skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Americans still didn’t learn Japanese en mass when it looked like Japanese manufacturing was going to conquer the world. Just like they didn’t learn Chinese.

Learning a new language as an adult is incredibly difficult. I have learned Spanish to a basic conversational level and it has been a massive struggle for me.

My Swiss and German friends seem to pick up new languages super easily though. Likely this is because they learned a second, third, or even fourth language as children.

So, not impossible but it is good to acknowledged that this isn’t an easy thing to do and likely would be a generational shift kind of thing.
As I run the OS I can choose to accept the hint or override the dns servers.
AnandTech Farewell
It is the truth. I've been thinking lately about how working in tech is literally almost the same conditions as slavery. Sure they let you have a car but that's just to drive in. Then you get a house over your head. Clothing. That's it.

A 401k is no solice for a life lived into chains. It wrenches my tears. Never. To. Be. Free... Never freedom.
"dollar general may know something you do not."

In light of the fact that they just lost a third of their market capitalization overnight, they clearly have more to learn.
Do you think revenue just magically appears in your company’s accounts receivable? do your customers cold call your sales reps?
> But I do think it'd be a good look for AWS to proactively help these companies.

But how much value does "a good look" have to AWS?
> 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 ?

Yep, that's what was happening to the RfL devs.
> Honestly, instead of writing software, work on that. Improve your discipline and many areas of your life will improve.

You're right! Though I recommend starting with something easier that still gives broad improvements across the board, like CRISPR-ing yourself a third arm, or solving world peace, or some other thing known to be at least possible to achieve.

EDIT:

> I'm just concerned that the motive behind this is a bandaid situation to a bigger problem.

Unfortunately, at the current state of understanding our minds and bodies (and ability to work with complex dynamic systems in general), all we can do is to stack band-aids on problems until they become manageable (and then treat them as stable foundation for the next layer of band-aid covered problems).

In mental health in particular, I find that addressing the "bigger problem" works, but usually by means of distracting you from the immediate problem. Often enough that is the actual solution itself - when you're stuck in some unusual feedback loop, the historical reason you ended up in it doesn't matter much; the only thing that matters is breaking out of it. In those cases, digging for the Ultimate Big Problem / Root Cause is just going to make the problem worse.

(As an analogy, imagine walking down the river bank, slipping, and falling into the current. It doesn't really matter why you fell in - the danger is in staying, and the solution is in getting to shore. Going back to investigate what happened in the first place only increases your risk of falling back in again.)
> Advanced concepts in CS aren’t practical

They're at least as practical as rockets that go into orbit.

And software is absolutely like rocket science in that you need to learn a lot of foundational stuff to do the really advanced rocket science.

If you want to do very basic model rocketry then the barrier to entry is pretty much as low as learning Python or whatever.
Wouldn't people evaluating your product usually be the people to decide whether to use it? How often do people just hand out their manager's numbers to random sales people?
tens of millions of consumers say otherwise
As somebody who dreads relationships, commitments and marriages and who is being wooed by somebody with Kim's profile, I find this story double-disturbing.

Criminal angle aside, I wonder what kind of personal fuck-ups end with a partner hating the other so much as to want to kill them, but yet end in a situation where that's preferable to a divorce.

Maybe home loans and living space? Those last two are a serious concern in Sweden, where a well-paid professional often can't afford more than a few square meters of living space.... Joint debts or properties? Kids? Anything else you can think of that it's best to avoid?
I've been reading Anandtech for over a decade. Sad to see it go.
You can also use the letter a in 3 dufferent places and have different meanings, and is also not an example.
> Turns out a lot of tin-foil hat stuff is true after all.

Not really, no. For example, actual scientists were discussing the possibility of the COVID pandemic having arisen from a lab leak seriously and looking for evidence that could support that theory but the conspiracy nuts were going on about it being a “ChiComm bio weapon” because their goal was political rather than learning the truth. (Only the latter encountered terms of service actions, typically due to racism or targeting specific people, but their supporters often falsely claim they were in the former group)

That’s the easy rule of thumb: is someone approaching the problem rationally, etc. or are they starting from the position they want and trying to work backwards? Are they willing to seek out evidence and adjust based on new information, or do they find reasons to dismiss it?
It does, radix sort is in fact O(N) if size of the universe of values counts as a constant. It’s just slow in practice.

