skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they have a 80% HE keyboard on their website, but again only for preorder. I really wish for them that they can achieve the delivery by mid of December, but personally I will only consider buying one once they actually have it in stock.
The author of this article has done lots about Russia. So much so that the former head of the Russian space agency has tagged him a "war criminal".
Is every chess champion a rich successful investor?

What you mention only confirms my point - you can improve your decision making only in a certain area.
"I agree that it can be helpful to think of identity as a trajectory shaped by interactions along the way. However, we also continually shape our environments in large and small ways. TFA ignores this completely. Can this be effectively modeled in RL?"

You don't need to. All that is necessary for an attraction basin to emerge is an iterative system. If you prefer to model the human being and their entire environment rather than the human being and their input, you'll still get attraction basins. You'll just get two views on the same reality, suitable for different uses and different understandings, but it's not like "ah, if we model a human iterations we get these attraction basins but if we include environmental interactions suddenly we get a uniformly random distribution of personalities across the total personality space, it's all totally different once you consider the environment as part of the iterative system too".
My daughter’s birthday party in January 2020 was canceled last minute due to her getting the flu. No idea of the type, but remember we were unable to reschedule due to Covid lockdowns occurring before getting rescheduled at the venue.
If they get arrested it’d be of historical impact. These warrants mean little really.
Alex Poatan, double UFC champion, was a tire repairman and alcoholic before/while becoming multimillionaire fighting.
> What was their manager doing?

They did nothing, essentially they don't care of customers, they only care for two things: 1. Having good relations with the technicians. 2. Having good relations with their managers.

> They must have had some way they measured work

They didn't care, a task that would require 1 hour could last one month, sometimes more.

> were the other people faking reports or something

There were no reports at all, hence why I was tasked to trace the technician activities with computers.

> was it more that their definitions of work varied?

I guess everybody knew what was going on, the upper hierarchy was happy that a relative outsider like me was involved. There was also a curious discrimination between technicians, some of them (the well-paid) worked little, and others who had a harder task were paid less.

All the technologies involved were shrouded in mysteries. Many people in management had the impression that the job required a high level of qualification (it did not) and that qualified people were rare.
I think it's about something else: In German there's the word "betriebsblind", an adjective that describes a state of knowing better but out of convenience/lazyness/routine foregoing precautions or ignoring warning signs, often resulting in preventable calamity.

It's relatable: It's so human to experience fatigue and just let it go and do it the quick way that one time. From jaywalking to not checking whether the power is turned off.

The Demon Core is an exciting parable about how closely we're flirting with death when we do that. Just one little slip, and life completely changes from one moment to the next.

It's that wretching discomfort of how easy it is to imagine being Slotin.

The nihilistic humor/sarcasm is a way to cope/confront it all.
Fun fact - if you eat the demon-core, at 124 trillion calories, it will provide enough energy for the rest of your life.
From Ukraine via eBay. It shipped within 2 weeks despite the ongoing war. It is apparently a popular tourist souvenir.
Jumping down the rabbit hole of "find a statistic X via google" takes a lot of motivation, and that's also a limited resource.

Just because that information was easy to find this time, doesn't mean it is every time. Often when I go looking for statistics on various population level things, I have to do a lot of work to find and massage it into the form I was looking for.
If a bicycle hits a pedestrian and the pedestrian was on cycling path in The Netherlands, who's fault is it? If the pedestrian gets a broken arm who pays for medical services?
Why not? How is it “hacker news” at all? It’s just news news.
We already know that our science can simply not explain/understand what happened in the first 10e-33s after the Big Bang, which is just established science.

There is nothing more "negatively religious" than believing that nothing caused that primal explosion of all that is. Unfortunately, they then proceed to throw out the positive aspects of some religious teachings concerning, e.g., compassionate concern for our fellow human beings.

Regardless, religion is a personal thing; forcing any beliefs on others is always a problem and must be prevented. We are all free to choose our attitudes and behaviors. Behaviors that harm others, however, must -- in a just system -- be dealt with by the society, for the benefit of the whole, irrespective of belief system of perpetrator or victim. Using compassion to make such decisions is always the best way, for varying values of compassion.
One thing that's important to recognize is that this all isn't just a game where you spend some amount of money on R&D, and inevitably unlock the next tech.

In a parallel timeline where NASA gets 100billion a year, but there is no SpaceX, it's entirely possible that the pre-SpaceX status quo just continued on indefinitely. After all when SpaceX was first developing their tech, they were being actively mocked by Boeing/Lockheed (via Tory Bruno) with comments akin to 'yeah cute idea, we worked it out decades ago - not economically feasible. have fun learning.'

