skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The description reminds me of the criticisms of panda breeding, where more pandas have been removed from the wild than released into it, and zoos have injured or killed pandas trying to get them to breed. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/15/world/asia/pa...
The elephant in the room – Terry Tao
I would never trust VoLTE. It's a complicated beast full of compatibility issues. My phone supports VoLTE but on a recent trip through Europe it fell back to 2G for most calls.

Edit: Those were ordinary calls. For emergency calls I have zero experience. The last time I made one I had other things in mind then checking my network monitor app.
From Computer Weekly…

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366572935/Birmingham-Cit...

By 2018, Birmingham decided to review its future requirements of finance, procurement, human resources and payroll systems. It hired Socitm Advisory as part of the process to help it procure a new cloud-based ERP system.

The contract was awarded to Insight Direct (UK) Ltd, in partnership with Evosys, on the basis that the pair would deliver what Birmingham City Council’s Report to Cabinet in 2021 described as “a new solution” based on the Oracle Cloud ERP.
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See https://github.com/apache/fury for details about Apache Fury serialization framework
For reference, recent figures seem to be around 5% of younger adults currently experiencing long COVID: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Post-COVID-Conditions/gsea-w83j/da... (need to filter on the columns quite a bit to reach the figures : "currently experiencing long COVID, all adults" + "time period end date" set to the latest)

But this figure also includes cases without significant activity limitation. Significant activity limitations from long COVID across all adults for younger adults is slightly above 1%. Which is not negligible I think.
In any ERP deployment there will be at least two major cost sinks that have absolutely nothing to do with software: enumerating actual business processes and training employees. Before you can even think of "hiring a couple programmers, build what you need from the ground up" you need a very detailed and thorough spec of what the business actually does and hopefully transform said spec into something better served by electronic processes.

How much resources do you reckon would it entail to arrive at such spec?

The thing is, you can't agile this. ERP is notoriously hard to deploy. You have warehousing in ERP, but purchasing in paper? Accounting will love you.
Austria has no sea access

austria had sea access right up to WW1. and vienna only started to decline after that. vienna is also on the danube, a river that is connected to the main and rhine and allows ships to travel all the way from the north sea to the black sea. that makes it better positioned than paris, berlin or munich in this aspect. although i doubt that the river had much to do with its regrowth in the last few decades. it is more likely that its closeness to eastern europe made it an attractive destination once the eastern bloc fell apart, which was just before the time vienna started growing again.
We have CO2 extinguishers near server rooms and switchboards and I believe some of the electrical infrastructure does use gaseous suppression.

But yes, if a fire alarm occurs: the entire station gathers at the muster point while the on call ERT goes to the fire cold porch and the emergency vehicle shelter. From there the on duty team lead and an electrician don fire turnout gear and take dry chem fire extinguishers to the site of the alarm, the first BA team don their breathing apparatus and follow the instructions of the team lead and the second BA team prepares the firefighting Hagglund for deployment.
But wait: it gets even funnier(?):

https://www.where-am-i.co/

which uses Google maps/location services, places me in my correct location. Asking Google Search "what is my current location", places me in Eastern Europe.

Go figure.
The way a dog behaviorist described it to me was, "A dog can feel jealous, but the dog doesn't _know_ that he/she feels jealous." I don't know if I believe that, but I've been pondering it for the last 20 years.
This I didn't know. TIL. Also, thanks for the sources.
Sounds very much like my cup of tea, thanks! I’ve ordered it.
>In particular, I believe the domestication of fire is the dividing line between humans and animals.

Must there be only 1 line? To me, language is another important one as it greatly increases the efficiency that one can communicate information generation to generation and it seems to have an impact on how we think. Children raised without exposure to language seem to suffer developmental issues, though this isn't well studied given the ethical issues involved in such a study.

As to how much communication is needed to count as a language, that is much harder to draw a definite line given that other species do communicate, but we don't consider them to have a language.
Updating some code years ago, I asked who wrote this abomination?

(Checks source history)

Crap, I did
Lack of Instructions in Game Design Can Both Distract/Add to the Experience
> ensure deliverability

So, magic! ;)
I guess this is why cigarette cards were a thing.
Yes, even if it looks natural on visible light bands it won't on infrared or synthetic apeture radar imagery.
No, one comment up. "No need for a calculus textbook printed after y2k" or words like that. I guess that's 23 years of use if you're pedantic enough, not 24.

A textbook that's gone through five students will have encountered someone like you and also someone like me.
I have been running this by myself for 15 years, https://freeperiod.co.uk, while working fulltime (with my employer's knowledge).

September is busy as there is a bit of work to do for the new school year.

