skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you simply don't like the fact that we don't recognise user IP address as a permanent user identifier on the protocol level

So how exactly are all those DMCA letters finding themselves to the correct household if IP address doesn't deanonymize you?

>Message routing protocol has anonymous pairwise identifiers for the connections between users

I'm so tired of you avoiding the obvious question. What does this identifier look like?

Given that you say its anonymous, its probably not a username. So.
Is it a random string, an RSA/DH/ed25519/ed448/ECDSA key-pair?
Is it permanent? If not, how often does it change? How is it changing, are the identifiers advancing in a hash-ratchet etc. Can it change while the IP address stays the same?

Give me an example of the identifier. If it is a collection of data, explain every single segment of it.

It's clear the server does not tell one user connection from another by its IP address. So, until you explain what information exactly the server uses to tell one user's connection apart from another, it makes no sense to discuss this further.

>You would have to substantiate this claim, as otherwise it is slander.

As per above, IPv4 addresses have been used to identify individual subscriptions, and you're not making it clear that if the users wants ambiguity about the identity of who's behind an IP-address, they should not live in a single person household. You're also not defaulting to Tor so by default every single-household user not behind a NAT can be determined by their IPv4 address. You pretending that IPv4 addresses don't matter doesn't change reality.

Also as for your vague threats of SLAPP lawsuits, let me give you a quick lesson on the Finnish law:

"Edellä 1 momentin 2 kohdassa tarkoitettuna kunnianloukkauksena ei pidetä arvostelua, joka kohdistuu toisen menettelyyn politiikassa, elinkeinoelämässä, julkisessa virassa tai tehtävässä, tieteessä, taiteessa taikka näihin rinnastettavassa julkisessa toiminnassa ja joka ei selvästi ylitä sitä, mitä voidaan pitää hyväksyttävänä."

or

"Defamation as referred to in subsection 1, point 2 above is not considered to be criticism directed at another person's conduct in politics, business, public office or task, science, art or similar public activities and which does not clearly exceed what can be considered acceptable."

https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/1889/18890039001

Tldr: Criticism of businesses is legal in Finland. Feel free to consult your lawyers on the matter.
> There is no one true best thing.

This is the right answer, in my opinion. Both methods have their own unique advantages and disadvantages, and so which is best depends on the situation.
I use Clojure professionally, but it's readable to me. I would personally encode the color merging rules differently since it looks too obscured as-is. But I think what doesnt help is the lack of types (or schemas) and the unhelpful function names, as described by another commenter.

Also,

(apply merge-with {} ...)

is pretty "evil" in the sense that it's a very roundabout data transformation and would likely not pass code review at my company.
Musk is offering it for sublease. That means Musk is still paying the rent, just that he would let it out to someone else rather then occupy it himself.
Yeah, I can't read it either with my paywalls filter. Oh well, I guess it's not that important anyway; there's no shortage of other news articles to read.
I got mine used on reddit. It's been stable thus far.
What’s more “legitimately scary” is that people wanna run it back to monoliths like it’s the 90s and think building a modern scalable system is too hard
Awesome! Coffee + LLM-assisted programming. I had a similar experience coding an iOS app without experience with objective c using chatgpt. Great learning tool
> that's because selective universities don't _want_ to give degrees through MOOCs at a lower cost

That's one big reason for sure.

The other, I suspect (and I'm sure there are more), is that it's also rather difficult to provide the same level of quality of courses to the masses than say select few undergrads.

Some of the best courses I took in my uni (T20) were the upper level electives where it was taught by the professors who cared about the topic, had interesting teaching materials/presentation, readily available support resources (TA's/office hours/department support), and so on.

Also keep in mind - Georgia Tech's program is a master's degree - and these programs don't affront the same level of prestige and opportunities in the same way the other programs do (BS/BA, PhD, MBA, MD, JD).
If you do international flight please set an alert for Melbourne (MEL) to Narita or Haneda (HND).

Email: flight-price-alert.0t3tk@silomails.com
Can anybody who has enrolled in an online-only degree program comment on the experience?

I retired last year from teaching full-time at a conventional university. All of my teaching was in-person until the last few years, which were online because of the pandemic. My impression, after I got used to the new format, was that online is fine for small discussion-based seminars but that it is harder to keep students engaged in larger classes, especially students who are new to university study.

I really liked the potential of online at first—it was exciting to lead meaningful academic discussions among students located in several countries—but as time passed I started to wonder about how well it can really work for university education.
Is he a Russian puppet or isn’t he? If he can’t speak on ukraine for fear of being killed by Putin then everything he says should be viewed through that same lens
Hickey talks about readability of Clojure in this talk (timestamp at 6m40s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4#t=6m40
Yes many will burn out but maybe this is why he says it is so hard to have a successful company.
Overthrowing an elected government doesn't threaten the longevity of security agencies or "the security state" and having read Project 2025 I see no threat to "the security state" .. if anything he'd be bringing more work their way.

