skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so, try dividing time into a view of it repeating, and progressing.

Time "repeats" in that we have days, years; your heart repeatedly beats about once a second; menstruation is about a month.

Time "progresses" more literally in that nothing repeats, "repeating" seems like an abstraction. Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024 only happens once; Tuesday happens every week; Nov 12 happens every year.

It's not very workable to keep in mind the literal physical view that every day, every second is unique. Interferes with using experience.

Here's [0] a nice video on Schrodinger's equation, where it's written nicely

H psi = ih d/dt psi

H is doing a lot of work. psi is the mysterious wave function. h explains what it's talking about by giving the units.

The i on the right side, in this writing, is associated with the time partial derivative d/dt. i, the imaginary number, is associated with rotations, which means in a way this writing of Schrodinger's Equation is implying rotational time, repeating time.

Suppose time really is legit repeating even way down deep. Then try reinterpreting your negative feedback loops as repeating time.

To extend speculatively, invoke the notion of fractals, where you can iterate and find more complexity thereby.

So suppose that life repeats time, but in the manner of a fractal where you uncover more structure by iterating.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPA1L9uJqo
Generally, yes. Better to destroy dozens of aircraft than let an adversary discover a vulnerability that compromises all of them. Of course the ideal would be to not have a problem in the first place, but by the point you're considering having a pilot eject that's out the window.
It's literally a user controlled setting.
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I specifically said "incurred a ... debt" and "without prior... agreement". As your source says

> In short, when a debt has been incurred by one party to another, and the parties have agreed that cash is to be the medium of exchange, then legal tender must be accepted if it is proffered in satisfaction of that debt.

You are correct that if cash is not accepted at all, or if payment is to happen ahead of the exchange of goods or services, you are not obligated to accept arbitrary cash.

And I never claimed otherwise
KDE Wayland user here. I have never observed this issue myself, and I leave Steam running all the time (although I never open Steam Chat).
Didnt it dry up due to the interest rates hike? No more cheap money.
If PETM was due to large scale use of hydrocarbons, there should be evidence of depletion in the strata, right? For example, currently not all sources are uniformly exploited -- some coal seams and oilfields are all but depleted, others are currently being extracted, and others are yet to be found/exploited.

We should have seen signs of similar non-uniform usage in the strata from before that time period. I wonder if any research has been done on this.
Considering glibc's effort, I have to wonder what the other libc do, and whether they already implement something like this.
I hadn’t noticed the announcement of the vulnerability, looks like it’s nothing I care about for my “thread model”.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235635/yubikey-unfixable...

>“The attacker would need physical possession of the YubiKey, Security Key, or YubiHSM, knowledge of the accounts they want to target, and specialized equipment to perform the necessary attack,” the company said in its security advisory. “Depending on the use case, the attacker may also require additional knowledge including username, PIN, account password, or authentication key.” But those aren’t necessarily deterrents to a highly motivated individual or state-sponsored attack.
Thank you! I deeply appreciate that Steam works so well on Linux these days. I don't take for granted the hard work happening behind the scenes to make that a reality for us.
Although, not albeit.

You have a slave sentence there. These are incompatible with albeit.
This mirrors my views. In sports, winning fixes all problems; in software, shipping solves all problems. You need wins, and you need to ship. It’s like in Glengarry Glen Ross: instead of “ABC—Always Be Closing,” it’s “ABS—Always Be Shipping.”

You’ll never ship a perfect product; no such thing exists. But if you ship early (and incomplete), users will be delighted—and often change their minds about what they want. That’s great, because you didn’t spend forever on their initial (flawed) requirements.
Ohhh... you're using the word platform to refer to only their web UI/website. I think that's confusing because when you say platform, I, and perhaps others, hear both the web UI and API, not just the web UI. Eg if someone is on the Stripe platform, they're using both the website and the API they provide. Since both of those things are run by Anthropic, I think of both of those as one platform coming from Anthropic (that they charge differently for).
I'm more perplexed that a reasonably high-end system from 2010 would be considered "unusably slow". There are still many who are satisfied with less. I suppose it depends on what they intend to use it for.
When I'm shipping on a deadline, one of my favorite things to say is, "there is no future". When someone says they want to do X because they will do Y in the future, I say, "There is no future, there is only shipping. Give me what I need to ship and then we can talk about the future."

Pigs can fly. I know this because if it's got to ship and it's a pig, then sufficient thrust will be brought to bear to achieve flight.

