skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One area where a 4-way stop sign intersection is somewhat superior to a roundabout is the notion of taking turns -- in the States it seems like busy roundabouts are an opportunity for one stream of traffic to just plow through, completely ignoring everyone else who also has something better to do than sit around waiting for others to be courteous :)
They can eminent domain whatever land they need to expand the intersection.
Part of Apple's strength is getting into the market at the right time when technology is ready and offering a streamlined, just works experience. Apple Vision Pro is nothing like that and that's why the previous commenter said it's not the usual Apple...
Does anyone have any thoughts on what motivates people to play sudoku or write solvers for sudoku ? I have trouble finding motivation to solve artificial problems. That said I sink hundreds of hours into factorio.
Wouldn't the alternate message be "you're not worth the time of anybody human or machine"? That seems strictly worse.
This is one of those things that just seems super-weird from an "outsider-to-the-US" point of view.

I understand why this has become a partisan issue, and I understand that by now, any move anyone makes on this point has actual political ramifications. Add ID requirements, you are in practice depressing turnout, etc.

Still, requiring IDs to vote just seems to make prima facie sense. Of course you want to (visibly) make sure that people are voting legally! That's a pretty important part of democracy. I understand that in practice, few cases of voter fraud are detected, and that in practice there are all sorts of mechanisms in place to make sure people aren't taking advantage.

This just seems like something that both parties should be able to join together on and fix in a way that makes everyone happy, something that requires a technical solution. Not more handwaving at the problem and partisan bickering.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-s-grip-on-s...
That’s a very solvable problem of bad signage.
Scaling Laws of Optimization
They're often not 'signaged' correctly.

Ideally the sign would be 1) Rotated so that the driver proceeds from the base towards the top or sides. 2) Clearly depict the LOGICAL layout (bent slightly towards the physical) of what flow patterns _do_ during the roundabout from that input. 3) Also clearly depict which exits go where.

There should really be two signs actually, one before the diagram that lists (locally relevant roads / landmarks) by lane for sorting (if there's more than one lane in).

PS: The route map should also add a YIELD sign in mini next to the entrance with an according broken line. The interior lanes of roundabouts always have priority and all inputs are yield merges in.
This roundabout was intentionally designed for the curbs to be traversable by long vehicles.
As much as we laugh at IBM and Intel nowadays and praise the success of ARM, the x86-based IBM PC ecosystem with standardized BIOS that maintains compatibility for decades is such a blessing, a huge breakthrough that we don't even notice anymore because we're so used to it.

Before that the OS development was tightly coupled to hardware development. Booting an existing OS on a new device even with the same CPU required prior patching, configuration and re-implementation of the floppy drive driver. And it wasn't seen as odd because that's the way it was.

I don't think the problem is a lack of OS enthusiasts, we probably have more of them than at the time Linux was born. The problem is they're fighting an uphill battle against a swarm of slightly different CPUs and device trees and uncooperative vendors that do anything they can to lock the device.
I realise you're probably joking but on the off-chance you are not, P and NP are sets containing classes of algorithms. They aren't numbers. See https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/pvsnp.pd... for a formal description of the problem.
The gist is by personalizing the content you see, and tailoring the distorted content results to push you in directions they want to amplify, or deamplify other directions.

Without getting too technical, the video link below covers the surface but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Perception was broken back in the 50s, and there are many sophisticated ways today to manipulate perception. There is a lot of money in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GE3HoJMEMw
Yes, it's a few miles outside of the nearest town. It's the intersection of a state highway and some small roads that mostly lead to farmland. Not much pedestrian traffic expected there.
That's fantastic if true. Make sure you check out the Clay institute's page and collect your prize.[1]

[1] https://www.claymath.org/millennium/p-vs-np/ and especially https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/pvsnp.pd...
The Promise of Generalist Robotic Policies
Yes, they have a few routes like that where it makes sense to have dogleg at the end of a distant destination instead of two direct flights. I took Emirates from Rio to Buenos Aires, which is a route that presumably exists so they don't have to fly to both cities directly from Dubai. Still, the vast majority of their flights are hubbed in Dubai.
People who rarely use profanity means they do use it, and when they do, they do it for effect. Certainly, a demand that he surrender Bastogne would justify profanity in a forceful response.

> including by the US Army official historian

An official US Army historian's job is to make the US Army look good.

As we are all painfully aware these days, the accounts of newspapers are rarely accurate, and often outright fabrications. Why would WW2 accounts be any different?

I doubt McAuliffe would want to besmirch his record after the war, had nothing to gain by contraindicating it, and would be content to let it stand.

My father was a carefully honest man, and was never known by me to lie. He held his tongue until after McAuliffe passed away. He also told me some family secrets after all involved had passed, and asked me to keep them to myself until after he died, which I did.

