skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've taken the test multiple times, and ended up with my boundary being both greener than >70% of the population and bluer than >70% of the population in separate attempts. And I know my color perception to be good at distinguishing hue - it's just that I don't have strong opinions about categorizing it in this space.

I'm pretty sure there's some hysteresis going on - if we randomly end up in the ambiguous zone on the bluer side, we'll be pressing "blue" every time a small change happens, because it's basically the same color. Until the changes add up so much that we're out of the ambiguous zone on the green side - and now our "border" is far on the green side. But if we started on the other side, entering the ambiguous zone from the green side, it'd take a big cumulative change before we press "blue".
While Russian not only separates blue and green, but also light and dark blue.

https://www.thoughtco.com/russian-colors-4776553

And English includes indigo in the ROYGBIV rainbow because of Newton's numerology.

https://nationalpost.com/news/why-the-colour-indigo-is-disap...
This is just so messed up. I’ve spent so much time trying to teach the more vulnerable people in my life how to protect their accounts, only to have their f’n bank call them up and ask them to do the exact opposite.
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Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41427054. There are additional comments there.
You can do this without assuming the name by execing /proc/$PID/exe. Then you're not vulnerable to the argv[0] spoofing described in the article. (But of course since argv[0] does exist, you should set it properly and pass through your own argv[0] unchanged.)
Hiding the content and weighting of LLM training data sets is the equivalent of hiding poisonous ingredients in food.
do you also sponsor visas?
the article focuses on the next part of that sentence

> secondly because the expected value of the game (assuming Ballmer chooses randomly) is negative: you end up paying Ballmer
I don't know why you'd make this comment... I find it hard to believe you're actually stupid enough to not understand the implicit "(i.e. is your expected profit greater than 0)".

If you answered like this in an interview I would definitely not give you the job. I did actually interview someone once who was like this - "How would you do this?" "Well you shouldn't do it. I think you should do this other thing.". He did not get the job.
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I got this :)

Your boundary is at hue 177, bluer than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.
>They become that way because they lack the finances to control their lives,

Yes, autonomy seems to be a fundamental aspect of well-being.

>I guarantee you those unemployed people would start feeling engaged again.

I'm always a little hesitant when I hear someone say they "guarantee" something based on a thought experiment. But the little data we have, like the recent Sam Altman-funded UBI experiment, doesn't seem to back up this idea. While people said they were more open to thoughts of aspects like entrepreneurial activities and education, it didn't actually manifest in real actual engagement in those activities.
There is a real (and sometimes large) but also subjective distinction between price gouging and market (supply & demand) pricing. The article discussed higher prices during peak demand school holidays, which isn’t price gouging on its own, and only suggests normal market high-demand pricing. Most importantly, the high demand pricing is regular and predictable: everyone knows when the school holidays are coming and they know in advance when the prices will be higher. Price gouging is most often used to describe selling basic needs at very extreme prices during an emergency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging

Also important to note here, the UK has anti price gouging laws. This doesn’t mean Center Parcs isn’t violating them, but without any specific evidence, I’d guess a good default assumption is that what they’re doing isn’t price gouging by the law’s definition.
Maybe to avoid broken links if you move the original files? That's the main benefit of hardlinks vs symlinks in my mind at least.
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"Remember, the safest computer is one that's turned off and unplugged."
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I believe, that few, if any of the currently supported boards feature all of:
USB Device Port, HDMI-Port (or sufficiently fast USB-Host-Port for Capture Adapter), HW-Video-Encode (or beafy enough CPU), enough available (programmable) GPIOs
Says the blog pushing 2000 partners with "legitimate interest" to process data about me…
Yes, and a SWE should consider external inputs untrusted until proven otherwise.
It's surprising the extent to which the tech community overfits towards classifying intelligent individuals as either exclusively technical or nontechnical. Recruiters are especially weak in this regard, e.g., if you've ever been effective at sales or people leadership, you are likely ineffective at swe or data science or vice versa. The most intelligent folks I've worked with are very diverse in their interests and abilities. You can see this in an elementary school GT classroom. Why does the tech community believe this is always an either/or proposition?
New technologies can solve problems better.

