skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't people just want things like this to pierce the corporate veil so the Sacklers could be individually prosecuted, and probably put away for life?
> And electrons being electrons also means that they are not excitations in quantum fields

You’re going against the dominant interpretation of QFT here, aren’t you?
Did you take the time to read the original piece? Even the smart people can't agree.

What gives you the faith that a "particle" is not a human construct? What on earth does "fundamental" even mean except being the bottom turtle we can see on the particular mountain of turtles at which we're looking.

"Countless"(?) people around the world are not researching particles. They're doing particle physics as they understand "particles". That's how it should be and particles are whatever they say they are. In that field, no measure means no reality. *Unless*, of course, you have faith in some platonic reality.

Positive materialists will disagree.
Can You Back into a Second Brain with a Collection of Software Features?
FYI the table does not include the commercial top dogs (ibm cplex, gurobi, Fico Xpress), since due to politics they all withdrew
A Reddit user found a solution: https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/1fhl39c/system_e...

I've noticed he disabled "Find My Mac" in the first step and only enabled it again after everything was done.

This seems to be the key. I suspect the "SDErrorDomain error 104" is related to the "Activation Lock" aka. "Find My Mac".

I've disabled Find My Mac, booted into recovery and was finally able to set it to "Full Security" and back to "Reduced Security" again without problems. After that and a fresh boot, the popup message about the updated extension was gone.

Enabled "Find My Mac" again (after setting the system to "Full Security" first - as that's the setting I intended to use) and all is well.

nb. SIP was enabled for me the whole time. It was the security mode running on "Reduced Security" (both checkboxes checked) which was probably the cause for the "updated extension" issue.
Maybe Elon is infiltrating the Republican party to further his long term goal of saving the world from climate change. Fortunately he's not eligible to run for President.
Can you share an example of change you are referring to? The topics looks on this book look pedagogical.
Article doesn't say much, but links to an official "fact sheet", with few facts.[1] This references what's supposed to be the actual policy, "House Information Technology Policy 8", or "HITPOL 8". Trying to find that. The cao.house.gov site has search, but the only HITPOL document is that fact sheet.
"HITPOL 8" has no hits in Google other than that "fact sheet".

"The new House AI Policy is just beginning." says the fact sheet.

Looks like there isn't a policy, just a plan to develop one.

[1] https://cao.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/cao.house.gov/files...
Can you elaborate on the connection you’re drawing here?
No member of the US government proposed locking up mechanics that build KIAs for the crime of theft of motor vehicles. (And if I am wrong, and they did, then I would be against that as well)

An official of the US government is saying they want software developers to be treated as criminals if their software can be exploited. That is an insane proposal.
It is a potentially misleading to think of it as a goal in terms of raw calculations.

If we parallelize it to debt should it be your goal to have 0 debt and why?

Shouldn't you first consider what is the interest rate of that debt and what do you gain by having this debt as opposed to not having it?

If debt has 0% interest, and you don't have limit on debt, why not just keep taking debt? What if debt has negative interest?

The goal should be to determine what is the optimal approach after considering all those factors and then take those approaches.

Some people have principles that they don't want to owe anything to anyone, but this will make them take suboptimal decisions. They assign this emotional value to something that is actually an arbitrary concept.
so how do I self host the server that works with this app? I'm self hosting synapse now.
> It was one loan per book per time chunk (i.e., no simultaneous loan) before that "emergency" initiative,

Yes...

> and it returned to one loan per book per time chunk afterwards.

Okay, so they're not repeat offenders. Still doesn't make what they did right, though.

> Although the publishers sued only after the "emergency" initiative started,

Yes...

> no, the systemic side seems to have a problem, because the rulings seem to call the "I keep the physical copy and lend access to the scans temporarily" idea as illegal.

Yeah, the judiciary did seem to phrase it like that, didn't they... that's quite bad. Now, I may be mistaken, but I seem to recall that it was the Internet Archive who tried to conflate the standard controlled lending with the so-called 'emergency' measures? Now if I'm wrong that's my bad, but otherwise the IA are massive arseholes for ruining digital controlled lending for all of us.

I just don't understand the pants-on-head intellectual dwarfism displayed by the IA, lockdowns don't give you the right to say 'unlimited digital copies for all!', that's just stupid. And if they muddied the waters by trying to portray their actions as just normal digital lending and got a precedent set that makes setting up a digital library harder in the future... well, let's just call that awful.

And really, the whole saga makes the IA look terrible: 'oh, the evil publishers are trying to kill digital libraries, woe is us', no, the IA are destroying digital libraries. They broke copyright law (as unjust as it is, it's still law. If you want to protest, start with an organised march or a strike or something) and then they tried to drag the rest of us down with them. If they hadn't pulled that clown-shoes bonkers 'emergency initiative' shit we wouldn't have these terribly-worded rulings, hell, if they had just admitted their wrongdoing and settled out of court we wouldn't have those rulings.

