skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a good derivation of EXP3 algorithm from standard multiplicative weights which is fairly intuitive. The transformation between the two is explained a bit in https://nerva.cs.uni-bonn.de/lib/exe/fetch.php/teaching/ws18.... Once you have the intuition, then the actual choice of parameters is just cranking out the math
Yes, this is annoying. I settled for the cheap variant:
Let any hdmi device grab focus. The tv has spdif to the amp. Amp is always on the spdif input. I can change sources on the tv and the sound will follow, if I want youtube or spotify to play, I have to use chromecast on the tv or airplay to apple tv. It works ok for only a single cable. If the tv is off, the sound is off.
Elon Musk isn't the only tech leader helping shape the Trump administration
okay sure, going back and forth on definitions is boring.

I just disagree that late stage capitalism imperialism is where we're at. It's not true for the US, or the west or the globe.

Yes we're in the anthropocene, and while that phrase has a negative implication nowadays, it is not true that anthropocene means "low hanging resources" have been consumed leading to uncontrolled rent seeking. It is no more true than a barracuda lurking in a coral is an out of control rent seeker. That's just the nature of barracudas.
I just launched a drag and drop service myself https://lmno.lol. Use your favorite text editor to edit your Markdown blog file.

No tracking, adverts, paywalls, or bloat. I'm also bringing a little nostalgia back with ASCII art headers (optional of course).

Here's my blog on it: https://lmno.lol/alvaro

Wrote a bit about how I got to build my own service https://lmno.lol/alvaro/blogging-minus-the-yucky-bits-of-mod...
There are plenty of options that are more realistic than ship-based nuclear, such as sails and biofuels.
Those funds would either be re-invested in the company (providing a better work environment and a stronger financial position for the company) or distributed to the shareholders and circulated into the economy and generating tax revenue for society. Instead they are stuck in 'paper' stock value that does nothing but allow the rich to borrow against the 'gains' denying society even benefiting from the taxes those funds should generate if not re-invested in the company in an actual, non 'paper' valuation way.
Perhaps just coincidence but I found it interesting to realise that buildings and animals followed a similar structural development trend: both started off with externally structural components (exoskeletons and structural walls) that evolved to become internal structural components (endoskeletons and load-bearing columns with concrete flooring).
You mean Rust?
You asked "What kind of discrimination isn't covered by motives of nepotism or DEI?"

One of my examples was how women couldn't be in combat roles until recently.

Is that 'Nepotism'? No, not unless you have a very strange definition of "tribe" such that men and women are in different tribes.

Is that 'DEI'? No, not unless you have a very strange definition of culture such that men and women are in different cultures.

In both of those strange definitions, where do you stop? How does the tribe of "American" overlap with the tribe of "woman" overlap with the tribe of "State U. graduate" overlap with the culture of "Southern" overlap with the culture of "menopausal" overlap with the culture of "home owner", and so on.

And to be clear, discrimination is not always bad. We have bona fide occupational qualifications, like how a church can discriminate on the basis of religion, and a strip club is not required to accept male strippers. We have age restrictions, like how the president must be at least 35 years old. We can fire people with excessively foul body order, even if they have the right job skills.

So when you ask "What kind of discrimination isn't covered by motives of nepotism or DEI?", the range is quite large.
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And the control group is also sacrificed from potentially deadly side effects.
I have no respect for the people like Graham who are only voicing their objections now that the election results provide cover.
I don't mind having 'equality' on the basics. I would gladly pay the taxes necessary to ensure my fellow man has access to food, housing, healthcare and maybe a few other things needed to live a life with dignity. I think that's the whole premise behind UBI, and we're going to have to make our peace with it.

There will always be 'incentive' to work and gain more than the very basics. Honestly, given how much of our science has been written by 'gentlemen scholars' who were rich enough to be able to pursue their field without worry of putting food on the table, it may well advance humanity.
I always clean ours, with the water left over after I have cleaned the dishes. As far as I can see it has zero environmental issues and means the bin doesn't smell.
https://archive.is/8V6Wn
I had 4 SONOS connect devices (S1 app only) doing exactly this. I recently (last month) replaced them all with BlueSound node nano devices. They do exactly what you require - point it at the SMB server and away they go.

Bonus is they do it over SMB2 allowing me to switch off SMB1 which I'd previously had to keep running for the SONOS devices.

The SONOS connects are going to goodwill.
Not too mention Bill Maher who is also firmly on the left.
It's not really a personal attack, it's an observation. You haven't actually elaborated on the parent's question but for some reason replied to me instead, which proves my point.
Peter Thiel is gay and still advocates against gay marriage (He's married to a man himself).

