skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what they meant was something like:

> Unless your app doesn't generate [stdout] output,then grepping the [visible] output will not work if it's stderr and it will be confusing

With the first "output" meaning "specifically stdout", and the second meaning "what you see on the terminal".

As in, you run a command, see it printed a lot of stuff, so then you do it again but piping it to `grep` or `less`, and realize none of that output was actually going to stdout.
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This is great, and I love your presentation of it - hilarious! "On average it costs about 10 to 30 cents per search. It's also extremely slow."
I don't think anyone is worried about mirror proteins by themselves, they are worried about someone assembling a self-replicating/self-propagating mirror life, no? In which case, the fear is that you can't just run around ozone-ing every little colony of chiral-mirror version of cyanobacteria under every rock in remote Siberia or wherever.
To prove that you divide both sides by x and take the limit for x -> inf, applying L'Hopital rule the limit is zero, so there is such a C, any number greater than zero. The existence of such X is just the definition of limit when x tends to inf.

Another way, just using a cas (like maxima) to compute such limit:
(%i1) limit( (log(x^2 + 1) + sqrt(x) + x/exp(sqrt(4*x + 3)))/x,x,inf); the result is zero.
Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld
Duct and Envelope Sealing Can Boost Energy Efficiency
A quick search gave me https://youtube.com/@NASPAScrabble/
The state of FL and Polk co are certainly on the same page there.

Not all FL counties are like that. Mine is pretty reasonable. Polk is not; it's a place I avoid.
They're oligarchs, and this is open bribery.
Cool idea! Don't think I'm the target audience though.
Maybe this is something for people who are starting out with web dev?
Wait. Developers consciously chose to use this random because they believed it had a 64 bit seed? That's still wrong. It's irrelevant that it was truncated to only 32 bits.
MAID is the net in the context of impulse driven suicide. If a person’s natural death is not reasonably foreseeable, there is a 90 day assessment period.
Any ideas how to make it privacy-respecting? It should remember everything to do that.
"Elon Musk’s six major conflicts of interest with the federal government" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/elon-musk-co...
>they're not fish, they're people

It's a figure of speech, not a literal meaning. If you can't make the distinguishment, then I'm sorry.

>I think the reason is the normalization of this PUA meat market mentality

What if the PUA mentality is the effect and not the cause? Simply look at the statistics on how harshly women rate men on tinder vs how men rate women, and it might sink in who the meat market really is
DF is such a time sink and its got a lot of hacking potential with DFhack and some lua skills.

However the recent update for Steam - and I'm very glad for the dev success - has left me cold and I haven't played it since.

I've been building dorf death forts since 2010 though and will always remember the goblins riding giant sparrow invasion of my underground cavern level fort in v0.34.
When I wrote a Random class for use at Amazon, I made SecureRandom (which couldn't be seeded, and was a multi-source DRBG) the default, and you had to intentionally choose InsecureRandom. This is how it has to be, and in this case there should only be Random, and Random.insecure IMO.
> She represents the potential of an endemic threat to capitalism, so of course the state has to make an example of her to the rest of the proles.

Is the state going to implement gun control? Mental healthcare? Any sort of healthcare reform? Unlikely, and all the real threats to capitalism (scoped to healthcare as an industry).

Bernie Sanders has been arguing for universal healthcare for 35 years to no results, while Luigi Mangione proved a point: that violence can work. The people with decision making capabilities on this topic ignore the data because they can, because "what are you going to do about it?", but they cannot ignore the violence as it puts them at real risk. And they are, for once in a long time, scared now that this information is being broadly socialized.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/20/lancet-me... ("A single-payer health-care system would save more than 68,000 lives and $450 billion a year, new research shows")

(i do not condone violence, I am observing actions and outcomes, potential and realized)
UnitedHealth Group CEO says health-care system is 'flawed'
There is nothing wrong with PRNGs, they are perfectly cryptographically secure when used correctly. In fact, AES-CTR is just XORing the plaintext with a pseudo-random generator (AES'd counter + initialiser). The problem is bad and misused PRNGs.
Interesting. How is the concurrency achieved? I don’t see any info about concurrency implementation on the website
So the argument is some of the rules are unfair?
The harm is that are more likely to get prescribed unnecessary medications. Most people are not confident enough or not knowledgeable enough to wave off what doctors say.
And also or instead just "Computer Generated" visible in the image would avoid unhelpfully biasing science.

Maybe also "See [...] for information on how" and a DOI, shorturl, or a hashtag.
>doing what normal humans do: communicate

Communication is a two way street where the other party has no obligation to listen to you when you want to communicate.

