skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Studies have shown that studies cannot be trusted.

Well, that's basically the end of the debate, isn't it? Before we can have reasonable discourse, everyone has to agree on some points. Sure, individual studies have problems. That's why we make them reproducible and aggregate the results. So yeah, don't trust some individual paper; but if you're distrusting the aggregate, well, you're distrusting all of science.

> Nobody can perceive objective reality. Everyone is delusional concerning just about everything.

This is the entire point of the scientific method. It's why we make sure tests are reproducible by other people in other teams in other countries. Each with their own funding and biases. What remains after all of that is as close to objective reality as possible without decompiling the universe.

> Dark times are ahead, I'm afraid, and people's trust-meters are going to be valuable again.

You know what else has been shown to be unequivocal bullshit? People making decisions based on their "gut". Your personal "trust-meter" is just another form of that. Dark times are indeed ahead, but it's because there are people out there who want to do whatever the hell they want- and it's easier for them to get away with it if they discredit science and get the population to do so as well. This is what you're helping by spreading such things. Please stop.
It’s iodine in table salt not fluoride. In the US.

Never knew that France fluoridated their salt.
I have a smartwatch, but it won't help at all when leaving your phone in an Uber/Lyft which takes off. You will then be left with the awareness of having just left your phone rather than actually your phone.
All the progress I have made in that direction came from one thing: more free time. The amount I read is directly proportional to that.

Perhaps students don't do all these things because they're busy as hell trying to keep up with life's endless demands.
Isn't this why some folks run 4+ monitors? You don't need different software if you resolve the problem with hardware.
Perhaps crazy question: is it a good idea to have two phones now? One for making calls only, with as many apps as possible removed. And another phone for email, web surfing, photos, etc...?

edit: Oops, I left out texting. Which phone for that?
Even with the discounts of volume pricing cloud prices are still quite inflated unless you need to inherit specific controls like the P&E ones from FedRAMP High/GovCloud. The catch there is lock-in technologies that may require to re-develop large swaths of your applications if you're heavily reliant on cloud-native tools.

Even going multi-region, hiring dedicated 24/7 data center staff, and purchasing your own hardware amortizes out pretty quickly and can you a serious competitive advantage in pricing against others. This is especially true if you are a large consumer of bandwidth.
>Imagine we made a new Linux distro

Imagine we made a new shade of brown

Seriously, this is the most cliché thing you could do with Linux.
Python is not a globally available thing. I was really surprised when I setup Kubuntu 24.04 and found it missing. And now you can do `uv run --python=<version> ...` and have all that automatically handled on a case by case basis.
It sounds like you haven’t been a manager. Do you care what bag your manager has when she has a human oriented interaction with you?
Just accept any Unicode character. That's it.
This could be done using something like llamafile, in the sense that it would be a small universal executable containing a package.

It could even support running as a self contained application on Windows, with all needed DLLs provided.
>Simulations are usually vastly simpler than the substrate they run on.

So to simulate continuum you need a transfinite VM. It will be more efficient to just run the universe bare metal.
I know people may not remember this, but Android was initially designed with interoperability in mind. It's sad to see both the system development and the community opinion to have turned against it so hard.
> The reality is when you get to another certain point (larger than the point you describe) you start negotiating directly with those cloud providers and bypass their standard pricing models entirely.

And even if you do, you still end up with pretty horrible pricing, still paying per GB of "premium" traffic for some outrageously stupid reason, instead of going the route of unmetered connections and actually planning your infrastructure.
This is nice when you have the time to sit down and enjoy literature at a leasurly pace. It's not nice when it's one of many obligations that comes with its own deadlines and tests.
For a sense of scale, the FAA has been tracking battery related incidents, and you can take a looksie here: https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/resources/lithium_batteries/incid...

You can click through to see specific incident summaries. It looks like a significant amount (if not majority) of events are inflight on passenger flights (as opposed to on the ground, tarmac, ground handling, or freight operations). There were 85 total incidents in 2024 (there were some 9 million passenger revenue departures to give another sense of scale).

Lost phone is a problem because:

* Could be in a place that increases risk of thermal run away to begin with - classic example would be caught in the seat hinge. But even being stuck surrounding by cushioning could increase the risk of overheating

* Decreased visibility. The faster you can react (ie, try to dump the thing into a thermal protection bag / get it away from other flammables) the better. If you read the incidents, you'll see time after time the sequence "passenger notified flight attendant, who then placed it in a thermal containment bag, flight completed normally".

I could see changes to rules that will begin to prohibit storing batteries in overhead compartments (which aside from the pinch problem, actually has all the same risks of losing a phone). Or perhaps mandatory/routine pre-emptive use of thermal containment bags.

