skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not uniquely evil, but one could make an argument that America's culture does worship violence in ways other cultures don't. The US was founded in violence, after all, by founding fathers who waxed poetic about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. The US famously (and infamously) has the Second Amendment, and a widespread belief amongst its citizens that gun violence is part of a sacred and noble duty, in that it is an expression of the necessary component of liberty for a free state. The US is deeply divided along racial, class and political lines, with a long history of violence along all of those lines. The US never really learned the lessons that other countries did after World War 2, about the dangers of nationalism and militarism. American movies and television are known for their gratuitous violence. The US is the country with the most serial killers.

America's pop-cultural fascination with, and romanticizing of violence makes it easy to consider, it's massive amount of easily available guns make it easier to plan, and its cultural preference for individualism over community creates a tendency towards alienation and a lack of empathy which makes violence easier to commit.

When one considers that mass shootings tend not to be a problem even in countries with high gun ownership, then one needs to look at the culture for answers. And access to firearms but, of course, this is the US and literally no matter how high the bodies pile up, that will never seriously be on the table. I wonder why?
I read the article. It’s not clear to me what this person’s job actually entails.
Roughly 5 billion people use phones. Roughly 4 billion use email. However only about 0.0004 billion people use IRC…
I'm not the person you responded to, but I think the gist of it is: what it is is not defined by how it is used. Python, at its core, is a scripting language, like awk and bash. The other uses don't change that.

Occasionally, a technology breaks out of its intended domain. Python is one of these - it plays host to lots of webservers, and even a filesystem (dropbox). Similarly, HTML is a text markup language, but that doesn't stop people from making video games using it.

The developers of the technology now have to make a philosophical decision about what that technology is. They can decide to re-optimize for the current use cases and risk losing the heart of their technology as tradeoffs get made, or they can decide to keep the old vision. All of the design choices flow down from the vision.

They have decided that Python is a scripting language. Personally, I agree (https://specbranch.com/posts/python-and-asm/). In turn, the people using the language for something other than its intended purpose have choices to make - including whether to abandon the technology.

If instead Python moves toward competing with languages like go, it is going to need to make a lot of different tradeoffs. Ditching the GIL comes with tradeoffs of making Python slower for those who just want to write scripts. Adding more rigorous scoping would make it easier to have confidence in a production server, but harder to tinker. Everything comes with tradeoffs, and decisions on those tradeoffs come from the values of the development team.

Right now, they value scripting.
The thing with Lockdown Mode is that it shifts the trade-off between functionality and security significantly away from functionality. This is an acceptable side-effect of intentionally disabling attack surface that isn't strictly required to have a useful phone. On the other hand, it also makes most social time wasting stuff not work, which is what the masses mostly use their phone for anyway.

This really is a mode designed for those who really desperately need it, and it really is implemented in a strong enough way to be useful (hardware root of trust, no-drive by changes since it requires a reboot with a wiped key bag cache so you must reauthenticate in order to change it). But all of that for consumer-attainable pricing. It doesn't have to be perfect and I'm sure in due time there will be jailbreak-esque attacks. But until then, this is effectively a very high barrier for an attacker that lacks the resources of a nation state (or a smart but bored teenager in a basement these days).
They trained (and report) two optimization strategies:

- inline-for-size

We trained the inlining-for-size policy on a large internal software package containing 30k modules. The trained policy is generalizable when applied to compile other software and achieves a 3% ~ 7% size reduction.

- regalloc

with 0.3% ~1.5% improvements in queries per second (QPS) on a set of internal large-scale datacenter applications

Try it Yourself
Check out the open-sourced end-to-end data collection and training solution on github and a demo that uses policy gradient to train an inlining-for-size policy.

https://github.com/google/ml-compiler-opt

https://github.com/google/ml-compiler-opt/blob/main/docs/demo/demo.md

With code, that's awesome—what I like to see.
Interesting how the screen reader will use the raster image for a PDF but not for the website. Based on the work I had to do to get the PDF to work, PDFs are a clusterfuck of glyphs floating in space and not really structured like HTML, so presumably they have to do the raster for the PDF so they can determine+optimize their own text flow but they're relying on the hierarchy of HTML to be enough of a guidepost that they don't need to OCR raster data. Thank you very much for replying!
Yeah, it rocks!! Love Lightning. I send sats to friends and family who can exchange them for goods and services in their local currencies. It’s almost instant and very low or zero fees.

I recommend checking out BTCPay server, it is a full BTC node, LN node and payment invoicing system. Integrated into e-commerce platforms and apps.
I think this is more aimed at people who couldn't quite get their head around C and were happy to have a forced function naming style that made tooling easier.

(note, I am -shit- at C, but genuinely wonder if I could write this without spending 98% of my debugging time tracing segfaults that were down to my own stupidity)
If the state is after you, even low-level state actors, all it takes is a court order or subpoena to compel any of the parties involved with your phone or data to hand over your data or start collecting it.