The SLS was going to be NASA's next big vessel, and costs there are trending to what could be around 4 billion a launch. With costs like that you're never going to do beat things in space.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42195895
Very promising project!
Sure: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/.
I don't understand this comment. The graphic states that this is based on an analysis of over 50,000 engineers from 100s of companies. What are you proposing they control for (and how would they control for it)? The dataset seems large and the correlation they draw is directly between two parameters: their measurement/evaluation of work and work from home vs hybrid vs in office.

You are trying to make up an excuse for why the correlation it exists, but that seems orthogonal to the analysis.
What part of their claim specifically requires (or would even benefit from) a source?

As far as I am concerned you are conceding the argument by doubling down here. And in spite of potentially being right.
You are correct, I was thinking of stability control. Both were mandated by NHTSA at the same time I think.
As probably the most historically impactful example, consider the nationalization of the East India Company, where Britain had long relied on a highly favoured private entity, but eventually it felt that its interests would be better served by bringing that entity under direct control.
Yeah I’ve always thought the juxtaposition of 1) these high level experts with 2) one of the most dangerous objects we’ve ever created against the ways 2 was treated by 1 is part of the entertainment. Like its own unique and wildly unexpected category of the Darwin awards.

Yeah it’s sad but it is almost difficult to believe, so it ends up being kind of funny
There was a well-known trick in MacOS development in the 90s. You couldn't always avoid relying on undocumented behavior. The docs were incomplete and occasionally vague.

What you could do was try to rely on the same undocumented behavior as everyone else. This way, if Apple broke you, they'd break half their ecosystem at the same time.
The author seems to have missed the memo that the era of victimisation and virtue signaling is finally over.
> They should be commended, not seen as a threat to the US

They can be both, commended for the technical prowess and achievements while also being a threat if they gain leverage over the US government. That's the fine balance to walk on, SpaceX could only exist because of American taxpayers footing the bill for their launches when they still had to prove they could do it and no other entity more risk-averse would pay for their launches, the government got a product out of it (cheaper launches) but it doesn't mean there's any loyalty involved.

The moment corporations start to have leverage over strategic assets of a nation it starts to shape into a bad time for everyone.
Yeah it's amazing how we bend over backwards to make sure things work smoothly for big corporations, but simply accept the inefficiencies intrinsic to mom and pop shops. It's very important to society that huge concentrations of power be monitored for abuse of said power, therefore the inefficiency of all communications being kept is intrinsic to big corporations.
>Why everyone missed solar’s exponential growth

As someone who follows Kurzweil that seems odd as he predicted it accurately well ahead of time (eg https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2016/03/futurist-ray-k... )

For me the more interesting question is why are people in denial about Kurzweil's tech predictions? And this author presumably unaware of them. Even if you personally think the man's a crank, his basic procedure of plotting tech growth on a log scale and doing an extrapolation isn't really rocket science.

And most are still in denial about the singularity/immortality stuff. Prepare for a lot of 'why everyone missed' articles on that in a decade or two. (https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-ray-kurzweil/)
Can someone explain why this has been flagged?

I think it's interesting to explore how LLMs react to certain input.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-30-vw-18804-...

It was screws, maybe? According to the U.S. attorney, the company “grossly inflated prices intentionally”, although according to mschuster91 people just don't understand the level of paperwork needed to create these $37 screws and $600 toilet seats.
They should also improve the landscape. It's too flat. What happened to the proposal to build a mountain in the North Sea?
The answer is - be specific.

Focus on exact narrow areas (even “startups” is way to generic, “startups fundraising” or “hiring in startups” are better examples) you want to improve.

And slowly (with life experience) you’ll build up a good intuition in those areas. But don’t expect it will help you be great in other distant fields. Though it may happen by accident or because you’re generally smart enough to avoid mistakes.
>Most humans (including, obviously, ethical hackers) have some motivations which are not financial.

Most humans also need a full-time job to survive. If I wouldn't have to work a job to live, I would have more free time for good Samaritan pen-testing for the government if that would pay my bills instead.

In some socialist European countries, artists get subsidized by the state to create "art" instead of working. Why can't we do that with pen-testers? Sit around at home on UBI and look for zero-days in government infrastructure?
I guess you'd record the curve of the first transition, and the after the debounce period has elapsed you'd use that curve to emit the appropriate key signal. Or alternatively you could use the whole analogue sequence as input for the key detection (assuming no limits on compute power etc). Neural net powered keystrokes!
Good luck with that. We got nails in tires a couple of times when a Metro line was going in along one of our commuting routes.

