skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Journey to the End of Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA&t=1559s

Veritasium on Thermite reaction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUBz04LlLVk

Problems of a Shared Office - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD_VX9SLfsc

History of the entire world, I guess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs

Colin Furze Underground Activities - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjbAdaOBLBlS1MPKXYmq...

Future of Reasoning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArVh3Cj9rw

Sex in Trek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxqQwAVEbM8
Exactly!

Although I try not to think about that too hard because... well it's kind of depressing.

But it's the exact reason that hearing aids are so difficult to design.

For example if you were to naïvely try to just "add back" 50 dB of gain to a 70 dB ambient sound, that hearing aid would be trying to pump 120 dB of sound energy into your ear canal... which would actually cause damage to the surrounding cochlear bands...

But if it doesn't try to add something there, then everything sounds distorted because you have way too much sound energy from the other frequency bands, perhaps ones where you have much higher sensitivity.

Hence the multi band compression and why it's so difficult, and why hearing aid manufacturers focus on speech intelligibility above and beyond everything.
The free-ness of this is completely irrelevant -- it's clear that this is a valuable service that the airlines will start pricing up in order to drive down the "bottom-line" prices on search engines, like they have done with everything else.
Automatic Responses for Recruiters
Maybe I should try something different than just Terminal.app and Xterm.
https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch05s15.htm...

Yeah it’s a Linux/FHS thing.
I assume if it's in the open that it's going to be scraped and fed into the system, ToS or not.
Glad someone speaks out against his quackery
Could you list the clients you are using? Because like many I fell into paho and things are not great.
"Stealth" in this case means I am stealthily getting her to try a "hearing aid" by way of Air Pods.
An Incoming 'Stream' from Alpha Centauri?
Whoa, that looks like exactly what I’ve wanted for ages, especially the free part which totally covers my uses.

There are other “personal CRMs” around, but many starting at way more per month/year than I’m willing to budget for such a thing.
Until someone accuses you of looking down their shirt anyway.
Do the accident stats matter here? Journalism and the web are driven by emotions and profits. One accident caused by a distracted, ditzy, or drunken human driver is "2 inches on page 13J" local news. One accident caused by a Tesla is major national news.
How much energy does it take to make a baby? Researchers are rethinking the cost
Hook. And imagine the targeted ad revenue - where else do you have people with different spending powers strapped to a seat with nowhere to go? You have already given the flight operator your verified identification. Amazing new opportunity for data resellers.
If you want a plutocracy then that's how you'd do it.

Spoiler: the weight your vote is already determined by your worth, billionaires can lobby governments, average people can't.
Looking at all these proposals makes me think the TC39 will do anything but add types to the language.
Marketing and PR humans were writing sentences like this one long before LLMs
I actually like having spaces where it's expected to totally log off, so I'm not super excited.

Soon there won't be a patch of grass left in the world where you're not expected to check your email.
Nyxt doesn't need limited Chrome/Firefox like extensions. With Common Lisp you can do
far more, and by default.
...and once they have ripped out the entertainment systems, then they will start charging for the internet connection again!
I've doing some text processing in Raku for the past two weeks. It has been a pleasant and efficient experience.
how do you know how many people took the test? They don't need to use the super-secret fallback test to keep every black person from voting, the test was if all the other methods to keep them from voting didn't work, and then you didn't necessarily use all the test, you used some of the test, just enough to say they failed, and then what? Do you register the test somewhere?

Since the literacy test was used at the discretion of the authorities in charge of the vote they could choose who to give it to based on how likely they were to get away with using it.

I mean if you know the black people in your district will vote for a particular party you probably don't actually want to keep the black people in your district from voting, you want that party not to win because otherwise the party might help the black people living in your district.

If there are 1800 black people and 1100 white people that can vote in your district, then maybe you only need to keep 900 people from voting to be safe.

So then you announce you will be checking outstanding warrants at the polls, 600 people don't show up. You only need to keep 300 people from voting! So you start giving literacy tests to black voters but letting the white voters through - how many black people you think you will actually need to give that literacy test to before the rest of them wise up that you aren't going to be letting them vote?

I'd say maybe 20.

Now how many of them going to get copies of that test to do something about? What if you don't want to give them a copy of the test? How they going to get that copy of the test?