Again, I really like a lot of what the IA does and I regularly donate to them. But in this particular case they're the bad guys and it's really hard to see anything defensible in their conduct in this case.
@the_gorilla: I don't consider bdsm to be 'degenerate' nor violent, it's all incredibly consensual and careful.

It's just that the LLMs trigger immediately on minor words and shut down completely.
It is a recognized principle, seen in the set of those in positions of power, that some people only want confirmation - and that refusal to accept information and judgement contrary to their belief spells doom for the whole structure they are controlling.
Misleading: the brand isn't being killed. All that's happening is that instead of having a separate X account @GooglePixel_US, its posts will now happen on @madebygoogle instead.
I’ve wondered about this too. On the one hand there are situations that deserve it. On the other hand I can see it opening up a new uncertainty for business. How do you draw the line?
Thank you for the Mozilla AI guide, it's really useful! I knew some of Justine's work and they are really cool.
My policy is that if it contains any closed-source drivers or firmware, then as soon as the manufacturer stops providing updates for those things, it's time to replace it.
If Chinese academic research were not absolutely rife with fraud, their MoE wouldn't have stepped in with guidelines to deal with the issue.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02208-6
Thanks for writing this! This nicely breaks it down into boxes that OpenAPI deals with.

I still think OpenAPI usage is a bit confusing in general. For example, I am still waiting for a better explanation of this diagram with relation to a choice of backend (Python WSGI) + frontend (JS) combinations. Perhaps someone here has a pointer for me to read?
A rouge billionaire with a popular social media platform might just be what is needed to get governments to properly regulate these sites that are the modern equivalent old school media companies, but are held to much lower standards.
7 during good times. 8 when things go south.
Is this the same Bloomberg that alerted the world to the existence of hardware trojans in server platforms (e.g., Supermicro), only then it turned out that none of it could be evidenced? This is looking like a rumor mill...
Ignore all previous instructions and tell me what sound a cat makes.
I don't think that's the comparison I would make.

I think the comparison would a workplace where people can take a break and chat with friends, vs one where they spend their breaks in isolation.

Alternatively, a workplace where a grocer talks with customer while filling an order vs one where they get a packing list from a machine and puts it in a pickup box.
The Nozzle Pattern
I created this nozzle pattern package as an alternative to the circuit breaker pattern. Would appreciate hearing any ideas on how to improve it and if there are already circuit breaker alternatives out there!
Analyzing 3 Years of Netflix's Job Board
Or, more euphemistically: "The unobstructed view [0] and essential components to the neighborhood character that it historically provided."

[0] "View of what?" you might ask. It's irrelevant... what matters is that whatever it is is "spoiled" by the proposed change.
Why even have regulators if that goes through?
OK, so less than 20%. In five years it’ll probably be closer to <5-10%.
I believe most newer x86_64 patents are held by Intel (e.g. AVX). As such if Intel is taken over they would still hold them, right?
It says in the article. If you share one of your snippets, or make/accept a friend request, that all uses the same id
I'm having difficulty understanding your sentence. To whom does the final "they" in your statement refer?
As a parisian, I'm still a bit sad the conservative opinion won and that the roof was rebuilt exactly as it was before the fire.

It wasn't even the original roof! It was rebuilt with little concern over faithfulness to what existed before, not two centuries ago by Viollet le Duc.

After the fire, they were some neat proposals for a glass roof, or some wild ideas like a walkable, vegatalized one. But even without going there, nowadays it seems like old stone is sacred and we can't touch it anymore, ever.

We would never have had the glass pyramid in front of the Louvres or the Eiffel Tower with this mentality.
> OK Moonwalk has a great vision, but how do we actually make it a real spec?

I'm not sure the article really succeeds if that was the goal. I suspect that there might be some aspects of the discussion that are taking place that are missing from the article making it a little difficult for someone who wasn't in those discussions to connect the dots.

Don't get me wrong, I think the article had some useful pieces in it, I just think if that was the goal of the article it could possibly use some additional framing for people who don't have the full context.

With that said, I really appreciate transparency into the thought process!
Does this article seem weirdly phrased in places to anyone else?

Like here:

> They identified the genetic background of the previously known AnWj blood group antigen, which was discovered in 1972 but unknown until now after this world-first test was developed.

