skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artificially aiming to increase natural attrition through requiring employees to make like-altering decisions (or else) is evil. At the bare minimum, it should be seen as a layoff.
Just because you can't record something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
No that's stupid.
Möbius strip for double surface area....I can practically see the cheese TV comercial
If the world needed any evidence that perplexity is desperate, this is it.
The namesake 2015 movie was almost as much of a pain to watch as being in the experiment itself would have been.
where's the embrace step? vscode is their own product in the first place.
Paradex: Elixir Ecto Fragments for ParadeDB
A battle of a Tumblr user named Woodsfae versus advanced LLM transcribing new goth literature?

That's like bringing a knife to a gun fight my friend, never underestimate the power of a committed Tumblr user
The carriers getting screwed is the point here. The sooner their anticompetitive behavior backfires on them the sooner they'll stop doing it.
Everyone? You can’t imagine a situation where the surplus from the cheap labor is captured by a few capitalists while the rest suffer?

I’m not saying that is happening but it doesn’t take much imagination to see it could happen.

Also if you actually have to interface with clearly illegal cheap labor (landscaping, construction, low quality catering) you’ll see the pattern: a kingpin immigrant who only hires other immigrants with little to no English and a preference for being paid in cash.
While I get where you're coming from, I think there's a middle ground that isn't just "let everyone in" or "shut it all down." One idea is a market-based immigration system—basically, you pay an entry fee to immigrate, which adjusts based on things like age. So younger people who have their whole working lives ahead of them would pay less, older folks would pay more.

This could replace the broken discretionary system we have now, where it’s all about family ties and not what we need economically. Plus, it would cut down on smuggling, raise a ton of revenue, and make immigration more efficient. It’s a practical way to let people in, without completely open borders, and would bring in the workers we actually need.

It’s not about scrapping border security—just rethinking how we approach immigration to make it work better for everyone.
> they want that network to be subsidized only by the people actually watching TV, not random taxpayers who don't benefit from it.

Eh, the 2 countries I know charge people if they have a device capable of viewing the TV/radio/the TV/radio stations' online offer, so anyone with a smartphone (and who doesn't have a smartphone?) are also require to pay the license fee, even if they don't have a TV or radio at home.

There's a joke that since the license fee is charged if you have equipment theoretically capable of viewing TV, then maybe people should apply for government child allowance, since they have equipment theoretically able to make them parents.
National Geographic Mission to the Sun
How does copyright relate to burning hard drives?
Asperger's was not reliably diagnosable between healthcare workers trained to diagnose it. In other words, a diagnosis of Asperger's in someone's medical chart was not a reliable way of knowing if they had Asperger's.
> The longest drive from within Arkansas to an out of state abortion clinic is about five hours.

Arkansas isn't so bad because I can drive 300 miles to a different state if I need medical care. Ok.

> There is no place to live without compromises.

Sure but calling an abortion ban a compromise is like calling a nuclear warhead a nonlethal weapon.
As opposed to watching a movie in which no one has died and saying "this movie has the most deaths I have ever seen."
Insertion Sort is O(n log n) [pdf] (2004)
I was learning how to work with Cloudflare Workers and implemented something called a Pixel Mosaic: https://rishikeshs.com/mosaic/.

It's a live pixel mosaic where anyone can change the color, with the color being chosen randomly, so the chances of two adjacent tiles having the same color are quite low. I also log the country to see where people who have clicked it are from.

I am currently working on a desktop 8x8 LED grid to sync the same pattern on my desk.
Depends on the person. Northwest arkansas is a beautiful place with tons of outdoor activities and the ability to live like a king on a major company CTO salary. I'd rather live there than Seattle or San Francisco.
I think this is greatly complicated by the fact that the human brain has been "pre-trained" (in the deep learning sense) by hundreds of millions of years of evolution.

A pre-trained LLM also can also learn new concepts from extremely few examples. Humans may still be much smarter but I think there's a lot of reason to believe that the mechanics are similar.
Simple. Since the major carriers these days offer "interest free installments" on phones, with subsidies or billing credits to make the TCO cheaper... then when this happens, the carrier: 1) loses no interest payments, 2) may lose installment payments, but this is a credit risk anyway - onus is on them to assess risk to a point of acceptability to them, and 3) get to not pay out the subsidies or billing credit.

All this amounts to is an additional layer of securing a loan. And pre-emptively so. "You cannot unlock this device because others may abuse this."

Assess identity and credit risk better.

I have little sympathy for the carriers, after having to fight Verizon over the claim that I, living in Seattle, and being an AT&T customer for a decade with 4-6 lines and devices, somehow decided to go to El Paso and buy a phone at a Walmart on Verizon, run it up making international calls and let it go to collections.