The definition of the machine for which the O(N log N) bound is proved is very delicate: you have to allow O(1) operations on an arbitrarily large set of values but not encoding tricks allowing multiple values to be packed into one and then manipulated unrealistically cheaply using those operations. In particular, the machine must not be able to do arbitrary arithmetic.
My dad was an airline pilot. Policy was you had to be in uniform to sit in the jump seat, and, yeah, it's not open to just anybody. If he was flying standby to get home, he would take it if no other option was open.
Yeah, but it's not mandatory on every new car. It very well could be in the future. In fact, one of the laws over the past few years set a mandate on new cars detecting drunk drivers in the future. They're currently working on less intrusive versions that passively scan the air or your hands on the wheel.
> To do so we need to center teachers in the process of using AI, rather than just leaving AI to students (or to those who dream of replacing teachers entirely).

No proprietary dis-service can possibly replace nor even augment the teacher. Because a so-called "AI" LLM output is just a write-only source of content while the teacher uses to "read" kids in order to build a way for the information to flow. The need for students to cheat has been born from abusing students by the Government via some must-learn propaganda (flag-waving bullshit, conformist attitude to the religion and the government and the school, too severe state rules on education etc). A really great teacher should have the ability to just ignore anything from the teaching plan or he is not the one who holds the keys from the pleasure of learning.

And BTW Chinese teachers have a hard-limit of no more than 10% of children time has to be spent to any digital content. While not being a fan of Leftists, I really appreciate this move from the country who gives us TikTok and 90% of digital devices.
I doubt liking compliments is unique to engineering
USGS announces elevation and hydrography data acquisition partnership scheme
Energy is necessary, but the better the intelligence applied to any problem, the less energy is required.

I was wondering if there was any way to bring 10.000 Einsteins online. Einsteins who know all about physics, programming, math and so on, cranking up ideas days and night. If the Einsteins never sleep, that would be ideal.
Year in title is wrong: the paper is from 1988, not 1998.
Both were pretending to be acting civilized. He send an amicable offer to explain and save time but that could support him in the divorce process later. She was on full oyster defense mode. All her answers can be resumed to "See? police will be unable to prove anything","It was a good faith mistake". But no remorse shown by all the pain inflicted. Pretending it was nothing; bitter about the divorce, and in denial, dissociating herself from the case all the time an living in her parallel version of the reality.

Unfortunately some passive aggressive people acts like this. This man should run away as fast as he can.
> but 1.1 gigawatts of mainstream solar panels is 0.14 billion usd

A solar farm is more than just solar panels. This 3.5GW solar farm cost 2.13B USD, so by your estimates the panels make up just 1/5 of the cost of the farm. I'd expect the load factor of the nuclear power station to offset the solar farm's nameplate capacity advantage, and lead to steadier prices/fewer storage requirements etc etc.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/06/06/worlds-largest-solar-...

> and it needs to be installed far from the point of use

Note that this is a problem for solar farms in China; they are installed where land is not valuable. Hence all the HVDC transmission records being broken in China. Plus nuclear power stations can be close to populations. For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daya_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Plant is 50km from Hong Kong.

> the reactor is not dispatchable over timescales of less than a day

Modern reactors have load following capabilities, e.g. the AP1000 can ramp up 5% a minute within the 15%-100% band.
I'm using Quarto [0], pretty happy with my blog [1].

Before it was made with Zola [2], which is also nice.

[0] https://quarto.org/

[1] https://blog.horaceg.xyz/

[2] https://www.getzola.org/
And what of small companies that need things like SOC2 reports from vendors?

If you want to work with large companies, being SOC certified makes it easier. Part of that is ensuring your vendors are also compliant with good standards and that's best done with SOC reports.
More like Clippy-II/ChatGPT.
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> if size of the universe of values counts as a constant

But of course, that is cheating.
I didn't say that you couldn't.
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For about a decade of my life I was looked down upon by engineers because I made advertising that targeted engineers :-) I agree with a lot of what is in this article, there's one thing missing:

Highlight differences. Especially those that are quality of life improvement for the engineering organization.

