skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I define ethical as an app that is designed to do its job as effectively as possible. That is to say, match the most compatible individuals without stupid retention games. The problem is, this isn’t a good business model. I would fully support a state funded dating app (so long as the dating app wasn’t actually controlled by the state because then it would just be weird)
>“Our work shows that the main grid in the world’s fifth-largest economy was able to provide more than 100% of the electricity that it used from only four clean renewable sources: solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal, for anywhere from 5 minutes to over 10 hours per day for 98 out of 116 days during late winter, all of spring, and early summer, as well as for 132 days during the entire year of 2024, without its grid failing,

wow. great. so who is paying to maintain the backup?
Either they would have actually "gone around" and executed the original approach (which would have been aborted when the gear didn't lock), or they had had mechanical problems and wouldn't have been able to make this 180º turn if they wanted to. There was ocean on three sides of them that would have provided a rough but survivable landing, as demonstrated a decade ago in New York.

At no point was this landing fine or by the book, and talking about ground obstructions is just a way to distract you.
Easy! https://www.astralcodexten.com/
I remember the days when jsDelivr suddenly lost its ICP licence, and therefore got an immediate ban in China Mainland. It used to be a really reliable CDN service for both China and abroad. Then it suddenly failed.
PS: China now allows foreign entities to run CDNs, ISPs and IDCs in specific cities, starting from Apr 2024. This could be because something else.
The graphic in the article is pretty misleading. The video of the accident shows the plane touching down with about a third of the runway left, not two thirds. All discussion of the localizer obstruction is secondary to (a) why did they touch so late and (b) why did they land so urgently.
I mean this is clearly an incorrect take? Google search cannot reason about its contents autonomously, nor synthesize out of sample data from the things it indexes.

Google search is a query over user generated content. LLMs generate content. These are fundamentally different things.

Even if ChatGPT was just "lossy google" it is a much better UX than searching documents that google returns, since it can just synthesize what I want to hear in a few paragraphs, whereas with Google search I would have to know what to search and synthesize the response I'm looking for after analyzing a few things. There is an argument to be made here that we are eroding the value of intelligence and thinking for ourselves, but as a _product_ its vastly better, imo.

Whether or not LLMs actually lead to AGI is yet to be seen though. But I definitely think it has reasoning capabilities that you are underating in your comparison.
Oooh I like this one much more, I wonder how active it is..
you could say the same of Balartro on first blush.

It really comes down to if we are approaching an engine's viability from a lens of a techie who wants to push the limits of the industry, or as a entrepreneur who wants a tool that fits their workflow. I'm a bit in the former, but those latter games do help get funding for projects so the engine can push further.
I've done crawling at a small startup and I've done crawling at a big tech company. This is not crawling more politely than big tech.

There are a few things that stand out, like:

> I fetch all robots.txts for given URLs in parallel inside the queue's enqueue function.

Could this end up DOS'ing or being "impolite" just in robots.txt requests?

All of this logic is per-domain, but nothing mentioned about what constitutes a domain. If this is naive, it could easily end up overloading a server that uses wildcard subdomains to serve its content, like Substack having each blog on a separate subdomain.

When I was at a small startup doing crawling, the main thing our partners wanted from us was a maximum hit rate (varied by partner). We typically promised fewer than 1 request per second, which would never cause perceptible load, and was usually sufficient for our use-case.

Here at $BigTech, the systems for ensuring "polite", and policy-compliant crawling (robots.txt etc) are more extensive than I could possibly have imagined before coming here.

It doesn't surprise me that OpenAI and Amazon don't have great systems for this, both are new to the crawling world, but concluding that "Big Tech" doesn't do polite crawling is a bit of a stretch, given that search engines are most likely doing the best crawling available.
The Chinese have a new-year’s calligraphy tradition, too, written on red paper and hung on your door. Of course, that’s done on the Lunar new year, not the Solar one.

Your description of New Year’s as “like Western Christmas” is apt - I remember visiting one year, shocked by how quiet everything was, and how many restaurants and attractions were closed. Everyone was at home with their family! The January First festival at Senso-ji Temple was a unique spectacle, though - the sound of people donating hundreds of one-yen coins at once is really unique.
Excellent work, ^-KewLGuY-^. I'd say that's the most "13-year-old in the 2000s" nick ever, but that honor probably goes to xXSephiroth666Xx. Yours is up there though.

Eric S. Raymond recently posted some xeets about how retrocomputing nostalgia is due, in part, to wistfulness for the Cambrian explosion in personal computers, where every little two-bit company comes up with their own wildly different design. The design space hadn't been fully explored yet, and the future seemed pregnant with endless possibility. Then as people figured out what worked and what didn't in the computer design space, the PC sorta won, and it made much more sense to build a PC clone and take advantage of the huge PC hardware and software ecosystem. Raymond predicts that a similar coalescing on proven designs will happen with 3D printers.

