skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you ask society what has helped them the most, you will be surprised to learn how many claims the todo-list (paper or app in whatever time frame) is their main way of actually getting anything done.
The only winning move is not to play :)
I'm fairly certain statistically you can't, because you need a place to go do that, the skills to pull it off, and have a family that's not only willing but actively supporting it, otherwise when the reality kicks in everything _will_ fall apart. Either that or some of you die. But hey, technically you'd be correct in that case.

Or maybe I just have a gloomy view of what "living off the grid" looks like :] I'll just leave this [1] here, regarding that.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-russian-family-l...
I once had Brian as an "intern" on my team. It is definitely -not- a hard G.
You can't ignore the costs associated with transporting the furniture, sorting, inspecting, cleaning and storing the furniture. Then you need to have sales staff, finance staff, etc to help with sales. A lot of office furniture is builky, so you're looking at high transportation costs since how many desks can you fit in a box truck?

I'd guess if it's a $1,000 item new, they buy at $100 and sell for $500 with $200-300 going towards operating costs and $100 of it to profit (so 20% of the price it's sold for).
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Most genocides have conspirators that conspire the genocide into existence. The Gaza genocide is no exception. Both the ICC prosecution recommendation against Gallant and Netanyahu, as well as the ICJ genocide case against Israel, show genocidal intent among the Israeli ruling class, and to me at least (I‘m not a lawyer) it seems Israeli rulers have indeed conspired to commit a genocide.

So yes, you can claim this is a conspiracy theory, however, unlike flat earth 9/11 truthers, etc. this conspiracy theory is very plausible.
I did not get that from TFA. I interpreted it as "know your customers and communicate with them". This applies to everything in life. It's especially relevant in big companies because it's easy to forget that you are forgettable.
False equivalency
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And yet building software is still closer to engineering than it is to charcoal figure drawing or to driving a forklift at a door factory.
Given that the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X can compute around 28.1 million SHA-256 hashes per second, the time required to calculate the hash of such a proposition including all possible 9-length hexadecimal strings to would be approximately:
68.72 x 10^9 strings/ 28.1 x 10^6 hashes per second ~= 2450 seconds. The hash starts with 0 so the calculation would have been much shorter i.e. just around 2 minutes.
This can probably be explained in terms of the birthday collision problem.
Not really sure what the point is meant to be here. I’m not sure if this is news to anyone.
9 hex digits makes for a 36 bit search space, so we can expect a solution in 64 billion hashes. moderately but not terribly impressive.
Linqpad turns off my monitor (when connected to laptop)
See the attached video. Sorry for the terrible quality, I was trying to use mouse with one and film with the other.

I have three monitors, middle and right are connected via a hub. The left most problematic one is connected directly to laptop via HDMI to VGA. Middle and right are connected via HDMI -> HDMI.

If I make linqpad full screen on the left most monitor it turns the monitor off, looks like it switches to the other input...

The middle and right monitor I can make it full screen fine. As soon as its not full screen (or moved to another monitor the monitor toggles back on again).

If I connect the left most monitor via the HUB (so still HDMI -> VGA) the problem goes away. If I connect the monitor directly to the Laptop via HDMI the problem goes away.

So it's only when the monitor is connected directly to the laptop via HDMI -> VGA that it turns off when linqpad is full screen.

The hub is connected to the laptop via USB.

Any ideas what's going on ?

The only app that I experience this with is Linqpad, all versions I've tried. Never experienced it with any other app.

Why do I still use VGA you ask ? This is my works laptop, I have my works laptop and my home PC connected to these monitors. This monitors only have 2 inputs on it, a VGA and a single HDMI. So I use VGA for work so I don't have to unplug stuff when I switch from work to personal.

At my previous job I also had a laptop, different brand entirely but still running windows. IT did the exact same thing on the exact same monitor.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2pLTZOsyW0
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12411
Most founders think they’ve got a marketing problem.

But Seth Godin knows better—and so do I.

After two decades in startups, I've watched countless teams burn cash on marketing, hoping to fix what's actually a strategy problem.

You’d have better luck duct-taping a sinking boat and calling it waterproof.
They also refuse to swap out vulnerable keys for high security environments where customers require to "update or replace any system with known vulnerabilites."
Always use puppet accounts for reverse engineering.
> can we run shors algo yet or no?

Progress with Shor's algorithm:

year 2001: 15 = 3 × 5 (IBM)
year 2012: 21 = 3 × 7 (University of Bristol)
year 2019: factorization of 35 attempted, failed (IBM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm#Physical_im...
It's all about the last 10% - it's what makes a project of any size see the light of day. Some thrive on that last 10% (like I do). It's the work of grinding through the final loose ends and the finishes touches, fixing the issues in the live environment vs development, etc.

