skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For instance, I remember looking at a grocer's shop and the sign that said "Oranges", which looked very much like "Πορτοκάλια" in Greek.

And interestingly to extend this chain of connections I just read your comment and through my basic knowledge of the Greek alphabet gained through maths, and a rough proficiency in pronouncing Cyrillic I could spot that the word is very close to the Turkish “portakal” (I know a few words from spending some time there over the years).
Does Ada have real memory safety features? Or is it of the "better than nothing" C++ kind?

For example: are array out-of-bounds checked? Or prevented at compile time? What about overflow? ...
Machine learning is not a "modern" regime. The term itself was coined in the 1950's, neural networks were first described in 1938 (see Pitts & McCulloch neuron) and the current branch of research started in the 1990's, with statistical machine learnign algorithms that succeeded propositional learners like decision tree classifiers that took off in the 1980's (Ross Quinlan's ID3 algorithm was published in 1986).

AI: A Modern Approach devotes most of its considerable bulk to symbolic AI not because there was no machine learning "back then" (2003, last edition I saw) but because for most of the hisotry of AI most of the work has been on symbolic AI and statistical machine learning was a small sub-field, sometimes not even placed under AI (for example much machine vision work was published under the "pattern recognition" rubric, often not considered part of AI).

One reason for this exclusion is that much of AI research was portrayed as an investigation of the intellectual mechanisms used by the human mind, whereas statistical machine learning was (and is) more focused on narrow applications, like image classification. Although of course the connectionist paradigm has always claimed to be emulating the human brain (or trying to), this has always been more about reproducing the structure of the human brain in a different substrate, rather than elucidating how a mind arises from a brain- which is what classical AI is primarily interested in.

So if you're wondering with the most popular textbook on AI doesn't say much about how to build a hot dog classifier, that's because classical AI does not consider that to be a burning question, on which rests our scientific understanding of the human mind.
The film "Canadian Bacon" has a (subjectively) hilarious scene where one Canadian Mountie corrects another for using "return from whence you came" instead of "return whence you came".

But alas, it seems "from whence" has been in established use since the 1800s.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-from-whence...
Just a guess, but if you think about Sobol sequences, maybe the available dimensions get exhausted in this use case and then QMC doesn't perform well anymore.
You don't _need_ to say exacerbate instead of 'make worse', but it's a cool sounding word, so, like, why not. You wouldnt use it as a replacement for 'make worse' every time, though..there are instances where it just sounds wrong.

Defenestrate, though, is a joke word. You can't say defenestrate without tongue firmly in cheek.
> I will also say that in my opinion, it's not clear to many of the people who made this stuff how special it is. The only exception to that is Bret Victor, who actually is not well-understood, but even the banana pudding versions of his ideas are typically much better than the industry's.

I would love to hear more about how you believe not only outsiders, but also the people who made this misunderstand this work?

How do you see the importance of STEPS and Bret Victor's work? I'm a big fan, and you clearly have a lot of knowledge. I'd love to read more!
A third is to come out with a lot of nonsense all the time so people don't really differentiate the important lies. I've noticed that technique in certain well known politicians.
I don't understand how you can say both that and

>Vietnam can have its own opinion on anything. But it will never, under any circumstances, consider America's opinion to be more important than China's.
Wouldn't astrophotography be done using lossless (or no) compression?
Easy, by using monadic operators.

https://naveenkumarmuguda.medium.com/railway-oriented-progra...
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4chan does strip exif data. Sometimes when people posted photos with location data somebody would notice and order a pizza to their location, back when it was still a relatively civil place, then at some point they started removing it.
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How did the Emacs developers ever thought "yank" would convey the meaning of "paste"?

(Legitimate question. I'm aware some UX faux-pas do happen, but I don't see how)
Palantir CEO: Lawyers Tell Me 'My Job Is to Evade' Journalists
Also self deception helps.
here's a poem you might find interesting:
Полюбила парня я -
Оказался без хуя.
Нахуя мне без хуя,
Когда с хуем дохуя.
Steady Hamster – Mouse Movement Smoothing Under X (2006)
You could also use `xclip -selection clipboard` if you wanted it to end up in your clipboard (so you can use ctrl-v to paste) instead of in your primary selection (the one where highlighting text copies and middle click pastes).
I first thought they tested live sharks, which would mean they came from above, abducted them, probed ther eyes before releasing them.
It was used extensively by the original democracy, Athens.
There is also an excellent NPR Throughline episode on this: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955735429/what-happened-after...
Yeah, that sentence is bullshit. Italian has a construct that matches the English one precisely: io sto mangiando, I am eating; io sto leggendo, I am reading; lei stava facendo, she was doing...