I'm sorry but I think this kind of thing would be pretty under-documented, just like most crime. I'm agreeing you can't keep it thoroughly hidden but hidden enough that it is difficult to say with any specificity this was the actual test used in that district on that day to fail these people.

on edit: removed something that was probably a bit rude, sorry, was going through some problems with kid at the moment and frustration transferred to my writing.
The massive savings aren't always massive. If you use fast chargers frequently, it's going to cost you. In contrast if you use a slow charger regularly at home, then you'll save money. But that's not really an option for road trips.
Part of that correlation is because one of the best ways to get publicity, as Musk has discovered, is to be a monstrous asshole.

Of course you can also get it for philanthropic acts, but Musk doesn't, again because he's an asshole.
Your implicit premise is that we vote for policy. Democracy works despite the majority not understanding much about policy.

One critical strength of democracy is that it allows voters to remove the current politician - even if that politician would rather not be removed.

Where would you pick your line? Small moves of the line change the size of the disenfranchised group.

And I have to admire your chutzpah of suggesting tests to create a disenfranchised group on an article showing serious flaws with testing... Of course you haven't suggested a single way to fix any flaws. I sincerely hope you are not working in any engineering role.
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What services are you self hosting for local YouTube? Right now I just hand pick videos and they get lifted by my plex server, but having a nice route to my internal YouTube will be great for when my kids get to that age!
You can't build a Nuclear Plant on Sudong Island.

Sudong Island is fairly important for the Singaporean Armed Forces as a forward landing strip for the SCS. In fact, the SAF is in the process of expanding the military presence and use of Sudong Island [0]

[0] - https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/more-land-to-be-recla...
Sure but this has the strong odor of LLM. Like, very strong.
IMO even a home-level, per-user tmp directory isn't ideal (though it is better). In a single-user environment, where malware is the biggest concern in current times, what difference does it make if it's a process running under a different user or one that is running under your current user that is attacking you?

In other words, for many systems, a home-level temp directory is virtually the same as /tmp anyway since other than system daemons, all applications are being started as a single user anyway.

And that might be a security regression. For servers you're spinning up most services at bootup and those should either be running fully sandboxed from each other (containerization) or at least as separate system users.

But malware doesn't necessarily need root, or a daemon process user id to inflict harm if it's running as the human user's id and all temp files are in $HOME/.tmp.

What you really want is transient application-specific disk storage that is isolated to the running process and protected, so that any malware that tries to attack another running application's temp files can't since they don't have permission even when both processes are running under the same user id.

At that point malware requires privilege escalation to root first to be able to attack temp files. And again, if we're talking about a server, you're better off running your services in sandboxes when you can because then even root privilege escalation limits the blast radius.
There are three absolutely key differences here.

The first is that, if you get a four-year college degree in mining or civil engineering, you will not spend much of those four years studying management practices; you will spend it studying geology, the mechanical properties of rocks and soil, hydrology (how water flows underground), and existing designs that are known to work well. You probably will not build a mine or a highway, but you will design many of them, and your designs will be evaluated by people who have built mines and highways.

The second is related to why you will not build a mine or highway in those four years: those are inherently large projects that require a lot of capital, a lot of people, and at least months and often decades. Mining companies don't have to worry about getting outcompeted by someone digging a mine in their basement; even for-profit toll highway operators similarly don't have to worry about some midnight engineer beating them to market with a hobby highway he built on the weekends. Consequently, it never happens that the company has built two highways already by the time there is an official project plan, and I am reliably informed that it doesn't happen much with mines either.

The third is that the value produced by mining operations and highways are relatively predictable, as measured by revenue, even if profits are not guaranteed to exist at all. I don't want to overstate this; it's common for mineral commodity prices and traffic patterns to vary by factors of three or more by the time you are in production. By contrast, much software is a winner-take-all hits-driven business, like Hollywood movies. There's generally no way that adding an extra offramp to a highway or an extra excavator to a mine will increase revenue by two orders of magnitude, while that kind of thing is commonplace in software. That means that you win at building highways and mining largely by controlling costs, which is a matter of decreasing variance, while you win at software by "hitting the high notes", which is a matter of increasing variance.

So trying to run a software project like a coal mine or a highway construction project is a recipe for failure.
is larry wall at all engaged with raku?
You have to go DC for long distance
(~lambda/4)
power line transmission: the closer you get to that conductor length, the more power will be radiated away.
Building a Gas Chromatograph
> Your feelings on the matter don't constitute an argument.

Nor do your feelings that poor people are de facto dumber than rich people.
What's the difference between this and just visit twice on a tourist visa?
> I'm confused by that move - why make it free when they could easily charge their captive audience for it?

My understanding is that it's actually a condition of using Starlink for commercial aviation. Every other airline that's announcing a partnership with Starlink is also providing it for free to customers.