It never occurred to me to ask him to write down that story, and now it's too late.

I know my evidence is hearsay and inadmissible in court. You're free to draw your own conclusions.

P.S. I was once personally involved in an incident that made the local TV news. There was nothing political about it, but each of the three local news channels got essentially all the basic facts about it wrong. But that is the "record" of the event. It pretty much soured me on the veracity of news reports.
Yes. Ex-Amazon here. The part where I horse-trade putting engineers on PIP so I can keep my UAR up -- I don't spread that to other companies because it's toxic as fuck and leads to my friends on H1Bs getting deported.
He also mentions “creative nonfiction”.
I dig this
proc0’s concern was “trusting the results” an election and how this law would impact that. I addressed it in multiple ways:

1. I pointed out that the original concern r.e. provisional ballots is unrelated to this law.

2. I also pointed out that the law codifies existing practice and prevents local municipalities from setting arbitrary rules. This does not loosen any existing practices.

3. And finally I commented on how much larger structural issues than individuals committing voter fraud contribute more towards legitimate mistrust of electoral processes.

Feel free to actually comment on any of that if you get bored of scolding and snipping at me.
Wait until you find one of the distressingly common places where they build a roundabout and put stop signs on some or all of the entrances.
Siliation or esterization of the long carbohydrate chains would make them close to indigestible, and also far more water-resistant, but at that point the cost (including environmental) would outweigh the benefits over concrete.
Can't getentropy(3) block for arbitrary amounts of time since it's based on get getrandom(2), whereas the data for AT_RANDOM is already on the initial thread's stack?
That's because you treat a FOSS project with a commercial mentality.

Remember the first post Torvalds made for the kernel?

He didn't say "I'm doing a project to compete as fast as I can with commercial UNIX machine so please help"

He sid this: "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)"

And it became huge. By chance.

A FOSS phone doesn't have to support Whatsapp. It should be open, fun to tinker with, modular and, maybe, with enough logic to handle carrier signal and SMS.

Even if it's not successful, the code and schematics will still live somewhere on the Internet, ready for anyone to create a weird steampunk phone.

Most people that want a Linux phone don't care about freedom of tech. They just want some portable Unix workstation with all the comfort of a commercial phone.

Which it's not wrong by itself. But demanding Open Source to create another "commercial-like but gratis" it's already a bad attitude to start with
Hoping someone else recognizes it and will post it. Haven't been able to find it since.
I don't particularly enjoy sudoku but I like word puzzle games.

They're all artificial problems, but your brain likes a challenge and you get a dopamine hit when you solve it, I suppose.
The social obligations that people have are not the same obligations that businesses have with each other, and that is true culturally and legally.

There are no consumer protection laws for businesses. There is no cooling off period for certain contracts. Businesses are supposed to have the legal wherewithal to protect their own interests.

You can't project our social norms to businesses.
Even the N8 was comparable to the android I have today after 14 years. Full touch screen, great battery life, excellent camera quality, great maps, regular OS updates, ran all the software it had smoothly and could be programmed in C++ with Qt Creator.

Then Microsoft came and ruined the N series by making nokia release some broken version of the OS (code named anna and then bella) so that people would buy Lumia. After a couple of months, there was no more application store. What terrible blunder that was.
> property crimes short of grand theft aren't really enforced in California

There is a hope we will undo this soon.
> uphill battle against a swarm of slightly different CPUs and device trees

Economic incentives for "differentiation", e.g. device tree with upstream Linux and uboot support for feature A, but non-upstream uboot blob enables feature A+B.
No login required.

Just some ip based rate limits.

Ban misbehaved bot ip addresses.

https://hn.garglet.com (advanced search for hacker news)
There was also Bada OS, Samsung's attempt to cut the dependency on Android. I was actually running a device with 1.0, and it was surprisingly usable. The investment in building a development community was also there. They released lots of documentation and the SDK. Sadly, they followed with a 2.0 that really wanted to feel like Android (but wasn't).

They obviously didn't want to put all their eggs into one basket and kept releasing Android phones in parallel. Eventually, Bada died a silent death, although some of it probably found its way to Tizen.
Wow, disabling IPv6? Yeah, turning off your internet may increase security but this is pretty nihilist advice.

Add "disable IPv4" too.
I love "In our time". When you said this I thought "I'll know if they're really serious if Tim Gowers[1] is one of the guests". Sure enough, he is.

The BBC also had him on (the Today programme iirc but it was a while ago) the one time to comment when someone claimed to have proved it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Gowers
Yes they do. New Jersey to Athens is a popular one. These are called freedom flights.

https://simpleflying.com/emirates-fifth-freedom-routes/
How any company has 14000 extra managers is just beyond me.
Well you can change hosts to ones Matt like and doesn't like, and I'm glad you understand how easy it is.

