skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probabilities at the extremes are counterintuitively easy to distinguish. There is a negligible difference between the evidence that would leave you 50% certain and that which would leave you 51% certain, but if you go from 99.9% to 99.99% certain, your evidence has gotten 10x stronger.
> the fact that other people may want to watch it is secondary

I don't do much social networking (deleted FB, Twitter) but I still have an IG account because I like seeing pictures of interesting places, so I mostly follow thru-hikers, world travelers, cyclists, etc. I've seen the transition where some of these world travelers just start posting content for themselves, and others just happen to enjoy them. Then they slowly get more viewers because whatever they're doing is interesting, and eventually it reaches a point I guess to where money can be made, then it switches to content creator mode. And then it's not about sharing what they're doing or their interests with others, it's about views and catering to the viewers. It's not wrong or bad--I guess it's nice they can fund their lifestyle through that, but it becomes "ad-funded entertainment", which is a huge turn-off for me, that's when I unfollow.

If I find an account interesting, the first thing I do is look at the follower count. If it's a high number, I don't follow the account because it's already clear what that account is.
Odd that user got singled out, it seems pretty average for Tumblr
Google paid for browser deals. The address bar is what customers couldn’t easily switch.
I would think they are cool
This looks like the first VR/AR I'll consider buying. It looks like an actual pair of glasses, has see thru capability, the showcased functionality looks useful already. This will be a breakthrough if the promises are true.
This complaint seems hypocritical. Microsoft doesn't have to offer their software on other clouds at all.

When will I be able to get Spanner on Azure or AWS or my own hardware?
few is not > 3. Literally it's just >= 2, though I think >= 3 is the common definition.

15 is too high to be a "few" except in contexts of a few out of tens of thousands of items.

Realistically I interpret this as 3-7 thousands of days (8 to 19 years), which is largely consensus prediction range anyway.
I think i posted this it to a few different sites. I am that old.
Povray source is available (povray.org), if you'd like to look at the source for a nice ray tracer, or things like ogre 3d (http://www.ogre3d.org) etc have source available.
Just to confirm: Are you suggesting engineers working during work hours on an alert should get paid double? Or only outside work hours?

I'm not sure we're all on the same page here but let me give you an example of how on-call essentially works on my team.

- Week long rotations spread out across the year among members.

- On-call means holding a pager but also taking in any non-urgent requests that can be handled within a reasonable time. New feature requests are out of scope, answering a bug report from support is in scope, including a fix if that's possible.

- Responding to paging alerts only at night. On some teams we did have sister teams in other regions to cover with their on-call over some portion of the night.

- Generally, paging alerts are rare enough (once or twice a week) so out of work hours disruption is fairly low.

- Non-urgent breakages, bug reports, etc. are fairly common though.

Someone has to handle all that so it's a rotation. I don't think providing incentives to engineers to take more on-call is practical. Unless you are okay with them stagnating in their career. And it's the EM asking here so I'd hope they didn't want that.
> The benefit of a mobile phone was extremely obvious to everyone as soon as you said what it was.

I would say the same about AR. I'm surprised by your comment. Lately I've been using it a lot when shopping for furnitures (to place the furniture in my space and see how it fits, amazon and a bunch of furniture places let you do that).
Teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment. Debate ensues
It’s pretty sweet if you’re on the west coast and you have young kids. Extremely high chance of a good, relaxing time for everyone, and it’s a non stop flight for most people. Plus, many people take multiple vacations in a year.

Obviously, not every worth buying a timeshare.
> In May 2018, he became head of the National Security Agency, the Central Security Service and the United States Cyber Command.
Yes, very surprised.

I make software projects on the side, and one day I made a decent amount of cash, starting at 0, from a huge surge in users.

Was really cool at first, after getting the cash I was really happy for like a week then I was really miserable.

Not sure why, didn’t like the “popularity” I think, felt very shallow
Maybe fully qualifying all entity references is table stakes these days, I'll have to give Datagrip a spin.