If your threat model includes any level of the US government, and that includes women seeking abortions in states where it is illegal, you cannot rely on US-based company's tech to protect you from the law.
Azul is simple enough for kids, but can be highly competitive.

I enjoyed it more the first three games, now it feels too much like constraint optimisation.
Then it’s $200K after taxes. Though now we are discounting the many things Apple can write off and that people worth 8 figures and up can write off and get away with, with a $300K income person or $200K after taxes. It wouldn’t be the same net income regardless.
From the Wikipedia page:

> The borehole thermal energy system (BTES) is located underground to store large quantities of heat collected in the summer to be used in the winter.
I did ten years in restaurants. On the hottest most humid days of the year I was running around next to a oven for 12 hours. Then I'd bike home to my apartment with no AC.

I'm just learning now that I died.
Meetup in Boston this Thursday, July 14
I had the same problem as you. You should look into Manjaro's i3 edition. It's not perfect but it's serviceable.
This sounds like parental controls?
+1 for Terra Mystica, just great game!

-1 for Ricochet Robots, too competitive.
Comey and McCabe, Two Trump Foes, Both Faced Intensive IRS Audits
I wouldn't consider that movie as an accurate depiction of Ford. The actual GT40 race car benefited greatly by the expertise and resources of Ford. For example they created a computerized(!) drive train simulator that ran the engine and transmission through hundreds of pre-programmed laps. This enabled them to continually refine the drive train and improve reliability.

The movie makes it look like scrappy Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles were simply smarter than the clowns at Ford but that's not the whole story.
Indeed, and I try to remember not to needlessly give people too much crap about their representatives because I realize that as much as I dislike them, it's quite possible they dislike them in a much more personal way.

There's plenty of consolation to be found in that state right now, I would think. In the same election you guys voted in a black pastor and a Jewish journalist to the US Senate. I wish my father could have seen that.
I disagree. Competent engineers go where they will be paid, and crypto startups are often one of the few places that can pay our frankly insane compensation requirements.

I had a recruiter contact me just recently for some crypto game that was offering something like $600k/year (which I unfortunately assume was at least partly stock) for one of them, and that would certainly have been enough to attract real security talent.
I don't think you're right on that second point. i'm pretty sure they do OCR, but they're only looking for image data to mine the text out of. The way they're coded now, they think that the document already is all text so it can't find any images to convert. Again. This is not a impervious approach. There are ways around it, it's just that crawlers don't go down that rabbit hole (right now).
Freedomites
I work on building language models at FAANG for my day-day job and I'm very curious about this - how does finetuning on T5 remove hallucination? Can you elaborate on this?

This is an amazing product, btw. Let me know if you're looking for people to hire :)
> What qualifies someone as an engineer?

Depends on the country. In some, it's a certification that comes with responsibilities, in others it's just a job. In any case:

1) he hasn't got anything that comes close to an engineering qualification (no, dropping off a Ph.D. after a a B.Sc. is not enough);

2) his job does not involve anything like an engineer's job, which is to "invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost." [1]

He is very good at ordering people around, but there is no evidence that he did any of this at any point (though there is a lot of evidence that he got some underlings to do the boring work for him). Again, dumping a pile of money on someone to do it is not the same thing. I can respect that he did take some risks with his investments.

Even if you have an axe to grind and are frustrated by some people not considering software engineering as "proper engineering" (which is how I read your post, though Musk certainly is not a software engineer either), writing CSS for a living is closer to engineering than what Musk is doing.

[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer
You could say this about almost every job. I like to think that the entire population isn't trying to actively sabotage things to generate more work. I certainly don't go seeding bugs or complex situations in to software to create more demand for my job.
Well, Google happens to have teams that work to help shine a light on what the NSO is doing.
Dice Hospital - Dice Manipulation with a hospital ward theme

Zombicide Black Plague - mild-strategy Dice chucking dungeon crawler

Obsession - basically Downton Abbey: The Game

Kingdom Death Monster (only played it once, though) - Grimdark survival horror
Maybe, depending on the distance and objects/buildings between mailbox and door.

Low data rates, e.g. single-bit messages, have more range.
So then it's accurate to say that no one uses TypeScript in production??
Gazprombank is still in SWIFT
I'm more curious how much money he made off the youtube video. If it was anywhere close to $5K, it would seem that maybe exploding Teslas at their end of life would become a profitable thing to do.
The call quality was awful. I always felt like we were shouting through a tunnel.
As another python dev, it has basically never been a painpoint for me.

Your anecdote adds little.
Chess gets fun when you find an opponent you can beat with any frequency, like every third game.
You found one. Now find a few hundred more and you'll have an actual counterpoint.