Those people know the restrictions they push for won't apply to them, they are too powerful, quite literally above the law.
Thanks for the suggestion! Adding this to my reading list. I also love reading physical copies; I have a Kindle for when I travel, but it just doesn't hit the same especially for books that I go back to time and time again.
Ask HN: When and how did StackOverflow become so terrible?
Things have changed. It seems there are now certain gatekeepers who just shut down every question or mark it as related to other questions which it is not related to. The folks are not even polite and have a holier than thou attitude. These are only my issues but I have heard several concerns from other folks as well.

What happened, what went wrong for it to become like this?
Atari BASIC used BCD for numbers. It is notably not a Microsoft BASIC descendant. Cromemco BASIC is another example.
This has been happening to truckers for a long time now
I'm a sales engineer. Given that a big chunk of our job is face-to-face, I can answer this.

We are a social species. Body language, eye contact and facial expressions are more important than the spoken word during a conversation. They're also extremely subtle. You don't think about someone leaning in or mimicking your position (that's a thing!) when you're saying something interesting, but we instinctively pick up on these cues and use them to steer conversations (or, in this case, know to double-down on whatever we're talking about).

None of these transmit well over VC.

Consider eye contact, for example. Maintaining eye contact with someone means that you're staring almost directly at your webcam's lens, which is at best unideal (if you're use to being on camera) and, at worst, impossible (since you're, naturally, staring at the facsimile of a person in the box on the lower-left-hand corner of your Zoom window). Webcams are AWKWARD.

Furthermore, a Zoom meeting has to compete with the billions of other things that you're doing on your computer. A face-to-face meeting competes with your calendar and your inner thoughts. This matters a lot for key conversations.
Lowlevel meaning low tier not low level/hardware software engineers.*
> abandoning their reliable UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) system for device discovery in favor of mDNS

I don’t know about that part. UPnP is exactly the HTTP-abusing XML-laden layer-spanning horrorshow you expect from 2000s Microsoft where it was mainly supported, mDNS is a fairly compact and neat set of independent extensions to preexisting Internet protocols born during Apple’s short period of flirting with open standards. In a greenfield project, you’d need to show me some really impressive tooling to make me choose UPnP, because five minutes with the specs are enough to tell implementing or debugging the thing is going to be a nightmare.

(No experience with Sonos or their implementation of either.)
They should just fold. I read in some other forum that they just cobble together crap that they source from numerous and variable providers, so one unit's guts can vary widely from the next.

It's the absurd design defects that I will never excuse. I mean... incompetent MENUS? A modern receiver that doesn't support even HD video?

My burned-out T758 is gathering dust in my office; I'm keeping it in hopes of using the chassis for a project case someday.

I would replace my stupid Pioneer too if anyone made a stand-alone surround processor with preamp outputs. Then I'd get separate amplifiers and that would be that. But nobody makes such a processor, as far as I can tell.
The problem is there communities are hard to build and easy to destroy.

Reddit destroying its user communities causes real damage. Those users don't magically congregate somewhere else.
he's not wrong about the fears, he's just reacting in a terrible way
Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs. Salespeople are there to sell their product, and fundamentally don't need to understand what the customer wants, or needs.

Give a good salesperson a handwavy outline of something to sell, and they will sell it. They don't need technical accuracy for success. Yes, this is bad for customers, and makes life harder, and results in ridiculous, counterproductive, infuriating situations for IT staff, engineers, and other people who have to deal with the technical realities of every day business.

A salesperson can just mash psychological buttons in manager's brains, and they'll make the sale. The consumer, in enterprise level markets, is hardly ever the team or individual in charge of operating the technology. The consumer is the manager, or managerial team, looking to check boxes and shuffle numbers and spend $X on Y department, for which they get rewarded for a wide array of arbitrary outcomes, almost none of which have anything to do with the practical impact of the product in question on the people who end up most affected by the purchase.

If an engineer with a solid understanding of the product being sold is in charge, he's in the best place to rein in the sales and marketing teams, and to direct development based on customer reality. This probably results in lower profits, overall, but a better product, and a better reputation in the long run.
Let’s be super clear, [2] does not ban the user for being Jewish as per [1] claims.

There is no way for the mod/bot to know this rather. It is clearly spelt out in the terms.

“You have been banned for participating in a bad-faith subreddit (specifically Israel) which brigades other subreddits and spreads
propaganda/disinformation/racism/sexism.”

Personally I don’t use Reddit that much, so I can speak to if this statement is true or not, the mods however do think it is.
Thanks! Adding this to the top of my reading list. I noticed there's a newer version (Second Edition); any thoughts on if I should read that or the original version?
Ohhhh, he’s genuinely stupid. Got it.
This is it.

