skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, actually. This is also just automaticity and thoughtlessness.

The brain needs time to process. The faster you react, the less time the brain has to process things. While I agree that someone taking too much time for processing isn't necessarily "smart", believing that a faster response is indicative of higher intelligence is ass backwards.

In the end, even if the response contains deeper thoughts, it's still a thoughtless response when that response has been created long before the conversation happened.

The point is that the brain needs time to gather and process. The less time you give your brain to do so, the more automatic your behaviour will be.

The fact that most people react quickly is absolutely indicative of them not actually using any higher brain functions while conversing with others. And it's observable in the faces of others. You can see if someone is actually thinking, or not. It's not even hard to notice, you can learn it using a mirror.

Furthermore can you never be sure if the "deep thoughts" are actually ones owns and it's important to verify if a person came up with them ones self, or if they're just someone elses thoughts mindlessly parrotted.

It's important to understand that, what I am talking about, is like a difference between doing something actively and passively.

Or, from a different perspective and directly addressing what you wrote:

> your thinking has already been done.

You, yourself, have written the reason why "producing them faster is also indicative of more intelligence" is wrong, because "the thinking has already been done." equals "there was no thinking involved in coming up with the response."

... and THAT is not intelligent behaviour, it's automaticity.
Because that would set the precedent to sanction the government that rubber stamped the selling of Pegasus also.
Funny you say that, because the installer is about the only thing that is helpful like that. Everything else from there is basically "what do you mean you didn't read the entirety of the official manual, and the deprecated wiki, and the unofficial wiki, and the other wiki, and Discourse, and IRC, and random blog posts, and just learn to read undocumented inconsistent idiosyncratic source code already!?"

They do help you really quick on Matrix though.
What??? Numba has more usage in the AI/ML community than Cython has ever had by anyone, ever.

"Fits very few use cases" LOL okay without numba there's no UMAP and HDBScan and those are pretty popular and important libraries that come to mind just off the top of my head...

Also, claiming Cython is well documented also gets a huge LOL from me as someone whose actually written a bit of Cython.
Any consideration of Biden's mental state should also factor in the fact that he has always been gaffe-prone (speaking without a filter) and has suffered from a stammer/stutter. This is one reason why dementia testing includes a written portion instead of simply relying on speech evidence. These types of speech impediments can often lead to moments of halting speech that unavoidably lead to the impression that the speaker is mentally deficient. There is also the excess and aged skin that he has around his eyes and the squinting appearance this leads to. Added together, it's tempting to form a narrative that he must be senile. However, senility rarely takes a vacation, and I've seen enough press conferences and speeches where Biden is forceful, direct and focused to leave little doubt that he's not senile. He simply looks like a 79 year old man who is accepting and feeling the weight of the office, and during the particularly difficult contemporary conditions of pandemic and national division. The weight of the office has in modern times had a tendency to make ordinarily intelligent people look mentally weak, e.g., G. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, although Obama suffered this to a lesser degree, I'd say.

As an aside on speech impediments, when I was in my late teens I worked retail with another teen who so profoundly stuttered that he could barely get any words out. I knew that he went to my high school but hardly saw him because he was in the special education program. If you took the time to let him get his words out, you could see that he was at least of average intelligence, however, I can imagine the type of education he got from high school was much different than the average student. Had he been properly treated by a speech pathologist in elementary school, perhaps he could have led a different life. He could only work as a trash collector, roving between all the dept store register trash bins. That was 30 years ago and there are times when I wonder what happened to him.
CPU manufacturing is already impossible to compete with. This, I believe, will give Intel too much power. They will be able to sell processors at a loss if they can remove features after the fact (make the money back in subscription after the "free trial") and undercut any possible competitor out of the market.

For example, Intel could offer, say Zhaoxin's level of performance for free for a short time, making sure companies like Zhaoxin never make into the consumer market.

This is a great move for Intel but terrible for the consumers.
App listings on Google Play Store now show minimum “Android OS” version
What Apple stands to gain from a backdoor? It's clear what the cost of risk is, but what is the gain?
I don't store them anywhere. I don't need to remember my passwords, they're the results of functions based on logical deduction and observation within the context of the "thing" I need the password for.

And my passwords are all, without exception, beyond 10 characters.
Yes it must be lost in translation somehow, in Italian also "cassone" is both the "diving bell" thingy and the "sinking box".

The Mose in Venice (though it is a sort of foldable dam) has inside a tunnel for maintenance and it was built in a similar way:

https://www.mosevenezia.eu/cassoni/
> Now that we've seen what happens with languages like Cue I'm not so sure anymore.

Could you maybe elaborate on this point? Or point me to other resources detailing this argument? I'm unaware of details about the cue project: i found it interesting on paper but when i never tried it as i personally consider it's useless as long as you can't validate data against an external schema (like JSON-LD or XML schemas).