IMO, it's a way for Starlink to put pressure on other satellite internet providers. The utilization of free wifi will be way higher than paid wifi. And the other networks - be it OneWeb, Viasat, Hughesnet, etc. don't have as much available bandwidth.
To the extent that black holes are confirmed, sure.
Well, he's dead, so there's that ...

I'm not sure there's much you can do to help someone at this level, other than perhaps take away outside distractions.

It's not remotely clear how Ramanujan's mind worked, or whether he really knew himself. He seems to have been a lot more highly functioning than an idiot savant, but still operating at a level that is hard to comprehend. Was this an expression of humility or devotion by Ramanujan, or was he just expressing his own lack of understanding of how his mind worked?
LLM or not LLM, bullshit smells like bullshit
This is how it works in most EU countries afaik (at least where I live).

You're automatically registered essentially. You only need to show up with the form/ballet you were sent and your ID. Your vote is anonymous, just registered that you voted.

Personally I like the Aussie way even more, which is compulsory.

I feel this is necessary in a democracy. Voting needs to be easy, swift and free for that to work though.
I'm looking for an answer to that. https://invidious.io/ looks like what I want, but I haven't tried it to see.
Another good criticism by Steven Pinker: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.htm....

> An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad thing. But Gladwell frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring. He provides misleading definitions of “homology,” “sagittal plane” and “power law” and quotes an expert speaking about an “igon value” (that’s eigenvalue, a basic concept in linear algebra). In the spirit of Gladwell, who likes to give portentous names to his aperçus, I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong.
Or now you'll get sat data wifi on flights where you previously didn't have anything.
exposure and opportunity means so much in professional life. There's a lot of value out there but someone has to find and promote it.
Only a small fraction of the SWEBOK covers management practices and it doesn't dictate any particular methodology. Competent engineers might not need to do management but they have to understand at least the basics of the management context in which they operate.
I thought that was the standard in Linux, at least. I'm not sure how they do it in the BSDs.
they have a scarce resource - sounds like a perfect opportunity to make some money by selling it!
Hearing loss is one of the very few proven and CAUSAL mechanisms behind cognitive degeneration as we age.

They even know the mechanism: the slow imperceptible year by year withdrawal from rich communication patterns with our environment.

I found that it took me a little while not to feel "old" when I discovered that I needed hearing aids.

But my oh my what a difference.

It's difficult to describe to someone what it's like and how much less cognitive energy you have to put into even simple things like discussing lunch with your wife!
Ask HN: How can ChatGPT solve Sudoku puzzles?
Sudoku is NP-complete. I've tried several puzzles generated by a tool[0], and ChatGPT manages somehow to solve many of the puzzles with the prompt "solve this sudoku puzzle, do not run code." It does fail from time to time, but its still remarkable that in O(n) steps it's able to get so close.

Similarly, ChatGPT doesn't struggle at all with sorting short sequences. With long sequences, however, only o1 produces valid results consistently.

I'm curious to hear peoples thoughts on what might be happening under the hood.

[0]: https://qqwing.com/generate.html
No, but plants need CO2 to do photosynthesis. If atmospheric CO2 concentration falls significantly below 100 ppm, all plants doing C3 photosynthesis (that's pretty much all of the most useful plants, including pretty much all trees) start dying, and only the C4 plants remain.

This would end pretty much all higher life on land.

There are theories that earth was slowly moving towards this point naturally, as across the last 2 million years, CO2 concentration successively decreased with each passing glacial period. Maybe humans inventing fire saved everything!
I think it is obvious that no one will want to put their valuable data in an 'unsound' DB.

To restate my original question: If you had two database systems that were equally reliable, but of course had different strengths and weaknesses, would the ability to update large tables without significantly impacting general query speeds, be a major factor in deciding between the two?
Sure. Employees feeling valued is necessary but not sufficient. Workers most focused on "winning" will have higher salaries (it's what they're optimizing) so just hire over priced people and ensure your employees are all "winners".
You haven't provided an argument so there's nothing for me to disprove. You haven't specified in what ways preventing the poor to vote would help anything. You just said "well I wouldn't ask a poor person to help me buy something!"

They're citizens of our society and therefore any and all societal decisions will directly impact them. It is our right to have some amount of influence over decisions that directly impact us. You, yourself, understand that.