"I'm starting to think computers are a solution in the need of a problem. Have we not already solved doing math?"
"How I failed" by Tim O'Reilly (2013)
Don't do this - if you (reliably) want the path to the current executable there is no portable way to do it, but on Linux you need to readlink /proc/self/exe and on MacOS you call _NSGetExecutablePath. I forget the API on Windows.
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Well, they don't crash them into each other but there are testing programs that crash them into standard objects like concrete walls. Crashing the new model into the old won't tell you much. Vehicles generally get larger/heavier with each new model. All you would probably learn is that newer Miatas weight more than old ones. Some quick googling shows that modern Miatas are about 10% heavier than they were in the 90s, probably due to the increase to 1.8 from 1.6 liter engines.
Underrated comment. His point was to see how they approached the problem regardless of the answer, which is a much different criteria than having the right answer.
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That's not portable, though. OpenBSD, for example, doesn't have /proc.
"I have always thought of the job as a sort of human engineering, or a big physiology lab."

I like this. I used to tell med students doing a month-long rotation that the specialty could be described as a combination of applied physiology/applied chemistry/applied anatomy with the great thing being you get to find out if you were right in the moment/that day, rather than having to wait days/weeks/months/forever to learn if you had done the right things.

P.S. I majored in political science

P.P.S. ChatGPT-4o just told me that "The use of nerve stimulators for brachial plexus blocks became more widespread in the late 1970s and 1980s."

I never used a nerve stimulator — or US — for brachial plexus blocks during my career (I retired in 2015). I guess I was just so used to doing it the way I learned back in the Dark Ages that as long as I got good results, I kept on keeping on.

Also, if you're doing a locum in some backwoods hospital in a small town in Virginia, you're unlikely to find a working nerve stimulator, much less a portable ultrasound.

I suppose this is why they have a mandatory retirement age for airline pilots.
>is almost free of nightly features

So it's not free of said features and you have to use nightly?

>What features do you rely on?

Several of these highlighted here:https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...

Something like 30% of users were on nightly a few years ago. Not sure if that's still true, but it is for me.
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It isn't a truism. Summer is when the weather is good.
i'm reminded by this chapter of the tao te ching:

When people see some things as beautiful,

other things become ugly.

When people see some things as good,

other things become bad.

Being and non-being create each other.

Difficult and easy support each other.

Long and short define each other.

High and low depend on each other.

Before and after follow each other.

Therefore the Master

acts without doing anything

and teaches without saying anything.

Things arise and she lets them come;

things disappear and she lets them go.

She has but doesn't possess,

acts but doesn't expect.

When her work is done, she forgets it.

That is why it lasts forever.
> Define “Done” from the Start

This has helped me tremendously. Great article.
What about fine-tuning?
This may be a good step in the size direction (if passed):

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/nx-s1-5084276/pedestrian-prot...
A no cost solution would be to setup a Linux server in your home instead of option 3. Then you can use ssh to connect to it and try that out, maybe figure out a secure VPN where you can SSH in remotely if traveling or working from a coffee shop, etc. are in the list of requirements.
At what time scales would you say these inefficiencies are easiest to make a good living from?
Will stronger cars result in the continued uptick in pedestrian deaths? I’ve read that the uptick is strongly correlated with the curb weight increase from larger cars, and cars with battery drive trains. But I expect that impacts from “stronger” materials will also hurt pedestrian/cyclist safety, no?
Yeah I know its a standard control I mean more the idea of using that control to toggle opening or new document behavior isn't what it was designed for.

> I initially designed those buttons to be familiar for users coming over from Windows

I'd suggest leaning more into MacOS as they're on MacOS so they wanna use things that feel like MacOS right? The default MacOS toolbar controls work and look really nice.
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Rush hour isn't what it used to be. 10-4 is the new 9-5, commuting data shows
retronews: TUI browser for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet readers
Got it treated by Krown rustproofing before the first winter, and spot treated with Fluid Film (lanolin spray) since. If I didn't drive on gravel so often it probably wouldn't need the yearly touch up.
Really nice stuff. I cannot send a heart without subscribing which doesnt feel right for me.
Once I was told by a mechanic the following: if car companies where the ones liable for fixing your car, the design would look very much different.

Car companies choose what is simple to manufacture, but eventually making it very hard to maintain. If it where not for regulation, they would give you something that has a timer for breaking. That is how little they respect their customers.