> The only difference would probably be slightly better error messages for incorrect type applications on builtins.

Why only on built-ins though? If nix was statically typed, every package could define its own types for configuration/overrides and entire documentation could be auto-generated. I was not aware of yants, it looks great but it sounds like something that would be very useful as part of nix itself (like a nix check command). I love nix/guix as a concept but every time i've tried i've been been put off by severely-unintelligible errors due to bad typing or simple syntax errors (due to my lack of experience of what to use where and lack of documentation on expected types).
Arduino Engineering Kit
Mental speed high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over 1M participants
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Removing K&R style function prototypes though is kind of big. I remember when one of the Objective-C upgrades started enforcing K&R. I don't think ObjC will be upgraded to C23 (ever, as it's a language being deprecated now I presume) so it will be stuck with K&R... while the rest will move on?

Could someone also explain what this means for pure C in terms of compatibility? If there's

void foo();

would the meaning of it depend on which C standard is activated?
Okay, so you're an asshole. Let's set this straight.

I don't store my passwords anywhere. I don't need to remember my passwords, they're the results of functions based on logical deduction and observation within the context of the "thing" I need the password for.

And my passwords are all, without exception, beyond 10 characters.
No. It is supposed to mitigate these things. In a complex real world system there's no such thing as perfect security.
Revealed preferences- Amazon is a very successful online shopping site.

Amazon isn't drop shipping. Drop shipping is when the goods are sent straight from the manufacturer to the consumer. Most orders on Amazon are using Amazon Prime/fulfilled by Amazon meaning the goods (whether third party owned or Amazon owned) were stored in Amazon's warehouse before they were shipped to the costumer. Prime 2 day/1 day delivery would be impossible if the goods were dropshipped from Asia.
> developers who gets stuff done are constantly writing new code in C all the time.

The amount of new C projects being created is falling at a fast rate. C isn't going anywhere, but it's certainly losing rapidly its prominence in the systems programming area.
No valleys, no drownding.
I have zero faith in Brave anymore after using it for about ~4 months last year. I couldn't remove cookies that had been surreptitiously set unbeknownst to - and unapproved by - me. I assume this was a bug, and it clearly is, but after seeing this GH issue:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/12375

It's clear Brave doesn't give a shit about user privacy, just the illusion thereof to lure people. So I avoid it now and given their lackluster response to this serious issue (dude, over a year and a half? what the hell!?), I trust them no more than Google or Facebook.

Besides, coming from the guy who invented JavaScript doesn't exactly _add_ to its technical credibility...

This just further underscores the dire need for a good desktop browser experience that's actually trustworthy and not horribly mismanaged. Lookin' at you, Mozilla.
I think they mean algorithmic as in, simpler and deterministic and auditable plain if/then/math algorithm, vs black box magic AI.

Even if an AI can produce seemingly the same results as a human, it should be out of the question anyway to let an inscrutable black box make decisions over people's lives. Because at least with a human you (their boss, or a judge, etc) can ask them "Why did you decide that?" and they can tell you. A racist or mysoginist or religious human can be identified and fired or corrected etc. How do you judge if an AI is giving inhumane decisions?

The decisions themselves can't really be judged, only the process that generated them, and you can't see that process in an AI.

If someone doesn't get a loan, and someone else does, you can't tell that wasn't right just from the final result.

Even if the results "look" wrong, like only 30% of black people get the loan while they made up 40% of applicants, even that could possibly be exactly correct, but you can't know if you can't see the process.

But a human can be asked, and simple algorithm code can be read.

Probably these days the human has so little discretion anyway that the corporate policy is the algorithm and the human is pointless anyway except as a sham human-looking interface to appease customers. It helps sales to have a human, but the human in fact wields none of the human power that the customer wants a human for.
Is a recording of this stream available anywhere?

Will it be uploaded here later - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMWw6rRoeSp...
Approach Zero – A math-aware search engine
I’m near 40 and I can very much relate.

However: I believe that what the Nix crowd is doing is exploring new ways of packaging and deploying software.

It’s quite different from eg. APT and Yum. The upside is quite big. But one cannot expect them to get every little detail right on the first try. I think it’s impossible to do something like this without experimenting. Or doing a series of Versuchs if you will.

Therefore I do not view Nix and NixOS as a polished consumer-grade product. I would not use it in prod as of now. IMHO it’s too early for that.

I won’t even try it on my laptop. I already have homebrew, which is much simpler and works well for my purpouses.

I still find Nix very interesting. I do believe it has potential.

But what will it lead to? Will Nix be able to deliver on it’s grand promises?

Maybe! Or maybe not. Time will tell. In the meantime I’m here on the sidelines, watching with great curiosity.

