skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just like I don't think anybody truly believes that flipping a real coin with non-identical sides (such as every currency coin I've ever used) must have EXACTLY 50% probability of landing on either side.

That's a nice thought, but that's giving the average person too much credit when it comes to probability. In my experience, most people's understanding of probability is very poor. For example, few people truly understand the concept of independent events.

Most people believe that after flipping 10 heads in a row, the probability of tails on the next flip is much higher.

I'm sure you could convince a rational individual that the assymetry of the coin makes 50/50 impossible. But I doubt that the average person has ever really considered it.
It's just LGPL if you make any standard desktop app. Like you can make pretty much the entirety of KDE with the LGPL parts of Qt.
Closest Notepad++ alternative I found on Mac was CotEditor - https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor. Has all the basic features apart from plugin support.
Pichai, an mba-grad, make google and its product shitty after Brin a Page (computer scientists, engineers) made it great.

I hope this gets studied in universities as well.
Do you need HA, or do you want to minimize downtime? At work we have something like an "error budget", were we accept downtime but try to minimize it. As such we have two nodes with one floating ip and a shared disk. The switch over takes as long as stopping the database on the first node, starting up the database on the second one and switching over the ip. Stuff like kernel updates takes us <1 minute of scheduled downtime, which is good enough for us.

Here is a good talk which resonated with me from the last pgconf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rYP6xVymtI

If you want more, I think Patroni (by Zalando) is the current best option for you. Patroni handles automatic leader election if the master goes down, and it is open source. Read here more:

https://github.com/patroni/patroni
No, they shared it with the NSSF, which is a private lobbying group. Not arguing it was ok, just pointing out it was not shared with the government.
Bohr and Einstein did the math and had the proofs. and the math held up.

Copilot has yet to give me a consistently correct set of "exploited in the wild" list of answers when I give it a bunch of CVEs. ChatGPT gave me last year's tax data for municipalities in Canada.
Study: 76% of U.S. Residents Want Government to Address Soaring Broadband Prices
The original article title is:

> Study: 76% Of U.S. Residents Want Government To Do Something About Soaring Broadband Prices
Racket Syntax: The Great, the Good, and the Back to the Drawing Board [video]
My opinions are my own, based on decades of experience since first living in China in 2001. I last lived there in 2022. I actually run businesses, and my social networks consist of disparate experiences, which probably means my view of things is more nuanced and rationally founded than fly-in journalists or those watching only the statistics, albeit necessarily only a "partial truth" (nobody knows exactly what is going on across the country, not even the government). Perhaps if you raised concerns regarding a specific point it would be possible to respond more fully.
I don't mind the search popping as a new window. While I'm not using ++, I still use the feature when using Find All, and the new window expands to show the individual lines in the file/folder at once. Looking for each instance with Ctrl-G type of searching doesn't require that full window to remain open
From everything I've seen, hardware acceleration seems to be the only option. Software-accelerated RT existed for years and was mainly the reason why it was disregarded as a technique in the first place. Here's the OG M1 Pro, manufactured on TSMC 5nm, getting blown the fuck out by a 3070 Ti on Samsung 8nm: https://youtu.be/NgDTCNPm0vo

The architecture will probably improve on both Nvidia and Apple's side going forward, but in theory both GPUs should be easier to support for longer since they're not focused on accelerating obsolete junk like MSAA or HBAO. It enables a better convergence of features, it makes porting to-and-from Mac easier, and with any luck Apple might even quit being so sheepish about working with Khronos since they're not actively neglecting the Vulkan featureset anymore.
I would say it's totally normal for a 2nd language's swear words to have much less impact on one's psyche than one's maternal language.
When I use windows npp was 1) my editor of choice and 2) my scratchpad of choice.

I would just keep pressing ctrl+n whenever I needed a fresh file and never close anything.
Obviously this tool is not going to generate a "ship"pable game for you. AI is a long way off from that. As for "design", I don't find it very hard to see how incredibly useful being able to rapidly prototype a game would be, even if it requires massive GPU usage. And papers like these are only stepping stones to getting there.
once it hits the "For Dogs" phase you know it's done
Yeah, I know you can't buy every component. But five years ago you couldn't buy any.