It's hard and boring, but it's also rewarding.

And then there are most people - who just check out when it's sort of done. I don't like those people.
a project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped

Definitely. This can work very much to your favour.

There have been times when I have happily shipped a product containing issues and bugs that would be catastrophic for any customer using it, because I know that no customer actually ever will. The product is shipped and released, everyone is happy.

The catastrophic issues won't ever come up because that shipped product will never be used by anyone.

Big people are happy because the product is shipped.

Team are happy because big people have stopped causing so much friction in their desire to ship.

When the measurement becomes "have we slapped the label shipped on it", then that's what you get. A label.
The point of my comment was to express surprise at the hubris of someone editing the dead for their own private political reasons, and to find out more about this practice
>Everything else is shitty compressed MP3s.

Check your supposed lossless files in Fakin The Funk or manually in Spek and become horrified at how many of them are complete garbage.
The "one single person", should be qualified with 'is senior enough or with enough authority' which allows them to set aside a lot of squabbling, bureaucracy and bikeshedding.
I'm in your camp, but I've found with my own submissions here, marketing-speak gets more engagement than the papers.

So my compromise is to post the PR, but give the paper link in the first comment
[Frida](https://frida.re/) is fantastic for de-pinning certs in applications. Can be fiddly, but when it works, it just works™.
When no category really fits the best option is to just come up with a new name.

Planets were initially defined by their motion in the nights sky. That’s continued to this day by saying they must have cleared their orbit. So if a large mass formed alone it really doesn’t fit the ancient or modern definition of a planet.

Further, many of these things may eventually become stars as they attract enough mass. Calling something that turns into a star in a 10 billion years a planet until suddenly swapping to young stellar object when the conditions change, just doesn’t fit IMO.
Technically, this is a GNU libc limitation. A libc _could_ make this thread-safe.

Languages like go just implement this feature internally and don't have this limitation.

The limitation is contemplated in POSIX itself; from the posix documentation:

> The setenv() function need not be thread-safe.
If you have a commit that doesn't compile, it should have been squashed into another commit before merging the PR. Every commit should be in a valid state. I'm not talking about a full squash merge, just `git rebase -i` to make sure the history makes sense. The final branch history doesn't have to be the same as your development one.
He said the thief returned the original. The copies would have (supposedly) sold to people who wouldn't be able to complain without incriminating themselves.
> It's actually pretty damning for Fusion that an hobbyist project can punch high enough to "compete" with professional software.

Except that it doesn't.

Last time I've tried to integrate it to the testing system of my
company it didn't support snapshots, CLI interface couldn't be used
through SSH without the GUI subsystem working, and sometimes UTM
displayed crypting errors during VM startups.

Personally I use UTM at least once a week, and when it works then it
works OK, but saying that it matches a commercial product in terms of
functionality means that either someone hasn't really used UTM or
Fusion, or has distorted imagination what should be required of a
software product that should be used in a commercial setting.
You can use it as an improvised lock.
> Evolution does care if something is useful, if it aids in reproduction.

Evolution is an abstraction subsuming other mechanisms. It doesn’t care about usefulness. That’s a finalist bias. Individuals reproduce or they don’t.

The rest of your post is pure conjecture. You can’t work backward saying: this thing is useful therefore it’s evolved. That doesn’t make sense especially for complex behaviour.
It's really fascinating watching the constant push and pull in projects like yt-dlp and places like YouTube and TikTok. So many interesting techniques to make things more difficult for reverse engineering or making unofficial requests. There is even a tiny JavaScript engine iirc that calculates a special value that YouTube uses to verify requests.
Not a biologist, but OTOH they might have had a very different body structure that doesn't conserve well, e.g. like molluscs.

Or maybe we _did__ find their remains and just have no idea they were part of an intelligent civilization. I mean, that's not a question any respectable researcher would be inclined to raise in the paper about the discovery...
IME working as a team in large companies is dangerously entrepreneurial. What I mean is that there is loose guidance on what needs solving and then it's up to you to figure out how to solve using what you have. If you stray from the original problem too far, you'd better be good at explaining why. It's dangerous because there's a lot of autonomy with the illusion of security.

Keep the original problem in mind always. Keep your head up looking out for competitor teams who might be solving your problem. Know them, align with them.

If you show up on an exec budget spreadsheet and the exec can't defend your value, then you're toast (or transferred).
The main requirement is for the person to be on the project and have skin in the game. An architect will often have more of a bird eye view and not be actively working on a specific release. They might also not care about the business side.