Nix itself might never become a big player. But even if it doesn’t, I’m certain that many great ideas and practices will evolve from the Nix Versuchs.
also arguably quite correct
Fwiw: Cython does NOT offer many of the killer features that Numba includes, such as parallel for loops, automatic vectorization, automatic GPU support and GPU parallelization, and taking advantage of MKL and other Intel goodies. To do that with Cython will be much much harder than in numba and at a significantly lower level of abstraction.

I don't think that they even compete or solve the same use case tbh. Not sure why they're being constantly compared to each other.
"no way to stop them" = the economic impact to Apple isn't big enough to justify the engineering / rewrites required to completely prevent them.
Yes! Next time I will be more accurate. Thanks for making me aware.

Curious! Why do you consider it surprising? I consider it as well-rounded, actually.
Are there any happy users of Snap, 5 years or so in on it?
Australia's biggest and most profitable publicly owned company certainly doesn't pay their drivers anywhere near that to do the exact same job (literally delivering packages).

A note for people thinking this is groundbreaking, it will be when it applies to the vastly larger competitor who pays hefty dividends each year to the federal budget.
This is the accepted twos complement proposal: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2412.pdf

It seems like a sensible simplification to me. Is there any architecture that doesn't use twos complement (eg. uses separate sign bit + magnitude) and could run C code?
I can't agree more on your point made on deliverable.
I can't wait until people finds exploits to get those features for free
Having never used such a language, I'm curious, what's the debugging experience like? Can I source level step the application in the original language or do I have to debug the generated C?
> How about someone creates a dsl in Rust that manages declarative system configurations at a _very_ high level of abstraction?

Did you read my mind? I'm personally more interested in a "rustible" kind of tooling, but i can definitely see myself writing packages/abstractions for a "rustix" too. As nixops and guix deploy have shown, the two concepts are very related.

Where do other likeminded people meet and talk about this? Should we create a chan on a friendly IRC/MUC server? (please not on a platform which requires web clients, or where the bridges to IRC/XMPP are bad)
But you did not exhaust all the options. What about spherical constellation of energy gathering sails that stay mostly in place? Can autonomously maintain their position with help of solar wind.
Zero click hacks have been around for all of computing. Nothing connected to the internet, connected to a network, has ever, ever been safe.

All you can do is reduce attack surface, and most of all, monitor.

Another comment blames Apple, and financial incentives. Sure, there may be some of that.

But the reality is that safe code is impossible. Now, you may say "But...", yet think about this.

For all of computing history, all of it, no matter what language, no matter how careful, there is always a vulnerability to be had.

Thinking about software, and security any other way, is an immediate fail.

Arguing the contrary, is arguing that the endless litany of endless security updates, for the stuff discovered, doesn't exist.

And those updates oyly cover stuff discovered. There are endless zero days right now, being exploited in the wild, without patches, of which we are unaware.

We're seen vulnerabilities on every kernel, in mainline software, on every platform, sitting for years too. And you know those are discovered by black hats, and used for a long time before being found out by the rest of the community.

Humans cannot write safe software. Ever. No matter what.

Get over it.

Only detailed, targeted monitoring can help you detect intrusion attempts, expose as little as possible, keep updated, and do your best.
From what I recall the stagefright vulnerability might be a good example.
One of the criteria is "excellent debugging support" which you don't get with transpiled languages, since you'll be buried in generated code when you open the debugger.
There are software engineers who sometimes write code that’s not perfect.
Help HN: Can't open childhood files
Hello HN,
I was clearing my old house and got a box with a 100+ 3½ floppy disks. All except one working!

Among others I got DisplayWriter 4.0, OS/4 Warp Slovenian, dBase IV, Clipper, PowerPoint 4.0, Netscape Navigator 3.0, etc.

I found also some files with .CHT and .IMG extension which I can't find any software to open them. I know I made them, but unfortunately I can't remember which software was used. There is my family tree and chart of my height growing (which I'd like to compare now with my kids).

Some files I uploaded here: https://github.com/twooclock/KdajBi/tree/main/cht_img
Files timestamp is 1990 and 1991.

Please help me find appropriate software!

So far I tried (does not work):

-ABC Flowcharter 3.01

-IBM Storyboard Plus 1.01 (5.25)

-Harvard Graphics for Windows 4.0

-Harvard Graphics for Windows 2.0 (3.5)

-HarvardGraphicsViewer

-PowerPoint 98

Googled, checked file.org, WinWorld, ... loosing hope... really makes me think about digital preservation.

Thank you!
> people talk quickly and interject.

Yes. Mindless automatons.
Or even pure radiation pressure. They balance out somewhere around 10^-3 kg/m^2; thinner than that and you have a solar sail.
It's not like C++ is always the only alternative, see e.g. Rust which is way simpler
The article seems to be based on the assumption that plausible deniablility requires hidden volumes or unused "random" data.