I already complained about autocomplete in response to another comment asking to put FROM first; maybe existing tooling is enough to make my life easier.
> That people refer to themselves as "content creators" is a sign that they see the value of their creative output only to make money

and it is that way.

the worse thing is that you have a younger generation thinking that it's the future of work or something. "Why do I need to do well in school when I'm going to make cute TikTok videos and people are going to pay me lots of money" (almost verbatim words from a 12 year old boy)
> I prefer to decide for myself how biased the candidates

> have my fellow citizens vote as well.

I find those positions at odds to one another. Personally I don't want prosecutors to be neither appointed by elected officials nor elected. Though, I am more digging into that you think you might get a choice when voting.

Re-read what I wrote. I believe the grammar correct and it is clear.

Though, I'll illustrate with an example. Let's say the electorate is 10 people. You, 3 of your friends that think identical to you, and me with 5 of my friends that think identical to me. This is a 6 vs 4 situation. Now let's say we put up two prosecutors for election. One who will always try you unjustly, and one who will always try me unjustly. If there is an election, the 6 to 4 majority would not vote your way. Thus, despite there being a vote - you are not getting the choice of bias. Ergo, when saying (paraphrasing) "I want to choose the bias via vote", you are also saying: i am okay with others deciding the bias of a prosecutor against me
Unix BSD Explore
> Allow me to introduce a whole new suite of bugs that occur when feature A exists but feature B doesn't.

Yeah, but are those bugs security bugs? Memory safety bugs are a big focus because they're the most common kind of bugs that can be exploited in a meaningful way.

Disabling entire segments of code is unlikely to introduce new memory safety bugs. It's certainly likely to find race conditions, and those can sometimes lead to security bugs, but its not nearly as likely as with memory safety bugs.
Reminds me of DFW’s Infinite Jest (although I wouldn’t describe it as brief or vague)
Bendable non silicon RISC-V microprocessor
I can imagine a world where they hedged the outcome sufficiently to not have to retract. "methodologies based on those used here may prove beneficial based on preliminary findings, subject to further refinement" type comment.

I mean, without over-egging it you would not deploy peer review, based on the modern evidenced outcomes: the papers are demonstrably not better in volume, and have to be retracted, and peer-review has been massively destructive of career progression for academics because of Rei-ification. To me, it's analogous: the model is flawed? refine the model don't junk the principle.

I think at one remove I agree with comments which go to "this is evidence that rigor is good, and self-policing is good"
while I agree, you also just don't have a choice as otherwise you force the user to carry a controller with them all the time (and even then the experience sucks because you have to take out/reach for your controller every time you want to usei t)
Three years after U.S. withdrew, former Afghan forces are hunted by the Taliban
It's also just brutally slow, even with first-party implementations
> The haptic feedback you get from touching your thumb and forefinger to simulate a click is actually better than a button because it feels more organic and natural.

Where did you experience this? My only experience is with the Apple Vision Pro and it failed like half the time
It’s really interesting how much eye tracking can glean. I’d be curious to test some of those algorithms on myself and see what it said; do you know if there’s any open source stuff that lets you play with it?
My biggest gripe with AR products is that they will just become a tool to spoil the real world with ads everywhere. No thanks.
Can you share exposure time and cycles info?
I wouldn't worry, it's just too expensive, only the rich kids will have these things
What term would you prefer?
This is exactly why my 12 yr old by likes Genshin Impact (a Zelda type game on the phone): "it always got these new characters" etc. Like infinite scrolling, it's an endless loop to get more gems so you can level up so you can get more new characters as they come up so you can get more gems so you can level up ad infinitum. It's basically like an advanced candy crush that you can just zone out and mindlessly do forever. I hate it.
They just launched the next twitter (Threads)
Mira, Bob and Barret Depart OpenAI
Condos are also generally a scam. Owning real estate but not the land under it is to become a victim of incredibly perverse economic motives.
What percentage of trials rely on circumstantial evidence? It has to be a high percentage.
It's not just old people. Younger people (and especially GenZ) are falling for (social media) scams at an astounding rate.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spo...

https://time.com/6802011/gen-z-financial-scams-fraud/
Guess what? Most people who end up buying this product won't care about any of these.