After supplying their (onerous, tbh) info around identity, police report, current utility billing and such, VZW said "We are still satisfied that the debt is valid and belongs to you, after reviewing your documentation with documentation that was supplied when the account was opened". When I said "well, given that you have verified my identity, and given that you state that the documentation you have from the account says that it was I who opened the account, I'd like to see that documentation". Verizon: "We cannot provide that data to you as it may violate customer privacy". Schrodingers account holder. It's me when they want to collect money, it's not me when they're concerned about sharing "someone's" info or billing records...
And you have to hire people to do CloudOps. It is the same; if you think otherwise, you’re not at scale.

I promise you, running a DB in RDS is almost as difficult as running it on metal or a VM, except that when things go wrong, you don’t have as much insight into why.

Running a Linux server is not hard.
Are other fields really better than psychology in that respect?

I failed to reproduce published work everytime I tried. In one case I was only able to reproduce results by using carefully selected starting parameters I received privately from the author; in another case the author just told me that the algorithm was very unstable and required a lot of tweaking (not mentioned in the paper) to work, and another author didn't tell me about the boundary conditions used in the paper that were left out because they were too busy. Those were papers from physics & computer graphics.

The cynic inside me assumes that non-reproducibility is pretty much the default for most published papers.
Starbucks' CEO famously commutes to Seattle from Newport Beach in California, which is like a thousand miles.
Even more of a reason to advocate for it.
The abstract is poorly written.
It's really bad even for me on my phone. The text content fades away before I can scroll it completely into view. No reader mode available.
Could someone just tldr and paste the answer in?
After years of using and developing custom solutions with WordPress, as soon as I saw the checkbox fiasco, I said enough is enough and to call it quits with WP as a whole and deleted all my projects; I prefer to invest my time and energy elsewhere, it's not worth it anymore.
Tracking after-tax wealth is nontrivial but informative. You will be taxed on 401(k) distributions as ordinary income, and if you have big unrealized capital gains on stock and ETF positions, you will be taxed on those gains when you sell.
> Why jump through hoops to make competitors better able

Because that is the competitive philosophy that allowed VS Code win in this space. It fits with that great quote from Bill Gates: "A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it."

By having VS Code give a priority to another MS/GitHub product that they aren't willing to give competitors, they're diminishing VS Code's value as a platform, and encouraging competitors to build their own IDEs rather than building on top of it.
I guess it will really depend on the user or need. I won't consider putting down a down payment for anything under 4 figures without some absolutely worthwhile plan (credit cards can do that for me at that range). At that point I need to weigh between if I really need it or not.

I even paid straight up for my current Laptop, some $2700. The only things in my life I threw a down payment on are furniture: my bed, my kitchen chair setup, and my patio furniture.
The “just tell me what to build, I don’t need to understand why” trope exists for a reason.

I’ve worked with a range of engineers in terms of their curiosity. In my experience, the ones who cared enough to ask or push back on decisions were exceptions, not the rule.

This doesn’t mean they weren’t curious people. It just means they weren’t curious about The BusinessTM or The MarketTM.
In my university you could technically use any computer but must ensure that your code would work/compile on lab PCs cause that's where TAs would check it. As a result, during labs most people would just use computers there(too much hassle otherwise)
Your 2nd link does not lead to a page where I could find the sentence "We see the role of the designer as a facilitator rather than an expert."
No. It really isn't.
So was IE, back in the day, when they first "embraced" the web.

Today's "embrace" is of the web dev ecosystem, which before VSCode's dominance consisted of Jetbrains, other IDEs, text editors, etc.

Now with VScode and Github, they control much of the dev ecosystem, shrink competitors' marketshares by making them free to end-users (subsidized by other Microsoft businesses), expand them with new capabilities (even before secret APIs), etc.
sometimes failure is not an option
my horse needed hay,so I went to a buddy place,kinda coolsl spot(I think) not home
went where he might be and told him and his wife
that there dogs say hi,went back a few days to get hay and chatted about things snd the dogs,and only
later thought about,who do can I talk to that would be able to enjoy the idea of walking up a long drive way knee deep in snarling pitbulls
stopping to talk to them and pat them on the head
which of course messes with there minds,no one home ,and walk back out with the same escort
my favorite wasn't there,as he was still healing
up from trying to eat a porqipine whole,lovely bruser,half piti and half coyote
its not a marathon,except in the sense that life itself is a relay race
different batons is all
Andrea Borman - Why You Should Think About Switching to Linux. [video]
I am thinking of uninstalling VSCode and using something else because they are too invested in AI.
I went through community college about 6 years ago. And they still had bona fide computer labs with in-person tech support.

Computers were also ubiquitous in places like the coffeehouse, the library, practically every classroom, etc. And, of course, there were ubiquitous WiFi and USB charging ports, so that students with BYOD could get by (although WiFi was often overloaded and contentious.)

