skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not "totally-undetectable". Nineteen foreign nationals were caught voting in 2016 in North Carolina alone.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/19-aliens-charged-voter-fr...

Those are just a few of the ones who used their own names. An unofficial analysis by CBS "showed [at least] 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade [2006-2016]."

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-investigators-chicago...

We know the problem exists. We won't know how widespread the problem is without a thorough nationwide investigation, but the Democrats oppose that fiercely. They demand extensive evidence be provided before an investigation will be allowed, then ignore what evidence is available.
A truck is arguably a work machine for many people. It's a tool designed to be used as such. I dont think the Cybertruck is a tool in that regard, because it clearly fails at the most basic "truck things", if the general internet is to be believed.

Now, if aesthetic is the primary factor here, the CB probably trumps the F150, by a huge margin, and one would not even consider something like the F150 as a suitable replacement or equivalent.

The GP in my thread decided to replace their designer high heels fashion statement for some boring hiking boots, because the heels did not fare well when walking long distances.
I remember digging into this 10-15 years ago. 'shared hosting' per provider had some arbitrary resource restrictions, but you could still find out via a cron job or some such. Like `cat`ting /etc/network stuff. Basically a sieve.
This looks great. Hard to find used robots it supports.
That may be the case, but nevertheless when they were dealt with the hostage crisis, going back in time and correcting the policy decisions which precipitated it was not among their list of options.

(And were the commanders on the ground that week actually in decision making positions during the Chechen conflict? 'Following orders' doesn't excuse their participation, but it seems unlikely they personally were ever in a position to stop the conflict.)
1+1=3 (for very large values of 1)
I don't think the universe can have "meaning" in the human sense, because any potential "meaning" is outside of our field of observation or understanding. If something indeed created the universe or some definitive sequence of events spurred it into existence, I think that would constitute "meaning" enough for humans to be satisfied. But there is almost certainly not way to observe that fact because it is outside of the realm of our possible experiences.

But even then, if we knew what caused the universe to exist, we would then be looking at the cause of the universe and wondering what caused that cause to exist. And so I think we'd still be left wondering why anything exists at all at the end of the day.
Sioux: Open-source reimplementation of Comanche 3
> The best way to do that, I think, is to do away entirely with the symbolic and mathematical foundations, and to derive what Gaussians are, and all their fundamental properties from purely geometric and visual principles. That’s what we’ll do in this article.

Perhaps I have a different understanding of "symbolic". The article proceeds to use various symbolic expressions and equations. Why say this above if you're not going to follow through? Visuals are there but peppered in.
See here: https://culture.ghost.io/forget-gladwell/
I closed the page instantly after opening it. Reader view isn't even available. Sigh.
That is very cool, thank you for sharing it.

I wonder if Fedora does this by default?
The implication that acknowledging statistical reality that certain income groups and racial groups have less ID is in it of itself racist is, well, racist. Because then you can use this adject dismissal of reality to apply racist laws and claim they're not racist.

In the naivest, most shallow analysis Voter ID is not racist because black Americans are just as capable of receiving ID. The logic is fine, but purposefully ignorant.

The barrier to ID IS NOT just "do you have the physical/mental ability to get ID". The barriers are economic and geographic. When you don't put DMVs in black areas that becomes a barrier. When IDs cost money that becomes a barrier. When a motor vehicle is required that becomes a barrier.
Fib(15) is just 610, so no big int involved.

As a quick double-check, fib(n)< 2^(n-1) and 2^14 is 16384.
Devenv is switching Nix implementation to Tvix
The "If Books Could Kill" podcast did a good demolition of "Outliers" if podcasts are your thing (plus the rest of the episodes are worth a listen.)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/11658428-malcolm...
pam_namespace normally isolates /tmp by user or SELinux context, so your example might require a couple tweaks. I haven't tried any of these but I'm thinking any of:

1) You could modify the namespace init script used by pam_namespace to also mount a shared directory under each user's /tmp, and do this only for the users who need it.