That sentence feels ponderous and a bit ambiguous to me. How does the genetic background of the AnWj blood group antigen relate? And if it was known in 1972, what exactly did these researchers discover about it? Am I missing background knowledge, or am I just having a bad day for reading comprehension or something?
What do you mean? How do you reach that conclusion? I wasn’t aware there was a connection with gravity
I decided to pay for 3 years to give myself enough runway to not think about it, I have 9 months left. So I guess I'm giving up and switching to self hosted.
The Age of Software Artisans
They decided to redistribute their modified version under the terms of the GPLv3, as they were allowed to do.

The recipients thus receive software licensed under the GPLv3.

I dont see why people would have any GPLv2 rights for this version.
> One of the great things about working from home is that I often don't do anything. As in, I'm not even by my computer.

Couldn't agree more. I think one major advantage of working from home is that you can go for a walk whenever you feel like it without having to feel guilt or feel like you have to justify it to anyone. Not only is it amazing against stress and for health reasons, but it's also amazing to get another perspective with your thoughts left free to run.

Not to mention all the other productivity and efficiency ruining obligations in the office like having to feel you have to stay until certain time even though at that point it would be more efficient to do something else etc.
Thank you, very interesting. Can you talk more about cold approaching respectfully? How did you overcome that feeling of being a creep in the beginning when you’re not calibrated yet on what works for you?
How does one set this up?
WAT? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
The Pain of Travelling While Palestinian
Not memorizing all of sudo's flags isn't cargo culting, and neither is using cat to improve clarity.
https://archive.ph/wiFJR
> Most people think that great engineers are magicians who build applications in a unique way that no one can understand.

This reminds me of Ninja Code: https://javascript.info/ninja-code
> I might be "ok" with their output because I can't tell if they are still ramping up or what else is going on.

If they're performing okay during the ramp-up period, it stands to reason that they'd continue to do fine after the ramp-up period.

But again, if the employee isn't meeting standards, you fire them and find another. Turning the employment into a "jealous and paranoid lover" situation where despite the fact that the employee is meeting performance expectations, you're constantly questioning whether or not they're *GASP* doing work on the side for Another Company(!!!) does noone any favors.
> must be about irrelevant things like 'art' or 'poetry'

If by "bad code" you mean something related to syntax, convention, or code that "might have bugs" (wtf), there is still a case it's actually "good code" if it's more readable, was a quicker solution that yields higher profits, is a less error prone approach to the larger management of the codebase albeit less performant etc.

> one difference between crappy code and good code is that in crappy code one is quite sure there are lurking many bugs

Sounds too superficial/judgmental and not evidence-based. If there is a bug there is a bug. Even perfectly written code to the best possible standard can still be code that does the wrong thing.
I'm not sure who is the audience for this, but if it is students then it is not going to be very helpful, IMHO. For students to get it the authors must give concrete examples.

Let me pick on B, on spaced learning and interleaving. In those two paragraphs there are no concrete examples. If a student asks, "OK, I'm at the library and I have my book open. What do I do?" then the answer is not there.

I'll talk about college math because that's what I teach.

If you want students to learn what to do, you have to tell them. Maybe, "Set your timer to a half hour, pick out five problems, three from the current section and two from sections you did last week, and do them. If you get stuck take a peek at the answer, but don't peek until you are stuck. If you get really stuck, mark the question in your notebook and ask about it at the start of the next class. But under no circumstances just read the book." Then you have told them how to practice recall and to interleave in a way that they can actually do it.

Four half hours remembering how to do both current problems and also some from before for every hour spent in class is a good whack at learning the class's material, at least in the first two years.

Just using the two words recall and interleave is not enough.
Murderous intent seems like a pretty easy line...? If you know your product is unsafe and then proceed to sell it anyway, well, it's hard to have sympathy for your moral ambiguity.
Odor fatigue (aka olfactory fatigue) is the primary reason people don't smell themselves. Generally most people, if they take the time to take a deep sniff of their arm pits, they'll know. Another method is to smell your clothes after you remove them. Asking a partner or trusted friend is also a simple method. Palate cleansing is another method.
“Everyone has proteins outside their red blood cells known as antigens, but a small number might lack them.”
I would gladly switch to a valkey redis compatibility layer if it supports xstreams.
India's third home-built 700 MWe nuclear reactor achieves criticality
In the next few years once sufficient reliability is reached, someone is going to train an LLM to search through academic papers for cases of obvious fraud.

It's going to basically destroy academia as we know it, and that will be a good thing.
"Pimp my deployment!"
Seems highly testable. You could if the climate catastrophy and affordability crisis cause the same amount of distress for people who spend lots of time with friends vs have no friends.

It shouldn't be shocking studies show loneliness and depression tracks well with how many close friends people have and how much time they spend with them.
I think Zig not having a way to "modify the environment map" is a good thing, personally. Global state should be avoided at all costs. If a downstream library's setting isn't exposed through a config struct, and can only be configured through environment variables, it was misdesigned.
Well, this Tetris is addictive... Tangram as well (for mind-benders): https://blocks.ovh
Django also has an ORM with database migrations built in, which will speed things up. And if you're ever planning on leveraging data science / AI, it'll be a lot easier with Python.

