skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're using solely the flow labels to do load balancing, malicious clients can force traffic to come through only one load balancer by setting the same flow label.

You need to add the source IP/port into the mix. But they alone are in practice enough for decent load balancing.
Air molecules are large and massive, so their de Broglie wavelength is actually much smaller than their physical size (and that's much smaller than the hole needs to be to let in one at a time at ambient pressure and temperature), and you don't need to know their speeds all that well, eg if you just want to 'pump' all the air from one chamber into another.

So all in all, a classic description would work reasonably well. (Remember that quantum uncertainty is related more to de Boglie wavelength than physical size.)
I would love to hear someone that actually works in a place that requires credentials like the PE comment on having a course based on this as a credential.

There are way too many software engineers with lofty ideas about how physical engineers can magically know all the answers to all the problems they could ever have.
Microsoft launching autonomous agents in Copilot Studio
Microsoft will be making autonomous AI agents available next month for Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365 users workflow authoring capabilities branded as Copilot Studio

Does anyone know if this is repackaging prior tech like Power Automate or is this brand new?

I'm assuming it's using AutoGen under the hood but would be interested to learn more about architecture
Essentials of Standard ML Modules [pdf]
> The push was originally around a legal mandate, but it turns into a culture.

Whatever the scope of the legal mandate was, it expired over a decade ago now.

Culture can change over time. Even if Microsoft had this culture strongly when you worked there, it might have become much weaker in the years since. Within a corporation, culture can also vary a lot between different teams/divisions/etc - maybe it is still strong in some parts of the company but gone in others.
If you free fall into a black hole you are testing it.

I don’t think that not being able to communicate your results makes it not scientific.
The AI bubble is looking worse than the dot-com bubble. Here's why
If you feel comfortable sharing, what is the meditation technique you practice? I am a Vipassana practitioner and found your observation to be anecdotally true - the commonly stated reasoning for the prescribed diet in a Vipassana course is that it minimizes the amount of blood diverted from other organs (i.e. the brain) to aid in digestion.

In any case, I found your statement "nothing to lose and could always return to my previous, though less-than-optimal, lifestyle" quite inspiring - thank you!
I think that's the point - "pretty good" isn't good enough for a top school to want to admit you. Second year college/CS is pretty good but I went to a great high school where there were 50+ kids at that level. That's not enough to stand out in a meaningful way.

Whereas if someone was Ramanujan-level, their raw talent would be so apparent they wouldn't have this issue and would clearly stand out.
Trying not to be negative, but statements like this completely disregard the degree of thought and evidence that needs to be accounted for to make a reasonable statement that isn't just pulling an ungrounded opinion out of the air. I mean why exactly is it doubtful? It doesn't seem doubtful to many other very intelligent people, so perhaps you should back it up with a bit of reasoning or evidence.
You can erase JavaScript from this title and have equally valid points.
Yes, you're correct.

Though I don't think AWS cares too much about IP blocklist, you can always just get another elastic IP at any moment.
The parent post is very orthogonal to yours. That isn't saying that LLMs won't be useful -- it's saying that unverified LLMs are of limited value.

This rings true. There's a low economic value for performing activities when it doesn't matter if the output is true or accurate.

Unverified LLMs can generated unlimited output that cannot be trusted; this is output that can approximate truth at times.

I suppose the long term question is whether the approximation is sufficient for value-generating purposes. It clearly is sufficient in cases where it outperforms the status quo (example: summarizing customer feedback).
That was said when we first orbited the Earth. Right now many things - space travel in particular - seems correlated with vastly increased ego.
Most of school is primarily baby sitting these days, if were being really real.
You are of course right that there are lots of potential motivations for spending extra time on the page. But it will likely be interpreted as enjoyment in the absence of other feedback mechanisms.
It's always fun to see how elected 'leaders' of this ilk (privately) change their tune when their mistress needs an abortion.
You're right, some Indians don't have the recognition they deserve, but if it makes you feel better, few "western" mathematicians or scientists are household names either.
So how many hours have you spent as a teacher?

Because if you're putting forth the assertion "If they could make it elsewhere, they would." you've certainly had spent sometime teaching, yes?

I think it would be good to understand how much experience teaching it took for you to come to that conclusion.
Yeah, Java had some good ideas but just not quite there on the UX, like many things with Java sigh.

Checked exceptions were annoying because you had to manually annotate the exceptions all the way up your chain. The list of effects should be generated by the compiler, and the IDE should show them when desired. Maybe manually annotated at external API boundaries which double as forcing the API dev to handle unlisted exceptions.
It's my hope that people will take the hint: "Wait ... if Rust is a better way to compile C than C itself, maybe I should learn Rust."
Seems like a series of letters sent by someone with cognitive difficulties?

