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import Nat
Speaking for myself, I am impressed by something that is necessarily complex in order to accomplish some difficult task, and dislike needless complexity that could be simpler. A good example of necessary complexity would be this post from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448457. Another example would be how the A-10 had to be fueled right before takeoff because it would leak fuel until at top speed.
I originally dropped out of college after attending for two years. I went back to college to finish my computer science degree at the age of 28, graduated at 30.

I had just been laid off during a recession, and figured if I didn't go now I probably never would finish my degree. I applied for loans and used the extra I got beyond tuition to help pay my rent while I went, and for a year of it I had a part time job making just over minimum wage working as a software engineer for a department in the college faculty, which also counted as my internship, and that helped a bit as well.

It was a little weird going back at first, being a decade older than almost all the other students, but I got over it pretty quick and it was all pretty normal.

I went to a state school and it still took me about 10 years to pay off the student loans I had accumulated during that two.

If I had tried to go the online only route while workin full-time still, I don't think I would have been able to stick with it. Also taking a break from the work grind to focus on school was pretty necessary to get back into school again, especially at first, as I was suddenly expected to remember everything from my classes I took almost a decade ago (like Calculus, I forgot almost all of that).

Not sure if it would be worth it for you or not, as school tuition, at least in the US, has just been skyrocketing in costs since I graduated (even before I graduated, it was a bit of a sticker shock for me going back too...kind of wish I had just stuck with it the first time around, would have been way cheaper).

Also met a guy at a hike yesterday who was in architecture for about 4 years, then sales for 10 years, and then went back to school in his late 30s to study dentistry for 4 years and is now a dentist. So another example of someone who was able to make it work somehow. I don't know his financial situation, though.
If you're ever in a similar pinch, any loyalty card, credit card or similar plastic will work wonders as a makeshift ice scraper. No need to put your hands through that pain, turn the car on to get some heat going and hold the card with both of your hands to support it as you scrape.
Well to us Europeans it is. This is PII so its handling is documented.

You can requires all your data to be deleted and tastiest none is added.

This deletes the "family tree" to be seen by everyone
>But remember: Power is rarely taken but mostly given.

I don't care about the US being a powerful country. I'm tired of being the world's police. I'm against so-called "American imperialism". I want to be Switzerland. Ally with no one, trade with everyone. Switzerland has a much healthier relationship with the rest of Europe, without toxic dependency.

That's my metric regarding whether an approach is "productive" or not. Give it 10 years until the US/Europe relationship resets to the Switzerland/Europe relationship. That's the goal.

I'd say Trump has already succeeded by this metric in terms of Europe taking responsibility for itself. That's the first step. You need to stop depending on us so you'll stop resenting us.
> There are three parties here: HP, the people they hurt, and the class action lawyers.

You need to break apart the class action members from ”people they hurt”. The members of the class can be more narrow and easier to prove. The lawyers should have incentive to maximize damage x members.

> the class action lawyers to get a resolution that doesn’t cost HP too much

Naively, the incentives should be aligned with the class action members at this point. Why not? Can the lawyers negotiate directly with HP to increase their share of the pie?

> doesn’t bind HP’s future actions

Yes, but isn't that just water is wet? Like, the members want compensation, not different behavior in the future. (Unless it’s a defendant you need to continue doing business with like an employer). I thought class actions was supposed to act as a deterrent.
Technically NASA contracted with SpaceX (and several other companies as well, such as Boeing) to develop crew–rated versions of their rockets. That was explicitly a development contract where NASA paid a couple of billion up front to entice those companies to develop a crewed craft capable of visiting the ISS. Later they bought rides to and from the ISS from SpaceX and Boeing. SpaceX used that money and some of their own to go from the Falcon 1 to the Falcon 9. Since then NASA has bought flights on Falcon 9 rockets for launching satellites and space probes in addition to crewed flights to the ISS.

So yea, definitely a prudent investment. But also some subsidies in there, and a few billion wasted on Boeing. And even more billions wasted on SLS too.
Wouldn't any spacecraft designed to return to Earth non-destructively, regardless of whether it was going to land vertically or land like an airplane or land with a parachute, first slow down to subsonic speeds before getting to the phase of the flight where the landing system is invoked?
It seems to me, being the kind of person to want an EV and being surrounded by people who do, that the recent downturn is very much about Musk. There are other contributing factors like less competitive offering, much stronger new rivals, price, build quality issues etc. But at it's heart it seems to really be very much because everybody buying EVs thinks Musk and what he stands for awful. He has directly upset his core customer base. I can't think of anyone I know with a Tesla who just brought an EV because it was a car. Teslas weren't utility, they were a statement.
1. "We found you are the product of infidelity. Pay to find out who." (Paternity tests are banned in France)

2. There is incest in your family. Pay to find out.

3. We have found 4 significant markers of X diseases. Pay to find out. (Against FDA in claims of illness)

4. A lost family member was found in $location. Do you want to identify them and send money? (Likely faked, scam)

5. Surrogate or adopted: we know your birth parents. Pay to find out.

There's just a few unethical and/or illegal business opportunities for malicious actors. And that was just 5 off the top of my head.