Most hosting companies have some sorts of limits and some have wordpress related limited specifically.

If a web host is not able to provide the connectivity to the things you want or need, just switch.

From what I understand of my limited reading about the issue, wp engine may have to change how they advertise the use of wordpress related terms and they may have the mirror the plugin and other repositories as they may not be able to pass through access to the WP servers, this is a hindrance for sure, but it's not a full stop your site can't function.

Of course it's bloated for many use cases, because it is possible to do so many things with it (many things many may never need, sure) - poorly developed is not how I would characterize the development with WP - I've certainly loudly complained about some choices over the years, but the development is pretty robust compared to similar projects I have seen over the years.

If wordpress wants to change how they allow access to their servers based upon whether a host is making millions promoting WP, it's fine with me - they would not be the first company to decide to limit access at different thresholds and ask for more money based on usage.

It may be shocking and a big change, but the individual website owners can get the wp files and plugins and deploy in thousands of places around the world, and it takes just minutes in most cases.
> Open is wildly more useful and more flexible.

It's very much a matter of personal preference. I prefer individual rooms

- Kitchen and living/family room together means that someone doing the dishes (or the dishwasher running, depending on your model) can make enough noise that using the living/family room (for something like watching tv, but also reading) can be difficult

- Bedrooms without doors lack privacy

- Office without a door lacks the ability to block out noise when on calls (or just trying to focus)

- Office and bedroom together (without a wall) makes it harder for someone to sleep while someone else is working

Clearly, open works for some people, but it's definitely not for everyone.
For me personally, I have little motivation to do classical sudokus. They either have a not-so-elegant solve path (usually set by a computer) or are too difficult for me to solve.

Variant sudokus on the other hand are a lot of fun. They often have very elegant solve paths and there are many neat tricks you can discover and reason about.

Some fun ones, if you'd like to try:

- https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id...

- https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id...

- https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id...
Maybe you are building images for your employees to use while developing ? Maybe you are building an educational distro image that is accompanied with your product ?

I can think of many things, so who knows.
I genuinely hope you can see the irony in your own statement.
As a general rule, one should be looking in the direction in which the vehicle is traveling.
It's easily done though, if rushing, or if the vehicle in front pulls away slightly but stops again.
Where are the background jobs and the emails? Web Platforms needs those things.
There is sailfish OS. And it runs quite a few Android apps too.
Curious, what sites would you recommend?
Memetic hazards can be real and strong, and you best not delve too deeply.
wait a minute the docs say (https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2)

You can use R2 for multiple scenarios, including but not limited to:

Storage for cloud-native applications
Cloud storage for web content
Storage for podcast episodes
Data lakes (analytics and big data)
Cloud storage output for large batch processes, such as machine learning model artifacts or data sets
It's Russian and Chinese propaganda.

China - 61 million victims (and counting).

USSR - 36-37 million victims (25 million of them are Ukrainians).

North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc.
homeowner's insurance approaches this if you know your agent (as in you've physically seen them) and the two of you have an understanding that you're going to be recording the purchase price (or market price, whichever is lower), date of purchase, serial numbers, and any other identification of all objects you want insured. If you do this, my understanding is that they cannot then do "replace toaster: $8; replace TV, Onn brand 42inch $170;" and so on. If your item's market price goes up in the meantime, the policy will have verbiage as to how that gets resolved. For example if i have a policy on something that is no longer being made, i can either be reimbursed for the price or a suitable replacement.

Generic, cookie-cutter, boilerplate policies probably net the insurance companies a fair amount of profit. People who actually care about the actual items they are insuring are possibly the highest risk, and as such, the premiums are also the highest. In my state, an umbrella policy that would cover my home, land, frontage, vehicles, farm equipment, well pump, etc is ~$500/month, with limits of around $1mm (this was 8 years ago or so, they probably went up in premiums). a half million on two vehicles is only about $200/month and homeowners varies but is ~<$100/month. The issue is how i'd get the rest of the stuff i said insured, because in my state, the homeowner's policy doesn't cover anything but the home (and contents to a limited extent) and whatever you call a tree on your property falling down and causing injury or damage not due to negligence.
Most people are put off by the symbols, that wasn't really the issue I had.

So I do love APL and arraylangs, and learning them was really helpful in a lot of other languages.

But they never became a daily driver for me not because of the symbols, which were honestly fine if you stick with it long enough, but after about 3-4 years of dabbling on and off I hit a wall with APL I just couldn't get past.

Most other languages I know there is a "generic-ish" approach to solving most problems, even if you have to cludge your way through suboptimally until you find "the trick" for that particular problem and then you can write something really elegant and efficient.

APL it felt like there was no cludge option -- you either knew the trick or you didn't. There was no "graceful degredation" strategy I could identify.

