is that they are put in place by crusty IT people who have good intentions, but also know it helps them keep their jobs. But, because of it, all the on-premise software is moving to the cloud, and those people are going to lose their jobs anyway.

This was a sad realization I found after years of enterprise sales work. I thought on-premise software could give us an advantage because as a small company you can offer a more bespoke experience. But, we always looked bad because everyone fights to protect their fiefdom, and our software was blocked at every turn.

It is crazy that enterprises are moving everything to the cloud and no one is noticing that the barrier to getting access to their private sensitive data is more or less water vapor, so to speak. That's nuts.
> A new programming model for distributed computing is desperately needed

The article mentions actor-model frameworks like Akka. Is that not like Ray?

At work we use and maintain something similar called Cloud Haskell (confusingly implemented in a package called distributed-process: https://github.com/haskell-distributed/distributed-process) and I have to say that using it is a breeze.
It is certainly possible, just more expensive. And I'm just saying that one shouldn't mix cost of production and price for the consumer.

It is easier to size the network when the current flows basically in one single direction from power plant to users. When the production is decentralised, you need more transmission lines. You also get more losses in the transmission if you go through more substations.
Big turbines helps to keep a stable frequency on the network despite unpredictable consumption changes. With renewables one need to adjust the frequency. One also need to keep the power factor in track. All of this means extra costly hardware on the grid and extra loss.
People who would do this are a minority (I hope): that would be active harassment, and my experience is that in most cases, the community doing the harassing doesn't really means to, it's an outrage side effect.

No message are deleted, its basically just removing the link in between two posts to limit heat in the discourse.

For me, Twitter/mastodon/BlueSky are not really discussion boards and more announcement places, so removal of causal links do not disturb me, but I guess for you it seems more discussion oriented, which I did not understand in my first message.
Marcel Duchamp Signed a Urinal in 1917 and Redefined Art
This is the TikTok of Confetti.

We’ve gone from earning dopamine/confetti through real achievements to generating it at will. This is just the next evolution in this trend.

Pretty soon not even seeing confetti on my monitor will give me joy.
Interesting. Claude has (at least in my tests) best results than GitHub Copilot. About using in IntelliJ, I read some people talking about changing the Java Boot. Do you know what configuration I need to change?

"Keep in mind you currently may have to change your Java Boot Runtime for the IDE to make it work."
It’s not just Swedish doctors. I was put on psychiatric medication for what turned out to be as simple as allergies and lactose intolerance.

In my experience unless you’re paying through the nose, you have to be pitiable/attractive enough for the average doctor to buy into your case enough to make a complex (or even simple with unusual symptoms) diagnosis. No different to any other profession ultimately we just put them on a pedestal because the studies are so intense.
Theodore Ts'o, the person you are implying is not an engineer, started working on Linux in 1991.
Just look at the MAINTAINERS file of the Linux kernel source tree. You'll find Theo maintaining several critical pieces, including leading the ext4 file system development, but really, take a look.

Just to underline this. You are calling the credibility of a man whose code has most assuredly had a hand in storing your files, whether on your laptops/workstations or servers you've deployed to. A person who has been contributing for nearly *32 years*.

How about we flip this around ? Here's a person who's been a large part of the success of the Linux kernel project for 32 years, and here's this presumptuous group coming in left field, telling him he's doing it all wrong and that it's time to get with the program or buzz off.

People like him, the old guard, the core contributors, the main drivers of maintenance, should absolutely be heard. Linux is what it is today because of them. It's too precious to entrust to a bunch of well-meaning, but somewhat preachy and largely unproven developers.

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So he comes off rude. But how come the people driving the Rust integration into the kernel are still ducking the hard discussion?

It is almost as if everything is proceeding under the banner of "just an experiment" until, hopefully, a switch can be flipped and it becomes required, and everyone either has to maintain those bindings or see their patches rejected. Even better, then people who never wanted to pick up Rust, has to, or twiddle their thumbs in the background until some kindly soul decides to provide the updates to the bindings.

Would you labor under such uncertainty and creeping adoption for a year or two, raise the points ad nauseam, get no concrete answers and NOT, at some point, lose your patience ?
> Given the fact most of us would be out of a job without advertising of some kind, I cannot condemn it the way you do.

the same way cars brought the end of many professions. If there were no advertising we would all still have jobs and they would be much better too
> where they are drawing the lines now

From what I understand, they are only going to support features that are widely supported and standardised. Thus, even bindless didn't make the cut. Raytracing, mesh shaders, work-graphs, etc. almost certainly won't make it until SDL4 10 years from now; but I am not part of the development team, so don't quote me.
This is a common feature of mathematics; doing many things is much easier in one direction than the reverse. Encryption systems are built on this idea, e.g. RSA relies on multiplication of large integers being very easy and factoring large integers being very hard. That doesn't really answer your question - I'm not sure there is a clear reason.
Tangentially related: My father tried to fight taxes on the grounds that they're unconstitutional. He went to prison for 3 years (in part) because of it.