Of course, ESR believes in the need for government slightly less than he believes in the need for redemption through the blood of Christ the Saviour, so he overlooks a critical forcing factor in this cycle of exploring the solution space followed by settling on proven designs: regulation. Cars were much cooler before the 1970s because the Clean Air Act was passed in the 1970s. There was an initial struggle period during which American autos shipped with anemic engines and features designed to compensate for lack of performance, until technologies like fuel injection became the norm, but again the automakers coalesced into a set of a few designs that both worked and fulfilled the obligations imposed by regulatory bodies... to the point where it's awful hard to tell a Toyota RAV-4 from a Honda CR-V just by looking.

I think the internet has gone through a similar exploratory vs. coalescing phase. Back in the 90s and 2000s, HTML and PHP let you create anything, so people created everything. And threw it up on a server, and it was wonderful. So many individual corners of the web with their authors' own perspectives. Now... well, regulation is definitely coming but in the meantime there are things with the force of regulatory bodies you have to worry about. You HAVE to do https which means you need a certificate. You HAVE to have a CDN and CloudFlare protection or else you'll be slashdot-effected or DDoS'd to oblivion. You can't even run an email server anymore without jumping through the hoops it takes to convince major providers you're not a spam farm. These are things you have to either think about yourself or pay someone to think about them for you. So the web has coalesced on a few best-practice designs and service providers. And most people just set up Wix or Shopify pages or Facebook groups anyway.

And that's why the 90s/2000s web has such nostalgic power. We could do anything from our armchairs with a bit of HTML and maybe some programming and sysadmin skills. But those days are gone. Maybe we're better off for it.
> Don't give drugs, they can permanently mess up his mind.

This is common and good advice. Ritalin at one point was prescribed for ADD and ADHD, Kurt Cobain ended up dying by suicide as a result of complications from his use of the drug.

Spectrum disorders have been used for the past 20+ years as catchall diagnoses.
There have been many stories of people who were diagnosed with these disorders, when in fact they were exposed to toxic products without their knowledge.

Heavy metal poisoning from chronic low-level exposure for example mimics nearly all the symptoms and won't show up in blood tests without a chelator. The doctor generally has to have an idea of the substance they are looking for to justify ordering the specific tests. Low-level chronic exposure rarely presents

Exposure to many toxins can have these symptoms. Some studies suggest high doses of PFAS, microplastics, or even above safe-limits for flouride, and other industrial contaminants can cause these similar-looking issues.

They are actually quite different causes, and brain damage in the more extreme cases can occur if left untreated, especially in youth which are more susceptible to certain toxins.
I and everyone I know around my age was taught to only use the right foot for both brake and gas, but apparently it was relatively common in the 1960s or so for drivers (at least of automatic transmissions) to be taught the 2-foot "method". I have nothing to back that up other than anecdotes on the Internet, though.
Having come from WPF with dotnet, XAML/WPF used to feel clunky and dated.

However, web front-end feels very chaotic by comparison. I’m still no expert, but my big gotchas are always div sizes ie min-max-fr height/width.

With WPF you can size Grids as auto or “*” and things size dynamically - I’ve grown to appreciate the WPF Grid and data binding.

It also doesn’t help that I find trial-and-error more helpful than css/html docs. The docs often feel tautological to me for some reason and it feels like there’s too many ways to achieve the same thing. I definitely recognize this personal experience - YMMV
Most of the busiest airports in the world have some sort of dangerous obstacle roughly the same distance from many of their runways. Ravines, buildings, hills, water, trains/trams, etc, etc.
You can just cat the file, what does piping to echo give you?

Edit: it gives you nothing, because echo echos its arguments, ignores stdin
The “AI generated resume shotgun applied to every company that uses AI to parse the resume” pipeline could be broken. Separate the wheat from the chaff
Yes, and one of the basic purposes of the rule of law is to calm those human impulses to prevent mutually escalating violence.
P2P is all over the place. It’s just largely invisible, part of the internals of games and VoIP and video chat apps among many other things.
Learning Theory from First Principles
There's no reason Tor exit nodes need to access my home network. Zero. I do use BitTorrent but behind a VPN; this remains unaffected, though if it were I would block traffic which isn't supposed to go through Tor (since BitTorrent over Tor is not recommended).

As a rule of thumb, I will gladly pass on Tor traffic, but no exit node, and I understand if network admins want to block entry node, too. It is a decision everyone who maintains a network has to make themselves.