Really, all it takes for one carpenter to bend a nail, pull it out, and toss it over his shoulder.
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I had to remind myself what they do because I only knew their (excellent) documentaries https://www.youtube.com/@Honeypotio/videos

https://www.honeypot.io/

"Launched in October 2015, Honeypot is Europe's tech-focused job platform."

"On Honeypot, companies apply to you."
I see this post getting trashed in the comments for its overly literal interpretation of personality as a reinforcement learning process, but I think there's some value to it as a mental model of how we operate (which is how the opening sentence describes it).

If you can see past some of the more dubious, overly technical-sounding details and treat it as a metaphor, there is for sure a "behavioral landscape" that we all find ourselves in, filled with local minimal, attractors/basins and steep hills to climb to change our own behaviors.

Thinking about where you are and where you want to be in the behavior landscape can be a useful mental model. Habit changes like exercise and healthy eating, for example, can be really steep hills to climb (and easy to fall back down), but once you get over the hump, you may find yourself in a much better behavioral valley and wonder how you were stuck in the other place for so long.
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Only when "carbs" is a euphemism for junk food. Which probably exists because Americans don't eat carbs like beans and broccoli. And instead of eating them, they get told online that they should avoid all carbs.

It's a devious euphemism that screws the people over the most that should be eating more beans and broccoli (et al).
'PDF to Brainrot' study tools are an iteration on a TikTok trend
Science spending attributed to .54% of the 2024 Federal budget. While the government isn't spending $0 on NASA, it's budget is barely a drop in the bucket.
I've been trying to get an intuitive understanding of why multiplying by e^ix leads to a rotation in the complex plane, without going into Taylor series (too algebraic, not enough geometric). I tried to find a way to calculate the value of e in a rotational setting, maybe there is a way to reinterpret compound interests as compound rotation. Any insight ?
Well there were the old Michael Jordan ads...
https://docs.autotab.com/api-reference/quickstart
SpaceX received very little in 'funding' from the government. However they sold extensive services to the government, primarily by offering the best value on competitive contracts.
- Our user studies for our trillion dollar company is out Mr. Cook.We can finally discover why we're not really seen as a luxury brand sir!

- Please tell me, what's stopping us from being seen as a true luxury brand?

- More than one calculator window.
Feeling strongly about lack of belief in something wild without evidence is not congruent to strong belief in something wild without evidence. Even if the people in the former camp can be equally passionate or annoying.

Suddenly there's this big unnamed (or is it named and I don't know it?) cognitive error that I see everywhere that is believing in an automatic symmetry between two opposing viewpoints. Sometimes one idea is better than another. No, you don't get "objectivity" points for virtue signaling that you're above the whole debate.
How about if you could get $8m working at some other company? Or $3.8m working half as a hard?

The question isn't if you or I would do it - it's what does it take to get this guy to do it. The answer is the same as it is for you or I - what are the alternatives.
> Our bodies are really good at providing exactly the amount of muscle we need for our daily activities

The problem is that the average joe's daily activity is incompatible with an healthy muscle mass. After 30 if you don't actively exercise you lose muscle mass, if you're obese, 50 and starve yourself or take drugs that make you lose more muscles than necessary you won't gain them back ever unless you do some form of serious resistance training

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/triathlete-aging...
I was wondering when the other shoe would drop.

These drugs are turning into a band-aid on the fact that it's more profitable to sell addictive, high-calorie foods in the US than foods that promote long-term health.

We'll decay people's heart muscles before we put a tax on unhealthy food to help fund Medicare and Medicaid.
Nobody here believes it's not possible that Russia could use a nuke. They're saying it's unlikely and it shouldn't dictate our decisions. It seems like there's not an actual disagreement here, so have a good day.
We started small. And prototyped with just a single feature.

Basically we generate code in our src folder under a reserved namespace, and other PHP code can then use that code with imports.
As we grow, we might want to split this into separate compilation units (we are not there yet, as the Haxe compiler is really fast!)

At the moment the generated PHP code is checked in source control, again we might want to have this done in CI, but it works kind of nicely at the moment.

The tricky bits are how to "speak" to PHP. Haxe is a really nice functional language (even its syntax is traditionally class based, but you can have module level fields in Haxe since 2020),
so its pretty annoying to handle option types etc from the PHP side. We are still not decided on this part, and many APIs expose duplicate functions for some general task, like foo and foo_exn, and
the one that ends with _exn throws instead of returning a variant (like option/maybe etc)

Also, its tricky to design where data is fetched from. We tend to keep the Haxe code as pure as possible, and only taking input and returning output (not doing any IO). We also write our own
typings for externals, this has actually been really good for us, as we can observe easily what we actually use, and if we can remove some dependency that has some one feature we only use.

