skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I agree. Oddly, the one place where the terms gained some level of settling appears to be corporate, but I can't tell if it is due to the nature of corporations, cross-pollination or some other unknown factors.

What I personally find very interesting is the age of that paper and the fact that, the discrepancy between model most commonly presented in school ( in my case, variant of perfectly rational individual ) and real life has been voiced nearly eight decades ago and is not seriously discussed as foundational knowledge when it comes to economics.
Once you start on the path of semantics, it's often turtles all the way down. So, unless you want to be rigorous, it's best to go with the generally accepted best bet.
Businesses worth billions of dollars were built by selling forever licenses. Pretty much every big B2C software company that is older than 15 years got that big selling forever licenses. Microsoft got big selling forever licenses to Windows and Office. Adobe got big selling forever licenses to Photoshop. Every games company, etc.

We know with certainty that selling forever licenses scales because we have concrete examples of it happening with some of the largest software companies in history.

SaaS is only a recent trend, it’s not the only feasible way to make money with software.
I think there may be some confusion. The standard Chinese characters for 1, 2, and 3 (一, 二, 三) are among the simplest characters in Chinese: literally just one, two and three horizontal strokes. These would be extremely difficult to forget! What your wife was likely trying to write were the special variants (壹, 贰, 叁) that are used on checks, official documents, etc. These were specifically designed to be hard to alter or forge (think the difference between writing "100" versus "ONE HUNDRED" on a check). Even highly educated Chinese people might need to look these up since they are specialized characters not used in everyday writing.
New Colorful iMacs
I think the Canadian site posted this early by mistake.
There's actually a couple different "types" of Type 1 Diabetes. For example, you can get it during pregnancy (Gestational Diabetes), etc. So it doesn't surprise me that it's possible to get it from Covid. I seem to recall someone getting it from an injury that damaged the Pancreas enough to prevent it from generating insulin. I don't know if that still "counts" as Type 1; but it certainly has the same effects.
I'm working on my own game, but I'm trying to generalize some of my code to be reused in future projects. I don't wanna say I'm making an engine as much as a framework for writing graphics code in DirectX. I'm also working on various tools for creating configuration files
Removing the added information would make it much more difficult to parse, though. Paragraphs don't exist in oral English - or spaces between words, quotation marks, capitalization, etc. - but we still find it much more easy to read properly formatted text than improperly formatted text.

Just because people are able to understand strict phonetic transcriptions, doesn't mean it's a good way to convey information (which is why almost no language relies on just strict phonetic transcriptions).
> (since you can't grow many things in the US, or if you can it's ridiculously cost prohibitive and still will be low quality)

That's certainly a statement. It's ludicrous but it technically counts as a statement.
So they took away an 8-year-old child's mother, jailed her overnight, she lost her job, and this is punishing whom for what?
Yes, but I definitely also see the opposite quite a bit: Somebody several layers down thought that something was an edge case, resolved it in a strange way, and now you have a chain of stuff above it dealing with the edge case because the bottom layer took a wrong turn.

The most common examples are empty collections: either disallowing them even though it would be possible to handle them, or making a strange choice like using vacuous falsity, i.e.

all [] == False

(Just for illustration what I mean by "vacuous falsity", Python's all correctly returns True).

Now, every layer above has to special-case these as well, even if they would be a completely normal case otherwise.
No, you’re right, ART now (I think they started using Dalvik, actually, but switched, just like Android itself). I guess I forgot what year it was for a minute there :)
People do depend a lot on the benevolence of the butcher and the brewer and the baker, because while regulation and inspections and laws and so on are there to stop out and out sociopaths from killing people in pursuit of profits, a lot of people that do their jobs are doing it because they think their job provides some value to the community at large, and they try to do it in a way that doesn't harm people.
To celebrate archive.org’s reopening here a great piece of computer history: “Triumph of the Nerds” from 1996.