Shipping is some liminal space between sheer will, recklessness, and tautology. It ships because it has to ship, because to not ship is to fall, and failure is not an option.
Emit – A Time Travelling Programming Language
The argument is that what you call "limitations of the Internet itself" is actually a feature, and an intended one at that. The state of things you're proposing is socially undesirable (and in many cases, anticompetitive). It's hard to extend analogies past this point, because the vision you're describing flies in the face of more fundamental social norms, and history of civilization in general.
PinkSea – An oekaki BBS built on ATProto
I just like it because it's a rough standard. Not the one I'd choose and, as you point out, ambiguous. But I can expect support in all kinds of random places.
As I understand it, the damage done by inbreeding would outweigh the benefits of selecting for new externally-visible traits not present in the mainline population.
I've actually used this once! I built a slightly overengineered HTTP client where it would use a Reader Writer lock on the auth token. That way, if a token refresh request was taking place, all new requests would wait for it to finish writing, before being sent
i miss the aspiration/inspiration apple ads a few years back. I don't like the snarky tone of whoever's running the current campaigns. I assume it depends on who's running the creative direction of that dept but still...
> superficially similar words in other languages—Latin futuere

I was hoping for a facere[1] tie-in. That would be most 'effective'.

[1] http://latindictionary.wikidot.com/verb:facere
> Anyone who has been half paying attention to "AI"

I think this is probably aimed at normal people. I expect the tight integration looks much, much more attractive than typing into some random site.
At the pandemic's start, Americans began drinking more. They still are
It's lit by the backlight in the LCD display. In other words, he didn't do anything extra.
I really hope they drop a full steam OS release again soon. I’d love to build a gaming tower around it. Might settle for bazzite but I’d like to do steam OS tbh
Agreed, I was just making a comment that the changes can be from the artists and not the services.

I've been streaming music since Yahoo music, but have started to change my ways by buying vinyl or digital through the artists own site or bandcamp. It's less about my music changing and more about supporting the artists instead of the corporations taking a big cut.
The author just shipped the post
One way to look at it is that we've already passed the point where humans can't reliably pass the most famous AGI test ... Ironically the Turing test. After all, the only way for an algorithm to pass it, is for a human to fail that same test.

The Turing test is now considered too easy to be a real test of AI. In other words, these days we think that an algorithm that can't beat a human at "being human" is pretty bad.
One could imagine an unpiloted F-35 flying 65 miles in a random direction before crashing itself is probably more of a safety issue than an issue of idiology
> Do you know any musicians?

Yes

> Pretty much all of them use Apple gear inasmuch as they work digitally, even iPhones and iPads.

There's a big difference between one musician I know who uses their iPhone to watch YouTube videos to improve their guitar-playing technique - to another that uses their iPhone only to capture samples because their DAW setup couldn't possible fit on a screen that small.

None of the musicians I know (games-industry folk, mostly) uses an iPad as a DAW because it's a massive usability downgrade from a desktop (e.g. plug-ins support in Logic-Pro-for-iPad is lacking; or simply quickly dragging-and-dropping files around directly from the filesystem; and the inability to use shared projects from a company LAN). (I'll admit I have zero exposure to this area, so please correct me if I'm overstating these issues).

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> We need to can this "passive media consumption" nonsense with respect to Apple

I remember when Apple added Stickers to iMessages - and was appalled that they had decided that normal users should not have the ability to make their own stickers (unlike every other chat program out there). I think Apple's attitude towards their users is very much a valid criticism.
There's a reason why you have connoisseurs. You can fool carbon dating by using materials from that time. I'll have to look into the x-rays and what they show, but it can be quite hard to prove art authentic with scientific methods alone.
I wrote something similar a while back: https://github.com/FL33TW00D/wgpu-mm

Also does quantized matmuls.
I doubt it's because of realtime constraints, you could probably use the NDK if you need to mostly escape the JVM. ObjectiveC/Swift are also garbage collected, so it's not like iOS is strictly realtime by default.

I think the main reason those products are available on iOS and iPadOS is because most creatives have _always_ been on Apple's products and iOS users are on average wealthier and more willing to pay for software. Also, I bet the original version of the software has been available on MacOS for a long time, so on top of having paying customer it would also make it easier to port to iOS than Android.

There's TermUX on Android, doesn't mean most phones are made for and mostly used for software development/sysadmin tasks. Sure, there are a few people that'll use their Android phone to SSH into something in a pinch, but 99% use their Android phone for social media, emails, web and youtube just like Apple iPhone users.
It's been a while since I took any classes about it, but I don't think i implies "repeating time." I'm pretty sure it's just from the fact that waves themselves are repeating, i.e. periodic. But Schrodinger's equation doesn't say anything about the nature of time itself IIRC.
> Anyone who has been half paying attention to "AI" wouldn't be impressed any more with a formal, professionally written email from anybody

You’re vastly overestimating the self awareness of the average person.
To elaborate.. just what is wrong with simply doing the following?