Now, is this actually the case? I can't tell if this is a case of "yeah, thats how it is, but if you learn enough tricks you develop an emergent problem solving intuition", or if its like, "no its tricks all the way down", or if its more like, "wait you didn't read the thing on THE strategy??".

Orrr maybe I just don't have the neurons for it, not sure. Not ruling it out.
Maybe more fun than practical, given the performance you'll see [1], but OpenBSD has a mips/octeon port which runs on some of Ubiquiti's hw [0].

[0] - https://www.openbsd.org/octeon.html

[1] - https://kernelpanic.life/hardware/openbsd-router-benchmarks....
My intuition would be that there are certain conditions under which Bayesian inference for the missing data and multiple imputation lead to the same results.

What is the distinction?

The scenario described in the paper could be represented in a Bayesian method or not. “For a given missing value in one copy, randomly assign a guess from your distribution.” Here “my distribution” could be Bayesian or not but either way it’s still up to the statistician to make good choices about the model. The Bayesian can p hack here all the same.
That's not a problem and not getting fixed by diverging farther than android. To date none of my apps have required that, including my banking app. Even so, loss of some financial apps is a small price compared to loss of social and dating apps, public transit and health apps, and more.

iNaturalist publishes an open source android app to complement their very functional website, and honestly I would give up all of GNU for that one app.
I went to this tech talk on Dyalog (a modern APL-like language), and the speaker makes the argument that the notation allows certain idioms to be recognized more easily:

https://youtu.be/PlM9BXfu7UY?si=ORtwI1qmfmzhJGZX&t=3598

This particular snippet was in the context of compilers, but the rest of the talk has more on Dyalog and APL as a system of mathematical notation. The underlying theme is that optimizing mathematical expressions may be easier than optimizing general code.
Google AVF/pKVM will allow unmodified Linux VMs on Pixel 7+. GrapheneOS has shipped early plumbing support, not yet exposed to users.
Being able to check secrets into Github instead of maintaining a separate secret store, which often charges per access, is super useful.

Having a proper schema on secrets is also nice, I've ran into problems where a dev changed the name of a secret and broke everyone's local dev setup.
What mana based magic skills do people have IRL?
I've been reading a lot of LIT-RPG lately and it got me thinking about building a IRL version.

I've read that a simple 12 hour youtube course and a decent book, can vastly improve your knowledge on a topic.. This feels like "Grinding" to me.

But what would most people think of as magic. Here's my list.

- Understanding the stock market
- Understanding cyber security
- Knowing how to program

Mind you I'm bias.. So does anyone else have something that makes a person OP in the real world?
Well, you might need to stop by frequently to visit them.
It's not about making a competitive linux smartphone, it's about making the hardware ecosystem more conducive to software competition by making it easy for people to run their own software on their own hardware.
Yes. The middle east is geographically well located for intercontinental traffic. So Emirates (and Qatar) serve has big hubs for long-distance travel.

Dubai Airport is large, and runs 24x7. I've had a couple long layovers there (in the airside hotel) and its amazing to see the never-ending, round the clock, activity in the terminal.

Indeed the shops etc in the terminal cannot be closed - there are literally no doors on them.

Equally reporting flight boards are amazing. There are flights from everywhere to everywhere.
I don't like what Automattic's doing, but I don't think that means we have to throw out the whole idea of obligations that aren't legal obligations.
Android Virtualization Framework with pKVM on Pixel 7+ can technically allow unmodified Linux VMs to run in parallel with "official" VMs that pass hardware attestation. This feature is not yet exposed to end-users.
Watch the video - this roundabout's islands are designed to be driven over by semis and trailers. (Hopefully the drivers of those vehicles know that).
All hail Big G in our Temple of Tensor. Amen.
Yeah, roundabouts certainly have the potential to be superior, but they're not immune to bad design!
Any recommendations for modern-ish devices which run Sailfish?

Can the "free trial" be used indefinitely if you don't need Android app support?
For something that's not rigorously defined, 99.999% and 100% is pretty frickin close together in my book. Like, TherapistGPT isn't going to randomly say you should go kill yourself.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure what your point actually is. Is ChatGPT in it's current form, a replacement for human contact? absolutely not. do people have strong emotions around something using a GPU and a bunch of math and was generated instead of being organically hand crafted by a human being, and having it fall into the uncanny valley? totally. is this box of matrices and dot products outputting something I personally find useful, despite shortcomings? yeah.

I agree that there's totally this brick wall feeling when ChatGPT spins itself in circles because it ran out the context window or whatever.

at the end of the day, I think the yacht rock cover of "closer" is fun, even though it's AI generated. however that makes you feel about my opinions.

https://youtu.be/ejubTfUhK9c