skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
python assures me this is a valid solution:

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625(?) presses, i was way off. :-( It's still a lot fewer than trying all 10,000 individual 4 digit possibilities that the keypad implies are there.

Also this is possibly not the shortest, according to some sibling comments to mine, above. This could be the upper bound?
I use Explorer Patcher for this, works well enough (though I had to uninstall it to update windows then reinstall it)
This is not a surprise. One of the main points of NATO in the first place is to prevent nuclear proliferation. If the US is going to close its "nuclear umbrella", all of our allies are going to make their own.

Also, if people are not aware, Poland has the highest % GDP dedicated to military in the Europe, outspending even the US. Their military has bought and stocked up on every single advanced weapon system. It cannot be understated how badly they were treated the USSR and how much they don't want to dragged into the Russian sphere again should Ukraine fall.
Not so fast. I really like the form factor of the Surface Pro and appreciate that a proper PC build runs circles around Macs for gaming - but features like nano-texture displays on the MacBook Pro from Apple is yet another hardware improvement that are, for me, now table stakes. I would not consider daily driving a Windows laptop without that.

As for software, WSL2 is a step forward, but it's hard to beat a true native environment on my Mac. It's the modern version of "it just works" in the Mac vs PC debate.
Not sure if this is a joke or not, but you can right-click the taskbar, click taskbar settings, and under the "Taskbar behaviors" tab there's a "Taskbar alignment" drop down with options "Left" and "Center.
Ideally, you want someone who can be both while also knowing when one is necessary over the other.

Is stuff actively on fire? You want a Cowboy, and you want one NOW. You need that fire put out, you need stuff back online and work resumed. Once the fire is out, you need a Drone, someone to dive into the systems to determine what caused the issue in the first place, and ensure systems are designed to never let it happen again.

For larger orgs, you want Drones on the day-to-day. Focus on iterative, incremental adjustments and improvements. A new feature here, a pipeline upgrade there, a bugfix every sprint. But you also need those Drones to become Cowboys when systems are hindering their productivity, to get something over the finish line when a system is arbitrarily blocking the path forward without valid reason. You then need those Cowboys to revert back to Drones to engage with malicious compliance on bad systems, to surface those problems up to leadership and get them dealt with.

The best performers are neither drones nor cowboys, but both as needed. It's always about balance.
You can certainly argue that electric motors are better. At the same time, it's hard to beat the feeling and sound of rapid-fire explosions propelling you forward.
Related, a great new video just dropped as an intro to prediction markets:

https://youtu.be/ngX1nIvnMOM?si=QykC_5gSObT8o8e7
I really have not seen anything material since windows 7 that would meet the bar of major improvement. Windows 7 with bug & security fixes, adding support for new hardware standards and SW developments, and feature evolution would be superior to what we have today IMO. Prior to win7 all the revolutionary "coming next" things either became impractical or were dropped.

I have a desktop that still runs all tripe-A games and is my main development machine running win10 that MS says is a boat anchor come the fall; this will be my last windows machine.

Microsoft has been pretty good to me as a developer (despite some of the technologies intentionally designed to do nothing but distract and consume attention) but the consumer side is a pathological shit-show and appears to really hate people (or at least love money more). MS looks a lot like the White House these days.
Daft is an unfortunate choice of name.
I would give all US passport holders the advice to think more carefully about who they vote for...
Can someone with access please upload it to Sci-Hub and/or Anna's Archive?
As others have noted, and DDG themselves have clarified, it's possible to request a geospecified result without disclosing to Microsoft Bing either your IP address or anything personally identifying.

Your initial accusation here and follow-up are unwarranted.
If you are a 1st or 2nd generation American citizen and have parents/grandparents who held citizenship from an EU Country, there is a strong possibility you could qualify for that country's citizenship.

A family member recently received Polish Citizenship through a Grandparent that held it in 1938 and immigrated to Canada after WWII. Worth checking out, giving you the option of living and working on both continents.
Maybe similar to life insurance re suicide?
Windows XP was a downer for many when it came out because it wasn't Windows 98SE++ (and Windows ME was a flop) - it was Windows 2000 with a "fisher price" skin.

For those in the know, that was great. Windows XP + classic theme + drivers (even if you had to find the W2k drivers) was incredibly stable and performant.

But it took a few years for games to catch up and get the updates, and so for the "tech oriented" crowd (which were often gamers), it took a bit to catch on.

But its longevity is a tribute to how "good it was" and how hard it was to improve from it. Vista introduced more stability at the expense of requiring new drivers, so they re-released Vista a few years later as 7 (there's really no major differences between Vista and 7 except a few years of upgrades to drivers and hardware).