2) Rely on a different shared directory for the users who need it.

3) Configure namespace.conf to isolate by SELinux context and put each user who needs a shared /tmp into the same SELinux role.
That's why you see everyone losing their goddamn minds over Warren Buffet. They just can't stand to see success. Jensen Huang. Michael Dell. John Mars. Alain Wertheimer. Phil Knight. Dustin Moskovitz.

People literally just trawl the most-successful-people list and find folks to hate. Simple as.
After reading your post, I went looking for good C/C++ implementations suitable for embedded development, and honestly, I couldn’t find many! MQTT is typically straightforward to implement, so most companies develop their own version to better adapt to the specific systems they use for data transmission. That said, maybe this is an opportunity to create a well-designed MQTT client implementation tailored specifically for embedded devices! :)
It seems really easy to associate a company with its internal domain though? Unless the company treats it as a secret only known between machines.
These days, if you're just talking to yourself, people assume you're on a cell call...
Gladwell doesn't go into detail in this piece about what he means by holding ideas loosely, but there's probably an important distinction between (i) loose in the sense that he's open to new evidence, and (ii) loose in the sense that his understanding is not deep.

Gladwell's performance in the Munk debate versus Taibbi et al. illustrates that when you're in (ii), it's often hard to defend one's ideas. He came to the debate expecting to get by on platitudes, and then pivoted to some ad-hominems rather than being able to defend the merits of his ideas. Based on post-debate audience feedback, it ended up being one of the most lopsided losses in Munk debate history.
iirc it is about 6 or 7 GB on windows that you need to install. Zig can do it in 75MB, Go i think around the same. Rust has the same problem though.

As for IDE, people who use plain editors like vim, emacs... exist but their numbers are merely a statistical error compared to people that use IDEs(i am counting VS code into this category even though it's just electron). Of course we could debate what is and what is not IDE, but the point here is that we need syntax highlighting, refactoring, jumping to definitions, finding usages and other functionality that IDEs provide.
40, and I concur.

Even if the goal is a cultural appreciation, Shakespeare's plays will tell you as much about England in 1585-1613 as Terry Gilliam's filmography does about the Anglosphere in 1971-present.

It's more than zero, but it's also missing the overwhelming majority of the context and the world in which it exists.

Modern readings treat Shakespeare with excessive reverence: not just "a playwright" but "The Bard".

Those plays were made to be performed with very short rehearsal time before performing, outside, with no lights (at most fire, but it was wood and thatched and burned down from a theatrical cannon), in a crowded venue where audiences would be expected to jeer and cheer, whereas today it's a finely rehearsed performance by people who take it seriously performed for an audience who consider it high culture.

Monty Python's Gumbies aren't well understood by new viewer today, as modern news treats "the man on the street" somewhat differently than in the 70s. How wrong do modern viewers comprehend Shakespeare's characters, considering that "The Taming of the Shrew" is classified as a comedy?

That said, I was also busy teaching myself a lot of maths and science ahead of the classes; what I learned from school but would not have taught myself was the basics of German and French (though only the former stuck with me), the absolute basics of music notation, some metalworking and woodworking, and PE.

Oh, and the practical experiences in the chemistry lab, though I'd have still done the theory myself without that.
I see where you're going with your question, but like Windows' Services/scheduled tasks, most of those 'users' don't have a $HOME folder.

Not to say they couldn't have one!
That may be your experience. In such case I feel for you. For me doing things I don't want to do take less than an hour a day for my whole adult life. During school it was more like 11 (including going there, homework, other related chores). I hate school system with passion and I feel it was the worst thing that happened to me. I would be better off wandering the streets and getting access to a library.
Compatibility can be iffy though. I eventually switched back to the official VSCode application because I was fed up that extensions kept breaking randomly.