We're clearly talking about Macs for the software parts so I'm not sure why you're bringing in iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch where the status quo has remained unchanged since they were introduced. I'd love those to be opened up but that's another conversation.

Regarding system restrictions on macOS (putting aside the fact it fully supports otehr operating systems on Apple hardware), the ability to disable the system restrictions hasn't changed for years. System Integrity Protection is still a toggle that most users never need to touch.

> Most importantly, none of this is a real an option on Apple's business-critical products.

I don't understand what this means?
One could reasonably argue intentions matter, and the only possible intention for a government database is explicitly prohibited. If one were worried about such things, then a private database existing is of course problematic in that a ready-made one is there any time the government decides to stop prohibiting itself from doing such a thing...

But this is more bone-headed than sinister.
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I don't know about you but I dread looking for products on AMZN. If I know exactly what I am looking for it is not too bad but it seems AMZN has been overwhelmed with "AI Slop" quality product listings since before there was Generative AI.

One step on my quitting Prime journey was contacting AMZN about an obviously fraudulent product listing and them telling me they didn't want to hear any complaints about a product listing unless I'd bought the product.
Absolutely. Embeddings have been around a while and most people don’t realize it wasn’t until the e5 series of models from Microsoft that they even benchmarked as well as BM25 in retrieval scores, while being significantly more costly to compute.

I think sparse retrieval with cross encoders doing reranking is still significantly better than embeddings. Embedding indexes are also difficult to scale since hnsw consumes too much memory above a few million vectors and ivfpq has issues with recall.
>This is really common in health care.

I want to clarify it's only common is US healthcare. We're rally the only country in the world paying exorbitant prices AND getting low quality care. For instance, I once hit my head on a train while in France and had to get stitches. I was rushed to the emergency room in an ambulance, 2 nurses and a doctor immediately started helping clean the wound and stitching it up. I was in and out in 15-20 minutes, they gave me antibiotics, and they only charged me 50 EUR (which would have been free if I was a French citizen). I've had several similar experiences in the US that all took hours and hours in an ER and I was billed thousands.
> They need to subsidize porting AAA games to solve the chicken-and-egg problem.

glances at the Steam Machine

And how long do they have to fail at that before trying a new approach?
Every episode of Acquired seems to raise the bar higher for me. Their most recent episode on Meta is phenomenal.
One of the things I'm most proud of developing is dark mode for notepad++, even though it was a relatively simple contribution.
pixelmator's great. congrats!
I find it amusing that there’s this constant assetion on this forum that the Linux desktop sucks

Yet many of us have been quite happy with it for decades, and the major problems tend to be with new stuff that seems to be added just to do something different.
Unless I’m reading it wrong I don’t think rows matter. Attention doesn’t take into account sequence position natively, that’s why positional encodings exist.
the python sly library looks good. by david beazley who created ply earlier.

parser combinators also look interesting, like another commenter said. not understood them fully yet, but have just started looking into them. seems like describing the grammar in code using parser combinators can closely parallel the EBNF grammar for one's language.

i also saw this one recently:

https://github.com/google/compynator
>You can ask why Singapore and Japan have harsh fines, and India does not.

Sure, and you can also ask why drawing conclusions from the ether is superior to relying on examining actually measurable parameters.
Yes. Eliminating problems by adding "features" to the product/business.
I know Halloween was yesterday but let's discover this horror together with some terrifying Python[1]! Turns out, yep.

For upper → lower → upper we have:

Ω ω Ω

İ i̇ İ

K k K

Å å Å

ẞ ß SS

ϴ θ Θ

For lower → upper → lower there are a lot more.

1. https://gist.github.com/rendello/4d8266b7c52bf0e98eab2073b38...
Control your smart home devices with the Gemini mobile app on Android
As datacenters strain the power grid, bills projected to rise for customers
Why? They send armed men to take away my cats and my flowers. Whats to stop fruit from being next?
I've heard that Apple Weather is much less reliable nowadays outside of the U.S., but I agree that it's super accurate for me on the East coast of the states.
Adobe have (had?) a DNG file-format that encompasses the RAW data, JPEGs and the changes, but by the simple fact that adjustments are application-specific anything you do to modify the image won't be portable. It's basically a TIFF file with specific tags for photography.