Trump is a threat to democracy, not to TLA's.

> I think you claimed that Harris was somehow not an ideal candidate for the current hegemonic forces in the US,

I made no such claim. Perhaps you might like to scroll back and identify where I did, I suspect you've confused me for another.
Given the map of the predictions versus the actual locations of the earthquakes, I'm not prepared to celebrate the accomplishment here. It looks as if in the essential details, the prediction is just flat out wrong--it's consistently predicting earthquakes in the wrong basin.

Actually, digging in a little more, I'm even more suspicious. The article says

> The outcome was a weekly forecast in which the AI successfully predicted 14 earthquakes within about 200 miles of where it estimated they would happen and at almost exactly the calculated strength. It missed one earthquake and gave eight false warnings.

A "weekly forecast" isn't terribly descriptive, but it sounds to me like a prediction "Will an earthquake occur this week? If so, where and at what strength?" Given that it's 14 earthquakes over a 7 month period (i.e., about 30 weeks), that means you're looking mostly if not entirely at small, probably unnoticeable earthquakes. It also means that there's basically a coin flip of whether or not an earthquake will occur--and if you score it on the accuracy of predicting such, it comes out to 30% wrong (so the p-value, if I'm doing it right is 0.02, which I guess is significant, although if another commenter is right and this is the best of 600 competitive entrants, it should be expected that one would look this good).

Given that both the timing and the location accuracy look less than impressive, the next question is how good a job it did at predicting the magnitude. There's no details on the accuracy here, but given the location accuracy is hailed as impressive despite being clearly visually less than so, it wouldn't surprise me that the magnitude predictions are similarly garbage.

In short, this feels like merely continued evolution in the history of earthquake prediction techniques rather than a revolution, which is to say something that is loudly hailed as being a good start yet turns out to go absolutely nowhere.
> If something isn't blocked in Russia right now, it's because they have access to it.

So WhatsApp is also controlled by Russia?
My wife and I have struggled greatly with infertility. But nobody wants to help when you can’t conceive. Certainly not the ACA.

I suspect there’s often an anti-natal bias at work: unwanted children have a very low negative value (like toxic waste), while wanted children are a luxury good.

You mentioned a cost-benefit ratio. How does this calculate the pain of not being able to have more desired children?
Yeah, I use it in my homelab and it is really awesome to have "RAID(5/6)" basically work over the network.
That’s fine if you want it to be a hobby. Admirable even. But not everyone wants yet another hobby. If you could get the benefits then the vast majority of folks I don’t think would miss anything meaningful. You’ve got to enjoy the tertiary benefits to stay sane, but I’m not kidding myself that I wouldn’t enjoy ~5 hrs/week back to pursue other activities.
Right now, the service only tracks Canadian airlines and airports. I’m working on adding international flights down the road. Sorry about that!
It's just a matter of familiarity. If you showed me an article written in Italian I would struggle to read it, but that's not because Italian is inherently an unreadable language.
But that's the reason why serverless has mostly failed so far -- because it is not stateful. And that is only because most existing offering don't have the correct primitives.

By that I mean that if the programming model has a way to automatically capture state, an implementation framework can manage it automatically on behalf of the application, while the user (person writing the app logic) doesn't have to care about the state.
Curious what they'd say about the effects of long covid amongst children from repeated covid infections. Seems like fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, gastrointestinal issues and heart palpitations is probably not great for learning either.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/symptoms-long-cov...
> it's also rather difficult to provide the same level of quality of courses to the masses than say select few undergrads.

I agree

> master's degree - and these programs don't affront the same level of prestige and opportunities in the same way the other programs do (BS/BA, PhD, MBA, MD, JD).

I'd throw MBA in there too (unless from the top dozen biz schools, Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, Sloan, Haas etc.)
Yes please.

This image makes the rounds semi-regularly: https://twitter.com/FreyaHolmer/status/1436696408506212353
I bought a System76 machine a while back. So, their distro has been fine by me.
qtile is very flexible, I'd be surprised if it's not configurable to get you to where you want.
> Finale felt heavily loaded down with legacy garbage

It seems like the letter fully confirms & validates your feeling. ;) There’s just no GUI software started 35 years ago that’s still alive and feels modern and unbloated. Okay, there might be something, but I want to see the examples that prove me wrong. Things that come to mind are like Photoshop or Word, both bloated with legacy and might be dying to web apps. Or Windows itself, also loaded down with legacy. UX standards and expectations have (thankfully) gone way up over time, and it’s practically impossible to keep up without starting over with fresh applications, especially for boutique shops.
There's direct payments, and then there's the infinite number of ways to receive indirect compensation.
Por qué no los dos?

