skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not good enough at this to be explaining it, but statistical significance is based on probabilities.

if humans have a 10% chance of having cancer at any moment, and you have one human on an entire planet, the probability for that planet is still 1/10 and not 100% or 0 based on whether that person has or does not have cancer, and having one sample from that population of 1 does not increase your confidence in the answer as to whether his cancer represents a cancer cluster.

or something like that. If you need a sample of 30 people to achieve a certain degree of confidence, whether that sample comes from a population of 30 people or a population of 100,000 people, same confidence. We aren't trying to establish what percentage of people have cancer at any given moment, we are trying to establish whether this population matches what we know about the percentage who "should" have cancer.

I'm really bad at explaining this.

the more times you flip a coin, the more confidence you'll have in understanding the probabilities of that coin. for a given confidence level, you don't need to flip that coin more by 100x, you already know. There might be a population of a million coin flips, but you just need a sample of a certain size to obtain confidence that your sample is representative.
We are interested in the software visible performance effects of pipelining. For small benchmarks that don't miss in the predictors or icache, this mostly means execution pipelining. That's the type of pipelining the article is discussing and the type of pipelining considered in instruction performance breakdowns considered by Agner, uops.info, simulated by LLVM-MCA, etc.

I.e., a lot of what you need to model for tight loops only depends on the execution latencies (as little as 1 cycle), and not on the full pipeline end-to-end latency (almost always more than 10 cycles on big OoO, maybe more than 20).
How does this work in practice once you run the application? The windows games are designed for a large screen and keyboard&mouse.
Thank you for keeping people away from Linux with these kind of opinions. It makes my life as a Linux software engineer much more profitable.
Lest one forget NSAKey! /s

This type of /r/ufos|/r/aliens speculation isn't particularly useful. It comes with no evidence of TPMs being backdoor'ed. Have they been compromised [at least pre-2.0]? Yes, in as much as Apple's Secure Enclave has as an example.

Gut feelings aren't always correct and for topics which have a sort of 'correctness' about them, they're not useful.

Otherwise we're debating to prove a negative.
>"from now on no explanation, code only" also helps.

Does it? Without using a model with a internal monologue interface, the explanation is the only way for the model to do any long form thinking. I would have thought that requesting an explanation of the code it is about to write would be better. An explanation after it has written the code would be counterproductive, because it would be flavouring the explanation to what it actually wrote instead of what it was wanting to achieve.
Commence, maybe. Given their lead in pebble bed, I wonder why? Probably competing teams and competing funding and goals. Thorium was in test decades ago in the USA and its applicability to large scale power with lower proliferation risk is given. I think the article's pointing out how much usable thorium China has as a side effect of rare earth mining may get to the heart of things: people with giant trash piles look for ways to monetise.
I've been playing Grim Dawn recently, and feeling the tension between optimizing and exploring, between pre-built and puzzled out.

If you can manage to forget about the answer key lurking on every forum, the core experience of finding synergy, figuring out a build, balancing resistances is surprisingly fun.

> Why interview solely the grognards?

And, I know it's a rhetorical question, but the answer is:

> So the article can serve double duty as a Nat Geo-style jungle expedition, providing glimpses of unwashed tribespeople to intrigued middle Americans.
Steam Deck wouldn't be a thing if Steam/Windows games didn't run well on Proton/Linux.
Ask HN: Experiences with Crossover? Anybody hired or been hired from it?
Curious as to people's experiences with Crossover. Has anyone hired great candidates from there, or been hired themselves at a good position?

Or maybe someone's had a bad experience worth hearing about?
Just played Red Dead Redemtion 2 on Kubuntu 24. Doesn't get any more AAA than that.
Is a yubikey then employing security by obscurity?
Wars aren't started by referenda, legal or otherwise.

They're started when one side chooses to initiate massive, disproportionate violence against the other.
One of my favourite texts. One of those that I found influential early in academics as well as when re-reading later in my career. Even for younger students I think it can be great introduction to more formal approaches, as well as a taste for the austere.
A Complete Unknown: The Bob Dylan Biopic
Interesting! Would like to chat!
It's whisper quiet too.
This is what the field of complex systems and complexity economics tries to deal with but it doesn't seem like complexity economics has taken off.

With economics too there is a problem that a correct prediction that is acted on will be gamed and become a self defeating seemingly "wrong" prediction.

I think the 2022 recession calls were probably a good example.

If everyone believes there is going to be a recession in the future and everyone acts to avoid the recession we can't know the counter factual in the economy of not predicting the recession to know what was the right prediction.

I have read this process referred to reflexivity but even a best selling trading book by George Soros himself didn't get this idea to stick in the popular mind.