The thing is, if you want any sort of history, or even just adequate performance, you want a database backing the application - it's not feasible to open and decode a TIFF file every time you want to view a file, or scan through versions, or do searches based on metadata, or ... It's just too much to do, compared to doing a SQL query.

The Aperture Library was just a directory, but we made it a filesystem-type as a sort of hint not to go fiddling around inside it. If you right-clicked on it, you could still open it up and see something like <1>

Masters were in the 'Masters' folder, previews (JPEGs) inside the 'Previews' folder, Thumbnails (small previews) were in the 'Thumbnails' folder. Versions (being a database object) had their own 'Versions' folder inside the 'Database' folder. This was where we had a plist per master + a plist per version describing what had been done to the master to make the version.

We didn't want people spelunking around inside but it was all fairly logically laid out. Masters could later be referenced from places outside the Library (with a lower certainty of actually being available) but they'd still have all their metadata/previews/thumbnails etc inside the Library folder.

1: https://imgur.com/a/disk-structure-within-aperture-library-m...
They're probably referring to Texas suing at least one hospital in another state for access children's health information:

> The subpoena demanded the hospital system provide medications prescribed to children who reside in Texas, the children’s diagnosis, the number of Texas children in the hospital’s care and the name of Texas laboratories used to administer tests for those youth, [and] sworn written statements from doctors at Seattle Children’s who treated Texas children, describing the medications prescribed and information related to patients’ diagnoses.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/21/texas-attorney-gener...
people in tech hold a lot of tech stocks too mate

nVidia's big spikes paid off my car. run that hype train bro, take it to the moon
Multimodal embeddings for interleaved text and images
1.6 billion dollars for propaganda is a lot of money.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/
A 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage: nothing crazy
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I seem to have fallen into doing mostly Rust, usually somewhat in the vein of lower-level network programming. I've been doing Rust development since Rust v0.6 (2013) & I've got 12 years of experience as a software dev overall. That work has straddled the line between embedded and cloud side with most being embedded linux application development.

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> I don't think the point of the article is that everything was intentional.

Author of the article here - that was exactly the point of the article.
For cars/music, 25 years seems to be the accepted definition of classic. It's a true sign of you're getting old when the music you listened to in your teens is now considered classic. Does software have that same definition of 25 years? There's very few apps that I can think of that I still use for that long, so reaching the status of classic software is one hell of an achievement. Abandoned software should not be qualify as classic software.
How does an oath matter, really? Any oath is a sham show of allegiance/sincerity to some cause.
If this type of housing is considered just fine for college students, why should it be illegal to provide for people once they graduate?

I get that not everyone would want to live this way their whole lives, but part of the issue with the US housing market is that there are no entry-level housing options. This makes housing not just expensive for young people or poor, but drives housing prices up across the entire inventory.

Most quality of life improvements, especially in urban areas, have been driven by efficiencies and economies of scale.
> the combined research power of humanity, which is necessary for AGI to advance further, is much deeper than any one entity

AGI won't need people to advance further. That is pretty much the functional definition.

But the bar is even lower. Just as today's rich keep increasing the economic distance between themselves and the poor, with the middle and creative classes already feeling that gravity, so will the AGI's - even if they stalled out only as smart as we are, but cheaper in inference mode. (A limitation that is highly unlikely.)

No doubt humans will facilitate AGI activity in our economy and real world for practical reasons for a little while. But at some point, they won't need us physically or socially either.
Σ now shows up on my Unicode round-trip horror show ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020476
Based on my experience with China, access to drugs is very difficult, or impossible
I did a bit more digging and think I might have gotten the story a tiny bit muddled, but maybe not?

Most the articles I find talk about the barber vs doctor distinction, but they also all bring up a story about a proposal to add dentistry to the University of Maryland's medical school.