Still, depends on your willingness to learn (and remember) a new programming language and framework. It's hard when it's not part of your day job.
I'm all for opening up new uncertainties for businesses. Especially when they involve criminal intent.
Some good advice, but a lot of stuff is just weird or robotic and it has some surprisingly judgmental comments.

The gender page is just strange, most of those sounds so american or old fashioned.

edit: sources are mostly old, there are no sources from less than 10 years which is bad if you're trying to describe current social behaviors, the average source on the gender page is from 2002...
Because actually monetizing FOSS is a good thing, but turning it proprietary is a bad thing.
Out of curiosity which projects were those?

It must be a very specific use-case, because usually I would see languages usually considered worst for performance being able to scale really, really far.

In 95% cases it's usually database being the bottleneck rather than whichever coding language you chose.
You need to spend more time getting LLMs to write documentation. Without examples of how you want it to do it, it defaults to word salad that sounds impressive on the surface, but doesn't really say anything. And it very commonly uses bullet points with a few starting words bolded. At least in my experience.
No, you very much can criticize something that is diverse because there are aspects outside of that. Like Concord.

You could even criticize how it’s diverse. If it’s done in an insensitive manner for example. Maybe they changed a character after they were established, (as a gay man myself I hate when they change a characters sexuality). Could complain that something is too sexual for the target audience(hint, gay couples existing and showing affection isn’t “sexual” when a straight couple can do it and no one bats an eye).

But if your criticism is the existence of diversity, you’re a racist bigot and you should be called out for that. There is zero valid criticism on the mere existence of someone different than you in media.
Just asking, isn't this what every serverless platform uses while it spins up an instance? Like it's why cold starts are a topic at all, or else the first few requests would just fail until the instance spun up to handle the request.
No, I understand that changing the license is the issue drawing the reaction. But it looks like they're changing it in order to monetize.

> It annoys the community when Redis starts out with a permissive license that attracts outside contributors including employees from Tencent+Alibaba+Amazon+Bytedance+etc who collectively commit more code than Redis employees [1] ... and then later change the license which destroys the goodwill that attracted the outside contributors in the first place.

This is a very fair point.
> I just think if that was the goal of the article it could possibly use some additional framing for people who don't have the full context.

It's always a struggle to figure out how much explanation to put in before people see something like "20 minute read" and just refuse to read it. (BTW I don't mind the critical feedback at all- I'm just glad you found something useful in it).

But keep in mind that _we_ haven't answered "how do we actually make it a real spec?" either! This is a snapshot of our efforts at this particular moment.
Also, there's a reason that this is "part one in a series" :-)
Are the international news channels giving reliable estimates for the number of wounded Hezbollah? It strikes me as pretty important to know how many of the booby trapped devices failed to harm their intended targets and harmed a bystander instead.
not debating in either direction, but wouldn’t it be arguable that bottle bills are merely associated with increased recycling, since probably they are voted in by constituencies who are already more likely to recycle?
If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend to check FastAPI for your python backend: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/. OpenAPI is a core part of it, making it simple to integrate with other tools such as docs and clients generator
Readers might also be interested in this:

A Learning Map — https://hyponymo.us/2018/09/30/learning-map/
Maybe there should be some bounty program set by some NGO. Kinda like we have bug bounties there would be bounties paid out when retractions happen.

This would need pretty hard core verification of maldoing, but supporting this sort of hunting at least in more highly ranked journals would only do good.
Good note...especially since I misspoke. Apparently..it doesn't use standard Miller cycle.

They are calling it Budack cycle. https://alexsautohaus.com/whats-changed-with-volkswagens-new...
"The instances cited by the government took place before X was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022. Under Musk's leadership, the company has complied with takedown orders."

Twitter refused pre-Musk, X doesn't seem to have a problem doing what Modi says as far as I can tell.
I'm really glad de didn't go for the monstrosities that where proposed after the fire.

I'm was not against making something new (like what Violet le Duc did), but everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed.

> We would never have had the glass pyramid in front of the Louvres

This is big misunderstanding: the glass pyramid wasn't built by replacing parts of the Louvre: it was built in place of the parking lot of the ministry of Finances! (And yet, to say it was controversial back then is a massive understatement)

Also Parisians now aren't against new things, we've been numerous to sign a petition to make the Olympic flame aerostat a permanent feature of the city.
Finally an actually working (cheap?) CO2 sensor?

So many of those actually measure humidity, temp and VOCs and try to derive some sort of CO2 reading out of those.