Left wing violence in the US is an anomaly. Right wing violence is normalized.
> The borehole thermal energy system (BTES) is located underground to store large quantities of heat collected in the summer to be used in the winter.

Basically they heat up the soil and rock beneath their park during the summer using hot water/glycol from their solar arrays, and then during the winter they pump cold water through it which soaks that heat back up.

What's amazing is that it apparently took 4 years to fully saturate the area with heat energy.
I'm a senior FE engineer in Singapore, been doing FE since 2000, here's what I think:

1. Job descriptions and interviews now are skewed towards "full-stack" or backend. Most interviews are lacking or outdated due to the fast and volatile nature of FE.

2. Literally no career progression if you're specialised in FE. Most BE or "full-stack" devs will be given a chance to become principal engineers, tech leads, engineering managers, CTOs, etc. I've seen folks with "FE Team Lead" titles but never goes beyond that.

3. FE is a subconsciously looked-down field. Neither a designer nor an engineer. Product/design team won't involve you in meetings (but will treat you like a code monkey). BE/"full-stack"/API engineers will think your job is easy and keep throwing business logic stuff to FE.
For USA, district heating made sense in the coal power era. Today, why burn natural gas at a central plant and then have to manage a complex steam distribution network with associated losses when you can simply distribute natural gas instead and get 98% AFUE at the point of use? Even better is a heat pump with gas backup at point of use. Triumph of technology.

Also, You dont really insulate the steam distribution pipes, you just count the loss bug as a feature “heated roads and sidewalks to melt snow!”

Lastly, district heat doest work in American low density
Yup, there is little downside to supporting this concept as it should inevitably move others to adopt similar functionality. It isn’t the perfect solution or likely even the best idea in the room but the biggest player just made a big move in the consumer’s favor. It does coincide with a big privacy push that will keep their market share up so not really benevolence.
A better model than a bridge to sidechain would be a rollup - posting proofs on chain without giving the sequencer the ability to steal or control user funds.

What's a "proof" of an event in the outside world? No such thing exists.

The OP's point that dependence on real world events is a security flaw remains. No alternative programming method can change this because nothing on the Internet can guarantee a real event has happened. This is inherent.
It’s too bad that Onivim2 development stopped.

https://v2.onivim.io/

It had the potential of being all the great things of both SpaceVim + VS Code combined into a native app.
I'm surprised this didn't occur to me until after I posted because it fits with my general feeling that AIs will be nothing more than collaborative tools for the foreseeable future.
There is a lot of advice on there and it seems like Big Joel homed in on some of the more recent stuff which is more direct and preachy. For example, there is an interesting video on School of Life that goes into detail regarding the life and philosophy of Baruch Spinoza who among other things claimed it made no sense to pray to God for desirable life outcomes because life and prayer don't work that way. And now because prickly YouTube reviewers who like details more than the big picture are on the scene I should admit that understanding Baruch Spinoza claims prayer has no utility is weird and overconfident life advice that I should be suspicious of? Honestly I think you both missed the point of pondering ideas about life.
Probably cause, it's a sign that the worst rumors about Tesla are right.
Aka “the turd game”: you get a point every time your creatures eat, and then you bag the food token.
I can just imagine it will spawn the same "closed as off topic" and other similar responses for most questions :P

Also, stack overflow's search has always sucked. The way to find stuff on stack overflow has mostly been to use google.
Australian here.

The idea that anything can be insulated at all is fucking novel.

New construction has minimum standards these days, but that does nothing for the majority of older house which have single glazed window, iron roofs, and no insulation whatsoever and, if you're renting, lucky to have a heat pump.

And yeah, no insulation on the hot water piping means massive loses from water heater to tap.
You know there may be a market out there for no code ui editors. At least for admin like uis. One that gets it right.
Only yesterday I was wishing there was a Valet Mode for when I hand a phone over to Apple for servicing. Hopefully they will accept this...
Crepuscular rays are visible when you're facing away from the sun (hence their name, they generally exist when the sun is low). God rays are a fuzzier concept, but I've generally heard it when the rays appear to converge towards a light source (hence the divine term I guess). You could say both expressions do refer to the same rays, but with opposite perspectives.
Subsidies like the tax exemption for kerosene?
Until a general purpose robot that can do all the things a human can do is developed and can be more cheaply deployed than a human, a human's gonna do it instead.
Income profile of News Audiences (2012)
Me too, but I have to say there is literally nothing sensible I have access to, only git repos without secrets and useless code.
A bit more context: The Gyanvapi mosque is older than the United States and the current controversy has been stirred up by Hindu nationalists targeting India's Muslim minority.

Nupur Sharma's statements created an international controversy for India with several Gulf countries demanding a public apology from India.

Zubair was arrested within days of a complaint being raised on a tweet he made in 2018, while Nupur Sharma hasn't been arrested yet, even after causing an international incident.