It seems like prediction is not even the right word to use or we should have a different word for a prediction that can influence the outcome of what it is predicting. Then there is even strong and weak versions of this process that we haven't bothered to separate from the proper word prediction in the sense of weather prediction. That the prediction is basically independent of what it is trying to predict.
7+11 is default for BitLocker as far as I know. Binding to other values will bite you later if you update UEFI firmware or change some settings.

GRUB and all other boot loaders are unecessary with UEFI. See my comment history for more.

Kernel updates + Secure Boot is easy with a Debian hook.

The hard part is making it work with TPM when you want to add encryption...
Recently a friend of mine asked me to help him with his Surface laptop. He was unable to install Windows whatever he tried. I didn't believe him but it was exactly as he said - during the first boot the laptop would turn off and then show a generic error next boot. Ubuntu worked just fine.

What was the issue? Immediately after power management initialization during the first boot the system seen that the battery was in a bad condition and tried to hibernate but for some reason crashed instead. Out of warranty, the battery is extremely hard to replace, so a registry quirk injected through a Linux boot cd immediately after setup helped.

Is Windows actually ready for desktop?
But different chess tournaments have different dress codes. Maybe FIDE has a most strict one but I don’t see how this is a universal chess tradition.

Moreover, in the examples you give clothes also serve a practical use within the game itself, except maybe golf not as significantly. But golf is also another peculiar case of a sport and one that carries different traditions. Eg esp for BJJ I would say clothes are important part of the game in ways that it is not for chess.

I agree that FIDE’s dress code is prob more similar to dress code of social activities like bridge. But I would also expect some people to get confused over how strict these are from time to time, and ppl certainly do not become grandmasters by memorising dress code rules. This has happened before anyway and ppl did not think it was an intentional act of activism to dress in shorts either [0].

[0] https://www.chess.com/news/view/dress-code-incident-at-world...
Original source - more detail including link to a source (26 points, no discussion yet) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553154

The letter: https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25472740-lett...

The Verge suggests NYT is the source (5 points, no comments) [0] , but it doesn't mention the letter that Reuters has.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553233
For example, Windows or Android software from ten years ago will still work in Windows 11 or Android 15 or whatever their current versions are. For Windows, software compatibility is actually excellent: a lot of 32-bit Windows 95 software still runs perfectly on Windows 11 64 almost 30 years later. Nothing remotely close exists for Linux.

I completely disagree.

Android applications made for older versions DO NOT work nowadays. Windows applications usually do not install and to run them you have to install them on old version and upgrade. Backward compatibility is no longer the key point for OS creators, and I would say they event want to break it somehow (like Android new set of permissions and removing old apps from the store)
> Also, despite millions of players, it's hard to call CS2 an AAA title because it's based on Direct3D 11 (which is now more than a decade old) and lacks modern lighting techniques like ray tracing.

Some of the quotes from the OP's page border on parody. So, CS2 doesn't count as a AAA title because it's based on DX11 and doesn't have realtime ray tracing. But apparently this same person is oblivious to the fact that both real-time RT and DX12 translation have been completely usable on Linux for years now. Nvidia helped ship native RT to Linux clients in Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and Proton has supported the majority of DX12 games with RT since before the Steam Deck existed.

Kinda makes you glad that this is the final edition, if that's the sort of due diligence being exercised.
Woah, looks like this article has a major error in it right up front:

"The project follows a 2-MW experimental version completed in 2021 and operated since then. "

They completed the TMSR-LF1 back then, and got authorization to turn it on, but have never announced startup or operation, as far as I'm aware. I've actually been bracing for the headline since 2021 because it would be the first time we operated a molten salt reactor since Oak Ridge's MSRE shut down in 1969.

For all its purported benefits, fluid nuclear fuel has major challenges because the extraordinarily radioactive fission products are no longer held up inside the fuel pins, but rather are flowing around the entire primary system, coming into intimate contact with (and plating out on) pumps, heat exchangers, the vessel wall, instruments, valves, etc. etc. My guess is that they ran into some trouble with containing this, or remotely maintaining the primary equipment.

FWIW, the US started up a commercial thorium-fueled reactor back in 1961 at Indian Point 1 [1] (previously known as the Consolidated Edison Thorium Reactor [2]). We replaced the thorium with enriched uranium in the second core, and all subsequent cores, because it was a lot more economical.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWqmPyoYxw

[2] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015086582338&se...
If the vast majority of applications and games are built for Windows, and that means I shouldn't use Linux, I suppose the same is true about this Macbook I'm on right now. You know what, I'm tossing it out the window the second after I post this message.
Dialogue is getting worse and worse in almost all newer films and series.

Netflix boss tells writers to “have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.”

