skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. it REALLY depends. Sometimes underperformers are focused on. Sometimes worst ratio of performance to pay is focused on. Sometimes it's random if lawsuits are a worry (AKA they want to layoff the older workers but need to shuffle in some others so it isn't suspicious). Sometimes it's purely vibes for who's picking who to be laid off.

There's no consistent layoff strategy. Especially not in times like this.

> Impeding this flow with regulation is a great way to create a malfunctioning economy.

yup, and look where we are heading next year...
How are people so happy with Zed? I've tried it, it's fast sure, but it lacks some very essential features like inline error highlighting and button for running code like how Intellij has it, there is no extensions that cover this either.

At the moment, the Zed IDE is more like an lightweight ai-assisted text editor for me.
The article has all of the "x times faster than M1" notes but the video shows graphs with the M3 whenever they do that and it is usually ~1.2x in the CPU on that. I think it's probably a smart move this page (and the video) focused so much on 2x or greater performance increases from the M1 generation. After all, so what if it's 20% faster than the M3? As in: how many customers that weren't already interested in just buying the latest thing before reading your marketing material are you going to convince to upgrade from the M3 just because the M4 is ~20% faster vs trying to convince M1 users to upgrade because it's over twice as fast.
Maybe this has been laid out elsewhere, but exactly what "science" is Voyager 1 doing at this point? It's taking "readings" of things that may simply help us to get some picture of where we live... but what value does it truly have?
Where are you? Somewhere with more Zig adoption than Rust outside of the OSS terminal ecosystem sounds pretty interesting!
> I don't think it would be politically savvy to admit it.

Depends on who you ask.

If Trump wins and Elon Musk actually gets a new job, they would be bragging about replacing humans with AI all day long. And corporates are going to love it.

Not sure about what voters think though. But the fact that most of these companies are in California, New York etc means that it barely matters.
agree, and a caveat to all 'trust your gut' type advice should be that you need to first deal with any psychological issues before you can even perceive your own genuine intuition. in my experience anxiety in fact stems from being out of touch with intuition, and it takes a more complex process to re-learn how to be natural than any pithy advice can describe.
Modern versions of macOS don't support subpixel rendering, what Windows calls ClearType, so that is why macOS will always look worse on low resolution displays.

Using BetterDisplay to force a "2x" resolution will give you better rendering but at the cost of lower usable/effective resolution.
I'll add to that.

18/0 stainless steel is the best. No nickel etc.
Oral History of Jim Keller [pdf]
> What are even the tasks where thinking makes humans worse?

Not really related, but athletes perform A LOT worse when they are thinking about their movements/strategies/tactics. A top performing athlete does best when they are in a flow state, where they don't think about anything and just let their body/muscle memory do the work.

Once you start thinking about micro-adjustments (e.g. I should lift my elbow higher), you start controlling your body in a conscious way, which is a magnitude slower and less coordinated than the automatic/subconscious way.

Also, same happens for creativity/new ideas. If you intentionally think about something, step by step, you won't likely find new, innovative solutions. There is a reason why the "a-ha!" moments come in the shower, your subconscious mind is thinking about the problem instead of trying to force your thinking on a specific path.

I would guess this happens in many other areas, where channelling the thought process through a specific template hinders the ability to use all the available resources/brain power.
This you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/taz86n/comment/i04...
My parents simply refuse to consider anything but Windows, even though the ever-changing Windows UI keeps pissing them off. It's like a mental block or something.
I was trawling studies for some issues of my own and sort of independently discovered this many years ago. It's very easy for an intervention to be life saving for 5%, pretty good for 10%, neutral for %84, and to have some horrible effect for %1, and that tends to average out to some combination of "not much effect", "not statistically significant", and depending on that 1% possible "dangerous to everyone". (Although with the way studies are run, there's a certain baseline of "it's super dangerous" you should expect because studies tend to run on the assumption that everything bad that happened during them was the study's fault, even though that's obvious not true. With small sample sizes this can not be effectively "controlled away".) We need some measure that can capture this outcome and not just neuter it away, because I also found there were multiple interventions that would have this pattern out outcome. Yet they would all be individually averaged away and the "official science consensus" was basically "yup, none of these treatments 'work'", resulting in what could be a quite effective treatment plan for some percentage of the population being essentially defeated in detail [1].