(P.S. Apple is much worse than you think. Look up Apple's first party tracking.)
Because the equilibrium is $0.

The timeshare maintenance fees are the entire cost of ownership.

With the exception of a few top end timeshares, the residual value is not more than 0.
In KungfuPanda there is this line that the Panda says "I love KungFuuuuuuuu", well I normally don't tell like this, but when I saw this and (starting to use this), I feel like yelling"I like Metaaaaa or is it LLAMMMAAA or is it Open source.. or is it this cool ecosystem which gives such value for free...
They just announced Quest 3s and it’s $299 :$
I wouldn't be so sure about google not being inherently about getting all your data. apple I'm not so sure.
No conflict, no interest
It would be cool to see something automating this conversion (and other similar performance workarounds) available as a first-class feature in a SQL IDE.
This feels like the sort of thing that would be nice to have ide support for.

Open a js file with ts comments, and it silently converts to ts editing. Save the file and it converts ts back to js with comments before actually writing.
Read the whole article (quite a fascinating story!) yet this key detail is still unclear to me: why is the state fighting the divers on this? What do they have to gain, or to lose, in the matter? If it is some historically insignificant ship, as the state claims, what's the risk in letting the divers salvage it?
There's almost never incontrovertible proof in a criminal trial. Even if the suspect is on camera confessing. The sheer number of people who confessed to crimes and were then found innocent through DNA evidence is perturbing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/255438098835 this one is $160 roughly.. and it's worth it if you really like the sound and want to partially modernize. I got my S3000XL for $200, got the screen for another $160, DIMMs to max memory was only $20. The Zulu SCSI was $80.. So yeah, I did put a bunch into it but all that's worth it to me.

I agree that using original MSRP is absurd though. The S3000XL is a later model from them and can be found for cheap all over the place - they made a bunch of them.

S1100 series are sought after but those are usually close to $1k in excellent condition, and getting maxed out memory could cost $3-400.

S950 sell for over $1k usually as well.
“Original King Julius is on the line.” - Sacha Baron Cohen
bias is some normative lens that some people came up with, but it is purely subjective and is a social construct, that has roots in the area of social justice and has nothing to do with the LLM.

the proof is that all critics of AI/LLM have never ever produced a single "unbiased" model. If unbiased model does not exist (at least I never seen an AI/LLM sceptics community produce one), then the concept of bias is useless.

Just a fluffy word that does not mean anything
Idk, I feel it's missing really useful convenience stuff that exists here and there...

Examples, from the top of my head:

1. JOIN USING, for databases that support it.
In some databases you can replace

FROM t1 JOIN t2 ON t1.c1 = t2.c1 AND t1.c2 = t2.c2 ...

with

FROM t1 JOIN t2 USING (c1, c2)

much shorther and cleaner

2. Ability to exclude columns in select *

DuckDB:

SELECT * EXCLUDE (c1)

Spanner

SELECT * EXCEPT (c1)
Get your company to pay for on call.

This is extremely important imo. It sets a positive culture and makes people want to do oncall rather than hate and dread it.
He's handing out the IPs they asked for, so we should not trust him. He's nothing like Assange or Snowden! Also, he's a spoiled brat who went there with an escort to have a good time, even though he might get in trouble! The only respectable Durov is his brother! This narcissist is not trustworthy. I'm certain he's working for both Russia and Ukraine!
So at least in Portugal, my ISP gives me their device, it has a bridge mode, but it also serves as their wifi access point network (think Xfinity wifi) -- which I don't object to except that their wifi can't be disabled and their signal interferes with my wifi access points.