The series is 3 episodes with interviews with the great ones of the personal computer revolution: amongst others the maker of the Altair, Steve and Steve from Apple where Steve Jobs claims he invented everything (he doesn’t, let it go) and a great, detailed, coverage of how Microsoft won the IBM contract and Gary Kildall didn’t.

Also, it shows Bill Gates claiming he invented the GUI (he did…. say that) and then the Parc Alto story is told followed by the story of the ultimate demise of Apple Computer after Microsoft introduced Windows.

For those who don’t want to dedicate 3 hours of their life to this but are curious: here a transcript:
https://www.pbs.org/nerds/transcript.html

Practical note, “download all” didn’t work for me but the individual parts played in the browser.
1) Yes they do, especially at smaller practices (another reason for the mass extinction of independent medical practices)

2) When they do have other people for it (which yes, is very often to your point), they're paying those people

3) When you pay other people, you need to make more money to pay them with

4) To make more money, you need more volume

5) To get more volume, you need to spend less time with each patient

You've changed nothing about the core dynamic of the system, just interjected with a meaningless and not-even-totally-true detail.
I've had a lot of fun with this reverse engineering my Napoleon gas fireplace BLE controller for the purposes of integration with Home Assisstant.
In the process discovered the UART protocol it speaks with the very common SIT ProFlame 2 fireplace controller. So you could now build a very cheap controller for ProFlame 2 based fireplaces.

I went the Android Bluetooth HCI snoop log + Wireshark route.

I wrote a Wireshark protocol dissector for that specific BLE protocol which you can use with the Android BT logs: https://github.com/kaechele/bonaparte/blob/main/contrib/wire...
I found this extremely valuable when debugging, because it allows me to visualize both the packets the OEM app sends and compare this with what my library sends over the air.

I ended up documenting my findings here: https://bonaparte.readthedocs.io/

BLE hacking is pretty fun.
It reflects the data rate. Since DDR memory transfers data on both the up and down part of the clock signal, DDR RAM on a 3000Mhz clock signal is said to make 6000 Megatransfers per second, in normal usage. 48 GT/s would imply a 24Ghz clock if it were normal DDR, which seems absurd.

Edit: It seems GDDR6 is in reality "quad data rate" memory, and GDDR7 packs even more bits in per clock using PAM3 signaling, so if I'm reading this right maybe they're saying the chips can run at up to 8Ghz base clock?
8ghz * 6 bits per cycle * 32 bit bus / 8 bits per byte = 192GB/s.

Edit again: It seems I undercounted the number of bits/pin per cycle of base clock for GDDR7 and it's more like 12 (so 4ghz max base clock) or even 24 (so 2ghz), which seems a lot more reasonable.
Psychological safety vs. high standards: A misunderstood dynamic
Thanks for linking to this -- it highlights a fallacy that Hayek seemed to mire in whereas on one hand, he believed that the aggregate "market" forces would always be sufficient to stabilize pricing stability (/inflation) he railed against the ability for any 'manager' (i.e. the government) to do so.

I'd strongly recommend to folks interested in this to pick up the Stiglitz, et al 2001 Nobel Prize on information asymmetries-research
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/advanced-economic...
And I think that is just fine. There's a large amount of things you don't actually need to see a doctor for. Especially things like looking up your nose and prescribing a Z-pak.
I think it speaks to how low institutional trust is and how often it has been abused.

Its isn't that someone says "Yep this all checks out and I have no further questions"

It's that this person is at least sharing references and the last person said "shut up and do what I say"
CSS Min() All the Things
> "The tool erases all audio for "data safety reasons," according to Nabla’s chief technology officer Martin Raison."
It's fine to use tools like this, so long as one understand what they do. But the definitive record is the audio recording. Erasing it is incomprehensible. It shows either a deep ignorance of what gen AI does or a callous disregard for the consequences of these errors.
I’ve refrained from commenting on this one precisely because (I assume) his definition of “rational economic order” and his justification for “best”, in the first two paragraphs, are context a reader of this journal is expected to already have, since he doesn’t elaborate on them, and lacking that the rest of the paper’s basically pointless (though his protest that in 1945 it was widely denied that there is any knowledge but scientific knowledge seems deeply silly per se and exactly the kind of thing you often see from people trying to push a “rebel” image for marketing reasons…)