What do you mean? They all "work". None of them work for everyone, but that doesn't mean they don't work at all. As the case I was looking at revolved around nutritional deficiencies (brought on by celiac in my case) and their effects on the heart, it is also the case that the downside of the 4 separate interventions if it was wrong was basically nil, as were the costs. What about trying a simple nutritional supplement before we slam someone on beta blockers or some other heavy-duty pharmaceutical? I'm not against the latter on principle or anything, but if there's something simpler that has effectively no downsides (or very, very well-known ones in the cases of things like vitamin K or iron), let's try those first.

I think we've lost a great deal more to this weakness in the "official" scientific study methodology than anyone realizes. On the one hand, p-hacking allows us to "see" things where they don't exist and on the other this massive, massive overuse of "averaging" allows us to blur away real, useful effects if they are only massively helpful for some people but not everybody.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeat_in_detail
> ethnicity is not biologically realized either

What does this mean? Is it contrary to what OP is saying above?
Eh, once it's ubiquitous, nobody will care.
For those interested in looking slightly more into the characteristic function, it may be worth pointing out that the characteristic function is equal to the Fourier-transform (with the sign of the argument being reversed) of the probability distribution in question.

In my own experience teaching teaching probability theory to physicists and engineers, establishing this connection is often a good way of helping people build intuition for why characteristic functions are so useful, why they crop up everywhere in probability theory, and why we can extract so much useful information about a distribution by looking at the characteristic function (since this group of students tends to already be rather familiar with Fourier-transforms).
VC Built a Cybersecurity Unicorn Machine. Then Came a Conflict of Interest Mess
Meh. I tried to npm install and run it. Npm failed with a cryptic error message. I have a built docker image of this so in any case, I can eventually fix it. Was not that important though.

But then again, why the fuck does that fail now?

I had a friend who was convinced that JPEGs would slowly degrade sitting on a disk. This was around 1990s so he would store important things in BMP so they would not degrade.

I think node_modules has something similar.
> Meanwhile a javascript app of mine from 2022 does not build now because I can’t get it to install the dependencies for some reason.

I wager that Voyager 1 is way simpler than Node.js.
We've looked at a number of FOSS and Commercial options for a project recently, and found most options were not much better than https://freemocap.org/ with video occlusions.

However, we did purchase the https://faceit-doc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mocap_general/ commercial seats for Blender, and have found it workable with the results from the iPhone 3D camera App compared to other options (52 marker lip sync, gaze, and blink cycles will still need cleaned up to look less glitched in complex lighting.)

Combined with Auto-Rig Pro in Blender, it is fairly trivial re-targeting for Unreal Engine with volumetric preserving rigs (can avoid secondary transforms, so elbows don't fold in weird ways by default like Makehuman rigged assets.)

Best of luck, we concluded after dropping/donating a few grand into several dozen addon projects... there were still quite a few version rotted or broken add-ons for Blender around that people had zero interest in maintaining (some already made redundant by FOSS work etc.) However, there were also a few tools that were surprisingly spectacular... will still likely need to run both 3.6.x and 4.x ... YMMV =3
If you only care about linux on x86-64 or some ARM it is cross platform. Getting .net on FreeBSD is possible, but it isn't supported at all. QNX from what I can tell seems like it should be possible but a quick search didn't find anyone who succored (a few asked). My company has an in house non-posix OS useful for some embedded things, forget about it. There are a lot of CPUs out there that it won't work on.

.NET has some small cross platform abilities, but calling it totally cross platform is wrong.
Wow. This comment broke my heart a little. :-(
You'd probably need a critical mass of states to agree to do it at the same time; as you say it would ~never make sense for a state to be the _first_ (or, well, first big state) to do this.
Cool related link (from the same site) on the expected lifetime of the golden records - https://www.space.com/predicting-voyager-golden-records-dist...

20,000 years until V1 transits the Oort Cloud. Twenty thousand years.
> The obvious argument for the existence of a creator is that we have no other explanations for how things come into being other than that they were created by someone or something. Since we have no other explanations for things coming into being, it is only reasonable to accept the only one that we do have to be true.

Lolwut? This guy seems to have missed the intellectual developments of the last 400 years.
> Nearly every woman I know in the sciences or engineering has a large number of stories of aggressive and inappropriate sexual advances, and in many cases outright sexual assault or rape in the workplace

That happens about as much in any field as long as you mix genders, so that is no reason to not want a software job.
Then vote with your feet and your wallet by leaving. You need to send monetary signals that the service is undesirable by withdrawing your subscription. I don't understand why people continue to use tools that don't serve them and assume, by default, that because everyone else is on some platform, that I must be there too, or don't go into an actual cost-benefit analysis of whether or not the utility of the platform outweighs the drawbacks. Cal Newport comments on this default herd mentality in Deep Work:

The Any-Benefit Approach to Network Tool Selection: You’re justified in
using a network tool if you can identify any possible benefit to its use,
or anything you might possibly miss out on if you don’t use it.