Not really sure what the point of them is, other than documenting some of the weird stuff people doing customer service find themselves responding to.

> Having kept all my TVL/BBC envelopes ...

Well, that's a thing.
Caffeine also has a track record of several centuries.

We really, really know the long term effects.
The University Computer Club at UWA also has a door sensor!

https://door-status.ucc.asn.au/ucc

Runs off a Raspberry Pi with a bodged-up version of https://github.com/ide/pico-door-sensor/tree/main

This is at least the third iteration; some previous iterations are documented here:

https://www.ucc.asn.au/services/door.ucc
The posit was "life evolved in many planets for sure" but your evidence is "us"?
Can't we build a giant optical interferometer in space by sending multiple telescopes out there?
> Second year college/CS is pretty good but I went to a great high school where there were 50+ kids at that level. That's not enough to stand out in a meaningful way.

It is not enough to stand out in the current system.

The parent was saying selecting the 50 kids who can handle it is a much better approach than just taking the highest overall grades.

The average A's across the board high school student can't handle second year college maths. Yet they will be placed ahead of the observably better at math kids.

Imagine if jobs worked like this - "Yes, we know you are a great developer but you don't really understand economics. Sorry".

Being well-rounded and having exposure to a bunch of topics is valuable to an extent. However, in my experience most of the people making a real difference in the workplace and academia are not particularly well rounded.

Thankfully in tech there are alternative pathways. However, for many professions there aren't and these high performers are simply excluded to societies detriment.
obs screen recording with laptop facecam.
Well, the eccentric geniuses have already left the system... Frankly, if you go through the last 30 years, how many such geniuses you can find in American universities? I only see a little bit higher than average, so it seems that the system has already eliminated the geniuses.
All you did was say you like Little Rock. What is this place becoming, Reddit?
Exactly, over the past 15 years of doing this I can basically recall every single day that my firm had a net loss, with Brexit was the biggest one. Most of the losses were due to technical failures/bugs/networking issues, very few one of them were due to issues with the model.

And yes, high throughput and low latency are critical aspects of our trading and they are factored into the model as well, in that for every deviation we observe from our model need to measure how long such a deviation is likely to last and we only trade on those which are likely to last long enough for the trading algo to complete.
Galaxies: The History of Discovery
The admissions process to universities in the province of Ontario in Canada has a direct solution for this, which applies to well-known universities in the global technology industry, such as the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo.

Most of these universities look at an applicant's grades for just six courses. After looking at the courses required for certain programs (such as calculus and physics for certain programs), the remainder of the six courses comprise the student's top grades for any courses at the Grade 12 (final year) level.

So, a high school student aiming for a top engineering or mathematics program will not be hamstrung by a poor grade in Grade 12 English, nor will a student aiming for a top international relations program be hamstrung by a poor grade in Calculus. At the same time, the student going into a STEM program will have an exposure to Shakespeare, which can provide inspiration and a rich set of works to explore later in life. The student going into international relations may later be inspired some years later to study mathematics for its beauty as a hobby, some years later.

I remember the feeling that I was wasting time with many of my courses in those years, despite having good teachers for many of them—I thought my time spent on mandatory humanities courses like music took time away from more practical subjects, and I wish I took a programming course (though I did love my English classes). Perhaps this remains true for many students, but I personally took an interest in music performance as a hobby years later in life, and the years-old lessons in music theory came back to me. My English classes also introduced me to literature, which has remained a very important part of my life that has guided me through highly consequential life decisions for the better. It is unlikely that I would have taken an interest in literary works without my exposure to English in school.
Engineer a more efficient diatom. Release it into the wild. What could go wrong.
Word of warning: I tried Marissa Mayer's Sunshine contacts and it nuked my phone's contacts. Luckily I had a backup vcard export from way back I could restore from.

Others I've tried:

* Clay (https://clay.earth) is a great option for "batteries included". Based on what you described, it can pull from Google/Outlook, Linkedin, and messaging apps. Doesn't get all the duplicates but gets close enough, and they offer carddav for 2-way sync to phone.

* Monica (http://monicahq.com) works for more barebones and self-hosted. They were working on a new version, not sure if it was ever merged into main product. I tried it once and it ended up being more of a gift and birthdays-focused notes app for me, but YMMV.

* Otherwise a Notion doc or spreadsheet might be enough! Especially if you start with an export from something else.
Thanks to not2b for the tip!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41909846
Why would it be 10x in this example? Isn't it 1000x? Or 900x if you remove the initial investment?

Do 1/100 companies really experience that kind of windfall?
But I'm not a brain in a jar. That is not my experience.

The benefit I get is knowing that this is not all one "big bang"

We are so quick to laud our own achievements, but fail to give credit where it is due.