Evidently this proposal was put before the state legislature, was rejected, and thus was born the Baltimore College of Dentistry. From their own website:

> With the founding of the college, dentistry became a profession separate from medicine. Dentistry could have become a medical specialty if the Maryland legislature had approved a request to incorporate it as a department at the University of Maryland’s medical school, but the request was rejected owing to cost. Dentistry then set its own course.

https://www.mchoralhealth.org/milestones/1840.html

From what I can see, people seem to point to this story as a historical waypoint for the division of the two in the US.
Not surprising at all. Their website already looked like Apple.

Jokes aside, this has been long overdue. Hope the products will survive somehow.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not but, plenty of cities (not large American ones) manage to provide affordable housing with private space without people sleeping in pods.
> The most valuable companies in the world aren’t built by adding. They’re built by eliminating. Not by giving customers more options, but by systematically removing every friction between them and what they want.

> Amazon eliminated:

> Store visits (shop from home)

> Product hunting (search + recommendations)

> Price research (automatic price matching)

> Return trips (free home pickup)

> Shipping decisions (Prime = 2-day default)

I don't think any of this is true about amazon in 2024 except maybe "store visits". Product hunting on amazon is hard, there are always variations of the same product at different prices, they don't have free home pickup for at least most returns, and they often have options for same day shipping which aren't free unless you hit a minimum.

Also amazon shopping isn't Saas in the first place, and reducing friction compared to what a user would have to put up with without a service and adding features aren't mutually exclusive so the idea that amazon succeeded by reducing friction doesn't mean that less is more or anything, and I'm not sure there is actually a meaningful difference between what this article is proposing and how people would normally set out to build a SaaS except in that you should probably be sure that any features you add are reducing friction for your users, which is probably reasonable but fairly obvious.
Vanilla os is awesome!
Thanks to the developers!
Bossler, Chittka and Schank found that after the second minimum wage increase (from EUR to 10.45 to EUR 12.00), average wages of the people who were earning less than EUR 12 went up by 6%. Moreover, there was no noticeable reduction in employment. There was however a slight reduction in hours worked – impacted individuals worked 1% fewer hours, meaning their overall monthly wages went up only by 5% on average. Thus, it appears that a significant minimum wage change had a net positive impact on workers with minimal downsides.
(https://www.nominalnews.com/p/minimum-wages-employment-benef...)
>Tesla eliminated:

> Gas stations (home charging)

> Oil changes (no engine)

> Dealerships (direct sales)

> Annual maintenance (software updates)

> Price negotiations (fixed pricing)

Excuse me?

Software updates cannot replace maintenance for mechanical wear and tear. No one is sending out over the air updates that rotate your tires.
Had one group request references at the beginning, checked them, then my references got to infer that I didn't get the job offer. In fact if I recall, that group ghosted me, leaving me to infer as well.

But then later another group asked me for references at the beginning, I declined to provide them, and then they were okay with proceeding through the interview process.

Maybe it would work in the general case to always reply to such a request with "some previous group ghosted me, and so I've vowed to withhold the references until later in the process."?
Yeah, it's a relay counter like a score motor in a pinball machine, but each rotor is different since the I is mod 5, the V is mod2 and the LX is mod 80, directly connected to the lights. The principles discussion is well done. Wow I love old tech documentation!
I still don't have a good visualization of what the display 'dial' looks like
Farms study shows plastic mulch is contaminating agricultural fields
You know it’s not like Apple has a lot to lose in terms of market share if they opened even the specs of their hardware up to make folks like the Asahi team’s lives’ easier. What does Apple have in terms of the desktop market? 5%?

If anything working, fully baked desktop Linux working on ARM Mac hardware would drive sales and Apple would still get the profits. Besides their services are still mostly available too. Tux loving folks can subscribe to AppleTV, and music etc.
That's not nearly the impression that I got from reading the GP comment. Did you mean to reply to a different one?

If anything, it seemed rosy; for example I was under the impression that China had cracked down on VPNs. But if GP says they're still widely accessible, then it leaves me with the impression that China has more free access to information than I previously thought.
It’s so frustrating that this country becomes more and more overpopulated, yet we won’t get serious about stopping mass immigration.