skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To provide just one counterexample to this obviously false claim, South Dakota v. Wayfair (2018)[1] directly overturned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota (1992)[2], which had ruled that mail order (including online) purchases were not subject to sales tax unless the seller had a physical presence in the state. South Dakota v. Wayfair was a 5-4 decision, but not on partisan lines.

You can see several more cases here: https://chatgpt.com/share/676316b1-9be0-8008-9586-6181324b11...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota
What is a good recommendation for replacing a TP-Link Omada AP? I have the Wifi6 AP and it performs great. But if I do need to replace it with something more secure, what are my choices?

I know Ubiquity is a choice, but the reason I chose Omada over Ubiquity is that I can host the Omada controller locally and not be forced to use a cloud product.
I like to use the word "superstition" to describe my attempts to prevent migraines by wearing sunglasses, eating chocolate, and avoiding orange juice. I only have vague corollaries to believe these are helpful (particularly since I don't get migraines often, as awful as it is when I get hit by one), so it's not fair to attribute any of these with certainty -- but it's also not fair to dismiss them out of hand, either.

Sure, some "superstitions" are the result of random folklore, and can be ignored without consequence. (Knock on wood!) But others are the result of meme-ized facts, passed on via something that's folklorish and easy to remember to share.

Thus, it is fair to use the word "superstition" to describe something you think might be harmless, but may actually have serious consequences, if ignored, after all.
Ah, indeed you did. My brain slipped over that, thank you for helping me see it.
"non-isotropic radiation profiles" is probably better expressed as the ability to produce light that can be modulated differently in different directions. That's what's required to show proper view dependent shading on a surface, and what's required to turn off a voxel that's behind another voxel from a particular view angle.

That's arguably a different class of display, and an extremely complex one.

To build it you'd likely want to sacrifice vertical parallax (to allow the use of a spinning lenticular sheet or something else, and to reduce the information capacity required), but there's no fundamental reason that prevents a full parallax display of this type (a spinning integral photograph).

From an engineering complexity point of view, it's the hardest of all worlds.
> This may simply reflect the writing rate of long-term memory

I don't think write rate is the bottleneck; consider performance on reaction time tests, eg: https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime (for what would we need a LT memory write for this task?)

(if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say our scavenging and gathering ancestors never had the need of decision making with cat-like reaction times?)
I have done so multiple times, albeit in the UK.

When collections calls, you explain them the situation (service not provided or whatever, and evidence of trying to resolve it with them in good faith) and they go away.

Have yet to see a court summons or anything, although I'd love to see them try their lies in court.

I did not care about the credit report impact - it's probably the only valid reason not to do this if this is something you care about.
Yeah, that's what the paper is talking about. A whole lot of input vs. a small amount of conscious focus.
positioning themselves to sell
... not that it was _ever_ used that way, since its inception.
The point of design tokens is that they sit above your framework and library choices, so it's not possible for bootstrap to solve this as it's a down-stream library. Bootstrap is a consumer of design tokens in that they might be fed into bootstraps css variable system. But in a design token system you wouldn't use bootstrap as a source of truth for these tokens, you want something more flexible and programatically portable than CSS.
Ahh, I guess that makes sense. I do want to point out that the reserve requirement ratio is currently at zero does not mean that it’s “not a thing anymore”.
Possibly from https://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/mengar/ ?

Just an aside, it's really bizarre that it's transliterated as Mengzi in the article. IMO, it would be much better to use the translation (Master Meng) or the far more common and more recognizable Mencius (which is at least mentioned).
Here's a great article I read recently talking about this: https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artifici...
Wouldn't attaching green cards - or at least temporary work permits - to US university degrees be a positive change compared to employment agencies / contractor firms trying to sneak in piles of people without such degrees and screening? That would be a good response to the issue of training (ideally) highly qualified smart people and then kicking them out.
You're right, those aren't provocations in the context of nuclear deterrence. The OP didn't do a great job about explaining the context but he meant it in the context of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory
Nice! Congratz

It's insanely fast. And wholeheartedly recommend this wonderful talk about the thoughts that led to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqOUgqsWvbw
This is what I've found works the best as well.
You can try automating search/replace on hex/hsl/rgb values across all your codebases, but targeting "primary button backgrounds on hover" is only possible with some more advanced tooling in place.