We build nuclear power plants, waste water treatment plants and the beginnings of quantum computers. And we congratulate ourselves for a job well done, after spending an unspeakable amount of resources on them. We maintain them with a constant labour force, regular maintenance shutdowns and a ton of money.

Meanwhile the sun keeps shining, the clouds keep raining and your mind keeps minding.

And they do it on zero budget. No off days. No staff. Automatically.

And with all this engagement, the energy remains the same.
How does the robot know where it isn't?
14 linters sounds…excessive!
But it is continuous, at least until you hit or pass through the singularity.
So your solution to changing 5 lines out of 7 was to do the refactor I wrote about and change 7 lines :)

I agree it's prettier. But it's objectively a larger change than the 3 lines you'd do in the imperative code. And it's pretty much how adapting to changes usually goes with FP. You constantly have to change the outermost structure of the program even if the change in the requirements is localized to one specific corner case.

> What if I want something that does the EXACT same thing as doABCD() but now without counting the amount of times something was squared and greater than 1000 but now instead I want it for the amount of times the total was greater than 3?

> You can't reconfigure the code. You have to duplicate the code now.

I could, but at this point refactoring is warranted.

y = 1;
y2 = 1;
count = 0;
_ = 0;
count2 = 0;
void doABCD(int &y, int &count, int &count2) {
y += 1;
y *= 2;
if (y > 1000)
count ++;
y *= y;
y -= 4;
if (y > 3)
count2 ++;
}
doABCD(y, count, _);
doABCD(y2, _, count2);

8 changes. 11 in total for both modifications.

In FP you had 7 lines of code changed for the first refactor

y = 1
a = (x) => x + 1
b = (x) => x \* 2
c = (x) => x \* x
d = (x) => x - 4
count = 0;
firstPart = a . b
secondPart = c . d
countIfGreaterThan1000= (x, prevCount) => x > 1000 ? prevCount + 1 : prevCount
n = firstPart(y)
newCount = countIfGreaterThan1000(n, count)
result = secondPart(n)

and now you'd have sth like

y = 1
y2 = 1
a = (x) => x + 1
b = (x) => x \* 2
c = (x) => x \* x
d = (x) => x - 4
count = 0
count2 = 0
firstPart = a . b
secondPart = c . d
countIfGreaterThan = (x, target, prevCount) => x > target ? prevCount + 1 : prevCount
n = firstPart(y)
newCount = countIfGreaterThan(n, 1000, count)
result = secondPart(n)
result2 = (firstPart . secondPart) (y2)
newCount2 = countIfGreaterThan(result2, 3, count2)

That's 7 + 6 = 13 lines for 2 changes if I'm counting correctly.

What FP buys you is not deduplication (you can do that in any paradigm) - it's easier understanding of the code.
Doesn't seem like they're trying to win awards for usability, does it? :(
> and do so with relative competency

I dispute this on the grounds that students are going through American schools and many of them don't even know how to read.
CMU's Intro to Database Systems course is one of the best resources. Andy Pavlo has his lectures all up on youtube
The module search path (sys.path) is the thing you need to know about.

With `python -m part2.week2`, by default `.` is added at the start.

With `python part2/week2.py`, `part2` (the script directory) is added at the start (instead of `.`).

So in the former case, `week2.py` is able to do something like `from part2 import ...` but not in the latter case.

But this should work `PYTHONPATH=. python part2/week2.py`.

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-s...

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys_path_init.html#sys-pat...
> Something that has thinking capabilities?

Something that involves "thinking capabilities" in a form we would recognise?

That's always what I consider when someone mentions the Fermi Paradox.

Humans tend to barely recognise "thinking capabilities" in other mammals. There is intriguing evidence that plants "communicate" and "remember", and have been doing so around us for at least as long as mammals have existed with humans barely noticing and usually ignoring or criticising researchers who suggest that perhaps plants may be "thinking".

https://www.botanicalmind.online/podcasts/plant-sentience-a-...

If we don't even recognise "thinking capabilities" in the plants that have been around us for as long as we've been around as a species, what're the chances that we would notice and recognise "conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life" when we saw it?
Do you know of anyone who says these things? Any evidence?

Your guesses at my emotional state aren't relevant.
Companionship: TheRise of Al Girlfriends
Basics of Photolithography Bernd Geh
A really nice 6 part series that seems to be a more modern take going into more depth than the older "Indistinguishable from Magic" lecture.
Anything that promotes skepticism is good. When I read an article like this, I don't know if the article has political motives for which it is willing to embellish the truth, or use a real issue to insert some false claims inbetween, or whether this is all true which also seems very likely in this case.

I think everyone and anyone can fall for falsified facts if these facts fit one's own expected narratives or political beliefs.

This article highlights how people can br taken, especially when it is politically convenient.