Within the main computer lab I was using, there was also a networking hardware lab, with genuine Cisco equipment such as routers and switches. The Cisco certification prep classes would go in there and do experiments on the hardware, so that students could get accustomed to seeing it in action, however outdated it may be.

The lab itself was chock-a-block with both Apples and Windows PCs, as well as scanners and printers available, and even headphones you could borrow from the desk attendant. You'd need to sign in and sign out. There were strict rules about silence and not leaving your station unattended. There was always space for more users and a generally relaxed atmosphere, where people could feel comfortable studying or doing homework.

I believe that there was also an A/V lab where students could get access to cameras and recording equipment, as well as software for that kind of thing.

The library, in addition to allocating lots of space for Windows PCs and Apples, would also loan out Chromebooks to any student, and I believe they had other things for loan, such as WiFi hotspots, for kids who couldn't afford to carry around their own Internet.

There were also Tutoring Centers, such as the Math one, where most of the desks featured a computer where you could log in to your collegiate account, and access your online course materials.

And the Testing Center was essentially a big computer lab, with cameras and in-person proctors monitoring it. It was partnered with Pearson and CompTIA, so I took more than one certification exam in there.

There is a fully-staffed IT Help Center on campus, so during office hours, you could count on a 1:1 in-person interaction to help you get logged in, debug your device's WiFi, or whatever.

Despite having a great computer setup in the comfort of my own home, and plenty of online courses on my schedule, I still appreciated the immersion of collegiate computer labs, and especially the relaxed coffeehouse access, where I could use Apple systems to work on my English homework and essays.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, all this went topsy-turvy, and a lot of these labs closed down, or took extreme health precautions, and of course, a lot more classes went online-only. But I was done with classes by that time.
Hey, it's the cost of credit.

With a prepaid plan, you credit the operator, because you pay upfront, and the service is rendered after it, and ceases if your balance goes below zero.

With regular plans, the operator credits you, and you can be late with your payment for many days before the operator ceases servicing you.

So it's a month worth if credit, plus a different risk profile.

Also, it's market segmentation: the prepaid plan is the gateway drug %)
I imagine the Internet Archive has made a lot of enemies. When it went down, there were probably a lot of publishing companies that were ecstatic about it.
I wish they'd advertise this, I see something about it every year after it's over but never before. The chicago area isn't even that far of a drive for me and I'd attend if they'd actually remind me about it beforehand instead of afterwards.
The commenter you’re replying to is using the term “perfect pitch” incorrectly, that’s all. They’re talking about the word “perfect” when it’s used to describe intervals, like perfect fifth or perfect fourth. I think.
> Frank Gehry is arguably one of the world’s greatest living architects.

Oh, please. Have you seen that mess at MIT?

Actually, I wonder what tools he and his people use for design. A floor plan and an elevation are nowhere near enough for those strange shapes. Something like an auto body design tool might be needed.
Here's the first sentence of the law:

(a) A person shall not purposely perform or attempt to perform an abortion except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency.

https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-5/subtitle-6/cha...
> I'm souring on the ways we create systems where you have to be super savvy and walk on eggshells with how you use the service and utter the right incantations or else you get hosed.

These systems rely on intentionally leaving people in the dark to manufacture legitimacy under the guise that well-educated consumers can avoid the hidden fees and restrictions. It's the expected end state when these shady schemes are allowed to exist.
Passenger aircraft carry cargo.

<https://www.dhs.gov/archive/science-and-technology/air-cargo>

Cargo is being weaponised:

"Russia suspected of planting device on plane that caused UK warehouse fire" (2024-10-16)

<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/16/russia-suspe...>

(That's a story about a cargo-only transport mode, but weaponised cargo might also be carried aboard a commercial passenger flight.)
Or at least recognized as constructive dismissal.
What is "monkey mind"?
When you promote a Windows server 2016 or higher) to a domain controller, you suddenly get error message when trying to open the network adapter through the "new" settings app. You must open through control.exe, everything else just throws an error.

I opened bug with the Microsoft Premier support and they told me that this works as intended.

So when Microsoft says, it works as intended, it can still be bugged to hell and back. They just don't care.
Arguably VS Code was their way of "embracing" what GitHub were doing with Atom.
Who can you get to move from California to Arkansas

especially if they can already afford to live in California

even the few wage workers subject to California’s taxes at higher brackets can become aware of all the other places with lower taxes
You're mistaken, Visual Studio Code is open source not Visual Studio, they're different
There's an idiom that describes this; "Putting lipstick on a pig".

If a thing looks and feels great, and has something worth making so, then there's no issue at all.
The Master might say something like this, if translated crudely -

Software engineering is programming professionally, with a dialogue on quality. Everything else is details.