The five years between XP and Vista certainly didn't help matters, either. If you wait that long, you better be willing to support it for decades. Windows XP's last update was 18 years after it was shipped.
Very much installed, sir.
I'm not a heavy Docs user, but definitely see some use for this, because docs lying around everywhere is just annoying.
Introduction to MLIR and Modern Compilers
That's what I am thinking as well. They might have something great in the works, but, unless they can make some good on those promises, it's still vaporware.

The focus on HPC and gaming is also odd - HPC is close enough to AI training in that you can pass a single design as good on both - as it makes no sense focusing on one exclusively. Gaming is the odd one - unless they expect to generate large scale demand for their stuff. For that, however, they don't seem to have done the homework with reaching out to gaming studios.

So, we have this:

- Their hardware is good for HPC, but not great for AI. Maybe they got rid of everything that can process anything less than float32.

- There is a lot of connectivity, which can put a lot of memory ("2TB") within easy reach of a lot of compute units. This is good for HPC, and would be good for AI as well.

- Gaming is a completely different animal and shedding all the gaming-specific silicon would be beneficial for HPC (and AI)

These three put together kind of imply either more than one design, or that all the GPU part is a software implementation on top of the rest, and that there is zero hardware optimization for those tasks.

When nothing makes sense, it's usually because we are missing something.
Cows, cats and rats: Why H5N1 spreading to more species is so worrisome
Vote for bears here. They're so cute.
I wholeheartedly agree. For decades, MS management have treated UI dev strategy as an 'almost forgot' afterthought, and the result means halfassed and soon-orphaned attempts at quickly 'reinventing everythimg' every few years, with too little care and effort.
Devs then skip these, having been burned. I still recall the mess of silverlight - ui framework designed and guided by clueless managers.
In terms of fiduciary and Constitutional - or Constitutional (including fiduciary) - obligations,
is there any penalty for violating an Oath of Office?

US Constitution > Article II.S1.C8.1 "Oath of Office for the Presidency": https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C8-1... :

> Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:– I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

US Constitution > Article II.S1.C8.1.5 "Violation of the Presidential Oath"
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C8-1...

Oath of office of the president of the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_presiden...
https://archive.ph/g8BXF
Yes, weird that they didn't use that term for this project.
I had this when it was called UBO.
It’s a really interesting point; the postwar conclaves have arguably been some of the least (openly?) political in a history. The next one will probably be more politicized than the last one. You can imagine lots of commentary from non-Catholics on who they think “should win,” tied to political or cultural ideas.

In some ways this is new, but it’s also possibly a reversion to the mean on how it’s worked historically? One difference is that in the 16th century, the impact of the Pope on day to day life was higher (at least in Catholic Europe).
You can't answer the Ozempic case without looking at research that compares people who rapidly lost weight with vs without the drug, and then looking at the %FFM difference between them.
That's very difficult to say. We should all be using quantum resistant cryptography anyway.
Assuming everyone is using /48 and binding to prefix::1, that's a 2^16 difference with scanning the IPv4 address space. Assuming a specific host with only one IPv6 /24 block and delegating /64, this is a 2^12 difference. Scanning for /64 on the entire IPv6 space is definitely not as tiny.

AWS only allows routing /80 to EC2 instances making a huge difference.

It doesn't mean that we should rely on obscurity, but the entire space is not tiny as IPv4 was.
I was hoping this was plans for an actual floating airplane. Looks neat, but not sure why one would use it over YouTube et al.
My entourage is not representative of anything, but from what I see, most people have gone to iOS and Android as they're more than enough for their computing needs (light browsing, entertainment, and communication). They only use a laptop for professional purposes and it's mostly for redacting documents or specialized software. The OS is a background thing that just pops its head to annoys you with updates and other notifications.
Relative to the handedness, one bolt is always moving with it, one bolt is always moving against it. Switching direction doesn't change that. So switching direction can't change whether it moves inward or outward.
Also works if you're a serial killer.
Both drone and cowboy were clearly meant to be equally negative, as that is how each sees the other.

The article does not pick either type as the better one. It only says that each sees the other as a problem, but both have both positive and negative facets, and both are necessary, and whichever one you are, you are actually a source of both positive and negative forces, and so is the other.
I switch back and forth with a Windows workstation because some very expensive software I use is Windows-only.