IMO depending on the org, the matching role would be either a release manager or a project lead.
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The number of tabs I have open is directly correlated how much of a struggle I'm having solving my current issue.

If I have 30 tabs open, it's been a very very bad day.
Least bugs, not no bugs.

I'd like to say I can code perfectly, but I'm a mere mortal not Donald Knuth and I can't get away with saying "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

We had tracking of launch bugs, the manager ignored the evidence — that didn't make any sense at the time, then I developed a better understanding of office politics and suddenly it became easy to understand.
Beautiful and so very sad.
Reminds me of Granger causality, which had a lot of hype at the time, but not a lot of staying power. (I only read the main article, which was v. high level - not the scientific paper )
No, I’d say it’s revealing because the people who genuinely believe in the ideology espoused in this article truly hold these ideals. To them, this must feel like the end of the West, as they’ve known it. Because to them, the West was defined by the institutions and systems built in the post-war era.

What strikes me about the picture painted by the author is how much it seems to miss—or entirely ignore—many important factors. These include the challenges of integration, the burdens of mass migration, the distinction between legal migration and open borders policy, and the failure to address how such policies, even if well-intentioned, can be exploited for slave labor, human trafficking, and voter manipulation. There’s also the uninspired and unsustainable approach to reducing inflation and the cost of living by importing ultra-cheap labor, instead of investing in forward-thinking development projects that actually benefit citizens.

It feels almost myopic how much the focus remains on avoiding the mistakes of the authoritarian and fascist World War II era. In their quest for salvation and redemption, there’s an overcorrection that disregards essential social, economic, political, and institutional factors necessary for effective progress and development.

Maybe it’s not so bad if it’s indeed true that this post world war II, reactionary, but tunnel visioned, definition of the West has died.

The specific issues raised by this article and larger context tho are irrelevant to another trend: an innovative, new organizing model for the West is an idea whose time has come.
Anger is a great motivator in the mid-term yet self-destructive in the long term.

To begin, it motivates - "show 'em!" way. You gain the energy to prove yourself, to excel-over-others, you may feel the thrill of winning while seeing someone else loose. To aim
for this gives you drive and makes you "work harder" - after all, you have some sort of goal.

Long-term though, you only discover that such "wins" (from spite) are rather hollow; the dopamine rush diminishes every time and you either need to "win bigger" or grind down others even harder in order to feel anything about it. Pursue this and eventually you'll just get angry with yourself and your powerlessness to retain this anger-fueled energy that once felt so energising. This is where it becomes self-destructive; you'll wail at the world how unfair it is to
you because it's responsible for all this inadequacy, rage, powerlessness that you feel unable to retaliate for. Basically, no "win" of yours could be big enough, no loss of others great enough, for you to feel content again.

It's a lot better for the mind to work towards a goal - feel better - than be angry against something/-one. Keep anger focused. Don't burn out.
If I remember correctly, my first encounter with ASIO was back in 1998 on Creative SoundBlaster AWE32. ASIO to record and playback high-quality multi-track audio in near-real-time and EMU8000 to play samples via MIDI packed as SoundFonts.
It's intelectually lazy to dismiss any concern about societal change as "you have just gotten old".
The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank
Social Security says my disability isn't permanent and insists on revisiting the same stuff every 2 years. Oh, and if you live in Texas, the state of Arkansas does disability determinations for federal Social Security.
Or gloves. Depends on how you look at it.
It's funny that most of people think the Mona Lisa is a masterpiece when in truth there is nothing particularly interesting about this painting. Just the heist that made it famous
Damn that really does look cool (｡•́︿•̀｡) it seems like I have my work cut out for me, I'd love to have that "animated feel" in a Krita brush. I do have some ideas - I might not get anywhere but who knows :D
I'm with you. Sometimes the symbols are ambiguous and totally unreadable.

An example is >>=, which is "inplace shr" in some languages, but "monad bind" in others. A unified ligature for >>= really confuses me.
> Reaching “only” the Neolithic stage could be described as a “Silurian hypothesis light”; it’s not highly significant achievement for a species, and even such a species can significantly turn over the planet’s fauna. Even our hunter-gathering (Paleolithic) ancestors hunted a number of large animal species to extinction (you don’t have to kill every last mammoth or giant bird to do that), and our farming ancestors (before the advent of even the simple most metal tools) caused massive modifications of the fauna and florae of extensive landscapes. Some of these faunal changes might be detectable millions of years into the future.