Function FileExists(Filename) As Boolean
On Error Resume Next
FileExists = (GetAttr(Filename) And vbDirectory) = 0
End Function

It's not 2 lines, but it's 4, including function header. All functions used are available at least since 16-bit VB3. Is this what you call "a workaround and a hack?". It's practically the same thing .NET is doing for File.Exists() (or at least the current one -- dunno what .NET 1 was doing), so I cannot think of any gotchas that would affect this but not File.Exists.

Another way, use Dir by itself. This is even mentioned in the VB docs...

FileExists = Dir(Filename) <> ""

3 lines. It also ignores directories. Sure, this has problems with wildcards, but so does your example, and that's another oneliner to fix, using Replace$ (as wildcards are not legal characters in filenames in win32, either way). And if Dir("\") returns true for some reason, I guess that's a runtime bug, which is pretty valid criticism, even if a bit of a corner case (who really wants to check if "\" exists?). I would prefer the first version anyway.

I still stand by my original point that this is a very poor example, since there are a million ways check for a file's existence, many using only builtin functions of the language. You can certainly find nigh-overcomplicated ways to do so, apparently even on books, but ... why? Not a fan of cargo-culting like this; it tends to create Cherteston's fences.

Many languages also lack a direct "File_Exists" function (e.g. Lua comes to mind) since it's about the most trivial thing to implement (and a magnet for TOCTOU issues). Or even if they do come with such function, it does not distinguish directories from files (e.g. Tcl). I hardly think the lack of a "file_exists" function discriminates anything in language design, modern or otherwise.
This is a really cool product. Good luck with it.

I had a Fantom X6 and one feature I loved about it is that it was always recording in the same manner as this, you could just push the "Skip Back Sampling" button and then save or do whatever with it. It was also good because the audio samples were synced to the midi clock. A cool feature.
Nice try Broadcom! I gave virt-manager a try and am happy to have made the switch.

I'll never install a VMware product again.
> we're stuck picking up the slack

You may be on a team that has decided "developer burnout" is just an inevitable and acceptable cost of business.

> since there's a near infinity backlog?

Which is a problem in and of itself. In any case I'm only going to be able to give you like 4, real, solid hours of work a day on that log. The other 4 will be team coordination, managing that log, and stress management maybe while I hate eat my lunch.

> everyone is given exploration time

Call it "skill investment time." We're in a fast moving industry and keeping heads down for too long is destructive personally and organizationally. It's also the pathway to getting more than the basic level of engagement above.
What If the Fix for the Geospatial Workforce "Crisis" Is Better Pay? (2023)
The number of paths is the sum of 2^(y - x) over each pair (x, y) such that the x-th terminating question is the y-th question overall, plus 2^(number of non-terminating questions overall).

In other words, for each possible termination point (including making it all the way through), consider how many non-terminating questions come before that termination point, raise 2 to that power, and then sum these all up.

Thus, len(question_paths(totq, term)) is equal to sum([2**(term[i] - i) for i in range(len(term))]) + 2**(totq - len(term)).
> Earth's surface isn't very static. On a geological timescale it is constantly moving and churning.

The major part on a timescale seems to be over, though. When the Sun's increasing luminosity in 500-600 million years will evaporate the oceans, eventually plate tectonics will stop.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Massively multiplayer retrospectives
I notice that the bluetooth antenna is unplugged not sure if you're using the wifi/bluetooth card from the Mac.
I built something very similar the last time I got laid off and needed something to do https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm
// wondering //

I never argue in bad faith. I am unaware of any data which show that the economic disruptions do to demographic issues is going to be worse than the economic disruptions due to new tech replacing old.

I also am unaware of any actual data which says that the population is going to shrink faster than productivity increases.
Sound more like a lateral move.
One sea of opinions vs another.
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI and the Future of AI and Humanity
What a nice trap to set
I disagree.

Not to say that keeping score is immoral, just artificial.
Agreed. Apple is dancing around the topic of labor replacment with a deft chuckle by starring the buffoon.

Granted, some of these tack too far towards stupid to be relatable, but I get why they picked this approach.

My bottom of the barrel so far was the "Write me a training plan to run a marathon" commercial. Because obviously sitting down for 30 minutes, and not the multiple months of sticking to a training regimen, was the blocker there...
> Indeed. The whole point of the prediction markets espoused is to alter the decisions being made. That means the prediction itself can have an impact on the outcome intentionally or otherwise.