How do you communicate where people aren't interested in listening to strangers?
New York City 2024 Was the Year Return to Office Tipped in Real Estate's Favor
I wanted one but also baulked at the price, got a ~£200 drop ship special instead. I might actually prefer it to the Quooker tbh - it doesn't spit. (The spitting is apparently a safety feature, but guess which one I've burnt myself on...)
I love all these machines that we're comparing to but they're fundamentally different things - they don't have a pump to fit into their BOM. So maybe:

In the category of "machines that don't froth milk", it might be the most expensive by $50.

In the category of "machines that have pressure control", it might be the cheapest by $700

In the category of "machines that have a rotary pump", it might be the cheapest by $2000.

It's sort of the curse of making something that doesn't clearly fit into a specific category.

51mm portafilters are better and some day the world will come to understand

https://youtu.be/jTAkb-dCFro?si=QQ6K9l99xqOCQl5S
This is so funny lol!
Have you considered donating (parts) of the charged amount to charities?
> I think we are at the point where Patreon & podcasts can keep the best researchers self-funded...

What I believe you are saying is that the "popular" researchers will get ad-spend to fund their "research" that won't be peer reviewed. Why even bother publishing research, if no one reads anymore? It would just devolve into a popularity contest and following trends. Those trends will just be co-opted by monied interests.

The esoterism is due to the fact that there is a body of research that you need to know to understand the new research. Just because you can't understand the topic in a short sound bite does not mean it is not worth researching. Not all of the research is intended to be consumed by a lay public either.

Many podcasts and Patreon exclusives are behind paywalls and there is no expectation of peer-review.

In regards to calling this a "college model", not all research is done at college there is also thinktanks (institutions) and industry research which are funded by governments as well.

I think governments should be accountable for making sure the research is rigorous, has a social benefit, and is publicly available.
Which is it? So problematic that you wouldn't use it even if it were exactly the tool you needed, or "a bit weird".

I agree, it's a bit weird. So is putting a lot of effort into a project that nobody is asking for and you'll give it away for free. There are many people in my life that are neurodivergent and some situations cost more than they are worth. I have had several projects I thought were good candidates for open source, but the idea of dealing with the "anonymous a-hole" has been a show-stopper for me. I appreciate that the authors of this project seem to have similar concerns, but have overcome them by creating a social contract. I believe that it's entire goal is to turn people away whose interactions may be too much for the maintainers. Good.

If reading those rules and abiding by them is too much for you, then just turn around and walk away. That's the intention and goal. They're doing you a favor, letting you know that your brand of weird is not compatible with their brand of weird. They don't have to make space for everyone in their little project, and there might not be space for you there, and that's OK.
This feels like MilkSad.info and the 2020/2021 Cake Wallet flaws all over again

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3991...

https://milksad.info/posts/research-update-10/
I suspect you are right that economics will survive cuts. Not that it is any more of a science but because it is basically a propaganda arm for the establishment. This is true whether that establishment is died in the wool Marxists or libertarian free market absolutists.
no, the term you're looking for is specific performance. Having to abide by the terms of a contract is not "totalitarian". Doubly so when we're talking about a corporation (ie a government creation) and not individuals.
Propofol (or equivalent) is a must. I know people who have had a colonoscopy without it, and have regretted it due to significant pain.

Note that they approved the colonoscopy, just not the anesthetic. Also, to get approval for a colonoscopy, one just needs to have persistent intestinal pain or note that they have a history of polyps.
The two topics are intertwined. Most patients and doctors would not overconsume treatments, but they wouldn't not provide checks on spending and prices.

A patient and doctor don't care if a treatment costs $1 or $1million if they aren't footing the bill. You need someone in the system to say that treatment is too expensive, you cant have it.
FWIW it's MUCH easier to get into than dwarf fortress. You don't really need a guide like you need for DF.
Don't be afraid to play using "role-play mode" which is, IIRC, the one that saves in each settlement. There's no shame in that. You'll still be careful not to die, but it's a lot less punishing.
The benchmarks are bogus at the least, you are essentially just measuring the startup time of the executable/runtime and not your hash function.
From https://aquaproj.github.io/ :

> aqua installs tools securely. aqua supports Checksum Verification, Policy as Code, Cosign and SLSA Provenance, GitHub Artifact Attestations, and Minisign. Please see Security.
Let the health insurance companies deny claims. But then let the medical providers duke it out behind the scenes! Leave patients alone and don't send them bills six months later.
The modern interior design with hard surfaces everywhere is worse for usability/accessibility because it reflects sound, increasing noise levels. This is especially a problem in restaurants, some of which are loud enough to cause hearing damage.
Well, just like a human, you don’t immediately say “get sexual with me.” You need to create a mood! Someone I know does this by uploading on-topic scientific research and then asking for synthetic data. Haha, different from humans?