> Any law that prevents taxpayers voting is inconsistent with the principle of no taxation without representation.

That sentence would have been a great response to Mike's tweet.

Thanks for letting me explore some thoughts with you without spiraling into divisive language.
If you find yourself in need of urgently warning tourists and strangers, I think "watch out for jellyfishes" is better than "watch out for siphonophores"
> Asked about jobs such as teachers, who would not be able to do a four-day week using compressed hours, Smith said: “Well, no, and nor can lots of other people, but that doesn’t mean that those people that can do it shouldn’t have the ability to do it.”

Ditto retail and restaurant workers, lorry drivers, nurses, and millions more whose essential work already earns them "lessor" treatment than those in cushy office jobs.

(And, under UK law, "gig workers" don't even count as humans...er, I mean as workers, for their sort to matter to anyone.)
What Makes It Exciting?
College kids are still making and using fake ids. I had one for awhile.
Telegram's financial future in doubt as chief faces criminal inquiry
It's already having an impact:

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

”Batteries Taking Charge of the California Grid”

> Batteries have taken a huge leap forward in CAISO this spring, shifting from a noteworthy trend into a major force impacting operations of the grid
I have no problem with anything on LinkedIn with Firefox/linux.

I have one internal corporate site which won’t work with Firefox for some reason, but never had any problems elsewhere.
I recognize the use of "not a real language" as traditional hyperbole[0]. I have my own gripes with python, even though it pays the bills, but this is just going to set off a load of people and is probably bad for discussion quality.

Ironically it's very hard to write actual low-level parallel code (like CUDA) through python, there's really no choice but to call out to Fortran and C libraries for the likes of pytorch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Programmers_Don't_Use_Pas...
Seems like this is the last news about Tumblr ever. Can I reuse the "tumblr" name for a similar startup but with different everything?
Just wait until Automattic acquires Blogger and switches that to WP.
Where's the summary? I didn't quite get what the problem is that you're trying to solve.

Data scraping? DDOS attacks? Bandwidth trouble? Security?
Backpage co-founder sentenced to five years in prison
Seafaring for Women in Software Engineering – Part I – Performance and Promotion
The Tech industry can be a stormy sea, so I'd like to share a few seawomanship advice to my fellow young and younger women software engineers. In this first part, I talk about performance and promotions, and how to be the captain of your own career. All aboard!
There’s a massive overlap between right wing activists and anti-Firefox commentators
I really love this article! But I'm also confused about the fourth paragraph of "ok I'll fix it myself". Why does cutting datalines worked? My intuition is you need to cut the USB 5v lines and keep the datalines so data can be transferred without interference. I'm totally a noob about datalines and chips so could you please provide a further explanation thank you so much;)
Ain't no cool kids (in my world) using centralized for-profit services for essential things like that.
The vault number is only mentioned in the UK version of one of the books, the US version was localized and this detail isn't included. This question has shown up in some trivia events and many consider it a gotcha because they only ever read the US version.
yes, we actually use it internally with R2
yes, any s3
this is a huge difference between Ibis (and really, any dataframe library that works with larger-than-RAM or distributed engines) and pandas. PySpark, Polars, and Snowpark all to some extent also do not implicitly order your data

so in Ibis, you need to explicitly manage order with an `order_by` call at the end. there are a lot of technical reasons for why maintaining order is inefficient as you scale up
That 8200 for example is capable of line rate at the smallest packet size so that imix marketing is kinda useless. When evaluating these kinds of devices this is what matters.

IMIX makes sense on devices that are not capable of small packet line rate like firewalls where bandwidth is much more costly and need to be sized appropriately.
> Your claim was that "lockdowns" did little or nothing

I still stand by that claim. Compared with alternative, less restrictive measures, lockdowns achieve very little, especially when considering the massive downside they come with.

Like you said, lockdowns were justified in early 2020 when we knew very little about COVID-19. Later, though, they amounted to nothing more than authoritarian virtue signalling.

> Nobody (other than you) has mentioned reinstating lockdowns.

Not explicitly. More often than not that's what people mean when they're saying that politicians have given up on fighting Covid.
Anybody has experience and is it actually useful?