The key learning for me is that people will pay you to solve a problem and that problem does not need to be rocket science.
Contact Center Security
Circular Waits in Organisations
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Can you? You were the first to bring in a concrete claim about them, that they are "very small."
If they don't need to provide a reason for terminating you then you also can't have a case for discrimination even if that were to happen since no employer is gonna tell you "yeah, we're firing you behause you're too black/woman", they'll just say "you're fired". AK was never of any use with despicable employers since the employee protection laws are very lax and employers very good at skirting the law so they can abuse you without being legally liable. Just read Kununu reviews of several Austrian companies.
> to some destructive force.

If that destructive force was humans then there is a possibility at least for change ( cf the rebounding of the whale population post hunting ban ) - however in this case I'd agree that in terms of needing a think woolly coat - probably not a good time to bring something like that back.
GP started with the premise "we don't need one printed in the 21st century".

A more generous reading of that argument might be "we don't need one authored in the 21st century", not that textbooks would never need reprinting and last forever through two dozen owners
If you are not testing a full matrix, you are creating less reliable software and waiting for bit rot.
What Kubernetes should learn from other orchestrators
Like a lot of mega-fauna a likely cause is humans wiped them out, not that their habitat does not exist. Mammoths only became complete extinct a few thousand years ago.
What do you mean? You can definitely already wrap that into a Symbol.dispose-keyed object and use it via `using`
Browser engines are definitely highly optimized at text rendering, and they do cache the results of text renders and turn them into bitmaps that get blitted, so it’s not surprising it can be hard to beat even by using bitmaps, especially if you let it’s caching mechanism dominate the render time. Some things the browser engines will pay close attention to is storage layout, cache alignment, and cache line size, which is a fancy way of saying that not all bitmap renders are the same; their bitmap renderer might be faster than my naive bitmap renderer if I don’t pay attention to the hardware details.

The actual rendering part of fillText() isn’t that fast though, so you probably can beat it with your own bitmaps if you were to render a different full screen of text every frame, which would undermine the bitmap caching mechanism. I’m not sure, but it might help to vary the text style every frame too; I’m not sure if the engines build font atlases on the fly… they might, in which case defeating the cache would be using enough different styles to churn through several gigabytes of image cache.

Another thing to pay attention to is whether you’re rendering text to a buffer that then needs to be copied to the frame buffer, or whether you’re rendering directly to the frame buffer. Avoiding the round-trip through memory, if you can, will be quite a bit faster.

The technique in the article might be best for things like debug text overlays on top of a game. If you need to display a handful of values and watch them change, this shader technique can be very fast.
Rehabilitating Bubbles
If a thread is blocked waiting for something, then at some point in the future it will be ready to continue execution. But what if some other thread is still running on that specific core? If there is some other core available and you can restart execution there with low overhead, that's a performance win.

I think that as asynchronous code becomes more and more common, this kind of capability becomes more and more beneficial.
In fact desert cats kidneys are so efficient that supposedly they can survive without directly consuming water. Subsist exclusively on the water from their prey.
What I personally do is two things.

Before I've even had an interview, I have an acceptable salary range in mind. I usually ask for the top end of that range and have room to negotiate down, so when I'm asked that question, I have an answer at the ready.

The other is that I never reveal my past salary. Revealing it is a trap in so many different ways, and it's none of their business.
I realize FM radio is strictly an example, but would you not rely on bandpass sampling? Where you sample at some multiple of your bandwidth and rely on the spectral replication effect to get your waveform.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersampling (funny enough, this article explicitly calls out the FM radio use case).
As an introduction to the topic it functions very well though. It doesn't matter whether it's valid or not. In fact, I would say that diving immediately into the validity of some bullshit independence assumptions and other nonsense is where you lose most students (it definitely lost me).

I think flawed examples lead to a great way of scaffolding towards the "true" nontrivial answer in a teaching setting at least... I am still exceptionally bitter at how I was taught and forced to learn stochastics and it was very much through a purely theoretical, proof driven, abstract lens with very crappy examples that were more of an afterthought... because of course the theory is all you need to make sense of it!
yes. also, let's be clear... dax ain't the founder
The post gets weird very fast:

> That's fair. Why show desktop icons on a screen that is non-existent?
FTFY - It’s from a time when those people weren’t as brazen about it.
That is fascinating! The laps he runs around the young tigers! Thanks for the link.
There is an episode of Freakonomics podcast about the same(?) topic: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-does-the-lost-world-of-...
> is a slightly silly discussion because the 'civilization' the Silurian hypothesis is concerned with is something like human civilization as a whole

Going back to the top comment: “Within the Silurian context, the urban distinction is almost demanding: if humans stopped at Neolithic pastoralism, there is a good chance all evidence of our tool use would have disappeared within a few millennia, let alone millions of years.”
Russia: Fine, I guess we should have a Grasshopper rocket project, too
> 35 U.S.C. § 102. Obviousness means that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art, under 35 U.S.C. § 103.