One can also make headway when asking it to reflect on the importance of sexual wellbeing, etc. Good luck. It’s good practice for learning “prompt vibing”
If the twin prime conjecture gets solved we riot
There's a bit of a definition issue at play here. When Andreas Blass and Noah Schweber say that there is no proof system for PA_2, they mean that there is no effective proof system that is complete for the full semantics. If you subscribe to their definition of a proof system, you end up saying that there is no such thing as a proof in PA_2, and thus that incompleteness is meaningless -- which I personally find a bit silly.

On the other hand, proof theorists and computer scientists are perfectly happy to use proof systems for second order logic which are not complete. In that case, there are many effective proof systems, and given that the axioms of PA_2 are recursively enumerable (they are in finite number!), Gödel's incompleteness will apply.

If you are still not convinced, I encourage you to decide on a formal definition of what you call PA_2, and what you call a proof in that system. If your proof system is effective, and your axioms are recursively enumerable, then the incompleteness theorem will apply.
Putting the New M4 Macs to the Test
Sedation 100% is a medical necessity. Firstly, it hurts a lot without it. Secondly, if you need polyp removal, that's going to burn like hell.
I think a more accurate statement is that developer time is more expensive than RAM now
Not surprising, oligarchs love Oligarchy.
This is how I feel about it as well. It's not perfect, but it is the best, prettiest version of Aliens, hands down. James Cameron is notoriously picky about the quality of the re-releases of his films and I honestly think this was the best outcome here. Yes, a "grindhouse" style 4K HDR transfer of the original film negative would also be nice in order to get that classic film grain for those who are in the mood for it, but as it is, the release we got was exceptionally high quality even with its imperfections.
discussed at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294166 (Aug 2024; 4 comments)

also, from the linked DMCA, this is a pretty rich complaint to put into a GitHub takedown: "For hard paywalls, it is our understanding that the identified Bypass Paywalls technology automatically scans web archives for a crawled version of the protected content and displays that content." I guess merely the automation of that work-around constitutes an infringing action.
>Is the state going to implement gun control? Mental healthcare? Any sort of healthcare reform? Unlikely, and all the real threats to capitalism.

Yeah, none of those are ever going to happen to any significant degree in the US, so they aren't worth worrying about. But Americans do love shooting people. If they stopped shooting one another, discovered class consciousness and solidarity and started shooting capitalists it would become a problem.
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Sorry, I meant to ask, game data (moves and such). That channel links to this site, https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/tourneys/2024/csw/lxt/11/
Not sure if they have the actual moves. Still looking
A Modern Holden style Rotary Crystallizer, using off the shelf parts (apart from PCB), capable of growing large optically clear crystals of Potassium DiHydrogen Phosphate (KDP) in just 7 days!
That he can do this is amazing. I wonder how he decides to pick up a new language of Scrabble, considering the near decade gap between French and Spanish.

Also, what are the communication rules during play? Does he at least need to know enough Spanish to be able to issue or respond to a challenge?
You would expect this though? If the average lifespan were 70 and the "healthspan" (taken from the article to mean the time spent in good health) were 65 that would mean 5 years spent in poor health. If they both go up by 10%, then the average lifespan is now 77, the average healthspan is now 71.5 and the total years spent in poor health is now 5.5. Unhealthy years have gone up, but so have healthy years and total years.

I could hear an argument for how this is to do with the western medical perspective though. We do have a tendency to view healthy as the default state and disease as something that is to be watched for and then gotten rid of when it pops up. An attitude more oriented to the idea that health is something you have to actively maintain every day could potentially help increase total lifespan without a concomitant increase in shitty years.
You're mixing up years and days there. It would be about $1 a day, not 400.
No, in this setting, this is not a thing: the secure generator, if it isn't literally just a wrapper around the OS secure RNG (which it ideally is) is seeded from that RNG. Userland code doesn't observe entropy at all; you are in a state of grave sin if your userland program is trying to do that.
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Not a lot actually, and there's the space from not having a kettle any more; filling pans for pasta/rice/etc. too.

The cheapest ones are about 10x the cheapest kettles. Can't imagine wanting to go back to a kettle personally.
Social sciences are by far the worst offenders, with sociology right at the bottom at ~30% replication rate.

> Seems like we need people who study societies to help figure it out.