AWS was weird (literally - it was very unique) and slower than dedicated servers when it came out. But there was a difference, and AWS let me know: No need to talk to people to provision, and once you activate an instance it will be available in minutes. That alone was enough to switch from on prem or managed colo resources.
It looks like it's rather sensitive to the distributions of inputs. The claim in the abstract is that it's O(1) "for the priority increment distributions recently considered by Jones in his review article." The conclusion gives a bit more detail.
Yes, but MariaDB's doesn't have that clause—it's part of the Additional Use Grant that Hashicorp added.
I have the same problem at the moment with Supabase. We're a startup trying to get ISO 27001 certified and need to upload Supabase's SOC2 report to Vanta, but we can't because we're on the Pro tier and they don't give access to that, even after emailing them. It's ridiculous.
Perhaps a better example would be & referring to AND operations (logical and bitwise), but also being a unary operator for taking the address of a variable.
FedEx requires a scan of the barcode on your license to ship packages from any of their locations. When it first started happening a few years ago, I argued with the clerks and said I didn't want my license scanned. I was willing to show my ID as proof of identity but I didn't want the barcode scan. It also reset the originating address to my home address each time, even though I was shipping for business and put the business address on the FedEx shipping form. They said it was required and the managers always confirmed. I stopped using FedEx for this reason. Never went back.
Agnost is an open source GitOps platform running on Kubernetes clusters
this is a blog for the Ibis project, directly from one of the main developers/maintainers of the project, about deprecating two (of 20+) backends the project supports and giving the justification

as a project, we're big on using the right tool for the job -- of course we often think that's Ibis. a lot of effort has been put into the ergonomics, taking learnings from pandas and dplyr and SQL and various other Python data projects the team has been instrumental in. if you weren't aware, the creator of pandas also created Ibis and the current lead developer (Phillip Cloud) was also very involved in pandas. we have plenty of other blogs and things on the documentation about the project's ergonomics and thoughts on data processing paradigms

this specific blog isn't intended as "marketing speak" or to somehow be distasteful, it's intended to inform the Ibis community that we're deprecating a backend and justifying why
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as a major julia enthusiast I gotta say this is not how you get people to check it out buddy
I don't mind them requiring a paid tier to get the detailed compliance level reports, but requiring the most uber expensive "call us" plan is probably too much for many smaller companies that might still benefit from easier SOC2 complaince.
This is exactly where I'm at.

I find what seems to be the prevailing opinion of people here (and in similar places) of passionate opposition to these kinds of licenses to be very mystifying.

It seems to me like they hit a pretty good spot on the continuum of trade-offs here.

I might add one, which is related to your third bullet point, but which I avail myself of far more often:

* If I'm confused by how something seems to work, I can read the implementation.
Hi, Brave engineer here,

May I ask when you switched away from Brave Search? We've been doing work to reduce the amount of captchas a few months ago and we stopped getting feedback about this issue at that point. If it's still happening, it's something we will look into again.

Also, are you a user of ProtonVPN by any chance?

Thanks for your help,
Start with

- https://doi.org/10.1109/PowerAfrica.2017.7991192

- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2022.108701

And you'll learn why we can't keep up grids with massive p.v./eolic and why storage is needed.
What I was really getting at was the effect that low incremental cost has on the evolution of the technology. A technology with low incremental unit cost can evolve very rapidly, while high unit cost capital-intensive technologies are slow to evolve. Which will win?

Some technologies are inherently high unit cost and capital-intensive. Aerospace is a classic example, and it's why we're still flying on 1970s-tech airplanes and why rockets are just now becoming reusable. Aerospace advances at a crawl because each unit is so expensive.
Good data in good data out.
> we’re going to lift an insane number of people out of poverty

Please elaborate how? In my understanding electricity access is a problem in many poor countries but what makes the people poor is the lack of any ressources (food, tool, book, pills, land, shelter, money for proxy those…). Electricity may be on the list but it’s far from the first.
For every "record call" app / feature out there, consider: https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/

Most people don't even know or think about this. When people join a meeting I host and invite their robot, I kick the robot out. Otherwise, I'm just not sure they are actually engaged in the meeting. If you don't want to be on the meeting, decline it. But don't assume it's cool to record everything. Some of us work in industries (legal being one) where you don't want to create recordings, especially of privileged discussions.
These systems used to be considered secure. Lots of things blast data out over gprs, at one time it was a backup for home security systems for example. Since throughput was limited and data was expensive, the actual communication was usually designed to be as quick and “frugal” as possible. There used to be lots of weird end points like BB PIN messages (which were encrypted on their own) but most of that is retired now.

I imagine gprs will appear as an attack vector for … something
Software should be secure by default. No defense of honor is necessary.

> This line of thinking has lead to many foreign wars of choice, where we send young men to die and our nation recieved nothing in exchange. "It was the right thing to do" is uttered by those who did nothing

I am not able to find any references to the war of regression or the battle of cve-2021-44228, so I'll have to call nonsense on this one.
Memory leaks concerning streams and pipes. Can other processes tap into streams and access that content. Whether encryption is required for interprocess communication.
Missed chance, to fail to reference Le Guin's [patterning frame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Illusions#Objects) somewhere in there.
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Sure, and I have pseudonyms in some forums and I would prefer to continue to use those.