The default installation is annoying, but I can go from a clean install to having the annoying widgets cleaned up in a few minutes (hint: Try right clicking on anything you don’t want to see. If that doesn’t work, Google it and you’ll find a lot of solutions)

To my surprise, I’ve found my Windows workstation to be more stable with heavy RAM use and multitasking. I basically never reboot except for updates. Meanwhile, my high spec Mac seems to bog down with a lot of multitasking over the course of a week. Reboot fixes it. I find myself wishing for the stability and consistency of the Windows machine, which is not something I ever expected.
Imagine any business decision that would strongly benefit from e.g. J.D. Vance not becoming the acting president and Trump remaining in his place for the rest of the year/term. Does making such a decision "essentially be offering a reward for someone to prove you wrong", those someone's being your business competitors/rivals?

Or you could even dial the timeline back to right before the last elections, where this question could literally be about the Republicans literally losing their candidate due to sudden expiration.

My point is, if someone sees that you hedge financial well-being on e.g. you country not slipping into the civil war over the next few years, and orchestrates exactly that to profit themselves — this is not your moral failing, it's theirs, and even the "well, you kinda tempted them, technically" argument is bogus.
Why are young adults less happy than ever before?
A great piece on the time around watergate:

https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergat...

Corruption was in full swing and easier to hide. Dale Carnegie recently reminded me of the Teapot dome scandal, and Gordon Gekko was in the 80s.
I'm actually interested whether there is some larger explanation on these study methods. Maybe there's something worth integrating with myself and get more efficient at learning.
>He didn't refuse! He was there at the White House to sign the agreement! Then Trump and Vance kicked him out without offering him the chance to sign it!

You skipped over this portion. He didn't refuse.
encryption obfuscates data, as in the data is completely illegible unless you have the proper keys

> To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/obfuscate

obscuring data is different, it’s about hiding it from view or minimising the likelihood of it being found.

> To make dim, indistinct, or impossible to see

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/obscure

they are two wholly different actions.

—

> Tiered access controls obscure who can do what in the system.

i’ve seen plenty of examples where an access control system explicitly says what role/tier is required. access control is for “trust” management (who do we trust with what).
Some people are really into new features, though that has dropped off in the last ten+ years.

I remember that betas of Windows XP were amazing, mind-blowing for those who hadn't seen Windows 2000.
Secrets Management in MCP Servers
Can VotingWorks' open source software help restore faith in voting machines?
Why not experiment with multiple variations. For example, as part of the experiment, run own DNS, use non-standard DNS encryption like CurveDNS, or even no DNS at all, use non-standard port for HTTPS, self-signed CA, TLS with no SNI extension, or even TCPCurve instead of CAs and TLS. If non-discoverability is the goal, there are inifinite ways to deviate from web developer norms.

If "the internet fails to find the subdomain" when using non-standard practices and conventions then perhaps "following the internet's recommendations", e.g., use Cloudflare, etc., might be partially at cause for discoverability.

Would be surprised if Expanse scans more than a relatively small selection of common ports.
Then maybe try reading what I'm saying. It should be pretty obvious that I think the mental stimulation that is supposedly attributed to books is massively overrated which is evidenced by the fact that more mentally stimulating things do not have those same benefits attributed to them.
How does JPEG work [video]
Technology truly acts as an amplifier of human intentions.
This just opts you out of GA. There are a million other scripts running on most websites, like Adobe Analytics, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity, etc.
That controls whether the Start button, for opening the Start menu, is on the left of your taskbar like previous versions of Windows, or in the middle of your taskbar. The middle is the current default.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11#/media/File:Windows...
In what sense of the word are sensible public health measures "oppression"?
Tired vote-bait quote.
Luxury's Marie Antoinette Era
There are cats living in Disneyland, and many ducks.
The necessity of Nussbaum
I think its interesting they left out Gemini 2.0 Pro in the benchmarks which I find to be markedly better than flash if you don't mind the spend.
I don’t believe you’re being against a specific person, so you don’t have a 1-1 incentive based on the bet you’re placing.
I think the author is projecting significantly when he says the goal of AI researchers is to understand and replicate how humans think. If you start from that wrong assumption of course it looks silly for them to be doing anything other than neuroscience research, the author's field.

It's like saying the stockfish developers should stop researching mixed NN and search methods because they don't understand how humans play chess yet.
let's not even open the conversation on Teams. The fact that so many businesses (including my employer) run their fundamental activities on such a piece of shit BLOWS MY MIND. I'm sure there's some cool tech and lots of smart MS developers who are proud of contributions or features, but I don't think I'd put on my resume that I was focused on Teams. It's loathed by a lot of people and at best tolerated by the rest. Nobody would voluntarily inflict Teams on people they care about.
Sure, but FreeBSD also has a Linux compatability layer. For a company that's given up on the server market so many times, making MacOS compatible with _THE_ server OS makes a lot of sense.
This does not move the taskbar. This aligns the icons on the taskbar, which stays at the bottom of the screen.