Overall, im amazed not more PHP devs look into Haxe as its basically a better version of what is TypeScript > JavaScript. Also there is no other compile to PHP language im aware of
that ha the same robustness and features Haxe has.
This is the link: https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-p...

Most news reports are treating this as a single story, but posting the original source seems a good idea in this case; it just happens to be split across two URLs.
It's not commonality, it's that even if like for like the vehicles are equivalent or even safer there's selection bias at play as a result of what they sell and who they sell it to. To use a very broad brush:

People who buy Tesla sedans are basically the "german car weaving with no blinker" demographics of yesteryear so if someone's gonna hit a pole at 100 it'll be them.

Buick sells pretty safe stuff to pretty conservative buyers buy they skew toward age where they'd keel over from an open hand slap so surviving more than a fender bender isn't likely and they're exactly the kind of people who are gonna get t-boned at 60 by something they just didn't see.

Dodge basically sells Challengers and Chargers these days (Ram is separate brand for the timeline listed) and the stereotype seems to generally check out.

Hyundai and Kia are kind of the odd ones out but they sell a lot of low end and small stuff which doesn't exactly attract the least risky buyer demographics and the cars aren't exactly loaded with safety themselves.

The comparison really needs to be done on a higher resolution otherwise you get stuff like Volvo and Lexus looking artificially good because of course nobody dies in high end SUVs and sedans driven mostly by people of non-risky age and decent means and Ford and GM look good because they sell god knows how many fleet vehicles that only get driven responsibly on the clock and it's kind of hard to kill yourself in a 3/4 ton pickup anyway.
Of course, the CFPB will likely be targeted for destruction by the incoming administration.
See my above comment for a semi detailed version of how we do things.
I play single-player games from time-to-time and avoid multiplayer games as much as possible.

Just out of curiosity, is there some vetting process for keyboards that qualifies them as "not cheating"? Any hardware advances in input/output devices could be considered an unfair advantage, right? If my keyboard is a simple, non-smart one with significantly lower latency than your keyboard, does that mean I'm cheating? At some point you have to draw a line and say 'this is acceptable' and 'that is not', who draws the line? Does the line move? When does it move?

Cheating is going outside the defined rules of a game. If a specific game calls out that macros of any kind are forbidden, then great, that means some of the features of modern keyboards are cheating. Now, how do you police that? Pro-level competitive players are likely to be so fast and coordinated as to be close to indistinguishable from a well configured macro. Really, if you want to have limits on input devices, you need to codify that into the game, not say any advances in keyboard design are cheating. If using a macro lets a player be better than everyone else, limit the input capability to the level that is considered fair and don't worry about what keyboard someone is using. Otherwise, it's like complaining about someone using expensive high-refresh-rate gear and calling them a cheater.
> run out of quite a lot of equipment [0].

Come on, we're all grown-ups here, let's stop the charade like we're back in March or April of 2022. I'm too lazy to even link to all the Western magazine covers telling us how Russia has run out of a lot of stuff during the last two and a half years.
Tsb bank in the UK still do exactly this
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Russia gave freedom to my country. And to almost 90% of global south.
Russia also gave freedom to Europe from Nazi Germany. Communist fighters also gave their lives for freedom from Nazis in most Scandinavian countries including baltic.

The only three countries that invaded and threatened to invade are US, UK and Germany.

History is now repeating as a farce run by a senile demented 90 year old man who doesnt care about anyones lives because he doesnt have much left either.
For comedy one needs to subvert expectations, and this is why making light of grave events (Black Comedy) is a big phenomenon.

There are many examples from WW2 comedy to 9/11 memes. Sometimes the examples are more indirect, like in film: American Psycho, American Beauty, Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, Fargo, Don't Look Up, Fight Club, Quentin Tarantino's stuff, etc. All of them deal with dark themes in a light way.

Given the prevalence of this in our culture, the author seems a bit surprised. Maybe they didn't connect it to dark comedy.
Tauri also uses the system webview and does not bundle Chromium, right?
> not to mention the outlays for extravagant projects like sports centers

Just a note that for a lot of schools the sports programs (football especially) are actually a profit center, not a cost center. Situations obviously vary, but it's entirely plausible that a new sports center could be an investment that pays itself off rather than an extravagant expense.
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