To be fair, a species can achieve that without any intelligence or civilization whatsoever if they just manage to grow their population enough.

I think the most extreme species in that regard would be cyanobacteria, which changed the composition of Earth's atmosphere from methane and CO2 to oxygen [1] - and subsequently caused the metabolism of almost all other species to become oxygen-based.

This change is not just "detectable" today, it became the basis of most life on the planet.

[1] https://asm.org/articles/2022/february/the-great-oxidation-e...
Apple Faces Epic Games-Style China Lawsuit over App Store Practices
was exactly looking for something like this! https://topyappers.com if anyone's searching (took me a while)
sorry, it's been so long since I didn't have an account so I went and checked and I guess I was wrong they do require you to create a free account to hear the link you've been sent.

You'd think my comment assuming you didn't need an account was already absurdly wrong but with your response the cake was taken, because I'm not from America either.
That's not what I said at all ... not even remotely close. I said Firefox phones home, which it does. Firefox is OK but it's not all rainbows and unicorns.
In the current regressive economic climate, if you WfH or present any sort of evidence that you cost them a penny more than another "cog" of a worker, you will be flagged as a "liability" and you will be put to the top of the pile to be encouraged to quit through passive-aggressive means or laid off first.
I have used for several extended periods of time Min browser to stay focused on docs and spaces:

https://minbrowser.org/
Serving ads is mostly abusive and poor internet citizenship but here we are.
L.A. man accused of robbery string while wearing GPS ankle monitor
I tried Kagi and it was convenient since there are no ads, making searches faster and less cluttered. It works well for finding information, but Google meets my needs for most searches. Overall, while Kagi has its strengths I decided to stick with Google for everyday use.
The Lost Reading Items of Ilya Sutskever's AI Reading List
haha this is nice topyappers.com love the name!
The first pair (evaluation/description) is especially tricky to separate in a management situation. I have seen many times an employee make a mistake and be given proper descriptive feedback, they will take it as evaluative and their performance will degrade due to the added pressure - and eventually be let go. Similarly, if the manager doesn't mention the performance and is unconditionally supportive, the employee will continue to do poor quality work, will be let go and then complain that they were not given enough feedback and the chance to do a better job. It takes real finesse to understand the person, see their potential and set a path for improvement.
You're right: a physical security key is a lesser convenience with more hassle than a personal password manager in my case.
I don't use my cds too often anymore, but I've got a pressed 2-disc set of the soundtrack from the song remains the same that's became unplayable because the media developed holes.

These were stored in the case in my home, mostly coastal California, no severe environmental conditions.

Disc rot of pressed CDs seems rare, I don't think I've seen it on other discs, but if it happened to me, it's definitely a thing.
This is an interesting read but it is also a little bit sensationalist (for the intended audience anyway). It's true that that that market is so big now that manufacturers are looking for gaps in taste by trying loads of stuff - look at sites like squig.link and you'll see how much variety there is. But I don't think it's anywhere near as culturally driven as that. I think it's simply that high end detail used to be considered the main indicator of consumer grade audio 'quality', so that's what they all tooled up for back when they were manufacturing primarily for western consumption.

I've followed Dr. Fang of HifiMan & some of their newer competition for over 15 years, and watched that industry develop and leapfrog its western equivalent in both quality and market size. As an enthusiast it's been wonderful to see - they have converged to a mass-market audio segment in which sound quality and tuning preference is either the primary feature or an overwhelming consideration, which we simply don't have over here, at least not outside the realms of gatekept audiosnobbery; we've had celebrity endorsements and beats and boses and told that woofers which fart into our brains is what 'good' sounds like. Though I guess this might be the 'western tuning' they refer to.

One thing I'm looking forward to is seeing how their custom iem market grows and develops. Custom IEMs are such a humongous leap in quality of experience, but they're simply not popular or even known outside of professional performer and high end audiophile circles, almost certainly due to cost of production and complexity of fitting. But as modern tech makes ear impressions reusable[0], and skin-friendly 3d printing tech advances, fully automated production of custom tech wear feels like the natural next step. And being able to put something into your ears that you literally can't feel once it's in there and warmed up, and cuts 40db so you can comfortably listen to it at volumes far lower than conventional earphones, is divine, it's a level-up that is difficult to explain. It's certainly something more people should have access to, and a market segment that can really afford to go down in price.

[0]: https://github.com/boomskats/my-earcanals
Your post reminds me of the very underrated latest film from Orson Well, F for Fake, which is about forgery. It contains an excellent quote from Elmyr de Hory, a notorious art forger, who at some point exclaims: "Guilty? Of what? Making masterpieces?".