Their best bet is to use the relatively reputable ExplorerPatcher. However, using ExplorerPatcher requires fiddling with your antivirus settings and weakening your PC's security, so maybe trying to live with the new normal is better?

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
No, that's nonsense. What you're essentially saying is that discussions of controversial issues should be held at no more than a 7th-grade level to avoid anyone getting the wrong idea.

People get the wrong idea because they want to. They're not turning into fascist racial and gender supremacists because someone was mean to them.

That's just who they were all along, and all it took was someone to come along and exploit that, and for others not to do enough about it.
I had NotebookLM make a 15 min podcast about it and listened to it while walking the dogs. It was a very interesting way of trying to understand a research paper!

You need a google account to access it unfortunately. https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/fbaba495-d4f2-48a3-a3...
What calculator is that?
Yeah, it's one of those "Once you're used to writing doc strings, you have no reason to ever use anything else" but if you don't use them, it can be prohibitively laborious to move whatever alternative you're using over to "PEP-compliant".

(lots of fun dunder functions in Python that make metaprogramming a lot easier, but someone needs to tell you about)
I love playing around with cellular automata for doing art. It's amazing what kind of patterns can emerge (example: https://gods.art/math_videos/hex_func27l_21.html). I may have to try to play with these DLCA.
Windows95 was pretty cool, too.
I can very confidently state /biz/ does not have its moments.
A tactical guide to hiring your first VP of Engineering
Is that really a topic to be this snarky and standoffish about? What's the point?
If we are going to go down this road, I want to call it occult security, because its sounds much more sexy, and its more accurate. you are casting spells and incantations to hide things from the world.
We don't need to do this directly, but any attempt is high stakes. Cuba armed itself by proxy and while it has had some form of "independence" at what cost?
Your exact words[1] were "I make a lot of personal decisions on-principle, but Amazon is too essential for me to boycott it."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43288929
great suggestion! thanks, will definitely implement this :)
Go Latin: capriarchy. (Surely there's word for this already? Scanned lists of -cracy and -archy words, couldn't find one.)
OpenAI significant outage (o1-pro 50% error rate)
A paper every programmer should read and comprehend. Related to object capabilities/capability-based security: e.g. a network capability is a powerful way to control how a program can access the network. In fact a capability naturally is the interface for a module; the module is accessible only through the capability. Compartmentalizing programs by basic functionality, akin to mechanisms as opposed to policies, removes artificial layering and ensures that a piece of code actually achieves what it sets out to do in a logically minimal fashion. Information hiding (encapsulation) is the essence of both modularity and abstraction, giving library reusability, mockability and lowered state dependence (for testing!), robust security, lower cognitive load, easier rewritability, and more. All in the name of writing programs that achieve what they set out to do.
How about opening Explorer windows in less than a second (or at least 5)?

Or being able to customize the Explorer context menu. They were on the right track by pushing the old context menu into a separate second menu. But they should allow the user to select what shows in the primary menu instead of the seemingly random stuff that shows there.
If it's safety/correctness versus performance, I think the default should be the former. Copying, while inefficient is generally more correct and avoids hard-to-debug errors. It's the whole discussion about premature optimization.
I'd rather make a copy than make sure the array is not mutated anywhere ever.
Yea what you're replying to is just pure fat-logic that isn't really backed by science. You will lose muscle from calorie restriction - that isn't really in doubt by anyone. However, when cutting weight, you can do a routine that maintains/builds muscle as you cut, to reduce the effect. A body with more lean muscle mass will be able to keep weight off for longer - this has been known, settled, and accepted in weight loss and fitness science for decades now. I've never heard anyone, anywhere posit that muscle loss is good - and would love to see a source, so I can laugh at it.

One insidious thing with these GLP1 drugs, is that they also seemingly affect muscles like the heart. I would not be willing to take one unless the risk of me carrying my weight far outweighed (no pun intended) the risk of the side effects. However, a lot of people seem to be treating it as some kind of miracle fad diet drug, which is concerning.

It also has other side effects like reduced elasticity on skin, etc. I suspect we'll see longer term issues in the next decade from these drugs, and I'm glad alternatives are being explored.
I still use 7 on my offline pcs. Its still such a fantastic operating system and I don't see us getting another like it from ms. I'm one of those nostalgia folks who can't move on. People are certainly feeling the same way 10 to 11.

That rule can always be gamed too, heh. I felt it went 8 bad, 8.1 good, 10 bad. Then 11 broke the pattern.
Can anyone find a copy of the indictment? I’m always curious about how these people get caught.
Having done this IRL before, my mental model is that the other screw is just like a nut, except only touching at one point, so the behavior is the same as screwing in a bolt normally.