In the case of Google the diminishing utility of search began to be outweighed by the increasing morass of SEO slop and advertisements, so I degoogled. After W7 when it was clear Windows was going to progress into a cloud-based ad delivery platform, I installed Linux on all my devices as a daily driver. If Netflix ever serves me ads, I am immediately terminating my subscription.

Maybe it's too hard for some people.
problem is that it does too much out of the box. Finding some sloppy formatting - ok. Fixing it automatically? even better. But rubocop tries to sniff "code smells", security problems, and it's not that great with it, not everything you can get about the logic and intent just from AST. There are so many rules that developers spent significant time appeasing rubocop and this sometimes takes away effort to make code actually readable by humans. Have you ever seen a tidy mess?

Even worse, it gives simple tools to write plugins to sniff more logic related stuff, and I've seen projects where developers really went overboard with it.
This is a soft value, but I’m glad for every bit of Voyager news that comes out. I find it personally inspiring, think that’s probably true for others, and I’ll take as a small win anything that tends to inspire people about science (or STEM more generally).
Take a look at Electrobun. It’s a Tauri alternative where you write typescript instead of rust. App bundles as small as 16MB and it creates update patches for your app as small as 4KB.

Written in zig and Bun, and uses the system webview by default.
I have around 7 YOE, and I have found LLMs useful for very specific questions about syntax whenever I am working in a new language. For example, I needed to write some typescript recently and asked it how can I make a type that does X.

It is not as good with questions about API documentation for popular java libraries though and it will just hallucinate APIs/method names.

If I ask it a generic question like "how can I create a class in Java to invoke this API and store the data in this database" it is pretty useless. I'm sure I could spend more time giving it a better prompt but at that point I can just write the code myself.

Overall they are a better search engine for stackoverflow, but the LLMs are not really helping me code 30% faster or whatever the latest claim is.
Large concerts rarely ID and are almost always all ages in the US. (Source: I go to 30+ a year, don’t think I’ve seen one ID.) Gate agent staff would have to be significantly increased.

It’s not unfeasible by any means, it just would cost money, and promoters like the scalpers. Most of the failures mentioned in this article involve a scalper buying tickets that would otherwise have gone unsold, and even for a show that would sell out eventually, LN gets the cash earlier and then maybe even gets a cut of online resale.
Maybe the most interesting takeaway from this article is that black plastic is dirtier than other colors because it’s easier to use recycled materials if you don’t care about color. Very good to know.
Reminds me of that famous clip from mad men where don suddenly realizes that if lucky strike can't say its cigarettes are safe, neither can its competitors and came up with "it's toasted".

In general, I have a feeling double digit growth forever is impossible. Facebook and Google both reported YoY growth in 15%+ this week iirc and I have a feeling they are only able to achieve this by destroying either competitors or adjacent industries rather than by "making the pie bigger". It will end at some point.
The 0.05 threshold is indeed arbitrary, but the scientific method is sound.

A good researcher describes their study, shows their data and lays their own conclusions. There is just no need (nor possibility) of a predefined recipe to resume the study result into a "yes" or a "no".

Research is about increasing knowledge; marketing is about labelling.
Quoted from Baring-Gould's book in TFA:

> It is to be observed that the chief seat of Lycanthropy was Arcadia and it has been very plausibly suggested that the cause might be traced to the following circumstance:—The natives were a pastoral people, and would consequently suffer very severely from the attacks and depredations of wolves. They would naturally institute a sacrifice to obtain deliverance from this pest, and security for their flocks. This sacrifice consisted in the offering of a child, and it was instituted by Lycaon [an Arcadian king who fed his son to Zeus and was subsequently turned into a wolf for his perversity]. From the circumstance of the sacrifice being human, and from the peculiarity of the name of its originator, rose the myth.

Coincidentally I just yesterday read an interesting factoid in the footnotes to Plutarch's "Life of Pyrrhus" [1]:

> Lukos or Lycus, in Greek, is a wolf, and Lukeios, or Lycius, a common epithet of Apollo, who as the archer-god was conceived of as the slayer of wolves, and who was also the tutelar deity of Lycia. The word lukē, however, is found in Greek vocabularies, corresponding to lux, light, and this, it is very possible, was the original significance of lukeios, though in after times more obvious meanings were attached to it.