And there's an important runtime aspect when it comes to theming, so it's not just about finding/replacing hardcoded values.
This study just seems a forced ranking with arbitrary params? Like, I could assemble different rules/multipliers and note some other cooperation variance amongst n models. The behaviours observed might just be artefacts of their specific set-up, rather than a deep uncovering of training biases. Tho I do love the brain tickle of seeing emergent LLM behaviours.
People have voted with their wallets and the winners are the most addictive, cheapest and lowest effort products to hit the market.
In the early days at my company, we had an arrangement where the CEO had 3 monitors on his desk. Two faced him, and one faced the other direction and mirrored one of his screens. There was a second keyboard and mouse attached so that someone could sit on the other side of the desk and collaborate. He could keep private data like email on one monitor and other applications on the shared screens. Somewhat comically these were enormous 21" CRT's so by "desk" I actually mean "dining table"

I really enjoyed working this way and kind of wish the same experience could be replicated between multiple machines and with more than 2 people. I would like it if anyone could drag an application onto a shared screen where multiple people could control/interact with it while still having the option to take a window from the shared display back to a private display, ie passsing an application from one system to another.
To have graded categories of intelligence we would probably need a general consensus of what intelligence was first. This is almost certainly contextual and often the intelligence isn’t apparent immediately.
I liked your other comment's take with the monads better :P
The first thing that would happen is they would cut off all your service.

If you are relying on them for something other than the thing you don’t want to pay for, this becomes a problem.

For example, I disputed a charge with my CC from the Apple App Store when I was charged for an app that I shouldn’t have been years ago. They immediately cut off my access to the Store. Other apps couldn’t update, OS couldn’t update, couldn’t get new apps, etc.
I take provigil as well. I was wise enough to stop taking Adderall and Dexedrine when I ended my schooling. I never had a prescription, but these were easy enough to find. Provigil is not an every day tool for me, only once and a while, but it gets the job done.
I’m not exactly sure why you think that matters. Everyone in those channels have logs that any program can read.

The point that I am making is that the capability and software exists, even for others to view, if you want. I mean: did you need an account or specialised client for these logs?

Thats the point.

Be the change you want to see if you want archives uploaded. Or, do what others do: grep your local files or znc logs.
Polonius Revisited, Part 1 (2023)
> As interesting in as the Hadza are, it's impossible to really know what their lives looked like before the Bantu expansion, let alone later developments.

As much as I agree with this, there are better models than the Hadza where we have better records of (plausibly) pre-colonial culture and behavior—the san people, the aboriginals of Australia, many of the peoples of Papua New Guinea, etc. The evidence for this is that language seems to encode a lot of culture, and though many of the languages are rapidly vanishing we've documented many of them. (Think about how northern north-american languages have so many distinct words for "snow", for a particularly famous example, showing how language embeds the cultural relevance of snow and ice.) For instance, looking at just the art in the Australian record there's strong evidence for the emergence of very limited social stratification. This, in my opinion, gives significant evidence to the idea of some sort of pre-marxist "primitive" communism (I wish we had better terms as there are good reasons to reject "primitive" but I'm explicitly trying to quote marx here).

Granted, the christians have done their best to "convert" away cultural evidence of many pre-christian beliefs, to an unfortunately devastating effect on our understanding of pre-colonial cultures all around the world, so the extent to which pre-colonial neolithic cultures were egalitarian and communal and non-hierarchical will likely be difficult to understand fully.

...but even just through "traditional" western anthropology, we've long assumed that social stratification arose at the same time as sedentary agriculture. What would be the point without hoarded resources to distribute? And figures such as the nebulous "shaman" associated with animist cultures still divide anthropologists as to whether or not they qualify as social stratification—in many cases, this seems to result in less use of resources than others in the community, or usage of distinct resources.

(and you also have cultures like the pre-colonial Hawai'i peoples that had such a ridiculous level of stratification and gendered use of resources that modern students often have difficulty believing the record—these trivially contradict the primitive communist narrative. But I say don't throw the baby out with the bath water!)
Many years ago at $WORK we had an in house IRC server (pre-Slack). It was well archived and logs were easily searchable. It was a pretty easy setup.

And for IRC, I think this is a good compromise between "everything is public at all times" and "everything is walled off and private at all times".

If you want to have a log of your use, it's possible. If the org running the server wants a log, they can do that too. Is that possible with something like Discord?
EEPROM programmers and various other ways of rewriting this VIN (turnkey tools using undocumented diagnostic commands giving you unauthenticated read/write access to memory) means it's just one insignificant expense for the chop shop (as it's amortized over all their cars) vs a multi-thousand-dollar investment in money for a legitimate vehicle owner or part-time mechanic.
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I think family related stress and conflict could definitely explain some of it. I'm not sure how to design an experiment to test though. I'm not sure how to quantify "family related stress."
Thanks for chiming in, great post, I like the premise - I just think we must have completely different working experiences. I'm typically in a larger org that has multiple systems feeding data into a data lake or something similar that has been normalized but also can still usually has some quirks. Articulating the right request to BI is certainly a skill, but my approach/experience is that I try to paint the picture of the end goal and let them fill in the gaps as needed. Sometimes that's literally drawing out a graph or chart that I want to exist.