No, we need people who understand robust quantitative analysis and empirical methodologies. Sociologists are clearly not them. Open science and preregistration initiatives help a lot, but I should note that social sciences were also the most vociferous objectors to such changes.
People keep reinventing those and thread pools over and over in C++. I've been researching one of our older systems (slated for decommissioning in 2021, as is typical that did not happen). In trying to understand it I have found many areas of concern around how they deal with concurrency, in particular they created their own queue and thread pool. Based on past experience, there's 50/50 chance for each that they were created correctly (with proper concurrency controls), and less than that that the tasks submitted to the thread pool themselves make use of proper concurrency controls rather than assuming that they can read/write whatever they want as if the system were single-threaded.
It was this exact question that lead me down the rabbit hole to making espresso machines. The main reason everyone uses them is because they're $25, small, and can leverage the oscillation of mains voltage for their operation. The next best thing is probably $300 and quite large and heavy - and those professional gear pumps fundamentally don't scale down well. Ours operates under the same principle though with a completely different sort of motor that hasn't been common until pretty recently.
That may be, but having the default generator be non-cryptographic has been the conventional design choice in languages since the dawn of time. I would get the willies seeing security-sensitive code using "Random()" even if you told me in your language "Random()" was a CSPRNG.
Theology was the main subject in first universities.
I don't know what is going to happen next, but social volatility is high, making predictions unreliable. The fundamentals are not favorable to positive outcomes, imho.

(a component of my professional experience is risk management and assessment)
Oooh I understand now! Thanks.
> 'not quite' doesn't cut it.

Sure it does. Cleanly.

> This one doesn't add as much to the arstechnica article.

Karl's backlinks help complete (and provide further evidence of) the narrative about AT&Ts long, long history of gross unethical behavior and consumer mistreatment.

The links are the backstory that belong in ~every article about bad telecom behaviors (but are usually missing). Evidencing assertions is part of stellar journalism.
Of course this doesn't need to be used on "AI use" as they frame it. So far, your activity was a line in the logs somewhere, now someone is actually looking at you with three eyes, at all times.
In answer to your question, it is irrelevant. It doesn't matter how much money musk has, or you have, or bezos has, or the government has. What matters is where that money is invested.

If musk was using his money to bang hookers on solid gold yachts, fine, complain about it. But he isn't. He doesn't even own a house.

Stop worrying about another man's dollar and start worrying about being a better and less covetous person.
I, personally, have spawned and killed many daemons.
When Scrabble players talk about a "dictionary" they really just mean a list of words that are acceptable.

They're not actually learning anything other than "_______ is an acceptable string."

So even if just "pensar" is in what you and I would call a "dictionary", the Scrabble-acceptable word list will contain every form of it.
I’m not sure of any company that blindly allows software like Cursor, that explicitly uploads code/embeddings to their servers.
I think most very experienced engineers would strongly disagree with you on (2) and would laugh at the usage characterization you make in (4).

On #2: The difference between a PRNG and a cryptographically secure random number generator is foundational knowledge for software engineers, and there's (finally) a strong trade consensus that writing security-sensitive code has a higher bar of preparation and shouldn't be done naively. It's entirely unreasonable that someone writing a `uuid` implementation that's meant to be a cryptographically secure library for use by application developers wouldn't anticipate that their standard library would offer both and would prioritize the PRNG as its basic and most accessible generator.

On #4: It's very rare that an application developer needs direct access to a cryptographically secure random number generator, especially because of that trade consensus that security-sensitive applications deserve expert care. In contrast, application developers are building test data pools, shuffling arrays, adding noise to signals, adding surprise to gameplay, writing and running reproducible tests, etc every day and naive use of a cryptographically secure random number generator in those contexts is easily paralyzing and catastrophic. The overhead can be order of magnitude in measure (which matters quite a lot in typical highly-repetitive/looped usage), and in some implementations it can introduce non-deterministic and potentially indefinite blocks on execution. And because they specifically can't be made deterministic by design, they significantly frustrate debug and test efforts that benefit from reproducibility. They're an essential tool in modern standard libraries, when they're needed in unusual cases, but are not suitable for naive everyday use at all.
Why is the Steam update a deal breaker?
I was so excited to see this project as I was dreaming of such a thing, followed by immediate disappointment that west coast indigenous territories aren't included.
Curious how what appears on the map or not is decided, is it just repackaging existing data sources? Are those sources editable by anyone (like OSM)?

Either way, good job! As a low key OSM contributor, this motivates me to contribute to the mapping, if data can be added by the public.
You and I have very different definitions of "nearly uncensored".
Why are the providers behaving differently and in different circumstances in US vs. Japan/Germany/France?
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Amazing talk. It kind of sounds like they don't have some kind of Voyager computer emulator? I find that hard to believe?
In context I read PRNGs as being compared to CSPRNGs. CSPRNGs should be the default.
That's just another way of saying that the way things are is optimal, and that we as a society have reached perfection, that we're doing our best.

That is blatantly wrong. Better is always possible and the people who steal and cheat the system are the ones who deny that better world for us all.

The Hitlers, the Putins, the Kochs and Epsteins and Madoffs of the world have made the world far worse than it needs to be for the absolutely worst personal reasons.