The airliners know there's no going back. They must accommodate for batteries, so they'll seek the right balance.
True. Part of the reason is aggressive saliva that just doesn't let some bacteria live and thus keeps the teeth healthy for longer. Dry mouth is literally damaging your teeth as well.
That may well be true, but a zealous law enforcement official may mistake you for someone that has and you won't have access to lawyers etc. to prove your innocence if you've already been sent to El Salvador.

This is the problem with thinking "that doesn't apply to me" when you see abuses of privilege and position - we need to think of others in our community, not just focus on ourselves.
$200-300 gets you a lot of bag.
This train of reasoning goes to some very sick places very quickly. A more reasonable version of this is "it's crazy to think that anyone could be put in a position to etc etc". I.e. we live in a big complicated world - if an individual drops the production table, almost certainly something else was wrong besides that person making a mistake.
I think that analogy is also imperfect. Google's "don't be evil" motto was just a reflection of beginner's naivete. It's something that a garage-level startup can say. But once you grow past a certain scale, the statement is too vague, and exposes a company to too much litigation risk. Dropping the motto did not reflect the transition of Google from a force of good to a force of evil. It reflected the transition of Google from being an idealist adolescent to being an adult.
Lehmer's Continued Fraction Factorization Algorithm
Lehmer’s continued fraction factorization algorithm was used to factor the seventh Fermat number in 1975.
I agree, but I don't think you're in the majority. I don't think most cloud-customers are utilizing all of those additional things that a big cloud provider offers.

How many are actually multi-region? How many actually do massive up/down-scaling on short notice? How many actually use many of those dozens to hundreds of services? How many actually use those complex permissions?

My experience tells me there are some, but there are more who treat AWS/GPC/Azure like a VPS-hoster that's 5-10x more expensive than other hosters. They are not multi-region, they don't do scaling, they go down entirely whenever the AZ has some issues etc. The most they do is maybe use RDS instead of installing mysql/pgsql themselves.
You said one of the main reasons which is really silly.
That's a whole lot of words for you acknowledging that I'm right. Fluoridated drinking water, at the appropriate levels, has no effect on IQ.

Would you like to debate the reality of anthropogenic climate change next? This will be another area where any links you dig up will only point to a single conclusion.
> A lot of people have convinced themselves that cloud is cheap

I've noticed this too, freelancing/consulting around in companies. I'm not sure where this idea even comes from, because when cloud first started making the news, the reasoning went something like "We're OK paying more since it's flexible, so we can scale up/down quickly", and that made sense. But somehow today a bunch of people (even engineers) are under the belief that cloud somehow is cheaper than the alternatives. That never made sense to me, even when you take into account hiring people specifically for running the infrastructure, unless you're a one-person team or have to aggressively scale up/down during a normal day.
Lindows made a splash in 2001-2002 and its purpose was to bridge the gap and offer proper support for Windows applications on Linux via a 'click and run' service.

After Microsoft sued them and they changed their name, the bubble was burst and when Ubuntu appeared its niche as a beginner distro ebbed away.

I was surprised to hear it was still alive via a Michael MJD video a month or two ago.
IMO it depends on what skill level of beatmatching and mixing we are talking about.

I have seen some unbelievable performances by matching wizards who added a whole other level to the performance with their skills.

The set itself was different because there would not have been a way to slice and dice the set together without those skills.

Really no different than a virtuoso performance on any other instrument.
That is very silly.
Yea I’d love to know the answer to this. Of course you can just download petabytes of data but I imagine there’s gotta be more to it than just rclone. Or maybe it is that simple.
random, but my dad took the first pictures of a tonga eruption in 2009: https://volcano.si.edu/showreport.cfm?doi=10.5479/si.GVP.BGV...
You still make calls with your phone?
Apple may have markup, but the part is for sure more likely to be higher quality: https://www.cultofmac.com/news/apple-thunderbolt-4-cable-com...
They’ve been sucking up international students from Asia mostly to fill in the gap just like everything else. Let superior countries raise them then bring them over with the lure of big money. It’s all the US has to offer anymore is a chance for the select few to become part of the 1%, oligarchy. 300 million normal people may as well not exist here.
"Folate is an essential water-soluble B vitamin found in foods, including dark-green leafy vegetables and legumes."

The above quote from that Springer reference reminds me of plant toxins in common foods especially in dark-green leafy ones, spinach, rhubarb, etc. Oxalic acid is one of the main ones but there are many others.