Surely the use of one-time pads gets around that? A OTP cyphertext can be decrypted to any desired plaintext by providing the appropriate key. It's trivial to generate a key from an OTP cyphertext that will turn that cyphertext into a collection of kitten photos, for example.

So Alice produces the kitten key under duress, and Mallory can't show that she also has a missile-secrets key that she hasn't disclosed. There's no unexplained "random" data, and no unused space on the storage medium.

Voila - Alice is off the hook (unless Mallory is the kind of person that enjoys pulling fingernails, and carries on with the $5-wrench thing anyway).
it's really useful if you work on projects that need different version of dependencies, as you can define on a folder basis what jdk or python versions you want to have. You can even commit this to git so that everyone has the same env locally
Why a messenger app needs a picture viewer?
The tweet mentions "Do not use outside of Google applications, for instance on a non-google app" is this a citation from the TOS or an interpretation of what is saying? I could not find the paragraph where this is mentioned.
If you write quite a bit of numerical code you can often achieve impressive speed ups using pythran with very little changes, it's like numexpr + cython on steroids. I highly recommend checking it out. The community is quite small, so there are still some bugs, Serge the main author is really responsive.
Google meet in Chrome is way better than Zoom. Safari is a different story, it keeps reloading for me every 15 minutes.
I doubt any company who abused data tracking on App Store would be surprised by a rejection email. The only question they will have is "what exact part of our tracking they noticed?"
Welcome Intel's patches for their planned use of the facility. Then welcome anyone else's patches that allow unplanned use of the facility; and tell Intel to piss up a rope when they whine about that.
Excellent piece. The subtext — why are our academic-political institutions treating the less fortunate as irrational — is just as important as the content.
Always apply simple heuristic: Big T! Of course there will be divergences, but it always returns to the baseline.
you never use nix env really, agree if that's the only thing you are after then there is no point switching
> If you have time and interest

Of course!

> your views on the threat of invasion, how it impacts you and your business?

I suggest the first thing, "IF" Russian would invade further, would be full disruption of electricity, mobile network and Internet.

As I'm actually freelancer (my Patreon[0]), I highly depend on Internet.

I'm involved in few open-source projects as manual QA, so those projects "may lost my fingers" too.[1]

> Does the article accurately reflect the views of the general population?

Yep. Article accurately reflect the views of the general population.

> Do you have any contingency plans for yourself, your family, and your business in the case of invasion?

To be clear, I and my family would stay and resist — I has no plans to leave Ukraine; I would defend if it would be needed as long, as possible.

In worst scenario, me and my family would move from actual location (central Ukraine) to safer place somewhere to the West of Ukraine (or where it would be safer at the moment).

As for business, all I need is just a laptop, smartphone and Internet.[2]

P.S.: I just hope that world would not ignore Ukraine and in any possible way would help Ukrainian if horrible things would happen.

[0] https://patreon.com/app4soft

[1] https://github.com/Symbian9

[2] https://twitter.com/SolveSpace/status/1484163030887841794
Jax offers a much lower level control, it's almost bare metal, and can be used for all sorts of things besides Deep Learning. I am currently using to implement a better `scipy.optim` library.
> Also, they're not really coupled to reproductive fitness. More fat tissue in breasts has no consequence for mamalian function.

It is my understanding that it was generally believed that large breasts meant more milk until the 1950s or so. So there may still be an element of truth in assuming that stereotypical male preference for large breast could be selecting for reproduction – just with a cultural bias.

That being said, I generally agree with you. I know that I'm not attracted to the stereotype "everyone knows"/fashion model as a potential partner, far from it.
The whole issue is basically because of two factors.

1. After WWII Ukraine made a verbal agreement not to join NATO/EU, but now it wants to, meaning they want to break the verbal agreement, which of course the other party (Russia) does not like.

2. USA placing rockets next to the Russian border in Poland, which would probably also be done in Ukraine, if it joins NATO/EU.

I would say that if USA removed itself and their forces from EU, all of this war/invasion stuff probably wouldn't be happening.

I don't want war or anything similar to it, I'm more on the side of legalise weed so that everyone can just chill the f down.

BUT I would probably be pretty angry and panic if my neighbor would start placing rockets on the border.

I'm not saying that what Russia is doing is right or that I agree with them, but objectivity looking, their actions are reasonable, it makes sense.

Regarding what will happen or what would happen. In an ideal world NATO and UN would react as soon as a war broke out and hopefully stoping the war as soon as possible.

I hope that in the future there will come a day where military will exist only for events and parades.

EDIT: Sofixa corrected me, it's not Belarus but Poland! Not sure how this slipped my mind, but yeah...
Because Julia has not even close to the ecosystem of libraries around it for ML/AI, particularly for subdomains like NLP, among other reasons...
If key==0:
print(“its zero”)
else:
print(“here is your 10 sec un-skippable ad”)