It's just a form of gerundio. As an Italian speaker, that's actually one of the easiest English forms to learn.
Leave aside the art metaphor if that's not to your taste, and perhaps a less metaphorical way of looking at it is that Gladwell is a storyteller, not a scientist. He creates coherent narratives, but they obey the logic of stories, not science. Other people have written detailed criticisms of his scientific writing - if you want to read them they're pretty easy to find. I genuinely think it's worth your time.

I listened to his podcast history of napalm, and found it compelling and interesting (but then I'm not a historian, so perhaps it's Murray Gell-Mann amnesia!) So I have more time for his historical work, partially because history is a kind of storytelling.

Science is not the same as history, and needs to be judged by different metrics. This is where he falls down.
"also known as Lingua franca."

... which is Latin for: language of the Franks - French!
You seem to be quite unaware of the facts of the genocide.

France directly aided the Hutu government because they were worried about Anglophone influence in the region. Both before, during and after the genocide, France helped the perpetrators. Even their "humanitarian" efforts were largely skewed towards helping Hutus. When the French and Belgians were busy evacuating their own expatriates, they refused to help any Tutsis, even spouses. They did help evacuate Hutus.

France supplied arms to the Interahamwe for Gods sake. The people that slaughtered women and babies, who skewered heads on spikes, threw grenades into churches full of innocent people and literally gang raped women to death.

I am strongly against historical revisionism and this recent obsession with holding current generations accountable for actions that occurred hundreds of years ago, but this is not either of those things.

The genocide was unimaginably horrific and France's complicity is well documented. It also happened less than three decades ago. This has nothing to do with patriotism, and France should feel immense shame for how it acted in Rwanda.
Oh oh. Someone had a too harmonic day and wants to add some spice to it.
The point is I'm not an American/Japanese who is biased against German cars for whatever reason..
Companies could do this by creating new shares, not having to pay in cash. This could be automated by the government, each year all companies listed on a USA exchange create 2.5% new shares which are then given to the government. The government then gives these shares evenly to all adults in the USA. It's then up those people if they want to hold them or sell their fraction on existing marketplaces (which I assume in 10 years will mostly support fractional shares, especially if this is coming).
Yes they are bounds checked, at compile time, or runtime if not able to prove them at compile time.

Overflow is checked.

However both can be disabled via unsafe code pragmas if so desired.

As of Ada 2012, the SPARK proof system was integrated into Ada and you can also use DbC as formal proofs.

Many of the use cases that in C++ would require new/delete are handled by the compiler itself, thus there is an error if when a function is called there is not enough space available.

In the cases that there is a need to explicilty do malloc/free like programming, only malloc (new) is considered safe, manually releasing memory is an explict unsafe operation and marked as such.
My aunt was a human assembler at NASA (2015)
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Or could it be that:
It is actually possible to spot a lie, but it depends heavily on the skill of the liar vs interrogator: did they have experience with a previous lie that was similar?

People that are good at lying will specialize in bluffing professions (smuggler, conman, undercover, sales, politics, gambling) and people good at spotting lies will specialize in interrogative jobs (police, inspection, acquiring business, teacher, journalist, border control).

This is an arms race where specific interrogators may specialize in specific liars or specific type of lies. The problem appears when there is a mismatch between the interrogator vs the suspect or if the interrogator is just incompetent. Or maybe the suspect is just a awkward person, or has a guilty rest face. Yes spotting a lie is by far not 100% correct.

To now conclude that spotting lies never works is basically claiming the whole range of aforementioned professions may just as well be done by inexperienced people, so why would one then ever hire a experienced journalist or interrogator?
From the book:

> dynamic checks (such as array bounds checks) provide verification that could not be done at compile time. Dynamic checks are performed at runtime, similar to what is done in Java.
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> our biggest challenge is that we need more folks like you, who will roll up your sleeves and help us get something tangible done "right now"

The perspective of working for free in initiative where all good outcomes will be used to promote Google and other corporate entities, is not something that encourages people to become involved.

Especially hard working people who produce something useful.