The IEEE has been riding this horse for a very long time, in the face of very serious criticism (see the ACMs comments from a quarter century ago).

The presentation of it is _not even wrong_. It reads like a mid level manager at a very old enterprise firm wrote out what important at their firm, and took no material care for other ways. The SWEBOK has been that way for as long as I can remember ( an aside: my experience of Software Engineering academia has been so deeply negative to the point I wrote the field off in 2013. Decoupled from reality, PM oriented, toy studies- irrelevant. The SWEBOK is an artifact of that world. I should dip back in... Maybe Google & MS Research have done the real work here...)

There's a body of _practice_ that is mildly incidental. Most acronyms are fads. Lots of ephemeral technologies that only exist as painful grimaces. IE- CORBA- SOAP, etc...

Project management and quality management are also essentially contingent. One company does this. One that. Waterfall here. Agile there. Whirlpool the other.

What you're left with as non contingent and timeless is in the area of compilers, algorithms, etc. Which is not SWE at all.

If I were to write a swe body of knowledge, it would be in koan form, more than likely.
What a ridiculous take. 50+% of women in Alabama think abortion should be illegal in most cases. And Alabama was in the top 10 for percent inbound migration last year, meaning there are tens of thousands of women who made the choice to move to Alabama.

And you're saying all of them must be "not in their right mind".
Counterpoint: What progress has generative linguistics made in the same amount of time that deep learning has been around? It sure doesn't seem to be working well.

Also, the racecar example is because of tokenization in LLMs - they don't actually see the raw letters of the text they read. It would be like me asking you to read this sentence in your head and then tell me which syllable would have the lowest pitch when spoken aloud. Maybe you could do it, but it would take effort because it doesn't align with the way you're interpreting the input.
Setting up HA is approximately the same cost as with anything else: N x $cost. Web servers? Run two with HAProxy fronting them. Want HA HAproxy? Run two with a virtual IP. Etc. Not hard to calculate, not hard to set up. These are all extremely solved problems with tons of documentation available.

I mentioned monitoring being required and having a wide variety of options and price points.

If your DB runs out of space in a VM that’s on you for not having adequate monitoring and alerting. If you don’t have networked storage available and somehow fail to see the predicted eventual out of disk, again, that’s on you.
If you wanted to return 04 on big-endian architectures, you can use a binary mask - (int &0xFF).

Since this compiles to FF 00 00 00 in big-endian and 00 00 00 FF in little-endian, it would work on both platforms.

If you’re reading a file in binary format from disk, though, you always have to know whether the byte you are reading is little-endian or big-endian on disk.
why do they have to? is it just verizon or do others have to do unlock it after 60 days too?
Hilarious that every time, they responded in a way that was technically on-topic, but totally ignoring the actual questions being asked. Like someone found one word in OP's question, then mindlessly recited a random form response associated with that word.
> because what prevents users from stopping paying after the first month, and switching to a cheaper plan with another provider, and keeping the phone?

Same as what stops you breaking a contract and not paying any other debt: They'll start the collections process on you.
Famously:

D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to approximately $1,500,000 in 2024) and four parachutes upon landing in Seattle.

Cooper showed a device which by all appearances may have been a bomb, though its ultimate capabilities were never conclusively determined:

[Cooper] opened his briefcase, and she saw two rows of four red cylinders, which she assumed were dynamite. Attached to the cylinders were a wire and a large, cylindrical battery, which resembled a bomb.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper>

Regardless, there was an actual terrorist threat and hijacking, so the threat itself wasn't merely "phoned in".

The incident inspired numerous copycats:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper_copycat_hijacking...>

There's a longer list of aircraft-involved terrorism incidents which might yield other forewarning instances:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_incidents_inv...>
(2004) according to https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Insertion-Sort-is-O(n-...
Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI firm for 'illegal copying'
"Pressure" as a concept doesn't apply to black holes. They are the size they are because of their mass. The bigger the mass, the larger area where their gravity is so great light can't escape. Scientists model black holes as only have a mass and a spin on the inside because that's all the external universe cares about. Information being inscribed on the exterior is an artifact of tike dilating as an object approaches a black hole, iirc.
> Unless one is interacting with hardware, I'd be very tempted to stay in "fits on a laptop" space or slide to "screw it, cloud instances" scale. Anyone with contact in the last 5 years have a sense of how labs are being used now?

In my recent physics experience, this is basically what it was unless you had to rely on some proprietary software only on the lab machines like shudders LabView
I appreciate state TV content and watch it regularly. But this argument just doesn't hold water. The service is so wonderful that they had to make it a criminal offence not to be a subscriber? And surely an "independent" TV station would have to be one which is not completely controlled by the state.
https://archive.is/D8P8l