I'm worried that Microsoft is succeeding at making the semi-proprietary version of VSCode the only viable option, while keeping the OSS forks as second-class citizens at best.
I think its awesome that Apple has built these features, and I prefer to live in a world where they exist versus don't.

The hearing aid feature, to me, is a little overblown. It feels to me like the biggest positive impact it will have is, with some luck, forcing down the price of typical hearing aids and opening up the conversation on more competition. It might also be good in a pinch, and good for lower income customers(?), but I think at the end of the day there's a reason why hearing aids are generally pretty slim, skin colored, and innocuous. There's no reason why I have to take my Airpods out when I order Chipotle, I can hear everyone perfectly fine with them in, but I do because there will always be social stigma talking with someone who has earplugs in.

There was an "event" on Threads a while back where a wedding photographer asked "the world's" opinion about asking attendees to take their Apple Watches off. Some people say "oh hell yeah, those are gaudy, I don't want any of my wedding party even wearing one at any point in the event", meanwhile one person responded "The Apple Watch is literally a medical device for me, I need to wear it as often as possible, I can't take it off". Idk; feels like a related concept. Sometimes the social stigma doesn't matter, these devices drive some people insane with anxiety about their health, Apple's marketing plays up the anxiety because it sells hardware every year... at some point, someone will say "I can't take the Airpods out, they're my hearing aids, as diagnosed by iOS 18.1", and maybe this is just me being an old man yelling at clouds, but... that's cringe, go see a doctor.

The other angle I don't hear talked about enough: The Air Pods Pros don't have the battery life to really fill the same role as hearing aids.
I'm curious, what was the debate about?
That's true of physical reality itself. Everything that happens constantly leaks information to the surrounding, spreading outward at the speed of light.

Point being, there always are side channels.
>I found my coatrack moved to that sale area and marked $20. (I just stole it back.)

how many times have you gone through the potential argument with them in your head?
In Europe high school is when you get a generic education, and in college you choose your topic. So if you are a languages major you'll have no more math, if you're a STEM major you'll have no more history, if you're a philosophy major you might have logic and some history but no physics or linear algebra, and so on.

I studied computer science (M.Eng.) and I had to provide an English certification as a foreign language, but that was it. The only non-computer science, non-math, non-electronics courses were one semester of chemistry, one of economics and three of physics (which you could say is related to electronics though). So basically 15-20%.

Having to study more history or biology would have been a huge waste of time in a CS university, and I say that as someone who did more Latin and Greek than math and physics in high school.
It's futile to try to objectively analyze the dispute, sure, but it's both doable and reasonable to describe how one side feels when discussing their motivations.
Singapore likes to have good relations with everyone. Now Australia has an additional reason to be displeased with anyone who attacks Singapore or threatens their electricity.

Singapore also doesn't like any one country to have excess leverage. Many countries supply them with electricity, this adds one more.
Prisma to Offer Postgres
You’re right, I can’t edit my comment anymore though.
I'd wager in bad economic times if someone can afford a new car, they would buy something more subdued as to not stand out. In good economic times they wouldn't feel that same social pressure?

Kind of like choosing an outfit for a funeral vs a birthday party.
As opposed to allowing people who are naive enough to believe such tests will be deployed equitably to vote. Perhaps, if you believe in the concept of restricting voting, you can feel the inspiration to begin with yourself. Somehow though, I imagine you don't like that idea. Which makes me wonder why you would then even believe in disenfranchisement in the first place.
Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game released
Spin glasses are a proposed model of learning in Neural Nets[0] along with state changes and sand pile collapses.

So this paper is worth reading if you study learning in neural nets

[0] Spin-glass models of neural networks Amit et al 1985
https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.32.10...

This was why Hopfield was awarded a physics Nobel - spin glasses as emergent learning.

Along with Expected Energy of Brownian motion in gases for Hinton’s Boltzmann Machines ( and of course backprop being Newtonian downhill on the manifold of correctness ).