If you worry about what you eat you ought to be concerned about these. It's understandable that these toxins exist in these plants as they use them as protection against insects etc. Incidentally, I use oxalic acid industrially and I'm very careful how I handle it.
DOS games on weaker chips still weren't 1fps 100ms. Even without blitters, which commonly appeared only around windows 95 era afair, they ran pretty smoothly for the hardware they had. Any modern cheapest weakest chip will run timespace-warping circles around 8086, not to mention "prev gen" chips.
What do you mean? Florine creates a substance in human teeth that is much more resistant to decay than calcium.
I'm thinking about getting a used MS Surface-like tablet with a keyboard cover instead of a laptop. Seems that it might check your boxes, too.
I’d be surprised if you could even use a smart TV at all without agreeing to an EULA.
This is usually about drivers, not applications. The Windows driver model didn’t maintain long-term compatibility.
> To say we are appalled would be an understatement.

And yet are any of you doing anything other than just standing by and letting it happen?

Edit: I can't reply at the moment (too many posts), so shall edit this to say that I hope that there is indeed substantial pushback and that you get your country back before too much damage is done. Here in the UK, there's not much attention given to the protests although the Tesla protests are mentioned.
why am i getting the vibe that onlyoffice is closed-source.

it's actually open https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE
I installed windows fonts. AIU it's insufficient?

Doesn't wine delegate rendering to FreeType? Might as well delegate font fallback to FreeType.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, I think we may have lost the plot. Are you simply implying that you find the cynical answer more appealing and believable than the non-cynical answer? In my opinion, the internet and today's modern zeitgeist has instilled a sense in everyone that if it's cynical, or dark, or depressing, it must be the correct answer. That's usually the laziest and easiest answer too.
They were anti tyranny. Governments tend to be tyrannical, but they weren't against governments, they were against tyranny.

Timothy Snyder is the modern embodiment of founding father ideology/enlightenment philosophy and my original post was almost directly lifted from his talks/books.

Yes they may have been in favor of small government, but we have the tyranny of corporate power now. When healthcare is tied to a job, women are working instead of doing child care, the combined wages are not enough/barely enough to afford rent and necessities, and there are no savings for emergencies, that leads to the tyranny of business and wage slavery.

It leads to individuals without the means to withdrawal consent from a tyrannical government. It structurally disables acts of disobedience. Jefferson said rebellion unto tyranny is obedience to god, not rebellion unto governments. They were not subject to the levels of concentrated corporate power that grew out of industrialization. Robber Barrons were also tyrants who acted tyrannically.

There's probably something to be said about self reliance and protestant work ethic which can result in obedient workers willing to work under poor conditions for cultural reasons, but thinking that government is the only entity capable of unchecked power when we have businesses with a higher revenue than some entire countries/states shows a dogmatic chasing of a justification for a belief, rather than following the principles towards an assessment the principles themselves would lead to. It's a kind of originalism. The appearance of their beliefs, but not the substance of them.

A republic... If we can keep it.

Well good luck keeping it if the average citizen is too weak to project any kind of political power. Good luck having strong citizens (or a cohesive society) without strong social programs like public education.

> rather than merely protecting from outright tyranny.

Enlightenment ideology at it's core, the very central point of it, which our documents were written into respect to, says you give up some rights in order to have other rights protected [from tyranny]. That is why man leaves the state of nature... Greater protection from tyranny.

The constitution was a document meant to be adapted. The goal of the implementation is plainly stated:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
A more recent (2023) sandboxing + isolation overview by the Android team: https://arxiv.org/html/1904.05572v3/ (section 4.3)
I am not dehumanizing anyone. They can be whoever they want but if I don’t understand them they are not performing the function. Might still be the most interesting people but I will never get to know since I can literally not communicate
I think "legacy car makers" refers to the car makers who started when combustibles were the only way we (commonly) energized cars, not just that they were started before the currently trendy company.
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Exactly. The classic example is invalid pointer deref. It’s too costly to check every deref against every allocation (outside of special debug modes). So the system usually can only detect if there is a virtual memory page fault, in which case it can crash.

In embedded systems without virtual memory there is no validity checking at all. Or it could periodically check (random sampling).

So the standard makes the reasonable choice to leave it undefined. If you can detect it and crash, that’s great. If not and you accidentally overwrite your programs instructions, anything can happen.

Rust only avoids UB in so far as it relies on default clang behavior on modern hardware.
At least in the USA, cell phones are allowed checked luggage. However, they are supposed to be powered of and "protected up prevent unintentional activation or damage".

I realize this was an Air France flight, but I suspect the checked rules are nearly the same.
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BYD measures range using the WLTP standard in China. If they sold in the States they'd use the EPA measurement, which would result in lower numbers. As long as they accurately applied EPA they could show good faith and would likely prevail in a lawsuit.
a_smooth_partitional()!
It is not fair to call ChatGPT usage as cheating. It is reasonable for a student to use all available resources. To expect anything else is foolish.

Also, in this day and age, expecting someone to pay $100-$200 for a textbook also is foolish. Educators look to be more self-serving than they realize.
> A dedicated bin in front of my house for it? No.