Why then should that concept not extend to the poor? This question is purely rhetorical - I know you don't have an answer, and probably the least embarrassing way forward would be to just say nothing. But, that's the perspective I'm addressing here and why I didn't bother to explain why the poor deserve those rights. I don't need to - I get those rights, and I like them, so that's the status-quo.
Mathematica has thousand of functions, this seems to be just an algorithm for defining and using rules like that in mathematica.
Same with music.
> This is primarily the reason I am careful going deep into the Tailscale ecosystem (which, similar to earlier Bitwarden, is touting a "hey, we are the good guys" horn for now). My network is a critical piece of my infra and I don't want to put too much trust in one company

I love Tailscale, but this has been bothering me too. Actually, I think it's an even bigger concern than with Bitwarden because of what Tailscale does - once you start using it, it literally becomes your entire network.

That said, what Tailscale provides is really important. We need tools like this to push back against how rigid and centralized the Internet has become over the years.

For those worried about this: what are you doing about it? Did you just move to Headscale? Or are you using something completely different? How has that worked out for you?
A doubling is, in base 2, an order of magnitude. I look at 5-10% improvements as marginal and doublings as significant especially when considering you’re dealing with something as complex as a beam formed point to point communication between two fast moving objects.

What bothers me more is the discussion of people doing video calls and phone calls on a flight. My neighbor on a recent flight from nyc to seattle jumped into a zoom call from the middle seat of a 100% full flight. It was obnoxious and distracting, and a harbinger for the total collapse of the last vestiges of any form of relaxation and decorum in the sky.
My airline of choice doesn't have any publicly released plans to upgrade their fleet like that, they are still using Boingo or whatever it's called. They still have their "no voice or video calls" over wifi rule and I hope they stick to that even if they go the way of United and Qatar and Starenshittify their fleet. It's nice to have the technology break that the small amount of friction of having to join the in-flight wifi has for a few hours when I travel by air.
There’s a correlation with car price I find. Lots of baby blue Porsches and bright green Lambo’s in my neighborhood.

Interestingly, the daily driver for these individuals seems to be a white Tesla model Y though.
Yeah the ultimate impact of LLMs might be the end of SEO and copywriting. Rhetoric is cool again, as in skill to convey as much meaning as possible using as little words as possible. "Content" was always a bit of a silly term: the inherent value of it is always negative (proportionate to size), offset by the new knowledge conveyed in a piece. The attention economy is collapsing right in front of our eyes.
I really, really dislike the Elixir/Ruby style of optional parentheses. Explicit is better than implicit!

I also absolutely cannot parse this, and while I'm open to the idea that eventually this would become readable, right now this just looks like word salad:

value min ceiling max floor
I don’t think it’s right to put any sort of filter on which citizens are allowed to vote.

Any filter immediately becomes a tool to limit the number of voters for the opposition.

We already have arguments over what should be considered a felony
, gerrymandering county lines, etc.

Seems like requiring a certain level of education would just incentivize more attacks on public education
Nah they're buying their own constellation (see Starshield) and installing eavesdropping equipment in the commercial downlink centers. What more could they want?
Common Sense Machines – Generative Agents to Control 3D Tools and Beyond
We make B2B software that we sell in multiple EU countries.

There's just such a huge difference between the countries when it comes to anything official. Access to systems can require a local office or partner, which can sometimes be very tricky. This was a blocker for us in one country until we hired someone native to that country, so they could act on our behalf.

Laws are very different. EU sets the bounds, but there's still a lot of local variation in how the various EU mandates are implemented. Thus you frequently need per-country tweaks, or even separate implementations in some instances.

Then there's the languages. While English-only is OK for some applications, for many it is not. So you need to translate, a lot. Regardless you'll need to support multiple different regional settings and keyboard layouts. So there's a lot more testing to be done and bugs to be had there.
What about Madhava of Sangamagrama[1], who (among other things) described various Taylor expansions for trigonometric functions (including an estimate of the error term) in the 14th century? (ie 300 years before James Gregory discovered the method for the Taylor expansion in the West).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhava_of_Sangamagrama
I think he talked about being a libertarian in his early years (who wasn't?), and moving to progressivism in one of his revisionist history episodes.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/in-tripl...
Ranked choice voting seems like the most reasonable choice - the current FPP system lends itself to strategic voting and a two-party system with increasingly polarised parties.

Ranked choice allows for a middle ground to form independently of the parties at the outer fringes - it doesn't necessarily mean the centre wins, but it does exist and have a chance.
Can't wait, thank you Ghislain for this news!!!
Give me my London A-Z back! A

As a kid I did something geeky that no one would need today. A compressed timetable for the train for common times of day that fits inside my wallet. For example if all day the train is 24 and 54 past the hour that is a single row.

No need for that when google maps or a trip planning app can tell you