Even when no BI team is dedicated, there's usually someone that's wearing that hat. Someone setup those schemas and data pipelines, etc or is responsible for maintaining them. That person is probably the one that knows "make sure you exclude the NULL items" or something similar.

I do like being in touch with changing data trends from a leadership perspective. It's either real and could be a valuable insight or it's a bug that needs to be addressed before any ill advised decisions are made from the 'info'. I find this can often be setup proactively and put into a dashboard. In that way, identifying it and raising concern can be 'my job' but when investigating it, it could be a team effort.
I once had two LLMs do this but with one emulating a bash shell on a compromised host with potentially sensitive information. It was pretty funny watching the one finally give in to the temptation of the secret_file, get a strange error, get uncomfortable with the moral ambiguity and refuse to continue only to be met with "command not found".

I have no idea why I did this.
Bootstrap and Sass are for the web. They don't solve the interop problem for Figma/Sketch/Framer/iOS/macOS/Windows/Android/TVs/Watches/Fridges/Cars and what have you.

And that's not even accounting for web styling solutions that don't use CSS variables.
Well, if it barks like a dog...

But seriously, the accurate simulation of something to the point of being indiscernible is achieved and measured, from a practical sense, by how similar that simulation can impersonate the original in many criteria.

Previously some of the things LLMs are now successfully impersonating were considered solidly out of reach. The evolving way we are utilizing computers, now via matrices of observed inputs, is definitely a step in the right direction.

And anyway, there could never be a dog in a computer. Dogs are made of meat. But if it barks like a dog, and acts like a dog...
the links on the site are all just the same ref-link, is this spam?
Discussions

(405 points, 17 days ago, 341 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42290448

(398 points, 2 days ago, 201 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429606
That sounds about right to me. Worry about the things you can fix and don't worry abut the things outside your control.
I like Scylla and we use it, so I wish them well. But what I don't understand with this announcement is how it supposed to work if they don't publish the pricing model. Just "contact us to get a quote". How people are supposed to make advance plans without clear pricing?
Disagree. This level of convention is inseparable from the language.

Not doing the conventional error return in go would be akin to using a Return sum type in reverse, putting the success value into the Error case..
I just never understood what we are to take from this, neither of them sound like each other at all. Just seems like a small prompting experiment that doesn't actually work.
I think right now, the most likely explanation is that people are just seeing things.

Few months ago I was watching Perseids [1]. I was in a field with no street lamps around me, with headphones on, watching the sky for a long time, and suddenly a drone appeared. It seemed to hover maybe 50 meters from me, 20 meters from the ground, moving slowly from the south-west, then circling around me. I wasn't scared, but it was weird.

After 5 minutes (!) I realized it wasn't a drone, it was just a plane landing on the airport located 1 km to north-east. The specifics of the plane route (the runway is oriented from west to east; I saw only one light from the plane) plus the lack of noise (because of my headphones) plus the dark (wrong distance estimates) contributed to this mistake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids
They had enough money to make Costco recall butter not labeled as a diary product.

I'm not sure this explanation holds water
I mean technically, sure. But isn’t that a bit roundabout? There is no real life reason why unsubscribing should be more than a few clicks of effort. If it takes more than 30 seconds, something has gone horribly wrong. Keep companies to that standard, instead of giving them an opportunity to calculate that precisely 9 minutes of wait time doesn’t cost them much and is sufficient for 70% of customers to give up, or something.
Thanks, will keep an eye on your progress. If you want to discuss this kind of use cases in the future, feel free to get in touch.
This is big step towards getting more and more application adopt sync-engines and in general better user-experience!

Awesome Work, congratulations on the alpha launch!
Can the combination of mind and body only process reactive tasks serially, or can it process them with some amount of parallelism?

And is 100ms (I struggled to get below 180ms, myself) only the time needed to process, or does that include IO latency?

If it includes IO latency, then is there a buffer?
You have to design your data tables in an operational system to support operations, in particular, to not get corrupted, which tends to lean towards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

but means you have to write queries with joins to get answers and many people find that difficult. Tooling to provide a better view for analytics is an interesting question.