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

“Several screenwriters who’ve worked for the streamer told [the author] a common note from company executives is “have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.” (“We spent a day together,” Lohan tells her lover, James, in Irish Wish. “I admit it was a beautiful day filled with dramatic vistas and romantic rain, but that doesn’t give you the right to question my life choices. Tomorrow I’m marrying Paul Kennedy.” “Fine,” he responds. “That will be the last you see of me because after this job is over I’m off to Bolivia to photograph an endangered tree lizard.”)”

Sounds like all new productions reading this. We really live in idiocracy.
Book Review: The Outlier (2022)
> Why do you frame it as an "HR exercise" when it's just the people who are about to play a game talking about what they expect out of it?

Because they're so incapable of considering other people's feelings that they think the only time anyone ever does so is because someone cried to HR about something and HR is making you sit through a meeting to cover the company's ass legally, and not because anyone actually cares about how they make other people feel.
Very trollish. The second such article I have seen recently on the HN front page.

What does "not ready for the desktop" even mean? Its been ready for MY desktop for over 20 years. Points 1,2,3 and 4 are pretty much wrong. Point 5 is a problem for other OSes too (there are bugs in applications!), point 6 is only relevant if you have particular hardware you want to work with Linux, and point 7 is not my experience.
You are 100% correct. Open source has a common definition the vast majority of the world uses, a company can proclaim their own definition, but it doesn't magically change the language. Nobody is thinking about, or even aware of, the OSI, when using the term. The correct term people should be using is "OSI approved", or something similar, although that's no more meaningful or useful as a "bob approved" license, where bob is some random nobody.
Obligatory long-form video overview of why YouTube's system works the way it does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU
I sublet my apartment; my regular monthly rent with utilities' daily equivalent allows me decent hotels / lodges in S-E-Asia, S-America. Food and services are generally cheaper at these destinations too. I'd say 65-70% of my current travel is "paid by" my regular Western-European lifestyle. On top of that, saving up a couple 100 USDs per month for general "travel" in my monthly budget.

After meeting many people on my travels, I realized that this "lifestyle" is less about money, and more about the mindset. I'm not splurging, also not frugal, but some people are. Having an Excel (Libreoffice) spreadsheet helps a lot with planning :-)

Edit: I don't have debt, children, neither spend money on luxury items (or, well, items at all, I'm a minimalist).
I've lived in places where that would be 6 months rent.
All I can say as a person using Linux exclusively for the last 10 years:

- You're using the wrong Linux distribution

- You're using the wrong Linux kernel version

- You have the wrong hardware

- You're using Linux incorrectly

- You're asking for too much

- Go debug or fix it yourself.

Edit: This is sarcasm by the way. These bullets come from the article.

In all seriousness though. I think another poster had the right idea. Linux requires a mindset shift. You must be willing to be a master of your own destiny. I've used Linux largely problem free for 10 years. I took some time to learn how to do things "the Linux way" but once I did it's been smooth sailing.

I recently have had to use Windows for work and it's annoying as hell. Every day after lunch one of my monitors just turns off and rearranges all my windows. On Linux, I could dig into the problem, and worse case just have a xrandr script to hack a solution together. On Windows I'm just SOL looking and dead Windows message board threads.
Has this been attempted for raw binary? Using an NN to predict the most likely next binary string?
Decision Selection Bias
Described my windows experience. Except that windows insistently tries to convince you to make an account and has a very startmenu behavior.
This is likely a rewrite of something else by the human equivalent of an LLM. I wouldn’t ascribe much motive to it except “boss said I need to get out 20 of these out by 11 PM”
This article is low effort flamebait.

1. This section is basically pedantry. "you cant use the same software across multiple Linux distros". OK? And PC software doesn't run on a Mac. They are different OS's "Linux" being confused as it's own OS, is just, whatever.

2. Windows and Macs have plenty of bugs too. So much so that we don't do in-place server upgrades, it's a full rebuild each version. I mean look at the Windows 10-11 upgrade situation, it's not great.

3. Lack of general software and games - What? You can play AAA games on Steam on Linux out of the box for the most part. I will concede that industry specific software is likely going to be Windows only, but you can run Windows in a VM. There are options here.

4. Network file sharing isn't any different than on Windows, this is just nonsense.

5. Lack of funding - hand wavy and again, whatever.

6. Hardware support - I haven't really had hardware issues in years. Every Lenovo laptop I've installed Linux on works flawlessly, even Wifi drivers are present in setup.

7. Nonsense again. The Linux community is super helpful.
> "document.getElementById" is a nicety that can also be ignored.

Huh, I did not know that. This makes it a lot nicer for micro-projects.
This doesn't look all that hard: https://github.com/mkalioby/django-passkeys but I guess it depends on how low-level your backend is.