IMO, Razorpay would have been forced to give up the data, Section 91 or not, since the current government doesn't really care about due process.

The link below gives more details about the tweet that led to Zubair's arrest.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/tw...

Excerpts from the above article:

> According to the FIR, Zubair had used a screengrab of an old Hindi movie which showed an image of a hotel, with its board reading 'Hanuman hotel' instead of 'Honeymoon hotel'.

> In his tweet, Zubair had written: "BEFORE 2014: Honeymoon Hotel. After 2014: Hanuman Hotel".

> The complainant -- Twitter user @balajikijaiin, tagging the Delhi Police had written: "Linking our God Hanuman Ji with Honeymoon is a direct insult of Hindus because he is a brahmchari. Kindly take action against this."

> Noting the complaint, the police in the FIR said that the words and pictures used by Zubair in the tweet against a particular community were highly provocative and more than sufficient to incite feelings of hatred among people which can be detrimental for maintenance of public tranquility in the society.
AFAIK, Linux on the PS (2 and 3) only ran because Sony allowed it to.

Nowadays, short of exploits, there is no way for a user to simply load a program into a mainstream console and have it run out of the box without the manufacturer's blessing.
Distances are squares, actually square roots of squares, in Euclidian space, so it makes sense to find squares when we deal with distances.

An intuitive way to look at it is that square function is the simplest function that goes down until it reaches a minimum, and then back up again. If you want this property, you can expect to find squares somewhere. Distance have this property: if you move in a straight line, the distance to your target will go down as you are closing in, then you reach it, then if goes back up again after you pass it.

That's the general intuition for where the squares can be. Let's be a bit more formal.

Let's flip the problem and try to minimize the sum of the squared distances (or squared error, same thing). In 1D, the sum of the squared distances to a and b is (a-x)^2 + (b-x)^2 = a^2 - 2ax + x^2 + b^2 - 2bx + x^2 = a^2 + b^2 - 2(a+b)x + 2x^2

It is a parabola, the minimum is where the derivative is zero. The derivative is -2(a+b) + 4x, solve -2(a+b) + 4x = 2 for x and you have x = (a+b)/2, which is your average. Of course, it works with more than 2 distances.

Another intuition: to minimize something, usually, we take a derivative, and when we take the derivative of something squared, the square tends to disappear, so it shouldn't surprising that the minimum of something squared has no squares in it.
Crypto isn't big enough to do that on it's own.
Is there uncollected garbage in the Smalltalk Squeak 6.0 image?
Huh, that's so odd they must have a more sophisticated algorithm now... 5-7 years ago it was all about weight from my observations.
Burning hydrocarbons extracted from the atmosphere is carbon neutral assuming the electricity required for the conversion is solar/wind supplied.
Same, but at least in my experience, it's equally hard to find T sizes even when paying. I'm pretty much restricted to a few brands, and they're rarely in stores, so relegated to the internet to gamble on buying shirts long enough.
Or maybe keep things the way they are.If you really need performance python is not the language you should be looking for.

Instead of breaking decades of code, maybe use a language like Go or Rust for performance instead.
Most media translators consider MTL worse than nothing, because editing it is actually harder than just doing it yourself. Can especially be an issue for neural MTL because the output is both fluent (looks natural) and inaccurate.
It's good to shine the light, and the Android platform still remains wide open.
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People present these as the choice between 0 (“locked out”) and 1.

In real world instances (the proverbial 80%), it’s more often transforming a 0.4 (“don’t know much english”) into a 0.7. And the people who get away with near 0 knowledge will usually have no critical need for translation, or an access to other means (an actual translator, social help etc.) when really needed.

My mental image is grandmas reading online news, and machine translation would be a blessing and a curse. Or low grade school kids trying to look for some help on a topic, and a I’d wish they get more time with the original text to at least somewhat learn, than only getting the rough translation full of errors.

For interpersonal communication, people adjust, that’s what has been happening for centuries now.
I installed a whole-house filter that was great when the EPA's recommended limit was 70 ppt, since mine drops it to < 10 ppt. Now that it's something on the order of ppq, I may have to add RO to at least the fridge, since that's where we get drinking water.
Who molded kings and queens and powerful people before Bernay to want material/status things?
Adding to 1v1 games:

Race for the Galaxy

It also works for several players, but at its heart, it’s a highly competitive game that you can play casually until you develop strategy.
> Which would be a massive security hole if a HTTP response to that daemon was capable of bypassing the lock screen, secure enclave etc.

I mean, Apple has killswitches for every iPhone they ship. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that suite of tools also included settings management (MacOS has such a thing built-in, fwiw).
> The Sonicare Prestige 9900, an electric toothbrush with artificial intelligence (AI) that gives real-time data on how well she’s brushing

May be the worst misuse of “AI” I’ve seen to date!