This is the part that always gets me. Having read through over a couple thousand patents, it is my opinion that the vast majority of them are obvious to anyone skilled in the art. Some of them are so ridiculous that a university student about to finish a relevant degree would consider the claims obvious.

This bothers me deeply because patents that should not have been granted force us to play a patent arms race. If the other side has an axe, you have to have an equal or better axe...and it gets nastier from there.

In some industry sectors you'd be crazy to put out a product without ensuring you have enough legal weapons of IP war to protect yourself from other IP as well as slow down or eliminate copy cats and competitors who will gladly take advantage your your "R" (Research) at zero cost. In "R&D" the "R" is usually the most expensive phase. Once you know what you are building the "D" tends to be simpler, shorter and costs significantly less.

It stands to reason that getting a patent should become more and more difficult over time. As more is invented the "art" and those skilled in it become more sophisticated. Which means the rate of true invention should (not fake invention) should come down to an asymptotic level. We should see less true patents per year, not more fluff patents per year.
Did you confuse the file with it's containing directory?

The way you probably did in your now-deleted comment claiming that stat() updated atime?

Citation needed. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.... doesn't warn of any such thing.
This approach is not really compatible with the single-table design pattern, which has some significant advantages. The point where performance degrades due to the issues you mentioned would be a good point to start applying sharding.
Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video]
> based on traditional definitions

A lot of traditional definitions imply some degree of consciousness or sentience.

But AGI will ultimately be defined by capabilities, not similarity to humans.

If a GPT-style LLM meets or exceeds humans at a broad category of tasks, it doesn't matter that it doesn't "understand" the tokens it operates on. Same with self-driving systems or autonomous robots. It doesn't matter if the CNN doesn't have a conception of a "person" - if it can feed the identification vector into the control network, and the control network swerves to avoid the identified object at a rate equal to humans, then that's good enough.

Capability is what matters, nothing else. And right now, we have ALL the parts to do this, we just have to scale them up, and train them better, and connect them.
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I mentioned that, but I think that's a pitch to get investors into a project that actually started because they read Jurassic Park and got the wrong message. It's a classic solution in search of a problem.
Most countries did it that way.
They have the contracts someone agreed to sign.
Apple Calendar and Contacts Server
Incredibly light on just how they are able to drink the salt water.

Google AI result is laughably bad.

> Cat Ba langurs drink salt water by using their tails to sip it. This adaptation helps them survive in their isolated environment on Cat Ba Island in Vietnam, where freshwater sources are limited.

2024 in a nutshell, people.
Fascinating. Funny side effect:

> Warner Brothers executives later insisted that their own lot receive the “Kelley Treatment.” They decided that their sound stages looked too much like aircraft hangers from the air, and feared that Japanese bombardiers, fooled by the Clover Field camouflage—or by Lockheed’s, only three miles to the north—would bomb their studio instead!
It would be cool to see one of those word diagrams where the size of the word is how often it appears (a word cloud), and to have one of the word clouds for the word in 1970 and one for the words in 2018 with maybe some years in between. That would make it a lot easier to digest the information than a grid of frequency line plots. It's information overload when I open the page and it takes a lot of energy to read all the different words and compare the plots. The word clouds would get the point across easier and clearer imo.
Oh no, I need to design a tinted iOS 18 app icon
I get up about 30 min before I have to begin work.
An infection exposes the immune system to the whole virus while the mRNA vaccine triggers the synthesis of the viral spike protein which would be a specific part of the virus. It can be called hybrid since it is a combination of a original and novel technique but the underlying immune system still deals with the invaders the same way and creates immunity against them. Naturally an infection would be temporary but with the mRNA technique it's a constant stream of spikes which the immune system attacks to the source. One of the issues here are the byproducts from the immune activity, especially dangerous if the mRNA dosen't stay around the injection area. Hybrid immunity without looking at the cons is not the full picture and seeing some counterpoints about vaccines was refreshing.
"This repository has been archived by the owner on Feb 13, 2020. It is now read-only."
> I've had a weirdly large fraction of my career spent on making UI rather than business logic.

Same here. None of my employers could go more than 2 years or so, before the head of UX would declare "Our app is no longer 'fresh' enough, and our competitors are adding 'pop' and 'zing' to their apps! We must stop what we are doing and totally redesign our app, create custom controls, and flex our brand onto the user!" Too much of my career has been turning a designer's Photoshop graphic pixel-for-pixel into an application, without regard to the OS's standard controls or conventions.
Similar story here. I wrote programs in TI-Basic to help with some exam questions, and wrote summaries in TI NoteFlio. I ended up getting so many few-euro donations for them from everyone who used them. 30 minutes before the exams, exchanging these things over the TI-link connection.