But yes the definitions of several other terms seem slippery and to change from one use to the next, including knowledge.
Yeah, everyone’s different. My intake is around 10k kcal when cycling throughout the day, and it’s like nothing. How much I climb matters though, by a lot (at least 2 000 m). Strangely enough, hiking doesn’t cut it for me, it doesn’t go down much even after 50 km/day, which is wild (I still do it though).
That explains it. Yup these were some sort of official / govt documents. Thanks for the explanation!

Edit. I should have realized that. I just came back from China and my kids were watching a children's show with the following subtitles: "一二一二一二一二一二一二一二一二一二一二". Took me a while to realize the subtitles were not broken. The characters were marching chanting "one two one two..." :)
Drupal Module for extending ArcGIS Online's features.
https://github.com/you-knowww/agocms

Apple vision pro app for documenting realtor's pre-listing-checklist notes in space and then exporting notes as PDF forms required by local MLS.
Two parents, all alone, without a community around them. Yeah it's near-impossible.
Code is usually ran many more times than it is written. It's usually worth spending a bit of extra time to do something the right way the first time when you can avoid having to rewrite it under pressure only after costs have ballooned. This is proven time and time again, especially in places where inefficient code can be so easily identified upfront.
I think it's also an issue of translation. "Dialect" in English is variety of a language. 方言 (fangyang, translated as dialect) in Chinese is a regional language or speech. Linguistically, Cantonese and other varieties of Chinese are recognised to be part of the Chinese language group / family.

Cf https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%B1%89%E8%AF%AD/22488993?fro...
Nuclear Fusion's New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator
> Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love.

In most cases, this is probably due to the care givers training their children to prefer that kind of food because they don't make many home cooked meals.

I don't even know if it's true, though. When I was a kid, the best food in the world were the home made meals my grandmother made, especially on the holidays. Remember as a teenager telling my Grandma her meals were better than any restaurant I had ever eaten at, and meaning it in all sincerity.
I'm sure most readers here are using an adblocker.

Try disabling it for this website. It's incredible. The content is difficult to see between all the various ad surfaces. My browser came to a screeching halt.
Yeah, but I don't expect this to be substantively harder than learning most regional accents (could be wrong), and afaik it's also not critical for legibility.
Well, everyone's a kid for the first few years of their life, and children require a lot of care. The elderly require care. The unwell require care. Everyone wants care some of the time.

We do have cultural institutions to do much of this work. Parents care for kids. Adults care for aging parents. Romantic partnerships exist so that people can reciprocally care for each other. Still, we have to fill in the gaps for kids without parents, seniors without kids, and sick people. The demand for therapy and sex work proves that people will pay a lot of money to be cared for, even when they don't need it to survive.

> So in the end the question is: how much of this type of exclusive (and scarce) caring capacity does society really need?

A lot, apparently.
We use the 418 response code in our authentication service. We use to determine whether the token is invalid due to expiration, vs any other reason. If 418, we know to refresh to access token automatically... pretty harmless and definitely not a security measure.
By definition, the human body cannot convert fiber into carbs the human body can burn (but microbes do turn some of the fiber into short-chain fatty acids, which is fuel for human colon cells). That is how "fiber" is defined.
A second person in Missouri caught bird flu without exposure to infected animals
My partner and I discuss this a lot and I hate that no one in the US realizes how detrimental urban sprawl is.

How did you learn to understand non-profit organization work like this?
Curmudgeon here: this was true for a relatively brief period of time. Nowadays I'd say that gradle has (inexplicably to me) taken the lead - and everyone adds custom crap to their gradle build making them far less predictable than maven builds used to be.