Well organised and destructive conservatives across much of the western world, have conspired successfully to nullify the positive effect of a word once used to elide wide ranging ideas and discussions on the subject of social justice.

This is social media at it's most galling.

Though alongside that, we now have a wider appreciation of a long list historical crimes, and the longstanding effect of those transgressions.

In that sense, we have all become 'woke'.
Why do you believe reinvestment into the company would free up worker time? When has that ever happened through reinvestment into a company?
> I can think of at least two businesses that can be competed in costs if the team can automate a good chunk of it.

And which would those be?
Social media secrets: How to build your presence
Why would you assume people only want to do art for self enjoyment? That was not my interpretation of the quote at all

I mean, if you have ever been around theater kids for a minute you’d know they are the most extroverted people on the planet and bringing joy to as many people as possible is exactly what drives them
Yeah I used my original SE until iOS 16 came out (actually until last year) and it was never bricked.
SkyScribe
Especially given the detailed description surely the author could just generate a similar image
Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com
I would imagine it's the fact that during the first Trump admin, the political elites were still mostly old-school and only giving token support to MAGA talking points to score some easy points with their electorate. Given that the admin was mostly run by those same people in practice until very late into his first term, I think it wasn't seen as something serious.

But this time around, we're looking at a full term by an admin that is staffed for the most part by die-hard Trumpists who make it very loud and clear that this particular topic is of utmost concern to them. Republicans in Congress are also much more in line with that.

Perhaps even more importantly, this change of sentiment didn't start with tech - it started with prominent figures among the establishment liberals publicly calling out "excesses", and while this narrative received some pushback already, it has received way more support among the rank and file. This is a signal that the next Dem administration, should there be one, is likely to be much more hands-off in these regards. So, then, why would big tech stick to their guns on DEI if it disadvantages them immediately with no clear advantage to hope for in the future?

I agree that velocity is surprising, though. Mostly because it makes it very clear that any talk of "values" has always been bullshit, so why would this new take be an exception? MAGA folk don't seem particularly convinced that e.g. Zuck is sincere, and I can't blame them.
the whole mitxela store is t-i-g-h-t
the metal shop close-ups are zomg :salivating-face: ...
The irony is of course that unionization of tech workers is bound to come, and I'd say it's a safe bet that it's going to come first in workplaces that are heavily RTO.
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The salesperson had no idea what mDNS or the frameworks was.. and rubber stamped it.
It's much more difficult to save and revisit state with whiteboards and post-its, but when an entire team is colo'ed and able to work together on something, I agree; nothing comes close.
This is generally true of most 6502 Microsoft BASIC derivatives, Apple and Commodore included.
I like the clean futuristic aesthetic of glass towers.

I think a lot of the opposition comes from people who dislike that it represents a building that is obviously new and well maintained, and associate that with their general distaste for wealth.
I'm not sure what you mean by:

"Things have changed ... What happened, what went wrong for it to become like this?"

Has this not essentially always been the critique of StackOverflow?
On the other hand if a pound of plastic being burned offsets a pound of coal then that is probably better for the environment. We are nowhere near not burning anything so I'm largely OK with incinerators.
> the “woke” agenda, messaging, and implementation are alienating to large swathes of the US public

I'd like to call into question your use of the "I'm a liberal" card here - what is the "woke" agenda, what is the "woke" implementation? The wording is straight out of [any conservative pundit]'s script, with not even a single shred of demonstrated understanding of either the underlying values, nor the problems stated.
You're assuming they actually care to distinguish. But real answer, barring a brief period where some users may get a cached version, they can likely just use the date of change to determine before and after if necessary.
Well, your original statement was

> Some people just want to be offended by reality. Things like this exist:

which nobody denied in the first place...
Our company makes B2B for a rather technical niche.

We got a sales-oriented CEO who knows when to listen to us developers. It has worked very well for our company.

Being more sales-oriented he's found good business models and knows our customers well, and hence what our products are worth to our clients so we're not selling our products too cheap. This was the case before he took over from a more technical CEO.

While a CEO with an engineer background can certainly do well too, I think it's probably easier to find a good sales-based CEO that simply knows when to listen to their technical team. At least in theory...
Fingers crossed we get RSTP support soon. It's only been out 25 years.
You are right! I encountered the same problem. Unfortunately, I didn't find a setting in Gitbook to change the preview text, just the preview image. It seems like it just takes the name of the first page 'Welcome to HardBreak' and adds the site name 'HardBreak' at the end. So I'd have to change the name of the first page, but a name like 'HardBreak - a Hardware Hacking Wiki' or something similar would look weird on the website, I think. I haven't found a good solution for that yet.
I don't think the purpose of the checkbox was to collect useful data but an any case storing it as a date would probably solve the issue.
not only would i say this is a possible explanation, i would say it is the obvious explanation - and pretty ridiculous to accuse someone of having a mental breakdown based on this
Hey, thanks for the feedback, I’m glad I don’t spare any time in these platforms… :)
I can't wait to see what the show looks like without him.
Summary: Rich white guy complains that it's too much effort to figure out what we're supposed to call 'coloured people' these days. It reads like the lament of a sore winner who has been forced to think of other's feelings against his will.