Heard a lot of "it captures mostly face muscle contractions" and "capturing a brain signal with it is like listening to a whisper being spoken in a grand canyon, while being miles away"
> Another reason drawing this connection can be fallacious is because in areas of persistently high crime people don't report it because law enforcement will not do anything about it (or won't even take a report). Exceptional events are worth reporting but when a kind of crime is common it's not an exception, reporting is just a waste of time for everyone involved. Again, reported crime can go down while crime is going up.

This theory can't explain the plunge in violent crime rates, as the plunge exists even in the National Crime Victimization Survey, which directly asks survey respondents if they have been the victim of a crime. The annual rate of violent victimization has dropped from 80 per 1000 in the early 1990s to about 20 per 1000 now. https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv22.pdf

Your point about "compensating behaviors" is plausible, but doesn't explain the similar drop in property crime (burglary, motor vehicle theft, etc.), for which there are fewer compensating behaviors that could work.

The decline in crime since the early 1990s is actually a major area of study for criminologists, because there is no easy explanation for it. All categories have decline, however they are measured, and in 30 years the field has not come up with an explanation that can account for all the observed facts.
will take a look
There was definitely some standardized data exchange stuff involved though I never dove into the details. REAL ID effectively does as a federal ID, albeit in a somewhat more politically palatable way in a country where a lot of people have an aversion to federal IDs and databases at least as they relate to domestic travel.
I was going off 100 gallons per day per person, which is typical, but can obviously be improved upon. But that said, I don’t want to pay $7000 per year just for water. Plus living remotely like that is just terribly inefficient in general: food, trash, heating/cooling, transportation, water, and just everything all take much more effort/resources to produce in a solo venture like that. I’m not saying I don’t see the appeal, but the Earth could not (even remotely) support everyone living that way.
I kinda gave up on Julia for deep learning since it’s so buggy. I am using PyTorch now. Not great but at least it works!
absolutely yes.

I even gave three different places where parenthesis can be used and have different meanings
The client provides a pointer (usually a URI but I think they also support playlists) of what to play. The receiver then requests the actual content directly from that URI and plays it. I guess it sends some kind of ok/fail response back to the client when it's done that.

The receiver does not send requests to the client. The receiver is server-like in that it responds to client requests, but it's not like a file server, those responses don't contain media data. Their description could be clearer.
Did the idea of emitting Morse code on the keyboard LEDs during kernel panics ever get working, and included in the kernel?

I'm thinking of the LWN article “Morse code panics for 2.6.29-rc1” (2003) https://lwn.net/Articles/21858/
As others have mentioned, a pie is consumable, and thus a good one has value even if it isn't original.

But a slight change to the original scenario makes asking about originality much more reasonable:

Imagine you write a peach pie recipe over the weekend, and you give a copy of the recipe to your friend. They respond:

"Wait, how is this different from every other peach pie recipe that's ever been written? It seems really similar to another recipe I have."

That's not an unreasonable answer.

When I was in a band, one of the most valuable things my songwriting friends and I did for each other was tell each other when our work sounded like something that was already out there.

If you make a new piece of software and offer it to a friend to use, it's not unreasonable for them to ask how it's different from something that's out there already.
SelfControl (for Mac) is the only hardcore no-compromise blocker that I know of and that works for me.
you had me at "TikTok of Confetti" :D
> Eh, what are the options in this situation, at that point?

How about not lying. If you don't know, just say you don't know instead of making shit up.

> Honestly, I was pretty impressed that his doctors didn't lose patience with him given the many repeated issues he faced - irrespective of what they might have thought, his care appeared to be very good indeed.

This is the law here. It has nothing to do with the doctor.
the ultimate objective.

who you gonna call? confetti therapy! (well doesn't rhyme as well as ghost busters dang)
Since it was in quotes I assumed that was a euhemism.
This is pretty cool, and the price (390USD) isn't too bad. Might be useful for self-monitoring of my sleep apnea treatment (all sleep tracking that isn't an EEG is essentially unreliable).

Almost tempted to buy one, but unclear where they're shipping from.
At least 90% of the time if you’re warning a tourist about either you’re telling them to avoid something about as capable of harming them as food gelatine.

Ignorant people are vastly more dangerous than all the phylum Cnidaria.
Generate a system prompt for an AI model which will do ....

You put your requirements, take that prompt into a new chat window.
My bank and electric company don’t block Firefox, not sure why they would, but it’s not like there’s no competition.

My government certainly won’t do that, they have a strong open data background.
Engineer mantra: Less is more.
Marketing mantra: More or die.

Buy strings.