Langland’s worthy crossovers and the utility of the generalisation.
> News? Not going to be impartial so I'd rather be able to pick my poison - otherwise it's just propaganda.

Why can't publicly funded media be impartial?
That’s why I love this fun fact so much :) He spent a good deal of his life on natural science before turning to philosophy, not unlike Newton and Liebniz — he just happened to be way better at philosophy than science. It doesn’t help that Newton’s plan was alchemy-based, ofc.

Anyway, from Kant’s Wikipedia:

In the Universal Natural History, Kant laid out the nebular hypothesis, in which he deduced that the Solar System had formed from a large cloud of gas, a nebula. Kant also correctly deduced that the Milky Way was a large disk of stars, which he theorized formed from a much larger spinning gas cloud. He further suggested that other distant "nebulae" might be other galaxies. These postulations opened new horizons for astronomy, for the first time extending it beyond the solar system to galactic and intergalactic realms. From then on, Kant turned increasingly to philosophical issues, although he continued to write on the sciences throughout his life
Chipotle's New AI Recruiter Aims to Cut Hiring Time by 75%
They show it on the landing page, but having first class support for CTF grammars is such an interesting niche for a language. Perl (Rake was originally Perl 6 if I recall) always had solid tooling for dealing with text manipulation, but adding context free grammars in directly is another level. I have to imagine it ends up being seldom used for a lot of applications, but I wonder if you end up with a "see nails when you have a hammer" situation (and not necessarily in a bad way).

I personally have never used a context free grammar outside of writing a programming language parser.
> On a literal level it's not the same as "keep it in RAM"

I read the GP as 'literal level' in-RAM. If I interpreted that incorrectly, apologies to GP.
Russia Found to Use North Korea Missiles with Western Parts
How does this compare against something like Wanderlog?

Would be nice to see a little more detail on the individual features on the main page.

Oh and your copyright is out of date.
MacOS does something like this. Not by username, but through /private, which is a private mount, and then /tmp is linked to /private/tmp, as are /var and /etc.
The basic problem is you're wrong and also right: it all depends.

That is widely understood as the senior+ swe mantra.

The SWEBOK, on the contrary, asserts "it does not depend" and that in a sense is the core problem.

For a detailed takedown, the ACM's is the most famous, there are others that v3 sparked. I'm sure v4 is sparking it's own detailed analysis ... I'm bowing out to go do my day job now. :)
Practical Go: Real world advice for writing maintainable Go programs(2019)
syncopoli does scheduled rsync from android
Australia is risky because as a member of AUKUS they are likely to be a combatant in the anticipated war between America/Taiwan aligned countries and China. This puts Singapore's power supply in the crosshairs.
In which people forget that computers have other purposes beyond being boxes for CTF competitions. Shared mutable global state isn't always bad.
I just rely on Apple's iCloud contacts, you can add people into groups if you just want to see subsets of them, and it's enough. Sometimes simple is good.
Depends on the OS. In OpenBSD, /var/tmp is a symlink to ../tmp and is so is cleaned on reboots and periodically.
> Sorry, no votes for you; it was "word".

If it was this, there would be quotes around "word".

> No, wait, you needed to underline every occurrence of the word "line".

If it was this, it wouldn't say "last".

This particular one is not ambiguous.
How arrogant for anyone to look at these incredible pictures and think they know ANYTHING at all. We may be the center of it all, we may not, this may be a massive simulation, or a massive random accident. The only correct answer is to admit we know nothing. Humans are so fixated on knowing everything.
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This is a common belief and true of many discrete models because they violate symmetries, but that is not true of all discrete models:

A Noether Theorem for discrete Covariant Mechanics, https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08997
The debate was "Be it resolved: Do not trust the mainstream media".

To Gladwell's credit, he did try to attempt to understand why he lost and has written about it.
Most Milky Way stars have been catalogued (to some luminosity/visibility). Wikipedia to the rescue (almost...): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_catalogue#Gaia_catalogues
I'm confused because my understanding is that "first to file" rather than "first to invent" is now basically universal.