I liked grace hopper's comments as a rebuttal against "only vertical! No horizontal!" but I'd agree that reading that rebuttal dogmatically would be just as bad of a decision.

Bigger is better in terms of height and girth when it comes to capabilities. At any given time, figure out the most cost efficient number of oxen of varying breeds for your workload and redundancy needs and have at it. In another year if you're still travelling the Oregon trail you can reconsider doing the math again and trading in the last batch's oxen for some new ones, repeat as infinitum or as long as you're in business.
frog-boiled, haha, good way to put it:)
One, this is a safety decision. PR concerns come secondary to getting the job done.

Two, anyone pretending to have known a month ago how this would turn out was lying.
I would even argue they should take all of those bits of text and replace them with an on-hover tooltip element, with the icons indicating the degree to which those things are stored externally. It's a bit more alarmist than it needs to be as is.

However, it would mess with mobile?
> Most serverless application platforms are then paired with hosted databases

> Dokku in turn is a replacement for those platforms and makes it easy to host your own

I tried to search

database site:dokku.com/docs/

or

queue site:dokku.com/docs/

But failed to find anything relevant. Am I doing this wrong?
Where does Dokku as a "replacement platform" provide the database or queue capability?

> purpose of serverless is to provide scaleable infra which you don't need to manage

> Dokku is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server (from https://dokku.com/docs/)

and how does Dokku on a single server solve the "scaling" problem exactly?

> As you noted, it doesn't even do the web-serving

Technically speaking, php can. https://github.com/swoole/swoole-docs/blob/master/modules/sw...

it's just not widely used.

Dont get me wrong, Dokku is a fine project of its own, but it doesn't seem to tackle the problems you mentioned either. On the other hand, if php is not enough, the LAMP can do everything.
I find that unlikely. I suspect you may be being humorous though.
I can totally see the appeal of trying to build a business out of it. As a user I worry about how long it'd last. I would buy a license or whatever, but definitely think it could benefit from continued updates to the parsers.
The link in the posting is to a full pdf viewer, that doesn't work for reading on mobile, with pdf download link.
Exactly, years of muscle memory and files. If I was involuntarily forced off of Sibelius at this point, I would be rather annoyed. I'm not even sure what I would do. Last time I tried it, Dorico did not support everything I needed to do, even if I wanted to use it.
45 minute build for 32 million lines of code seems pretty reasonable, to me. What are some projects of equal complexity with lower build time in other languages?
> AI developer performed no clinical validation nor that the FDA hasn't seen it

if the developer went through the trouble and expense of performing clinical validation you can be sure that they would publish the results __unless__ the results reflected negatively on them
FWIW: Qtile is a plenty hackable tiling WM (Python) and comes with "xmonad" tiling modes: https://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/ref/layouts.html#mon...

Worth a spin if the tiling mode is what's keeping you on XMonad and you'd actually rather not Haskell, otherwise.

Supports running under either Wayland or X11.
An explanation of the USB C charging issues on the RG35XX Plus
Obtaining a degree should be a separate optional examination, likely on-site, like other extern examinations.

But receiving lectures and coursework equivalent / comparable to those received by regular students, such that would realistically prepare you to passing the same kind of exam (given adequate study effort from you), would be actually useful. Useful even if you don't take the exam and don't receive credits / papers. Study is not for costly signaling alone.
Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
How do you inexpensively scale the personalized work done by professors and TAs in grading your work, making sure you're not cheating or plagiarizing, and clarifying your misunderstandings when you're not "getting" the educational material? If a firm hires someone with a degree, what they're paying for is knowing that a person actually learned the material, which requires human intervention to do grading and to prevent cheating. That costs a lot of money, because technological innovations don't really make the grading or cheating prevention any cheaper. Education is the prototypical example of an industry affected by Baumol's cost disease.

The cheapest part to scale is the educational material and lectures, but that's always been the case, even before MOOCs. It has been possible for more than a century to go a library for free and get access to more educational material than one person could read in a several lifetimes. What has never been cheap are teachers who care, and I don't think that MOOCs can technologically innovate so much so that they reduce the cost of a teacher that cares.
1. It's illegal, and insurance company employees aren't suicidal.

2. If health insurance companies wanted to break the law, they would simply violate the existing prohibition on discriminating on preexisting conditions, which gives them vastly more actionability than some tenuous, diluted link to a relative.

This is all frankly nonsensical because insurance companies charge people within tightly-regimented tiers, there's no wiggle room for mystery +30% fee increases.
Minor observation that US ag subsidies send more to livestock than to ethanol.
> Once, after injecting himself with a large dose of morphine, he found himself hovering over an enormous battlefield, watching the armies of England and France drawn up for battle, and then realized he was witnessing the 1415 Battle of Agincourt... The vision seemed to last only a few minutes, but later, he discovered he’d been tripping for 13 hours.