The reason I block it is also the same reason I block banana republics like CN and RU: these don't prosecute people who break the law with regards to hacking. Why should one accept unrestricted traffic from these?

In the end, the open internet was once a TAZ [1] and unfortunately with the commercialization of the internet together with massive changes in geopolitics the ship sailed.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
I got stuck on sorting too, was working on SingeliSort (https://github.com/mlochbaum/SingeliSort) for a while. The basic performance is there but I need to get serious about testing before using it. But the radix sort and counting sort should be very solid. The approach is about the same as the C code currently used in CBQN, linked below. The main complication is to reduce constant overhead for shorter arrays with a small count type and better prefix sums, interleaved SWAR for SingeliSort since it targets generic architecture and shared SIMD utilities in CBQN.

Email in my Github profile, feel free to contact me any time if you'd like to talk about algorithms!

32-bit radix sort: https://github.com/dzaima/CBQN/blob/v0.8.0/src/builtins/grad... plus https://github.com/dzaima/CBQN/blob/v0.8.0/src/builtins/radi...
For big tech, the future of the Internet is a high-resolution (and possibly portable) version of the French Minitel.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want "pellets" in my SSD.
The irony is that Excel started out as a Mac app.
LA County bought a skyscraper: should it tear down its historic headquarters?
What’s the overlap of “really great candidates” and “people who can’t afford $X application fee”? If the fee is a couple hundred, sure. But $20? What percent of bona fide job seekers who are good fits can’t afford $20?
At this state, they are likely able to do this. Not small enough for your watch but a working stationary device that can RELIABLY monitor your blood sugar. And with blood sugar I don't mean the skin prick test. If people claim they compared to the skin prick test and "it works" they have no idea what they are talking about. You have to compare venereal blood glucose with measured blood glucose and use the Clarke error grid to show what you are doing.

And yes, skin color or skin temperature (fever!) does not matter for his measurement. I once submitted an SBIR grant for this project, but have no involvement anymore with this project. The NIH found this approach "highly innovative" but thought it can not be realized bc the technology is "prohibitive expensive". I assume they did not really read the proposal. I explicitly wrote that, while such a device costs 50k on the market, a slimmed down version produced in quantities would cost a few hundred dollars. They just had a short look at the approach, googled the hardware behind it, and rejected it. An idiot and google is a very dangerous combination!
I'd assume physics are the biggest constraint here. Just look at the machinery and equipment needed to raise a falcon 9 which is "only" ~230 ft tall.
>We need some cumulative abuse laws in this country.

I dream of it but I think a large part of the reason we'll never see it is because just about every state and municipality of note has one or a few bureaucracies who make a healthy profit behaving in this way or by deputizing 3rd party contractors to do so.

Try disputing an obviously wrong EZpass ticket if you don't believe me...
Yeah, I have seen the talk! He already reviewed some change I once sent and some bug report. Was very responsive and also gave me hints for what part I would need to change to make a specific thing happen. Very helpful.
I’m suspicious of decontextualization in the name of forming “either X or Y” absolutes.

Either 8 character passwords are fine and secure, or bad and should be banned? With no context between “€x8;,O{w” and “password”?

I suspect runway design has more variables than just distance to obstacles.
NY Man Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station for CCP in Manhattan (2024)
Ratepayers, and as less and less fossil gas is needed (because batteries [1] [2] [3] and more renewables), their costs for generation and electrical supply should go down. CAISO, California's grid operator, currently has 61.7GW of hybrid solar/battery projects and 42GW of battery storage [4] in its interconnect queue. CAISO current installed capacity is 21.5GW of solar and 13.39GW of battery storage, compared to ~30GW of fossil gas generation [5].

[1] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

[2] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/batteries-are...

[3] https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

[4] https://www.interconnection.fyi/

[5] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO/72h
Applying for a job in person de facto means you have skin in the game: you spent your time and energy to go down and apply. I think the point of the application fee is to get applicant’s skin in the game
In addition to those reasons, the pneumatic system was smaller than an equivalently powerful electric motor, at that time, so I've been told.
Recruiters match keywords.

Not in pursuit of a good, or the best candidate, just the best candidate who is superficially good enough to stick around 90 days or whatever the contract states.
> Does the idea of a single cosmological time even make sense?

Sure, it's just a convenient choice of coordinates. Even in a model that is not exactly homogeneous and isotropic, it can still be a convenient choice of coordinates to have cosmological time track some kind of average of the low mass and high mass regions. As I understand it, that's basically what the alternate models described in the article are doing.

> I thought one of the key parts of relativity is that which events happen simultaneously depends on your perspective.