If you wanted to be really evil, you combine it with other hacked/leaked/ransomed data sources and turn the screws.
The comment is a waste too. It could have explained why the function is doing what it does.
Unless you consider that many modern conveniences (indoor plumbing, electric lights, refrigeration) that are available to the poorest classes today; were not around in past times to the most rich and powerful.
Thanks, sent you an email.
It's prone to its own biases, but I always figured the best metric was simply to ask how others on the team (or coworkers you need to work with) think of you. Your lead obviously has a bigger sway on this, but overall the idea is that you're generally doing a good job if the people around you overall see you as productive and feel more productive when working with you.

I can only really see an exception for some gnarly Principal who's off deep into some very specific problem where this evaluation would fall apart. But such an individual problably isn't one you're worried about productivity with.
In defense of the bank robber: no clerk simply gives you money if you aren't threatening them (that is my experience at least), which it would have been if they acted like a respectable citizen. This gives people the incentive to become bank robbers.
This tool comparing the original information with what the AI writes is great! It clearly shows when the AI makes stuff up. Really helpful if you need accurate information and don't want to be misled by AI hallucinations. I like that it's straightforward - original source on one side, AI response on the other, so you can easily spot any problems.
I tried to execute the PoC by running the following:

git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git && cd llama.cpp
git checkout c0d4843225eed38903ea71ef302a02fa0b27f048 # Checkout a revision prior to the exploit fix in 1d20e53c40c3cc848ba2b95f5bf7c075eeec8b19
mkdir build-rpc && cd build-rpc
cmake .. -DGGML_RPC=ON
cmake --build . --config Release
cd bin/
./rpc-server -p 50052

In a second terminal:

nc -lvp 1337

Then running the exploit code in a third terminal (from llama.cpp/build-rpc/bin directory):

pip install pwntools
python exp.py # From https://gist.github.com/retr0reg/d13de3fde8f9d138fe1af48e59e630a9

It failed at Stage Three: Bypass boundary check via libggml and raised an EOFError. The RPC server exited with Segmentation fault. Any idea why?
Why not use Tab notation for guitar?
https://archive.ph/FtuoO
Ask HN: Suggest Me Some Good Fiction
Preferably, excluding your top 10. Just to see something which are the not the usual all-time bestsellers.

Want to get back into the reading habit, build vocabulary, and go deep into the visualization/creative part. Constant Youtube and mobile phones have over-stimulated my brain and my focus is at all time low.

I do have watched a lot of spy & WW2 movies. I like history, sci-fi and adventure. But please recommend all kinds of genre.
Getting high-quality, harmonized data at global scale can still be a challenge, especially when it comes to observational coverage in developing regions
Ask HN: What do you think that RFC 10'000 should be about?
So the RFCs are in the 9700 range:

* https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.html

* https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index2.html

* https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc-index.txt

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments

and are getting closer and closer to the 'symbolic' number of ten thousand (10^4). Should that RFC be anything special?

Should it be 'philosophical'? Somewhat forward-looking? Backward-looking / reflective? Humorous? Or nothing special and be treated just like any other RFC?

Bonus question: How about 10240?
There's a big difference between "this vaguely might be construed as deterring competition" and "illegal according to anti-competition law". Razor blades, the namesake of "razor and blade business model" has existed for decades without successful legal challenge, for instance.
I've seen it before, pretty cool. If i remember correctly most of the implementation is done in software instead of using WebAudio nodes.
It probably could? I was just talking about the waste aspect.
Yea, there are hundreds or even thousands of billionaires. Only one of them has developed a successful orbital launch company. That’s not exactly a high base rate.
Who would be a person with similar competency in Ancient Greek living now?
Atlanta SWAT Team Used to Capture Pirates (2007)
> It seems that sometimes we might actually enjoy grappling with complex, even byzantine systems. Can anyone relate?

This is the worst part about young, smart engineers: they revel in complexity -- often unnecessary -- as a way to "flex" (often ego driven). It often manifests in such a waste of time and effort, reinventing the wheel, or making poor technical design decisions.