I try to get as good as I can at developing my nose and sniffing out fake news on my side as well as "the other side" , and honestly I see it on both sides. It's definitely easier to pick up on it when it's on the "other" side!

Fake news is not going away, because even most fact checkers have examples where it seems they deliberately lied - ie. abuse their position of trust as a fact checker for political purposes!

The X community notes feature seems like a good idea. It's probably far from foolproof. I must say, I love comment sections on all platforms that have them! So many times I wasn't sure about the truthfulness of piece of content, then after reading the comments I had a much better sense of whether it is fake or real.
It's hard to find a good answer here but there's some strong indication that Microsoft is pretty dominant with code editors.
However, pretty much all of the ones who are household names, are western.

Well, at least to western people. Are Indians more familiar with Indian scientists?
I use my note app for casual personal crm. No outside sync features, but entry is easy if you’re looking for some variation of simple.

https://grugnotes.com
How does this not break the foundations of quantum theory? For example the Heisenberg uncertainty principle itself implies that the conjugate of a discrete variable must have a continuous spectrum. Thus if there are no continuous variables, there can be no discrete ones either. Either this or we need to throw out one of the variables and call it non-physical/observable -- and yet it very much seems like both position and momentum are things.
There are two main types of data for training intelligences (natural or artificial):

1. Self play

2. Data left behind by other intelligences' self play.

The Internet is 2, but is generated by the self play of humans - who were themselves trained on the self play of previous humans.

That's how civilization is bootstrapped.

Once you have bootstrapped sufficiently smart AI, they can possibly bootstrap themselves further on their own self play, instead of continuing to rely on human self play data.
no one cares what enables hate groups, it's not 2022 anymore
I appreciate your work on pep 420; I’ve benefited from it personally as a Python user. Thank you for a job well done.
If space is discretized, we should see "upscaling artifacts" in the CMB, but we don't.
Popery Act
Just like the carriers, by allowing you to pay in installments.

Let’s call it what it is, it’s a carrier financed credit with a lien on the phone. It’s practically a secured credit line and they don’t want to let it go.

The funny thing is none of this would happen if they removed the lien (lock) right after the loan was paid off.
This is true, but college general education requirements don't fulfill that role. They're classes of 250 people listening to a professor say "write this down because it'll be on the exam". Then the questions on the exam are what the professor said verbatim.

My university didn't allow any classes above the most introductory ones to be considered as fulfilling the general education requirement. I signed up for a history class that would involve doing research and having weekly discussions with a small group. I was stoked. Then the professor made a note that it didn't fulfill the general education requirements. I had to drop it and switch to a huge-ass mindless lecture of hundreds of people. I would've liked to still take the more in-depth history class even if it didn't fit the gen ed requirement, but so many of those BS classes are required that my schedule was completely packed all 4 years with zero leeway.
Aliens, but it's classified, so they redacted those parts.
SysVinit 3.11 Released with an "Important Feature" at Long Last
> I spent way, way too long working out the totals from the various methods of getting a new phone

Did you add this time you spent into those totals? I think if you did, your math would come out differently. Personally, if I even feel the need to do any math like this, the answer is already "no, I can't afford this".
I lived on the Isle of Man for a few years back in the 90's. The white van would be spotted on the ferry coming over and a small notice in the paper would appear. Everyone hid their TVs for a couple of weeks, until the paper said the van was back on the ferry.

It sounds so farcical now, in our age of ubiquitous surveillance capitalism.
I'm sorry, are you having a hard time understanding how online conversations work? I wasn't involved in any of the above comments. I know from this interaction to never interact with you again if I can help it though.

Have a great great day.
Powering Next-Generation AI Networking with Nvidia SuperNICs
That 600 times zoom-in on 1% of the eventual survey of 1/3rd of the non milky way sky... Shows a couple of galaxies, which if the milky way is "typical" represent a couple of billion stars.

Suddenly 1 in 10 billion trillion odds doesn't seem so (and I apologise in advance for this) astronomical...
I wish textareas had keybindings
You should always verify that SSH password auth is actually off; run

ssh -v myserver : 2>&1 | grep continue

and ensure that it only gives "publickey"!

(A surprising number of VPSs will re-enable passwords in a .d config file. And really, even if you've checked for that, the extra 10 seconds to make sure is worth it.)
xAI API DevX: Great potential, but falls flat
Love to see the UPL on hacker news :)
are you somehow related to any of these products?
> JavaScript tooling requires index files for everything

You mean barrel files? Those are horrible kludges used by lazy people to pretend they're hiding implementation details, generate arbitrary accidental circular imports, and end up causing absolute hell if you're using any sort of naive transpiling/bundling tooling/plugin/adapter.
Such delays are overwhelmingly political, not engineering. The local government demanding yet another environmental impact review is not an engineering cost - it is a scope change.