Of course, nowadays all these TI calculators have exam mode, which blocks the internal memory and a bright LED to indicate this mode is enabled. And the older calculators, with practically the same feature-set (TI-83, TI-84) are now forbidden (should clarify still the same TI-8x calculators are allowed - but only if they have exam mode). Nothing is fun anymore these days.
> Can't this be solved by having cameras cryptographically hash images concurrently with their generation?

No. This can be only solved by having "integrity", something very few journalists have.
> why try to bring back a species we already killed off?

To observe and study them, for one. Also, to see if we can (and learn how to and how not).

> same impulse that led to the poodle

What’s wrong with poodles (or domesticated dogs in general)?

(You could have said French bulldog. But you chose a very intelligent, hypoallergenic breed with few health issues compared to other pure breeds.)
The key focus of EM is the implementation of a multi-entity data model along the lines of the Single Table Design Pattern.

Recall that, in DDB, your index has two parts: hash & range key. If you want to have many entities in the same table, then you need a way of distinguishing between different entities, and a way of locating an individual record. In your primary index, those account for your hash and range keys, respectively: the hash key is your entity differentiator, and the range key is your entity id (which may come from a different record property from one entity to another). If you follow the development of the article, you’ll see how this plays out with variously constructed keys across different indexes.

Now, forget EM sharding for a minute and let DDB manage your sharding. Say you launch your application with little data and a single shard. Over time your data scales & spills over onto additional shards. When you perform a search, DDB has no way of knowing which shards are relevant so it has to search ALL of them.

But from the application side, your data scaled over TIME. Therefore, if you know which shards were created when, you could limit a time-based search only to the shards that are relevant to the search parameters. And a LOT of searches involve a time window.

Within the context of EM, when I say a “shard”, I am talking about a unique hash key value like `user!1F`, where `user` is the entity type and `1F` is the shard key. These may or may not map to physical DDB shards, and the good news is that you don’t NEED to care… DDB will flex if you don’t.

EM has a lot of features that greatly streamline the dev experience when operating against a DDB table with a multi-entity data model. You don’t HAVE to use the sharding feature… it’s literally just a config item, everything else happens behind the scenes. But when you DO use it, EM splits a search across sharded data into MANY parallel searches, one per shard, then assembles the returns into a coherent result with a “page key” that is actually a compressed map of ALL the underlying page keys. You don’t have to care about THAT, either… just pass the compressed string back to EM and it will rehydrate the page keys & perform the next set of searches.

So you get to choose your own adventure… you can run every entity on a single “shard” or run in parallel. I’d just keep an eye out for any drop in performance at scale and add a shard bump when I see it.

Also worth noting: EM is actually platform-agnostic. There is a companion repo that contains the DDB-specific client. This is still a bit in flux btw so be kind lol. Anyway the point is that other platforms that don’t have AWS’ resource footprint may not handle sharding as well, and EM will be able to render effectively the same result.

Hope that answers your question!

P.S. Worth noting: in addition to searching across multiple SHARDS, an EM query can also search across multiple INDEXES. Say you want to query on “name” and you want to query both your firstName and lastName indexes with the same “name” value. With EM, this is a SINGLE query that returns a combined, paged, deduped, sorted result set. Handy.
Seeing those privacy phone booths makes me so envious. Why must we have these open office hellscapes? Let me shut out the endless racket.
It is just the kind of scifi trope that wouod get investors invessting.

OpenAI barely has any moat, I Seriously wonder why no one is talking about hoq much open weighted models are getting to the closes source ones, they need invesotr cash to build something that would let them stabd out, otherwise no one would bither paying for OpenAI API when you can just run your own model.
“Your ears interpret them in terms of their relationship to thirds”

I don’t really see a basis for this one. I think if we really dig into it, the use of thirds is somewhat arbitrary and has more of a historical basis to it than any other foundations (rather than physical or physiological foundations).

Thirds really do fall apart when you start looking at quartal harmony, tone clusters, and all sorts of modern harmony. Thirds even get stretched to the limit in a lot of very traditional, “safe” harmony. I think on some level, we are just using thirds because of the mathematical coincidences in our systems of harmony.

Cultural explanations are the biggest ones.
You are right, graphs are alive in 18.1. I fixed the article. Thank you.
Thx! I'll try a couple :)

Note that a few you recommended are already in the list or in other sub-lists, you might have missed them if you only reviewed the "for non-gamers" sub-list that I linked to. For the full smorgasbord, check out https://ronan.jouchet.fr/games?list=all
It seems like you can write VBA to extract stuff from Microsoft Office files. It might be worth a try. Here is what I found: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49724/programmatically-e...