I'm in my 40's now and have seen it all. My conclusion is:

- The simpler the better,
- Monoliths > microservices,
- Proven platforms > novel ones,
- Proven vendors > startups,
- Sensible defaults > illusion of choice,
- Enduring patterns > flavor of the month,
- OOP isn't as bad as it is made out to be and functional isn't the silver bullet people hype it up to be,
- Productivity is often sacrificed at the alter of ego

It can be frustrating watching teams and engineers learn some of these for the first time. Sometimes it's worse: I see the mistake, but I don't see the learning and the ego's can make it hard to direct them to the right place. I can see the friction and the source of friction, but I don 't have the energy in me to fight that fight -- I just want to ship code and create value, not flex my engineering chops.

A team has recently been having discussions on scaling and I pointed to Figma's excellent series on how they scaled their backend[0]. While non-trivial, it is a proven route built on proven scaling techniques -- all documented with plenty of real-world feedback. A team has been working on RBAC, but exploring exotic solutions instead of trying Postgres RLS and looking at guidance and success from Supabase[1].

I see the appeal to the ego of inventing something novel and learning your own lessons, but to me it seems a waste of effort when the team's value doesn't lie in blazing new paths in proven system design.

There's a great post by @pizlonator in another thread[2] on Hyman Rickover:

> [H]e succinctly summarizes the phenomenon where a technology that is substantially complete to the point that it has known issues is looked down upon while a technology that is purely "on paper" (the "paper reactor" as he calls it) is treated as a good alternative, since the paper technology isn't far enough along for the problems to even be known.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=figma+s...

[1] https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43450884
Hasn’t been discussed for ages?
Yikes. Yeah, I'm completely in agreement with you by now. This dude should be banned, lol.
Anyone ready? You're extremely f'ing late, dude.
HP has proven it's a viable business and there's effective shields against lawsuits and consumer rage.

Will you build your own printer when the other brands all go the HP way ?

Brother's as a company had slim profits and it went down 10% in their last call. Their shareholders sure would want some more juice to the stock...
God, yes. I did some training courses over Zoom. The presenter frequently shared pdf files we had to interact with, but the Zoom download button dropped them in the Zoom container. Figuring out how to get hold of them was a pita.

Of course, the Windows users didn't have this problem. Flatpak, etc. are objectively making the Linux user experience worse.
Where Cloud Feature Flagging Fails for Robotics Configuration Management
Sure. And they'd get what? Based on this outcome - nothing.
Yes and for other reasons as well.
Everywhere I look I see examples of the US justice system falling down on the job. It does reasonably well managing value-based conflict at the SCOTUS level, but God help you if you find yourself in need of civil justice at any lower level. Criminal justice isn't a lot better.

I feel like the root cause is a system built for the 1700s that actively rejects the principles of efficiency, effectiveness, right and wrong in favor of an it's-too-much-make-it-go-away bureacratic moral equivalency.

In no universe should HP be allowed to continue this practice. And yet, I also identify with class action plaintiffs stuck in a system that does not care one whit about providing even them reasonable access to justice after years of litigation.
Sorry to hear that, i didn't spend time to make it compatible with mobile devices yet.
I think that's actually a pretty good way to frame how these deep learning-based forecasting models might evolve
Magna Carta predates not just guns but even just gunpowder being known in Europe.

The barons it talks about would have been somewhat analogous to US state governors, though even then it's a very loose analogy as the logistics of England in the 1200s was so different to the modern world.

There's lots of things it could be analogised to, including a board of directors empowered to remove an unwanted CEO; or how the English civil war was a fight between Charles I and his parliament (some of the discourse at the time explicitly mentioned Magna Carta*).

Which is to say that while one does indeed need to be able to respond "this one" when asked "you and what army?", that requirement is not itself a show-stopper, people can (and have) been able to give the correct answer.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_of_Right
Well, only if you ignore Apollo 1. Overall Apollo was incredibly successful, but not 100%.
It is not. There are situations where it won't break and someone dies.

It is not just "legal liability" which is Musk speak for "won't always work but I want you to pay as if it did".
you two should get together and propose a better solution, with a working implementation they could adapt if needed, and integrate.

talk is cheap. (I'm not saying that you're full of hot air, I'm saying that if you want to make Go's flag package better, make a proposal with good rationale behind it, include a good implementation, and see what the community says.)
> Even in the best case scenario for LLMs, they aren't mind readers. They'll be time savers.

In otherwords, they are cheaper mid to entry level employees which don’t get sick or have emotions. I think most people would agree with this.

One of the reasons well informed curious people tend to underestimate the value of LLMs despite their flaws
is they underestimate the amount of routine work that could be automated but is still done imperfectly by humans. LLMs lower the barrier to entry to halfway decent automation and eliminating those jobs.

Where I’m not sold yet is on the whole idea of bots that go off and do their own thing totally unsupervised (but increasingly, you are having models supervise one another).
Prototypes unfortunately often stick. IMO refactoring someone else's code is less efficient vs whatever code I wrote myself. I'm pondering net productivity.