As for statistics I think anybody making decisions should know a little about them. Myself I am a fan of "nonparametric" methods because they only make me learn one probability distribution so if I was stuck on a desert island (with pencil and paper) I could compute my own tables for methods like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Whitney_U_test
Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is becoming a nonprofit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234
After hearing many war stories about Siberian winters from a colleague, I asked why they didn't do field work in summer instead. The reply was short: mosquitos and mud.

(they could pretty much only travel to their field sites after the ground was frozen enough to permit it)
For people concerned about mass surveillance, what is your biggest worry?

Worry #1: People who wish to avoid mass surveillance aren't able to do so, because the tools available for fighting it (such as Tor, Signal, etc.) aren't sufficiently powerful

Worry #2: Although the tools for avoiding mass surveillance are powerful, not enough people are adopting them

Worry #3: Something else

I have my own answer, but I'm curious what others will say.
Recursive Rendering with Phoenix Components
Testing: Build better AI agents through debuggable unit testing
If the TPUs cost less, that implies that they draw less power. If they cost more then nobody will use them.
It mentions the other texture generation articles but I can’t find them anywhere. Anyone got the links?
Disposing of the dead via burning or burial was an evolution means to protect your community from epidemics. Ancient generations didn't know about the of details of viruses and bacterium. All they learned through out the years was, _if you remove the dead there is a better chance of the community staying healthy_.

Religion latched onto which ever means of disposing of their dead the locals already performed. No different than how religion took over local customs and traditions to help bring in more people into their fold.

Communities that didn't properly dispose of their dead would of experience a net-positive when pushed to follow a religious which their funeral tradition helps prevent epidemics. Those people would most likely of uplifted the religion when they though divine intervention reduced their epidemics. In reality, it was as laws of physics reducing the propagation of contagions.

Fun fact, disposal via vulture consumption is another good means to contain contagions. Their digestive system is like battery acid and kills mostly everything. Natures evolutionary animal that assists with preventing epidemics. A natural wake.
I think the easiest distinction is the high part. I assume you have never crushed up Ritalin and/or Adderall to snort (I have). The guys taking it non-medicinally get a clear high, and tolerance demands higher doses. The best/worst one is desoxyn. That stuff is heavenly, but so addictive. After scoring a bottle of it I decided that I was never going to take any amphetamine ever again.

From what I understand, ADHD folks do not get the high part, so the addiction risk is not there.
If you work in the SEO industry, how can you be confused by this? The majority of your "industry" only produces spam which targets search engines. Google was already getting cooked long before ChatGPT ever went live. This is one situation where AI disruption could be a good thing because if Google continues to be ruined maybe you'll get real jobs in the meantime.
I used to think this too, but I changed my mind when a few years ago my sister wanted to play and I told her why it was a bad game because it's just based on luck, but I played anyway. She ended up getting something like 20 gimmels in a row and I got like 20 peys in a row, even after switching dreidels multiple times, and even switching where I was sitting, it was honestly one of the strangest moments of my life, it was as if god was completely rigging it against me. I think the lesson was that dreidel isn't about luck, it's about mazal.
I spent a very long time giving SolveSpace a native Haiku UI. I'm going to keep doing this kind of thing because there's nothing I personally dislike more than apps that don't use the platform's native UI.

I don't care that my approach is harder for the developer, because the thing I care about is consistency and convenience for the user.

I know the thing you built is neat (I've spent quite a few years working on almost the same thing), but I guess this is why I gave up on pushing my own solution
From my POV I have a choice of a database or a tool like pandas. Anybody who is interested in this sort of work has a choice of doing it with databases or with a specialized data analysis tool. What's your take on that?
This is the first I've heard of auto lid open and close!
Yes and:

Two (of many, many) books which detail two separate efforts to dismantle our administrative state are:

Lobbying America https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691168016 the history of how Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce, et al reacted to The New Deal by transitioning from trade groups to political players.

Democracy in Chains https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stea... shares (Nobel winning economist) James McGill Buchanan's role in bootstrapping the Southern flavored conservative movement (libertarian "free enterprise" segregationists reacting to Civil Rights Era and The Great Society).
Mathematically proving why a Jewish game is bad, is the most Jewish game there is!
Hello, HN – I'm aaron - CEO and founder of Rocicorp. We build Zero and Replicache. Very happy to answer any questions!
go right ahead! i can make a repo for it if you have any trouble copying.

PLEASE, for the love of god, send it to me later. I am extremely interested (not just saying that). tomomyrman@proton.me or reply here

or, let's collab!
>We seem to be ready to sacrifice people to space at a relatively high cadence.

If people are willing, is it even an issue?

You gotta crack a few eggs to make an omlette.