I want a dumb gpon sfp not because they won't give me a bridge, but because their bridge makes too much noise.
"Circumstantial" evidence is often stronger than "direct" evidence. e.g. DNA is almost always "circumstantial", yet more modernly maligned eye witness evidence is "direct".
> When you compare modern first world to 60 years ago, people's lives have significantly improved.

I disagree that most people's lives have "significantly improved" compared with the 1960s. We have more things, but I don't think that our lives are that much better, or even better at all. In the 1950s and 60s most families could get by with a one income household -- try that today.

Even medically - on the one hand our physical health has improved through advances in medicine and life expectancy has increased considerably (mostly due to vaccines). On the other hand we have a huge increase in mental health problems. Per-capita suicide rates in the US are higher today than they were in the 1960s.

(If you're in the top 10% then yes your life has "significantly improved". If you're in the bottom 50% then probably not.)
Not to be a shill, but you obviously haven't come across Quadlock which completely solves the mount problem at least.
Yes.That's a problem for the contenders, Linux/UNIX kernel are written in C. Unless we want to add language-specific syscall interfaces for every compiled language out there.

Alternative is to, y'know, write a kernel in your language of choice and choose your own syscall specification suiting that language, and gain mass adoption. Easy!
SQL has so little room for expression or opinionated formatting, so it's funny to people bikeshed over comma placement. I'm kind of jealous that they have time to think about whether left comma or right comma offends them greatly.
Read yesterday that one strategy for getting rid of a timeshare is to make sure it’s in the name of the old person who owns it. After they die the probate administrator sends a letter to the timeshare company, ‘no one wanted to take over this contractual obligation, so we’re returning it to you.’

https://tugbbs.com/forums/threads/diamond-owners-both-deceas...
If your engineers are slacking in work, what's the best way to increase their sense of urgency or motivate them to ship things faster?

Make sure they are properly and competitively compensated.

Did I mention competitively?
Where am I supposed to park my bike if the shed is gone?!

Closer to more seriously: which "beautifier" button is best? Is there a free one that is close to industry standard?
$10k to build, prototype, no timeframe for public release. I wonder if the purpose of this demo, strategically, is to make competitors (Apple, Snap) give up.
It is human nature to use plausible deniability to play politics and fool one’s self or others. You will get better results in negotiations if you allow the opposing party to maintain face (i.e. ego).

See flirting as a more basic example.
As someone who has personally known jailhouse snitches, I don't think this is accurate. The biggest problem with becoming a snitch is that you are then forever more labeled as a snitch, and while (unlike the movies) this is unlikely to result in violence, you will certainly be shunned for the rest of your prison life.
> 15 years is a long time; longer than I’ve been waiting for Winds of Winter

don't do that to me
I have, and still find normal computer screens to just not work for reading long form content for me, even reading an epub in an epub app on a normal computer screen/tablet still feels off
> testing something and want to quickly comment a column out

This is a pretty solid reason for use in temporary queries so no doubt this approach will be around for a long time.
Llama3.2 3B feels a lot better than other models with same size (e.g. Gemma2, Phi3.5-mini models).

For anyone looking for a simple way to test Llama3.2 3B locally with UI, Install nexa-sdk(https://github.com/NexaAI/nexa-sdk) and type in terminal:

nexa run llama3.2 --streamlit

Disclaimer: I am from Nexa AI and nexa-sdk is an open-sourced. We'd love your feedback.
The death penalty is unique, in that the crime must be convicted, death chosen as the punishment, and then a second jury formed to actually decide if death is warranted in this case given the guilt.
I mean, all of those things do "start" somehow. Capacitors fill up, motors spin up, etc. Lots of them have had microcontrollers that boot for a longer time than you are giving credit. I have CRT TVs that "boot", they are effectively computers.