That doesn't mean there can't be optional forums or messaging platforms where everyone is required to have state-issued IDs.

We're pretty close to a world where anonymous forums are going to be overrun with LLMs that are somewhat indistinguishable from real people.

In addition, the main True Identity (TM) platforms are Facebook and Twitter, private companies in a privileged position regarding identity verification. I'd much rather have a public institution issuing PKI enabled ID cards and having individual states operating as certificate authorities with DMVs being the gatekeepers.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the question but it seems like there were/are various bots at work here, but in principle a "single" bot could do these things, and is certainly how they handled animation. But even a single bot could be running many times over, or be otherwise multi-threaded.

It does seem important that as far as the page was concerned you couldn't, say, check two boxes at the exact same time. So whatever work they did to coordinate the animations had to happen through tons of single requests.
Same. It's so hard to stand out with a tech review site when there are dozens of other great ones, but this one truly did for me.
AWS has a terrible reputation as being the source of absolute massive amounts of abuse and poorly written scrappers and crawler (hard to tell the difference between a bad crawler and an active attack).

From experience I've seen AWS be the source of overwhelming traffic so many times that we in some cases resorted to the same solution, blocking AWS completely.

I don't know if AWS doesn't care or is just slow to react. Maybe reporting is to difficult, I don't know.

So the obvious you're missing is: AWS IS a huge source of "bad" traffic and getting a misbehaving customer shutdown is too hard, while renting insane amounts of capacity is too easy for bad actors.

Edit: I've almost never seen GCP or Azure being the source of the same amount of crazy traffic.
> software that does nothing differently or better than the existing (well-known) solutions is just, well, not interesting to anybody else than the person who wrote it.

There can be many reasons. The practical availability or licensing of the work is the most common one. It is great that google has an amazing implementation of whatever state of the art algorithm. It is not much use to anybody else if they can't read the code, or can't build on it.

The other practical reason is that people building the thing are building their mastery. You are not going to wake up one day and make a state of the art contribution on your first try. You need to build up your skills to it through a series of steps. This would matter even if all software ever written would be equally available and unencumbered for everyone. But if you want people to push the boundaries of what possible they have to get there first.

Do you want someone to be able to bake a beautifully decorated 3 tier wedding cake? That journey starts with them baking a simple sponge cake. Then learning how to put icing on that. Then learning how to make a good cream filling. Then putting simple decoration on. And so on and so on. If you don't let them progress through all these steps and you demand that they bake 3 layer beautifully decorated cakes on their first day then increasingly less and less people will be able to push the state of the art.
> It must have been tested. If it weren't KCl, then why would there be no prosecution?

The KCl story sounds so weird to me that it’s hard to reason about. Why would the spouse of someone with a serious medical condition be medicating their husband without his or his doctor’s knowledge?

It also doesn’t explain the elevated vitamin D. So you’d have to conclude the investigation with two unsolved mysteries so to speak.
Came here looking whether anyone else found the weird teenager writing style getting on the way of the real message.
> A firewall vendor claimed they could block anything inside that outbound HTTPS connection that was not HTTP but they could not.

This is very easily bypassed leveraging cert pinning. Modern firewalling is all predicted on MitM approach, nobody has any secret sauce here. If they can't see inside the encryption they really can't do much. Very few customers have decryption configured correctly, or at all, at scale.

Also an enterprise generally won't block connections that "aren't categorized" (URL blocklist) because it's too much work / headache Beyond that most good and bad actors have domains lying around that won't end up in blocked categories.

NGFW today are NGDS (Next Gen Door Stops), they aren't effective beyond controlling their own users. And at that rate DNS is a much more cost effective control.
They use background-image for a :checked checkbox. The image is an inline SVG – clever!
Could be useful for me. Will keep an eye on this.
Just think, an extra 11 pounds per seat to reserve your own!
I hate those stupid fees but it would increase revenue and at the end of the day…
< I’d pay it :( >
Historical Jesus
Right. A prosecution is about whether somebody committed a crime, the standard required is "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and the consequence is punishment, for example a fine, prison time or, if you're barbarians, physical punishment such as whipping or execution.

O J wasn't send to jail as a result of the civil lawsuit, he went to jail because he's a crook.
Perhaps AI generated?
Not really considering Versailles is in the suburbs of Paris, whilst Bletchly is not a suburb of London but next to Milton Keynes.