That's true, but it doesn't actually mean very much. In a particular spacetime geometry, you can still have particular things that are picked out physically by the properties of that specific spacetime, and one of them can be "cosmological time". In an exactly homogeneous and isotropic model, that time is picked out by the symmetries of homogeneity and isotropy. But even in a model where homogeneity and isotropy are only average properties, their average is still picked out physically--for example, by the CMB, which is much, much closer to being exactly homogeneous and isotropic than galaxies and galaxy clusters (it's homogeneous and isotropic to within about 1 part in 100,000). So picking "cosmological time" based on observers who see the CMB that way is a physical method of picking them out; it's not an arbitrary choice.

Bear in mind that in special relativity, when you talk about relativity of simultaneity, you are talking about spacetime that is empty--there are no gravitating bodies anywhere. So all inertial frames are indeed equivalent in that spacetime, not just mathematically but physically. But as soon as you put gravitating bodies in, that symmetry is broken: the gravitating bodies have a definite state of motion, and that picks out certain choices of coordinates as being aligned with the gravitating bodies. So while it's true that you don't have to use those coordinates, they are convenient and they do reflect an actual physical property of the spacetime, and so does the definition of time they give.
Yeah, especially given the mayday call, ATC is trying to give pilots the information they need, prepare emergency services, and get the fuck out of the way.
Unborn Babies Use Genes from Dad to "Remote-Control" Mothers for Extra Food
Chrome/Edge has a nice feature that I don't think Firefox includes. It allows you to quickly toggle between flex modes [1].

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1: https://imgur.com/a/17iy1eN
It just seems like a product that is aimed explicitly at places like call centers, where employees are expected to universally have apps 1-3 only. I find that setup pretty gross, but it makes sense from an IT Management perspective.

I didn't get the impression that this was meant for home, or even most office use. I don't think it would make sense in either setting because each would have more complex user requirements and weird edge cases. Maybe the author is right in the long run? I'm sure MS would love mote control and a monthly subscription fee from every customer...I just don't see MS being nearly so candid, as they are in this video. I'd expect way more cheesy stock footage, mixed in with ominous warnings about "darkweb" and ransomware. The video in question was more like "This makes your job easier" not a "This makes your life better". Heck, they didn't even mention some cheesy AI-gimmick tie-in.
That’s because Japanese new year is derived from Chinese (lunar) new year traditions. They moved the New Year’s celebration to align with the Western calendar as part of the Meiji restoration, but kept the festivities the same.
I've seen reports they had gear down in the first approach and also that they didn't. Is there anything conclusive yet?
Citrix has been selling thin clients since the 90's, connecting to a on-prem server operated by an MSP that you pay for an expensive a support contract with.
> Taking medication _now_ may be counter intuitive for future development, as the brain never gets a way to fully (under)regulate/calibrate dopamine release on it's own until maturity.

OP, please review this video [0] about the neuroprotective effects of stimulant medication for children and teens with ADHD, or the summary here [1]. If these effects are real and turn out to be limited to or strongest in early life, eschewing medication now could be squandering an opportunity to improve brain development that won't recur (quite aside from the cumulative academic impact of going through secondary education with inadequately treated ADHD). It's important not to default to thinking of avoiding medication as playing it safe. (There's plenty of research you can find on other aspects of ADHD medication, but I wanted to respond specifically to the point about brain development.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bQVq1oKpDw

[1] https://reddit.com/r/ADHDers/comments/1d4mxi0/adhd_medicatio...
> the speed of light is constant

That's not a good way of describing the actual law in a curved spacetime, i.e., a spacetime that contains gravitating masses. In such a spacetime there is no single global definition of "speed"; you can't compare speeds at spatially separated points.

A better way to state the law is that the light cone structure of the spacetime constrains the motion of all bodies: timelike bodies move within the light cones, lightlike bodies (like light itself) move exactly on the light cones. But once you state it that way, it becomes obvious that this law does not impose any constraints on "time/space fluctuations".
did you read the article?

of course webmidi must support sysEx, it's essential to work with midi2 at all. but mostly because you must parse the weird sized packet to properly ignore it.

what might show up are chrome specific sysEx messages which then leads to exploits as the article.
* High-ish DPI is desirable. 27" 4K displays are a good start and look pretty sharp at 150% scaling. 5K screens were still pretty overpriced last time I looked, and there weren't many options available, but you can use them at 200% comfortably. Avoid monitors that would require you to use fractional scaling if you're running NVIDIA on Linux

* even for non-gaming uses, high refresh rates are comfortable, IMO. 120hz or higher is fine. Going higher has diminishing returns.

* OLED panels are desirable.

* if you're making a multi-monitor setup, avoid introducing displays that require different levels of scaling. You'll avoid headaches, though KDE improved that drastically in recent years.
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