I would personally separate auth and the application. Configuring something like Keycloak or Authelia or one of the many other alternatives to do all the difficult work for you and just logging in through SSO/SAML seems much easier than having to keep track of your own authentication rules/security hashes/salting/etc. without making a mistake.
Vanya thought that when you run them through the RNA folding software, it would give you these unusual straight rods which reminded him of Cleopatra's Needle (Obelisk, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra%27s_Needles). The name stuck around. Incidentally the name has some cool 2001: Space Odyssey monolith vibes to it, which I think has been fitting.
That's not how any of this works. The bottler is reusing the bottle 25 times, not the end consumer.
Classical and austere, but not stilted. For instance...

>>> We can state this more precisely as follows: if we take any segment BC on Λ, we can find as many rational points as we please on BC.

reads as a normal English sentence.

As a student, I also preferred straight math. Proofs were what made math come alive for me. For applications of math, I had plenty of other sources such as physics, electronics, and programming, where the examples weren't forced.
https://workrave.org/ may be of interest. I think your unique selling point would have to be the content of the exercises and your knowledge as a physician (if such a thing could be meaningfully imparted in a program) rather than the periodic interruptions.
An 800 single score is supposed to be 3 sigma above average, about 1 person out of every 740. There are just about a thousand people with 1600 scores every year, out of 2 million test takers. This is the way it's supposed to work.
I think most rage bait about the Warhammer series is manufactured by content farm channels to generate clicks - the series wasn’t even officially in development until a few weeks ago.

There’s an entire subgenre of YouTube channels that consist solely of creators updating videos promising that they have inside information on the creative conflicts at Lucasfilm/Amazon/etc, all of which happen to align perfectly with whatever the fandom is outraged with that week.

https://youtube.com/@mikezeroh

This guys channel is a great example - most of the channels discussing “female custodes Henry cavil warhammer 40k tv series” Amazon follow a similar format.

Edit:

I’d also add that I don’t think Rings of Power is bad because they cast minorities - most of the actors are fine, really. The plotting and pacing is just horrendous. In a show that has 5+ active plot lines and threads scattered all over the world, they’ve spent a quarter of their screen time on a plot line that’s completely disconnected not just from the lore but from the wider story being told and doesn’t look like it’s going to connect anytime soon. Which is funny, because I’d imagine Amazon execs felt that they were obligated to include that plot line (the Hobbit one) to appease viewers.
This was my first time; I usually fly to S-America. The flight was ~13 hours with a stopover in Istambul (highly recommended to go to the lounge!).
But you don't install software and drivers on Linux, you edit your nix flake, switch and it always works. If it doesn't work up to your liking, you boot into the previous generation.

Also for some mysterious reasons, compiling C code under Nix always works and dependencies can't be missing.
Seems like an enormous leap to go from a Reddit post and an official condemnation of Nazi iconography to “a lot”.
Is this the paper that the cohost of 'Last Week in AI' said was the paper of the quarter to read back to front?
I've been working on a cross-platform Windows/MacOS/Linux application for the last 2 years. All three of them have very significant pain points. Linux isn't ready for the desktop, but neither are Windows and MacOS in significantly different ways.
There are different versions of D&D. At least in some versions, you have some control over assigning some of the stats, and so you could assign some of them as you wish if you want better bonuses for magic.

It shouldn't limit you from using magic, and it doesn't, and that is good.

But, sometimes you will want to do things other than just casting spells (especially if you have run out of spells or if there is anti-magic preventing casting spells), so you can decide if you want to be good at one thing, or good at other things too but perhaps not as much.
TPM is now in firmware and has been for quite a few years on Intel and AMD processors; Intel's on the PCH which is on-package and AMD's on-die.

This isn't true for all implementations of TPM, but for AMD/Intel/Qualcomm where BitLocker is relevant, fTPM is used.
Nice. I'm lazily hacking on some code to optimise a mana-acceleration engine for a Magic: the Gathering deck. If it works, I'll post something about it :)
Same here. I've never felt tempted to use another font since I adopted it--well, except for the Nerd Font variant, of course.
> I wonder why?

To learn.

Do we need a better reason to try something new?
Why do you think it was on frivolities?

Based on stats looks like they massively paid down debt.
Hey cj, just created an account here to reply to your thoughts, as they strike home. I own Merrittbookkeeping.com. It's a bookkeeping service run by humans, offering very affordable monthly rates. I'm surprised how many new companies are launching "AI powered bookkeeping", but for more money than we are! Why would the end user care if it's AI, unless it's way cheaper? Same thing you are expressing here. Not sure why companies promote fancy tech unless it is a benefit to the end user, not the company themselves.
U.S. Treasury systems compromised by Chinese hackers