I guess it's better than the nightmare over in the front-enders' world...
thank you for sharing this, I wonder if you have anything to say about the extension itself?
Re: “all of humanities problems”, I think that AI will more productively and safely be deployed in personalized, decentralized contexts. AKA Artificial Self-Instantiation for everyone who wants it, rather than a single Rehoboam god machine[1].

Re: capitalism, this is our chance. The world is about to turn upside down. We must strike while the iron is hot. We don’t need to replace capitalism with communism or any other specific thing; we just need to aggressively question all human hierarchies, and get rid of any that can not justify themselves. A just society will come about piece by piece, in this fashion. This is what Chomsky calls “Anarchy”, which is a much more understandable phrasing than what I was taught in high school, ie “no laws ever of any kind”

[1] https://youtu.be/SSRZfDL4874?si=XQzmR2V5SwiiiX3U
By this logic, cars and industrialization also enabled fascism.
So £40,000 per million-lumen hours = £0.40 per lux, no?

Today that metric might look 10x better, around 4 cents per lux
"is to say that when no force acts on a test particle in curved space, it should move along a geodesic"

Every single author who calls gravity not a force, just hand waves right past this: why should the particle move at all?

Sure if the particle is moving it will follow a curved path thinking the path is straight.

But if the particle just sits there, okay the path is curved, but it just sits there.

I've heard explanations having to do with the fact that particles move through time, that doesn't really answer the question because it can continue moving through time while just sitting there.

"in the absence of being pushed or pulled, test particles in a curved spacetime will free fall"

Really? Why exactly will they free fall? Why can't they just stay exactly where they are?

I've also never heard anyone explain what the issue is with calling gravity a force. One person said it can't be a force because it makes light move, and light is massless.

However gravity does not act on mass it acts on energy, and mass is just a form of energy. Since photons have energy obviously they gravitate.
Performance seems quite poor in Efficiency mode and Efficiency seems quite poor in performance mode. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/s/hgwjlsjXIW

Seems like AMD is closer.
I still miss the 27" iMacs. They were such a great form factor.
honestly making siri event a little bit better (which as far as I can tell has stubbornly refused to improve over the last few years) would make me more exicted about apple intelligence than all the text summarization and rewriting features
Redline, Meta infostealer malware operations seized by police
16GB base RAM, they finally did it.

They also did move the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse to USB-C.
Sabine Hossenfelder chimed in [0] on this discussion a couple days ago. I generally find her to be trustworthy on topics related to physics:

> The easiest way to see that gravity is not a force is to note that a force causes acceleration, but gravity does not.

> Acceleration is measurable with a device called an accelerometer. Acceleration is not relative (like velocity), it's absolute.

> If you are standing on the surface of Earth, an accelerometer will show that you are accelerated in the upward direction. That's because a force is acting on you from below, it's the solidity of Earth's crust (or whatever you are standing on), going back to a combination of electromagnetic forces and the Pauli principle.

> If you take away that support from Earth, eg by jumping off a plane, you are not accelerated. You are freely falling. Since you are not accelerated, there is no force acting on you. You experience gravity but no force, hence gravity is not a force.

> We can assign a pseudo-force to gravity by defining it as acceleration relative to the surface of Earth. This is how Newtonian gravity works. One can derive it from general relativity as an approximation.

> Physicists frequently do refer to gravity as a force anyway -- even I do -- because that's linguistically simpler. But it's like we say "internet" rather than "world wide web" even though we know that the two aren't the same, just because "internet" is simpler.

> So I usually don't pick on this. But strictly speaking, gravity is indeed not a force. If you have doubts about it, buy an accelerometer and do your own research...