Anecdotal (but at this point one of hundreds I've come across): older car had fuel pump accessible through a little sealed hatch. In current car the same pump was integrated into the fuel tank. It went bad. Guess what? You have to remove the whole fuel tank to service it. And that entails taking the exhaust out of the way. Car companies hate you.
> you can select an initial guess that is offset from 50

Given that 7 guesses covers 128 numbers, you can offset by +/- 14 without actually affecting the "worst case" of the algorithm (i.e. provided you have at most 64 either side of your guess). As you say, randomly selecting this offset would neuter most adversarial examples (purposefully chosen to fall into the gaps of binary search) and would possibly completely remove the benefits from adversarial choice (though a tailored distribution on offset might be required there).

I'd be interested in such an analysis too.
I'm also thinking long-context LLMs are going to make this advice seem pretty archaic in a few years. They're so good at reading code and extremely useful for asking questions of a code base.

That said, I completely agree with the author on not using clever string tricks to compose identifiers. That makes code both harder to search and to read.
I'm not making a claim that FAAANG is any better. I'm just saying that when FVEY wants your data and you've opted for convenience over security, you WILL be owned. It's not so much that Proton is untrustworthy, it's that they operate a business, and if the pigs tell them to make exceptions to their policy for your account, it's game over for you. Proton doesn't have the balls that Ladar Levison did with Lavabit. They won't shut down for you, they will hand you over on a silver platter for the pigs to pick away at your flesh.

Don't use any external service hosted in a country that complies with LEO or MLAT requests from the country of your residence. Actively seek out services hosted in countries that are hostile to the country of your residence.

Host your own infra, with your own authenticated FDE, reed switches and shock sensors for instant power-down on the cabinet, tamper-resistant and tamper-evident everything. Tor Hidden Services and i2p eepsites for any and all private correspondence if you really take this seriously.
> The most intelligent folks I've worked with are very diverse in their interests and abilities.

> as either exclusively technical or nontechnical

This applies outside of tech or generally in any role e.g. if you're a backend engineer they assume you don't know frontend or if you're a marketing specialist you're not good at sales.

I never get it either. We're people not machines but most people have this assumption like we're a game character - you get a job / trait and that's it.
I tried it twice, once on each of my two different monitors (a Dell S2817Q and Dell S2409W) made a few years apart and with completely different settings; and I got 175 on one and 174 on the other. So pretty close even given the difference.
There isn't much of metagame if number is only in Ballmers mind. No matter what guesses you choose he can force you to make at least log_2(100) guesses. Doing anything except splitting in half will only increase amount of guesses. There are two things that can change the game, requiring Baller to write the number on a piece of paper before the start. Other thing you could do is writing a number on piece of paper yourself halfway during the game. If opponent is changing the number adversarially with goal of maximizing guesses you can force them to "pick" a specific number. Afterwards you can open the piece of paper and claim that you actually guessed the number with the first attempt.
For some reason I was thinking Celestron was the one of the few not owned by Synta.
and given that the first rule still holds where he chooses hard numbers, then the expected value of the game is negative (aside from meta-gaming this, which is out of scope for a technical problem)
“Stronger” generally just means “stronger for a given weight”, so manufacturers would likely reduce the final vehicle weight while maintaining the same strength (~safety), or improve strength while keeping weight the same.
So Lue Elizondo (who is very much not a fringe person, with a lengthy career of service in the military and federal agencies) publishes a book that makes many assertions about the reality of non-human intelligence and now we've got this condescending thinkpiece by some academic scold about how the peons are crazy?

And after reading the paper, it's filled with the predictable moaning about protecting "indigenous stories".

> If all of this stayed in its own box, as entertaining fiction, then matters would be fine. But it doesn't, and they aren't. Visitation narratives tend to overwrite indigenous storytelling about sky and ground.

How does this get any play? Overwrite? In the digital age when the ability to publish and maintain and distribute information has never been easier? It's amazing the sorts of people who are able to get a foothold in academia cause this is seriously laughable.
on wizardry, https://www.filfre.net/2012/03/making-wizardry/

and https://www.filfre.net/2014/06/of-wizards-and-bards/
There's also this very handy and tiny cross-platform library:

https://github.com/gpakosz/whereami
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This article seems to be an example of how some common security practices are kind of surface level. If you want to limit what a box can access on the network, do it in the network. Why is security looking for bad urls in the argv; if you know they are bad just block them? Or better yet if they aren't good, don't allow them. And if you want to know what a process is doing, ask the kernel to log its syscalls. If you take away argv 0 you will lose some valuable stuff (cute little busybox links, error logs that have argv[0] in them, and attackers will just name payload.exe ls.exe. And if your network is allow all, they will still reach CNC or collector end point.
I wrote a home automation script that would use a camera as a motion detector and when we weren’t home would play a text to voice message on every Sonos speaker in the house if someone entered our apartment. Mostly for announced maintenance visits so they know that I know they’re there.