<self interest>
Maybe fund some grant program accessible without tons of paperwork? And fund people who would be happy to create/continue creating/improve something useful and security related but are unable to justify doing this as a hobby?
</self interest>
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I think it's definitely a nice thought, that they'd choose that path, even as their growth slows and shareholders get irate as their market cap implodes (it's impossible to support a $129 billion market cap with their existing business model, they'll be lucky to support 1/3 or 1/4 that). Canada always has an outsized bubble stock with each great bubble; for the dotcom bubble it was Nortel; for the real-estate bubble era it was BlackBerry/RIM; for this one, it's Shopify.

My brain wants to think: hey, the Canadian market might be different, they'll act different. And that sounds great, except by the time this is a critical issue (by the time their current business model runs out of its high growth), there will be immense outside influence over the company and the inside owners and their control will have eroded. As that market cap plunges toward a more realistic fair value and growth slows, the calls for change will be extremely loud. They probably have no choice in the end, they'll need to maximize their position at the center of all of those stores, as the platform so many stores depend on, and that will mean forcing an ad network at the center of it all that they try to milk for margin.

And in terms of supporting that silly bubble market cap, when Amazon was worth just a bit more than Shopify is today, back in mid 2014 (when interest rates were sitting at 0% also), they had ~$80 billion in sales, 27 times larger than Shopify is today. Shopify is either going to crash, go sideways for many years, or they better find billions in profit asap.
Not everyone is using GPGPU for Tensorflow, PyTorch and JAX.
Non-Doing ≠ Doing Nothing
More of a tangent as I agree with your point, but...

I think this diversity, while large, is still less than in many other languages. As one example of many, just within Europe there are accents/dialects of German in Switzerland that are largely mutually unintelligible even to some other Swiss German speakers, and nearly entirely unintelligible to most Germans. This is also true for dialects of Italian, or even Dutch, according to friends from those countries. It's generally even more fragmented outside of European languages.

Unlike English, some of these cases don't even have easily standardized registers. In my experience, people in Birmingham or Glasgow, for instance, can fluidly switch to a more standardized accent and dialect that's natively or "intuitively" understandable to a speaker from North America or South Africa.
As a late learner of French, I was delighted to discover that the exceptions are CRLF, so DOS line-endings
Superoptimised C++, and Fortran code, with Chapel on the horizon.
At this point we have to suspect that 'paganel is one of those shadowy forces controlling the world.
> I assert verbal self-narrative is not necessary for free will. You assert otherwise? Why?

Why don't you?

If higher cognitive functions are not necessary, than a virus can have free will.

bovines don't lack self narrative, they lack the ability to create complex communication systems.

> Watch them demonstrate a learned skill

and how do you know it's not merely imitation?

btw, insects can learn too

> The experiment which showed a human brain reaches a decision before conscious awareness of that decision?

the experiment that showed a lag between cerebral activity and actual action that was labeled as "brain takes a decision before we do" even though Libet never said it, but has been disproved 40 years later (the effect exists, but it doesn't show lack of free will at all)

> we agree humans and non human animals pass and fail the same tests?

not until their mentoring will include notions of ancient past civilazations that are long dead but transmitted their knowledge

also, not until they will be able to reconstruct their past history and of the entire universe by observing and studying remains, without any prior knowledge of what they are

see, if you look from afar a soapbox car and a real car look very similar

but if you look them closer, they are nothing alike

> You can do that with any positive-negative reinforcement mechanism, doesn’t need morality etc.

where's the freedom if the reactions have been engineered through training?
If you have a problem with France's actions, but don't have a problem with the whole of the west twiddling their thumbs while China is committing genocide, your opinion has no merit.

https://neveragainrightnow.com/
Yeah this put me off from trying it out and maybe using it long term.

It's interesting at how jaded you can become from a first impression. The lack of SSL on the website made me think the author doesn't care about the project or maybe there's security vulnerabilities in their application. Or even worse maybe there's hidden telemetry in the closed source app that will send back lists of files or even file contents back to their server insecurely. I didn't want to have to spend all day analyzing Wireshark while exploring all of the features of the application to see what it may or may not send over the network.

All of that from no SSL certificate and unsigned software. It looks good and I'd like to try it but these open questions in my mind are more dangerous than having a better file browser.
> In Greek it's not speaking with big words ("exacerbate" vs. "make worse") but how many old Greek words one uses

To be fair, in English it's not really “big words”, either, it's also old (but not particularly English; Greek, Latin, and French are pretty high on the list.)

Exacerbation (from which exacerbate is a back formation) is a fairly direct import from Latin. Defenestration was from (IIRC, at the time—and this was 400 years ago—already archaic) French. sic, which is definitely not a big word, is often perceived this way, again a Latin import. &c.
Ophthalmologist is derived from old Greek. I have never visited an eye doctor but I get my specs from an optician. Eye doctor makes sense as a concept and I have said it myself but is not routinely used.