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plutarch%27s_Lives_(Clough)/L...
Not even, they are referring to the 2020 model:

> Results are compared to previous-generation 1.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645, 16GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD.

Matches https://support.apple.com/en-us/111339
I've read multiple comments on using dedup for VMs here. Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient for this to be implemented by the hypervisor rather than the filesystem?
This works better in countries with a national ID. The US doesn't have one, and what is acceptable voter ID is often heavily restricted.

Ireland doesn't have a true national ID, and you can be asked for ID when voting; however this has never really become an issue, because practically _anything_ is acceptable as ID. That is very much not the case in some US states which require id to vote.
Interesting! I mean, that it's still a good job market for you (senior developer something?).
I mean since Mono it has completely changed. They are about to release .NET 9 which is the 8th version (there was no v4 to reduce confusion with the legacy .NET Framework) since being cross-platform.

Mono was a third party glorified hack to get C# to work on other OS. .NET has been natively cross platform with an entirely new compiler and framework since mid 2016.
NYC here. I always used the crosswalk when I was with my child to teach him the safest way.
How do we know Santa doesn't exist? Maybe he does.
The people of the 1970s clutched their pearls and wrung their hands about flammable sofas in the same way that we today clutch our pearls and wring our hands about leeching plastics. The breathless articles were mostly the same except they were in places like Readers Digest instead of The Atlantic.

As another commenter stated laws were passed but more so than that the companies who make things were concerned about lawsuits and reputation damage so treating consumer textiles for flame retardants just became standard industry practice.

As an aside, I know a historical reenacter who had a need to make some char-cloth. The only thing he could find that wasn't treated was cotton work gloves.
Living in a van seems superior to everyway compared to this.
Your friend was sort of not entirely wrong. A JPEG decoder can do many decisions on how to decode, while a BMP is just pixels. (So then it's "only" a matter of color spaces.)
I think the point is to try to convince MacBook users who haven't looked to upgrade yet rather than something trying to make a comparison to other non-mac models you could buy today. From that perspective it's perfectly valid, even if it doesn't tick the boxes of what others might want from a different comparison perspective.
Most "international" standards are international only because the corresponding standard organization is ultimately operated by multiple nation-states. In reality the organization just appoints some experts to write the standard and brand it with their blessing, so the standardization process is hardly international. For language standards, those experts typically include original designers and whoever wanted to standardize the language. (Otherwise why would anyone want to join this tedious process?) A diverse group of experts is very rare for such standards.

It is another myth or fetishism that international standards have some inherent mechanism to ensure the compatibility. Such quality can be only maintained when standard editors take care of that and there is a comparable industry support. Missing any one, the compatibility can be easily broken, and conversely any specification---formally written or not---can maintain the compatability when both are satisfied.
By Nnamdi Michael Okpala (okpalan)
1.2 Computationally Efficient Approximation

In my exploration of the Brachistochrone problem, I developed an approach that provides a computationally efficient approximation to the classic solution. This method leverages geometric properties and trigonometric relationships to optimize the descent time, making it faster and more memory-efficient compared to traditional methods.

To achieve this, I analysed the cycloid’s defining characteristics, such as its curvature and the angles at which it descends. By applying trigonometric functions, I could derive key equations that allow for a simplified representation of the cycloid path. This approximation involves using weighted averages of points along the trajectory, enabling quick calculations of the optimal descent path without the need for complex numerical integration techniques.
The measurements of the Heliopause are apparently new(ish) so data is coming in that is otherwise unavailable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Interstellar_medium
Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software
Doesn’t look like parody to me, based on the original report in Japanese: https://coda-cj.jp/news/2124/
I think it's actually a good name.

The "memory" is stored as the parameters of a function. So, when you practice, you actually update this memory/parameters.

This is why you can use the same "memory" and achieve different results.

Think of it as

function muscleAction(Vec3d target, Vec3d environment, MuscleMemory memory) -> MuscleActivation[];
That makes a while since I’ve done Android, but I’m sure that this variable should be a property and be set as part of the lifecycle. And while Android (and any big project) is full of boilerplate, each line is subtly different or it would have already been abstracted in some base class. And even then, the code completion is already so good in Android Studio that you would have to be a complete junior (in this case, you wouldn’t know that the AI suggestion is good) to complain that writing code is slow. Most time spent is designing code, fixing subtle bugs, and refactoring to clean up the code.