This doesn't make any sense... morphine is not a hallucinogen or a psychedelic. You don't "trip" on it. I have a feeling the journalist mixed something up here.
Endured how? No one knows what these are.
Freya's content around math is always incredible, and yeah that's exactly what I meant.
Sonnet Seems as Good As Ever
HIPAA was written in 1996. The human genome project was completed in 2003, and WGS wasn't in the clinic for another decade. Nothing about HIPAA is considered or intentional in the context of current medical practice or research. It's just an old law that carries forward mindlessly like all laws do.
Time for them to release the source code then.
The concept of office hours is obsolete when there is no office.

It’s not your job to make sure that others have boundaries.
This says nothing about Russia. Try again.
Congratulations on reinventing sixels. :)
$5k is for education, $45k is for campus life with offspring of the right families. May be a good deal from a purely rational standpoint.
People unfamiliar with Shakespeare who go and watch it performed by and large “don’t get it” and will never go again.
If they are the same, there shouldn't be any difference between the two issued. It'd be possible to know only by asking the candidate.
It may be better than previous models, but that "70%" number is misleading:

> The outcome was a weekly forecast in which the AI successfully predicted 14 earthquakes within about 200 miles of where it estimated they would happen and at almost exactly the calculated strength. It missed one earthquake and gave eight false warnings.

So 14 true positives and 8 false positives, which means the positive predictive value is not great, less than 65%. And I didn't read the paper for the details of the timing, but the article said "a week out", so I'm assuming it means the predictions meant the earthquake could strike in a minute or in 7 days.

What would governments/policy makers actually be able to do with any of this data? Not to denigrate it as a step forward, but I'm having trouble seeing much practical impact at all.
"It just means that there’s a lot of low-quality stuff under the same label, which has made that label questionable, and if you want to sift through it you have to be ready to filter for quality yourself... At some level GA is trying to “democratize” geometry."
Hit me just now reading the case against GA linked in this thread, maybe the same way Munger remarks on Costco's counter-intuitive membership fee, the notation and systems of "real" math as we encounter them like you say in Wikipedia is the field's membership fee keeping out the riff-raff from overwhelming the gathering place and making the entire store burn down.

"But the point is to make the existing math more intuitive, not to discover new results. The fact that research mathematics is generally not concerned with making calculation and intuition easier to think about is, I think, a giant failure that it will eventually regret. There’s as much value in making things easy to use as there is in discovering them."
> Surprising OpenAI and Microsoft were OK with this

I’d give it a 50/50 that the Microsoft deal team is learning about this now.
"Serverless" means there's no stateful application server in your architecture. No instance, just callable code. Shell script, not daemon.

You write narrow business-level functions that take inputs, do their business, and give you the output. They're called, they run, they terminate and carry nothing forward. You deploy them to a hosting platform which will handle making them available, routing requests, and all the other stuff that's incidental to doing the work. The only thing that's your concern is the logic that turns inputs into outputs. At least that's the pitch.

Technically a PHP script that you run as CGI through Nginx is "serverless" that way, though of course it's hosted with a software server running on a hardware server. It's serverless because you write a PHP script and it doesn't care what runs it or what's going on around it. It doesn't need to work within the context of an application server like an endpoint in a Django or a Rails app would.

Someone else could own a bunch of servers running Nginx, you'd give them prettyprint.php, and it would pretty-print your JSON or whatever at the URL they'd give you.

Services that do this are called serverless platforms. The hosting model is called "functions as a service" (FaaS). If you like the architecture but you don't want FaaS from Amazon, Heroku, or some other third party, you can host yourself a mini FaaS with something like Dokku.
Animating timeline via css variable causes restyle cascade for all descendant elements. Maybe it is fine for shallow structure but generally it’s much more performant to change transformation directly. Of course that makes it less convenient as computation would have to be duplicated in js
Such a fascinating language! Great example of how linguistic diversity at the extremes can help us understand the human mind better.
Body cameras point out, not down. Bathroom usage is fine. They shouldn’t be taking personal calls at work.
I worked in this field - I've met Anant, John Katzman, and Bonnie Ferri. The MOOCs (and any well-run university, probably the minority) have excellent data on what classes students want to take.

Well over 90% of the searches on their site are for tech-related topics. And most of the remainder are probably for business.

You can fantasize about a USA where people want to read Plato and accidentally get English degrees. I also think that would be great. In our current reality, only the trust-fund kids, who already know they never need to work, will want to pay for that. (I mean, their dad or grandpa is the one paying.)
As Fred Brooks wrote in "The Mythical Man-Month",

> The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. […] Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
Why is it a problem for teenagers to learn about sex? A thing that almost every human on earth engages in, with the desire to do so emerging in their teenage years… It seems completely obvious and normal.