Which is great when the impact of the prediction market is "people making hard decisions" and not so great when they're studiously slowing down the process because they've got a bet on something not happening on time...
It could be that humans didn't create these ads, but because of the training data they are controversial and garner much attention, like this article. :)
I figure expectations/behaviors will shift once this becomes the new norm. That 5-second birthday present or shallow prospectus summary will become obvious pretty soon after a wide uptake and nullify any advantage.
American Singapore(s): Taking Inventory of Competent City Governance
Google has 180,000 employees dedicated to this task.
The plane could have crashed into a populated center, taken out a neighborhood, etc. I imagine the pilot's priority is to stay with the aircraft and not bail at the first sign of trouble or until they can no longer control it and are sure it will crash in an unpopulated area.
Instead of waiting for the rug pull, just use something open source.
Great article.

And, the bonus story is that a bunch of libertarians think this is worthy of regulation and prohibition. That's a fascinating discussion.
inglor is probably referring to Strassen or Coppersmith–Winograd.
> if you’re storing arbitrary text from untrusted sources you will always need to clean it first

Reversible escaping of characters is pretty common (though not always; length-before-text formats don't require it). But to "clean" as in deleting characters such that you can no longer get back to the original string is definitely not required for all formats, and is a fairly undesirable property.

> Plus in those instances you’ll probably want a db or json or whatever works well with your language anyway.

You'd want to use some format that doesn't have the problem this one has, yeah. IMO ASCII delimited text just isn't really anywhere on the Pareto front of formats you'd want to use - it's unpleasant to work with manually, and once you're writing the file through code or a tabular editor you may as well use a format that can handle arbitrary text.

> I guess I’m saying that if this had caught on early with ubiquitous support it could have saved us from the mess that is csv/tsv/etc

I think you could say the same of RFC 4180. In reality, I don't see why this wouldn't also spawn dialects, like people adding newlines between rows so they can open it in a text editor without it being in one huge long line, or inventing an escaping scheme so that it can handle arbitrary text.
The ideal situation in an invasion for Taiwan is for the US and Europe to have just enough cutting edge chip production to be able to produce missiles and jets.

But not enough capacity left for anyone to get new phone, laptop, or PlayStation for potentially years unless Taiwan is defended. Nor enough capacity for data centers so corporate HQs also demand action.
Kind of. The guy in this ad is portrayed as a slacker who didn't read the report everyone was expected to read. He presumably received the report well in advance of the meeting, he just didn't bother to look at it.

This is very different from someone who was given a report he/she could not possibly have read in time!

This guy is the person who uses Sparknotes instead of doing his homework. I'm all for efficiency, but if a summary could fully capture the report, the author wouldn't have written the report, they'd just have written the summary.

Of course, maybe in this brave new world we're living in, the report's author did just write a summary, then used AI to turn it into a multi-page document, which readers used AI to turn back into a summary.

Is this what we want?
On the other hand, the USMC has invested considerable time and effort in training this person to operate the F-35. Replacing him with someone else will take time and money. For the organization that invested all that into him to say ‘nope, we don’t want you to fly these things any more’ is itself a massive waste of resources.
> Well apparently their strategy to ensure survival didn't do too well since we're discussing an extinct civilization here.

Maybe they're "extinct here", because they just left.

BTW. this is actually a big theme in David Brin's Uplift saga[0]. Basically, you have all these alien civilizations, more and less friendly to each other, but bound by some common rules, some of which regulate sustainable colonization. This includes an exclusive right to settle and use a habitable planet with a biosphere for $whatever number of millenia, and after that time, the civilization there is supposed to pack up and leave, fix environmental damage, and erase any trace of their existence, commonly achieved by dumping everything into the planet's subduction zones so it gets naturally recycled; after that, the planet is to lie fallow for ${some other number} of millenia, to give nature a chance at creating more biodiversity and stuff.

Quite ingenious setting, if you ask me.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_Universe
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No, your claim is backwards—if the parties have agreed that dimes are valid payment of debt then that agreement must be upheld. Absent a prior agreement to accept dimes, the party receiving the money may refuse any combination of currency that they see fit.

In other words, an agreement isn't required in order to refuse legal tender, an agreement would be required to make it mandatory.

A court might decide that an agreement to accept cash without specifying in what form was meant to include dimes, but I see no evidence anywhere that a court has to rule that way if the contextual evidence suggests something else was probably meant.
It could be a substantial long tail. Hard to know without the data.
Cheapshot based on cynicism but no more relevant for Apple customers than Android customers.
I think it's less about the last minute nature and more about aligning with the incentives of corporate lobbyists. What a nice opportunity to force the sale of more overpriced local phones.

Lets see what happens with the under 16 social media blocking... There's no hurry, but will it be done in the stupidest and simultaneously most invasive manner possible, and probably forced through before Christmas even though there's no pressing need? Of course.
I came here to say the same thing! I purchased an Aeron 16yrs ago, from a post-bankruptcy liquidation warehouse. The chair is as nice now as it was in 2008!
No, it's with both. Enforcement should be relative to the problem.