The Normans brought Old French with them and that became the court language. Old English was more Saxon based. The classic examples of the effect of that invasion are meat vs animal names eg beef (French) and cow (Saxon).
I’ve gotten the “Please, sir, we do this in English” response most often in Paris, but I don’t get frustrated by it. I tried, but it wasn’t good enough. Fair enough.
Begging the question. The whole issue is, what actually is just a conspiracy theory?
It is typical to have separate group that is supposed to build bridges (Ministry of Interior/Ministry of Development etc) and one that is supposed to destroy bridges belonging to someone else (Ministry of War/Ministry of Defence/etc).

Having group doing both would be ridiculous. And this is happening with say NSA.

And situation is much worse than with bridges! Typically you can bomb bridge far away without affecting your own, it is often not possible with 0days and similar - we have one internet.
Our neighbor started doing this with my dad. My dad was a school teacher and didn't have any sort of content to plagiarize. The man started buying the same clothing as my father, the same surfboard, same car, dyed his hair the same color and got the same haircut, got fake glasses in the same style and even started copying his mannerisms. It was bizarre. We moved shortly after it started for unrelated reasons but it was pretty terrifying as a young kid.

Interestingly enough, he was a PHD student.
So how does one take this over to metaphorical poker? Because if the situation calls for having physical control over someone with the threat that they're about to go to jail, then okay, sure.
No, you're done.

> language that's already ~30 years old by now

Relevance?
I still use a trusthy Asus bought in 2009, other than requiring additional fan under it, and a new battery, it is a perfectly working computer usable as desktop replacement for my coding activities.

We are long past the days of buying a new computer every couple of years.
I disagree. I think English does have some inherent advantages. I can't say it's the "best", but it's certainly better than some alternatives.

There are some specific things that make it "easier" to learn: Latin alphabet with no accents, no genders, small conjugation tables, few tenses, very "relaxed" grammar. In this way English is a subset of rules already understood by other speakers.

What also needs to be mentioned, though, is its expressiveness. There are many objectively "easier" languages than English. For example: Afrikaans has a very simple grammar, being essentially a "stripped" Dutch; Spanish has a much smaller vocabulary. But all humans talk about the same things one way or another. A language being "simpler" means there must be other ways to communicate those more complex things. It's often done using very specific and nuanced rules based on context and culture.

English, on the other hand, can be mostly learnt in a book. There's not much culture to learn as English culture has already been exported widely around the world. You're much less likely to end up in a situation where you have no idea at all how to express yourself using the rules you've learnt.
Having already purchased an item is indeed highly correlated with purchasing it again, however, you are ignoring the temporal element. Yes, I will need to buy a new gaming monitor for my son, but hopefully not for another three years, and by then most of these ads will have disappeared.
So civil war? I’m not sure that will help the number of casualties.
Just for a data point, in a private tab, when I search Amazon for "USB Oscilloscope" my first three results in order are: EspoTek, Hantek, and then Siglent. It lists EspoTek as "Amazon's Choice".

Same results as when I'm signed in. I'm in the US.
I'm definitely not a lawyer, but I believe that the court may draw an inference from your silence. You are innocent and decided to remain silent only to have a perfect explanation that fits will all evidence known to the police weeks later. Why didn't you offer this earlier?

There is an interesting TV show called 24 Hours in Police Custody[1] that follows people in the 24 hours after they are arrested. Naturally, there are many scenes of police questioning. Plenty of people do just answer "No comment" to every question, even after consulting a solicitor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_in_Police_Custody
Even native speakers can have trouble understanding some British accents. Most of my family has lived in Texas for several generations and are monolingual English speakers, but one cousin was born in and has lived his whole life near Liverpool, and sounds a bit like it (omitting long story about immediate aftermath of WW2 and my feckless great uncle). His wife is from Cheshire and has a rather strong accent. I understand her just fine, but went to college on the East Coast, had professors and classmates of varied linguistic backgrounds, and have spent most of my adult life in Germany.

When they visited Texas for a family reunion, several of my cousins who have not spent much time around non-Texans honestly asked about the language she was speaking.
IIRC, octopus, while Greek in origin, came into English mainly through scientific Latin, which probably plays a role in it not having a Greek-derived plural, or at least not dominantly (you will encounter both octopi and octopodes in English sometimes.)