Have you personally deployed anything based on agent results (predominantly)? I'm just trying to gauge if the current state ("early days") is actually worth investing time and money in from a professional perspective.

In my experience, hype often precedes actual usefulness by a significant margin.

TL;DR are we there yet?
> Having worked at AWS

This should be disclaimer at your first message when you compared AWS with UPCloud.

TBH, I would not trust AWS with countering the Patriot Act.
https://amiunique.org/ provides more detailed information about fingerprinting.
Is homo sapiens in there?
I think it's the solid state optical beam steering.
I've seen it for sale in at least a couple of bars in Copenhagen.

A bar owner I know here says selling these more-premium sodas is a good way to make a bit of extra money on people who aren't buying alcohol — you can charge more for Fritz-Kola than for Coca-Cola.

A different bar owner I know chose Jolly Cola, avoiding an American product but keeping a low price.
Thank you for the reply, and thank you for the link!

I'll take some time to look through that GitHub and pick out some projects to focus on.
It is true that modern is strictly speaking not the criterion. But what I was referring to is that the languages that were popular in, say, the 90s, generally did have that degree of ceremony.

C has its own problem. First, typedef isn't a new type, just an alias. But C's problem isn't the ceremony so much as the global namespace. Declaring a new type was nominally easy, but it had to have a crappy name, and you paid for that crappy name on every single use, with every function built for it, and so forth. You couldn't afford to just declare a new "IP" type because who knows what that would conflict with. A new type spent a valuable resource in C, a namespace entry. Fortunately modern languages make namespaces cheap too.
That's not how any of this works.

Those who make bold claims, need to back them up with evidence.

From following your other comments, you seem to be confused by Germany's version of what in the USA is known as Defamation lawsuits, and you're mixing it up with what is commonly known as "free speech", or the restriction of it.
> Native package managers are always going to be fast, easy to use and have a minimal size

They become necessary when you are dealing with Windows style "applications" that drag in enormous amounts of dependency. I had Libreoffice fall over on Void Linux because of some JVM issue. You think I want to debug a JVM issue in 2020-something to type some text? No thanks - flatpak.
Nobody in the trenches seemed to use old-style auto in the last decades.

BTW: The right place to complain if you disagree would be the compiler vendors. In particular the Clang side pushes very much for keeping C and C++ aligned, because they have a shared C/C++ FE. So if you want something else, please file or comment on bugs in their bug tracker. Similar for other compilers.
New URLPattern API brings improved pattern matching to Node.js and Workers
The vocabulary requirements for "Proof Designer" are certainly higher.

This repo is closer to an intro to automated theorem proving than "Proof Designer" is (imo). Less math, more programming.

Note: Proof Designer has an excellent list of problems to try to prove. [1]

[1]: https://djvelleman.github.io/pd/help/Problems.html
Lossless audio and ultra‑low latency audio come to AirPods Max
> I haven't seen much hard evidence that Russia has ambitions beyond Ukraine.

Hard evidence is too late. Putin (and associates) speeches and writings indicate more than enough. Why do you think that former Soviet countries boardering Russia are the most scared?
> doing nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific.

That was not the most glorious moment of Chirac's presidency, no..

However, as someone involved in numerical simulations, the argument that it was needed to calibrate their numerical models does hold (some..) water..

But Chirac did partly redeem himself by refusing to invade Iraq on bogus US claims of WMDs..
I take full responsibility, I deleted my data yesterday and now the company has filed for bankruptcy.
I was one of the lucky ones:
I had backups turned on.
When I discovered my data missing,
I found the forum posts discussing the problem and the possibility that the data might be recoverable.
No proactive notice from Google about a problem, though.
After three weeks of anxiety I got my data back,
restoring from the backup according to the instructions Google finally emailed.

How much data did I almost lose for ever?
Roughly 12 years of travel,
most of which I use to document my photographic work,
as a notebook recording when and where I was.

It's no exaggeration to say a loss would have been devastating.
What I'm looking into now is how I can make backups under my control,
to a location of my choice.
People in general simply do not read warnings like that. It’s a form of autopilot that everyone utilizes to function/cope in an age where they’re being bombarded with too much information
Btw: The "Twitter to Nitter" browser extension is amazing if you occasionally still want to view a tweet, but don't want to connect to Twitter servers.
Sentence-Level Reward Model Can Better Aligning LLM from Human Preference
There will be more drum machines, that's for sure. Do you mean custom/user provided synth patches?
> This project is designed to showcase the first known photographs of living specimens of any species.

Where does it say they need to be rare?
I thought the first C compiler was written in B.
Fritz Cola is the western Germany equivalent. The company is from Hamburg.