[0] https://x.com/skdh/status/1850120005070799153
Let me guess, all USB connectors are on the back side again? Great thinking, Apple.
> "This is such a gratifying experience, in fact, that I have actually kept a list of characters that I have observed Chinese people forget how to write. (A sick, obsessive activity, I know.) I have seen highly literate Chinese people forget how to write certain characters in common words like "tin can", "knee", "screwdriver", "snap" (as in "to snap one's fingers"), "elbow", "ginger", "cushion", "firecracker", and so on. And when I say "forget", I mean that they often cannot even put the first stroke down on the paper. Can you imagine a well-educated native English speaker totally forgetting how to write a word like "knee" or "tin can"? Or even a rarely-seen word like "scabbard" or "ragamuffin"? I was once at a luncheon with three Ph.D. students in the Chinese Department at Peking University, all native Chinese (one from Hong Kong). I happened to have a cold that day, and was trying to write a brief note to a friend canceling an appointment that day. I found that I couldn't remember how to write the character 嚔, as in da penti 打喷嚔 "to sneeze". I asked my three friends how to write the character, and to my surprise, all three of them simply shrugged in sheepish embarrassment. Not one of them could correctly produce the character. Now, Peking University is usually considered the "Harvard of China". Can you imagine three Ph.D. students in English at Harvard forgetting how to write the English word "sneeze"?? Yet this state of affairs is by no means uncommon in China. English is simply orders of magnitude easier to write and remember. No matter how low-frequency the word is, or how unorthodox the spelling, the English speaker can always come up with something, simply because there has to be some correspondence between sound and spelling. One might forget whether "abracadabra" is hyphenated or not, or get the last few letters wrong on "rhinoceros", but even the poorest of spellers can make a reasonable stab at almost anything. By contrast, often even the most well-educated Chinese have no recourse but to throw up their hands and ask someone else in the room how to write some particularly elusive character."

- https://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
No offense, but this statement seems like an ignorant lack of understanding around the issues with the growing problems around urban sprawl and the issues it causes environmentally or otherwise. No one is going to take your countryside home from you, but it’s worth educating yourself on the issues.
> During setup of your new Copilot+ PC, and for each new user, the user can opt into saving snapshots using Recall. If you don’t choose to opt in, it will be off by default and snapshots will not be taken or saved. You can also remove Recall entirely by using the optional features settings in Windows.

There's no further reference to removal in the article.
Will this have a chilling effect on contributors?
Make sure you are fully aware of federal subsidies for your insurance premiums.

It's a bit complicated to explain the details, but basically you won't pay more than about 8.3% of your AGI for insurance, no matter what your income level is.

Alas, these subsidies may expire next year if Congress does not renew them (they don't actually vanish, they are just income-capped at 400% of the federal poverty level).
It's aligning the incentives of top management with the slightly longer term outcomes. If stock grants are based on this quarter's performance, "slack" seems much less important.
Nope, was gorgeous at the destination (Houston) too. We sat at the departure gate for an hour, that was the reason.

Then the #%*$&@! at the connection gate was happy to close the door in my face as I ran to it. Knew I was coming and didn’t care.

They could have said mechanical but didn’t. Leads one to believe it was a canned BS response.
> Everything you do in Python involves chasing down pointers and method tables, looking up strings in dictionaries, and that sort of thing.

One of the things that a Cpp Compiler can do is De-Virtualize Function Calls. That is; solve those function pointer tables at Compile Time. Why could not a good compiler for Python do the same?
27" is really the best screen size for productivity. Easily can find 1440p or 4k 27" monitors to pair, and they have come down a lot in price.
Clib – Plain C Package Manager
Encoding HAProxy Logs in JSON or CBOR
Before agricultural mechanisation, people used to spend 40% or more of their income on food. (the farm workers weren't really any better off then; they mostly got paid in lodging and farm produce instead of in cash)
It's not niche at all; it's extremely common to need this. Maybe I'm not explaining it well. For example, an idiomatic pattern in Go is to return two values, one of which is an error:

func f() (SomeType, error) {
// ...
}

In Rust you would return one value:

fn f() -> anyhow::Result<SomeType> {
// ...
}

In Go (and similar languages like C) nothing enforces that you actually set exactly one value, and nothing enforces that you actually handle the values that are returned.

It's even worse if you need to add a variant, because then it's easy to make a mistake and not update some site that consumes it.
Dangit, I had finally gotten good at The Game.