I think all supermarkets here have them these days; anyone who sells batteries is required to provide battery recycling facilities, as far as I know.

Also, bizarrely, my _office_ has them, despite not using anything that I can think of that uses disposable batteries at all.

If you’re using a (presumably plastic?) sharps container, you should be very careful that they’re wrapped in something first; otherwise they are a potential fire hazard.

> For plastic trash, it isn’t recyclable

Most plastic is recyclable these days. Now, whether it gets recycled or not is another question, and will depend on local law and facilities, but it’s mostly recyclable.
Same problem: The models are also correlated on what they can and can't solve.

To give you an extreme example, I can ask 1000000 different models for a counterexample to the 3n + 1 problem, and all will get it wrong.
I consider KVM over IP to be one form of remoting. It hasn't worked as well as Windows RDP or Jump's "fluid" though (for my purposes). The problem has been the video -- it's too high bandwidth, so you end up making tradeoffs (resolution, compression artifacts, latency, refresh rate) and I couldn't really find something that would work for me. RDP works at a higher level of abstraction than "a video signal" so can be a lot more efficient for the "typical desktop computing" that I need. I don't know how the fluid protocol works, but it must use a higher abstraction as well.

The beauty of kvm over ip, though, is that it can work without any software whatsoever being installed on the client. You plug in a usb and video cable and from the client's perspective, it's the same as if you directly plugged in a mouse, keyboard and monitor. But if you can install software on the client (or enable the existing software, as in the case of Windows RDP), you can typically do better.
12mm thick glass is pretty damn thick and is normally used for for table tops, glass walls and partitions, hearths, frameless balustrades at ground level, and kitchen worktops.
Not cover to cover, but yes, we generally did most of the reading most of the time. I don't mean to exaggerate: sometimes you skimmed, and I gave up on Kant, but in a lot of classes you'd be lost and screwed if you didn't make a plausible pass on the reading.

This was 18 years at a massive public university, which by design drew students from all backgrounds.

I'm inherently skeptical of "kids these days" arguments, but it really seems like the smartphones and the way we approached the pandemic was incredibly destructive.
You'd just produce the ≤AVX2-style result; clang will switch to using the mask-returning comparison instrs if the usage ends up being a mask (gcc doesn't do such fancy things, so I guess getting the last bits of speedup from this strategy depends on how much control over compiler selection you choose to have).

And if you really care about doing different things for ≤AVX2 vs AVX-512 masks, you're definitely in the "squeeze out the last 1.4x" camp and not the "simple ~8x speedup" one. And, realistically, you won't care about this on every single comparison, so where you really want to explicitly use mask-returning comparisons you could just switch to using intrinsics directly (or a different abstraction over them) temporarily.

As a side-note, mask-returning comparisons have 2x less throughput than homogeneous-bit-returning ones for xmm/ymm as far as uops.info data goes[1] (and use port 5!), so this strategy is kinda just what you want really.

(another strategy can be to just return the arch-specific result type, still preferring the ≤AVX2 style (with, if desired, a separate set of comparison ops for the AVX-512-mask output), and making mask-consuming ops polymorphic over the two)

[1]: https://uops.info/table.html?search=cmpeqb%20ymm%29&cb_lat=o...
There's a certain irony to having an art history education and not reflecting on the origin of 'technology'.

I don't know how many times I've offered to train a text encoder on someone's particular project to show them how quickly they could pipeline storyboards into animatics, or create a style LORA, or generate 3D assets for reference from a sketch, or whatever, just so they can see.

I've been calling my 3D and VFX friends "the old masters" for a while to drive home the point, and now that they're using some controlnet/ipadapter tools professionally, they understand. The traditional and 2D artists, though, are still grappling with unilateral veto after SD 1.4, although some are coming around.
Elite in the economic sense. Places like Harvard are anti-progressive and serve to gate keep opportunity and wealth.
No, we do understand the difference and the comment still stands. UB is a choice by the standard committee.

Signed integer overflow is undefined because it’s not even clear if you can detect it happens in all implementations. Do you want a conditional after every integer add?
I graduated in 1992 with my undergrad in CS - my CS books were $100+ per class back then. I think the Dragon Book was $140.
A Balance of Payments Primer, Part I
I'm more interested in font fallback that works elsewhere in linux. Rendering doesn't match anyway, so metrics isn't very useful.
Because they just work. Nobody cares if their MRI machine runs Win2000, they care if the machine reveals brain cancer.
Isn't lithium one of the most abundant elements on the planet?
If you've got a broader insidious agenda, installing useful idiots is definitely a way to enact it.
Agree 100%. Using something like py2exe creates a self contained "python script". This comes with a lot of problems for the developer but minimum problems for the user.
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