There's a lot of philosophical ways you could see it as why a computer has to "boot" every time it is powered on, but the way I think about it, it all has to do with the volatility of memory. When power is removed, registers and DRAM all lose their state slowly. When a modern computer is powered on, a lot of things happen before the primary CPU even begins to boot. Once reset is pulled down on the CPU, it has to go through the process of actually booting. Each phase of bootstrap builds on the previous phase, on modern computers usually starting with some kind of ROM right on the CPU, to firmware in EEPROM which may boot in multiple phases, to a bootloader, to the actual operating system kernel. Embedded devices can be a lot simpler here but unilaterally there will be some sequence of code at the beginning whose job is to (re)initialize a bunch of state that holding reset won't. (From my spelunking on older hardware it seems like holding reset on most CPUs only ever does nearly the absolute bare minimum to make it possible for a bootrom to deal with the rest of initialization. Makes enough sense, really.)

This has to happen every time a computer is powered on because it's a clean slate every time it turns on. The registers won't just magically get into some state, there has to be some integrated logic that can reset the processor to a known state and start the process of bootstrapping again.

Let's say someone builds a computer with absolutely no volatile memory at all. If power is removed, registers keep all of their state. The RAM is durable. All of the caches are durable. Then what? Well, then you probably don't have to bootstrap every time the computer is turned on. At least in theory it ought to be possible to have a computer that works this way and simply resumes exactly where it left off when power is returned. You would probably design computers differently since you wouldn't necessarily need RAM and disk to be separate, it could possibly just be one thing, and what is now booting an OS would be somewhat more like installing it.

I don't really think we have the technology to make something like this practical, and it's hard to imagine it much since our hardware and software is designed tightly around the assumption of these processes and the existence of multiple tiers of memory, but that's my opinion for the best philosophical justification for why computers must bootstrap.

It would be interesting to see, though I don't really agree with the characterization that making a computer without a bootstrap process would make it any more "proper" of a product...
I was binge-watching South Park some eighteen years ago without knowing much about the US lifestyle. Jokes were hilarious, situations ridiculous and obviously made up.

I'm amazed that up until today I still learn things that make me think "ohh that one is real actually". It started in 2013 when while on a business trip I saw an actual Shake Weight on sale in a supermarket. Now goes the timeshare episode: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CFHzL0Q6sXg
How would you defend your business if/when IntelliJ implements a similar concept?
Crystal Ball Trading Challange
Another nice thing about using code is you can easily include comments explaining why something is done a certain way, right next to the code that does it and thay is also included in the history.
I would first ask the question, “Do you really need high uptime at night?” I’ve seen too many small startups whose product is about as critical as serving cat pictures and with most customers in a nearby time zone do on-call. That’s unreasonable unless, maybe, your pay for such a role is equally ridiculous (high) and clear at the time of hiring. Don’t talk existing engineers into it, show them the terms and have them volunteer.

As for the schedule, I would recommend each engineer have a 3-night shift and then a break for a couple of weeks. Ideally, they will self-assign to certain slots. Early in the week/month might be better/worse for different people.

I strongly suggest that engineers not work on ops engineering or past on-call issues while they themselves are on-call, otherwise there is a very strong incentive for them to reduce alerts, raise thresholds, and generally make the system more opaque. All such work should be done between on-call shifts, or better yet, by engineers who are never on-call.

One way that on-call engineers can contribute when there is no current incident ongoing is to write documentation. Work on runbooks. What to do when certain types of errors occur. What to do for disaster recovery.
It is very hard to get cases reopened, it is true. Once DNA testing came about many convicts tried to get the evidence in their cases tested to prove their innocence, but this took many, many years in a lot of cases.

In fact, getting anything fixed or changed after conviction is a long process. I know someone who was given 100 years extra on his sentence due to an error by the judge, instead of the ~15 he was due. That was two years ago and a simple error like that still hasn't been rectified.
For 1 billion frickin dollars