My assumption was that tagline meant what to said, that it didn't matter when you create or publish something, that the government was open to giving a monopoly to whomever jumps through the legal hoops first.

...which has been a major load of salt I've carried around with me.
It's up there with the accepted Tx/Rx for transmit and receive.
So, gut feeling.
You may be thinking about the Motorola C123. Back in the days, you could use it to dump TMSI and IMSI using OsmoconBB : https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/MotorolaC123
> just

I am always skeptical of instances of normal consciousness that claim to know the unknowable.

Like how could one even conclusively fact check such a thing? Do people even try?
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite: Geekerwan publishes first performance benchmarks [video]
The miss, which in my state has changed recently, was kicking kids out eventually who failed one subject but were succeeding in others. Sure, that kid isn't going to an Ivy League school, but there's value in finding ways to make up for what they aren't getting versus producing a high school dropout with bleak prospects in today's society.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who feels this way. He's also a shill for return to office despite not actually working in an office.
> This irrational hatred of personally owned cars is puzzling.

The reasons don't seem that puzzling. Road traffic accidents are the cause of 1.2 million annual deaths (largely pedestrians and cyclists), the leading cause of death for ages 5-29, in addition to being a huge source of pollution.

The flipside of some of your points (like cars being good because you need one to get groceries) is that designing cities/etc. around cars and having insufficient public transport is a major cause of that need in the first place - particularly to the detriment of the many who can't afford or are otherwise unable to drive a car.

I don't think we can just rip cars out entirely, and definitely not all road vehicles as you seem to be implying ("poor immigrants to carry building supplies from the quarry to the factory then to the customer"), but I do think it'd be beneficial to minimize their use to where it's necessary, instead of as a default with associated costs subsidized by the general public.
The problem is that there's no effective way to enforce those limits without compromising everyone's privacy. It simply is not possible to have privacy and any amount of eavesdropping.
Hydrogen storage using existing infrastructure in lakes and reservoirs
..."Mercedes says its hydrometallurgical process is less intensive in terms of energy consumption and material waste.""... so how much (clean) water does it consume e.g. per car-battery reprocessed?

Not to take away from this being good news, but clean water is also a scarce resource.
Excited for this. I’ve played around with iTerm alternatives but always came back because the replacements never felt native, which ultimately slowed down my workflow more than the speed boosts helped.
For extreme values 1+1 can be as high as 5.
Synctrain: A Rethought iOS Client for Syncthing
This will encourage people to compose a write only, Perl-esque horrors. Euthanize this atrocious abomination right away.
The current operating requirements in South Australia mandate around 80MW of gas generation for system strength reasons.

So even on last Saturday when "operational demand" in South Australia reached the ballpark of -200MW (that is, rooftop solar generation was exceeding the demand in the state by 200MW), there was still 80MW of gas in the mix. (The excess was being exported to Victoria).
A couple well-placed em-dashes and at least it doesn’t read like the author is trying to rap.
Kamal Handbook, 2nd edition, is released today
Relevant — decades earlier, Righard Feynman discussing AI like a boss. He discusses exactly the problems being solved in the article with the Haar approach, but from his time.

He mentioned Lenat, who was the OG and who the “LeNet” by Yann LeCun was named after probably (it is mentioned in the article).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRvjS7q1DI
Yeah, I agree. Also, I don't think there is an ideal way to learn something. Different people absorb lessons best in different ways.

The people I've thought were most successful were not grinding their way through learning but enjoying it, letting new questions arise and pursuing them. Is that efficient? It might not seem so. But the learning tends to be more transformative; they grok the lessons more deeply.

A work colleague once told me that it's like reading textbooks in graduate school -- you read it once just to get a general sense of the vocabulary. They you start over, concentrating on the meaning. New ideas take a lot of study to learn well. "Efficient" learning strikes me as a compromise where you get a superficial understanding for the sake of speed.