"W: “DESTROY NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF KNOWN HOUSEHOLD PESTS WITH PRE-SLICED, RUSTPROOF, EASY-TO-HANDLE, LOW CALORIE SIMPSON’S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR STRINGETTES, FREE FROM ARTIFICIAL COLORING, AS USED IN HOSPITALS!” - Monty Python The String Sketch.
This is missing:

1a. Listicles Suck
> I can’t set a dhcp option on my network to tell my dozens of clients what dns server to use, I have to manually adjust each browser.

But at that point, you are effectively the ISP trying to control how users do DNS, in a way that might enable you to track/block/redirect. You might be trustworthy to your users so that is fine, but that isn't the case for every user's relationship with their service providers.

Is there an arrangement that would stop less trusted networks from tracking/redirecting/blocking DNS requests without (accidentally) helping AdTech by making DNS-based blocking harder?
Thanks! In my case (pun intended) the AirPods will sometimes just refuse to charge. I have spent several hours holding the case open and wedging one AirPod up… slightly… to get it to charge, and another several hours trying to replicate that delicate configuration with small shims of various design.
Indeed. And more context and Israel's reaction to it: https://archive.is/F3iOl
That is probably a good thing, they dont want users to jailbreak it.
The link is inaccessible with a hard paywall.
It’s probably a good idea to have a separate browner for your bank anyway, on a seperate user account, probably a separate VM.
There is a low level of guard labor that needs to happen in a free society, that's true, but it shouldn't be _increasing_ as a percentage, and it's not a good sign for the health of society at large if it is.

Cooperation _isn't_ the natural state of people, and we need to make sure we're increasing the benefits of working together and not just the punishments for crime. Right now, the benefits of the economy are accruing disproportionately to the wealthiest and we need to do something about that, because we're destroying the motivation for people at the bottom rungs to "play nice".
Claude is great with Python and Php.
Slices in Go: Grow Big or Go Home
We spent a whole gray day at Bletchley and TNMOC and I appreciated the connection between Bletchley and TNMOC given the context of WWII. To me Bletchley is more about process, a metaphorical "Scrum room" of one of the most important math and science programs in history. And taken together, they encapsulate sort of a catalyzing moment that computing prehistory transitioned to computing history.

My history-teacher wife liked Bletchley a lot more than TNMOC, where I lingered too long, but I did like both. Even though the Bombe replica was down for repairs that day.
Strength training/weight lifting, basic yoga stretches like sun salutation and squats/lunges to strengthen the back have helped a lot.
Long uninterrupted work session still can bring back my pain, but of all the remedies/treatments I have tried the only thing that works are physical exercise focused on core/back strength.
Show HN: Synmetrix – production-ready open source semantic layer on Cube
How to Win at Micro-SaaS
Sort of, this API enables static dispatch, but it could also have been written as

pub fn read<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: &dyn P) -> Result<Vec<u8>>

In which case the size of `path` is always the same(two words[0]) and the same machine code could be used regardless of how the function is called. Rust still cares about the memory layout but because `&dyn AsRef<Path>` has the same layout for all implementations of `AsRef<Path>` there's no need for monomorphization[1].

0: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.80.1/reference/types/trait-objec...

1: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/backend/monomorph.html...
It was ge sold to Amazon a few years ago.
There was a thread about it here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840405
I've seen vendors offering this technique or similar, but making it "opt-in".
For example, Okta Access Gateway used to perform a reverse tunnel out to an Okta managed IP, but you had to enable the "Support VPN" option on the device.
https://help.okta.com/oag/en-us/content/topics/access-gatewa...
Seems like they dropped the feature, not sure if from customer backlash, or their security engineering teams finally realizing that it's risky.
However, it was at least documented, and customer toggleable.
No idea of the situation there, but rural areas in our part of the world tap underground sources for water. It gets pumped and filtered on premise. Septic is a big tank with a field up front for dispersing fluids/liquids. Commenter below mentioned trash, but if you are applying some basic sustainable living techniques, the amount of trash produced should be minimal to none.
Admittedly in my experience (primarily VFX industry) pretty much every coder was also gamer.
> If you are selling something and you can't articulate what it is that you are selling, you are wasting your time

That's not how advertising works, though. Ads want to communicate how the product will make you feel or be. Cars are freedom!
If this is really O(1), then that makes sorting O(N).
You didnt have to go out of your way to provide another excellent example of someone making themselves look silly by making a dumb comment backed by the wrong assumption, but I appreciate the cover.
Aside from duplication there's also competition. If you bake for your family, your pie will be appreciated, regardless of its novelty. But if your pie is meant to go onto a supermarket shelf alongside other pies, you need to give the consumer an incentive to choose yours - by making it better and/or different.