And all of this is couched in a pseudo-histororical style that perhaps the author hopes will shield it from being read as an 'emotional' argument.

And you know what's the worst thing? We live in a conservative world. They set the rules of the game, the draw the chalk outlines of the playing field, they own the ball the stadium and the referees.

And now they tell us we have to be silent when they rough us up too?
You might enjoy the Japanese TV series Miss Sherlock which uses female leads for a Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock style adventure series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sherlock
No, you missed the memo. You're supposed to say they're toy webpages and it doesn't count as "real" programming.

Simonw has plenty of examples on his blog, including full transcripts if you've honestly not seen them before though. https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/

A fun one that he didn't bother to post to his blog tho - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42505772
It's not ad-hominem to say a bunch of comments are ad-hominem (or if it is, how do you characterize your comment?).

I'll concede my second remark was unhelpful, since such remarks are best expressed in private with friends (if at all). It wasn't intended as an argument or a personal attack... more as a lament.
Why even bother? Just get a $100 bookshelf system anywhere that you need music.
He says 'And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.'. What's wrong with sneering at performativeness?
> For registered charities and schools, the licence is royalty free, but we still charge an artwork fee of £352 + VAT

Institution funded by taxpayers charging institutions funded by donors and taxpayers. Be nice if there were any value being added, rather than just exchanged.
People keep saying this but I haven't noticed any drops in quality. The default subs have always been bad, and the niche subs continue to be good, in my experience. Do you have any specific examples?
That truly lives up to the term "outrage."
Not uncommon, at least on the A2 and C64, to have a BASIC scaffold acting like a script that runs various machine language subroutines and/or the main game loop.
sure it’s petty but i still feel that wp engine kinda sucks here
Here in Prague I pay $300 a year for 1000/1000 symetric.
> To remove the whole site because of that seems petty.

Maybe, but TFA explains that it's not being petty, just lack of time and resources.
> for the owner to be allowed to permanently disable unlocking, e.g. the commonly cited example of someone setting the device up for their elderly parents

This opens a wormhole that warps us back to one of the core issues / battlegrounds in computing: ownership, and specifically, the balance of power and responsibility between the owner and the user, when they're not the same person.

Unfortunately, the same means and the same arguments cited in case of "someone setting the device up for their elderly parents" also apply to employers "setting the device up" for their employees (where "setting the device up" may just mean letting it access the company network), vendors "helpfully" "setting the device up" for the customers (this is basically the whole history of mobile phones - bootloaders now, SIM locks before), etc.

I don't know what the good answer is. I'm personally strongly biased towards "end-user should always be the owner" perspective, and while I recognize there are strong examples where this isn't the case, I can't figure out how to cleanly separate "legitimate interest" from for-profit or for-power abuse.
That is absurd. In Seattle, I pay $70 for 1 Gbps.
I think if you put it to the American people as a referendum 'Hey, we're going to get rid of private insurance and put everyone on Medicare, here's the budget estimate from the CBO' I'm quite confident it would pass.

The sheer earned disdain I've seen expressed for health insurance providers recently makes me hope this is some sort of 'Abe Moment' for the US where even conservatives can acknowledge the majority of Americans are sickened by what our healthcare system has become.
Yes, please!
Unfortunately, your smartphone doesn't (really) belong to you. It's a shared property between the hardware maker, the low level software producer (Qualcomm or Apple), the os owner (Google or Apple) and maybe finally you.

Undocumented hardware plus closed source drivers for almost everything make all this possible.
Would we see a molecular computer this year?
I think the idea of molecular computing has been around for a while, would we be seeing a scalable prototype this year? What are the current blockers?
> The workaround in this case is to read multiple times and accept as good a value that is approximately the same for multiple reads.

It's only incrementing at 3.25MHz, right? Shouldn't you be able to get exactly the same value for multiple reads? That seems both simpler and faster than using this very slow capture register, but maybe I'm missing something.
Hate the codebase, don't mind the front-end mostly. A compatible SQL schema rewrite in a different language with lower exposure to risk, and some of the auth issues resolved, I think a lot of people would shift camp.

I have seen national broadsheets using WP as their publish engine. How they actually write copy and approve the article stream might be another matter.