Being able to listen to the show on the tv while in the bathroom or shower is nice. Means we don’t have to pause shows if we don’t want to for breaks.

Having music playing across the whole home during dinner parties is a nice vibe.

A whole house alarm would probably be nice for families on the same schedule.

The concept of Sonos is really nice and it mostly works, but yeah the new app was rough. Not sure if I’ll buy anymore sonos gear. For a long time they were the only ones that had the tech required to stream to multiple devices in sync. I’m not sure what the other options are now
It would not be shocking to find out a cocky interviewer posed a brainteaser while leaving out a fundamental assumption, then judged an answer as incorrect because it violated that unspoken assumption - I can imagine Ballmer saying "no actually, you have to start with a guess of 50, everyone knows that."
(well, not all)
Just buy a decent quality car and make sure that it is properly undersealed before you takle it anywhere where salt is used on the road. Wash it thoroughly underneath as well as on top at the end of each winter; automatic car washes here in Norway do that for you.
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And how do you hear about the things happening behind closed doors? Source: just trust me.
> In places like the US, employees are often terrified of getting fired or laid off because they'll lose their health insurance

This is a common misunderstanding.

If an American loses their job for any reason, they can always keep their current insurance through COBRA. In fact, they don't even need to take any immediate action. If they need healthcare in the month of, or month after, their loss of job, they can go get it and then later on pay their premium to have the insurance retroactively go back in time to cover them. The only difference is that the covered person needs to pay the full premium, while the standard employment agreement has the employer paying a significant portion of the premium.

For people who don't want to stay on their previous employer's plan, the loss of the job is a "qualifying event" which allows them to immediately do things like join their spouse's plan or sign up for an individual "Obamacare" plan through healthcare.gov. There are subsidies based on income to make the premiums manageable for low-income people if they can't afford the market rate.
Not sure what you find not true about it. All named “function”s get hoisted just like “var”s, I use post-definitions of utility functions all the time in file scopes, function scopes, after return statements, everywhere. You’re probably thinking about

const foo = function (){}

without its own name before (). These behave like expressions and cannot be hoisted.
I would agree. Presently, it seems like any efficiency gains just means bigger vehicles. Driving a sedan nowadays is not fun at night.
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Other commenters are wrong in saying that the payout is different for an adversarial choice.
The crux of the payout derivation is: we can only cover 1 number in step 1, 2 in step 2, 4 in step 3, 8 in step 4, and so on. You can choose your initial number in binary search randomly, and as long as you meet the above condition is met (# of possible numbers covered in each step), payout should be same as 0.2
Yeah I have very high limits for paren matching and syntax highlighting so probably those scanners.
Awesome work bro! Your company is hiring? I'd be super thrilled to work with you.
> and has the tyrannical premise of "guilty until proven innocent" behind it

No it doesn't, for three reasons.

1. This is an internet forum not a court of law

2. He already plead guilty to his crime and been convicted, hes no longer in the "innocent until proven guilty" phase

3. Calling for violence wasn't even the crime he was convicted of. That was "publishing written material to stir up racial hate" [1].

Now you can reasonably say (and I expect you would) that you don't think that publishing written material to stir up racial hate should be a crime. Personally I think it should, because stirring up racial hatred is pretty damaging.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/part/III/crossh...
Sounds like you're going to have a bad time

https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0013.html
I’ve always been bothered by this reasoning. Wouldn’t it be a different photon since a photon in the core is being absorbed and reemitted many many times through charged particles? So while the reaction that is providing the power is a long distance from the surface, the photons you’re seeing are from the surface and give you no information other than what’s happening on the surface of the sun.
That’s why I took the test 5 times, and my scores varied between 63% and 69% “green” so I took the average at 66.4
1.8l engines were always an option.