skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has no concept of The Beatles or Abbey Road or zebra crossings or perspective or creative composition in photography, so effectively it just mashes up some results from an image search.

If it created something very close to the original it would be overfitting. So it flails around rather randomly in photos-of-Beatles+Zebra+Abbey Road space. The results are novel, but they're also monstrous, distorted, and unartistic.
OpenBSD uses "The One True AWK."

$ awk -V
awk version 20211208

Kernighan's version is likely used in other places where the GPL is eschewed.
There’s a lot of stuff sold on places like Amazon that are massive threats to kids and are not under the normal regulatory eye. I can point to you various clothing for example that is targeted to kids but has choking hazards on them.

It’s quaint to think that everything is under review and in your child’s best interests but that’s just not the case.
There is no markup in the former, you just get highlighted words whenever there is any (capitalized) camel case word. Hit enter on the word and you get to the new file. Super lightweight, super efficient.

I don't render most of the notes I take, but will write draft in markdown from time to time. The wiki is in a git repo, of course, that I commit to once in a while.
Also, why would we expect stakers to not take their profits on a regular basis?

Currently it's impossible to unstake so the existing stakers are self-selected hodlers. Longer term some stakers will hodl and some will take profits.
> As someone born in the 21st century, I've always found this to be a weird distinction.

Why? I mean, what use do you see in executing a shared library? It sounds like adding complicated and unnecessary usecases.
Also, for an article that claims to change the world and reboot your brain, it should probably pick a topic that was covered in 2001 by The West Wing (which proposed a better alternative projection).
HTTP/3 is pixie dust. It solves most problems that previous transport layers had and also supports 0 RTT TLS handshakes in case of QUIC. Of course the transport layer can't magically resolve application layer dependencies as you mentioned, that's not its job.
The OpenEXR file format, used a lot in graphics applications (compositing, rendering), is a fairly well-known application of half-floats.

There's some notes about the advantages of half-float pixel in the openexr documentation: https://openexr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/TechnicalIntroducti...

I don't think "obvious" was the best adjective, but "small memory/file size footprint" is probably the quality that's easiest to understand.
THis isn't about bandwidth, it's about the size of modern binaries.
Hi everyone, article author here. I was also interviewed by The Register about this topic: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/19/copilot_github_studen....
Sell it as Saas solution
What do you mean? Even without compression, you have half the problem. Obviously, at scale, it’s all just statistics and planning on trends instead of individual files.
The whole point of the article is that Canada's system needs safeguards. Other countries have them. This is not a black and white pro- or anti- assisted suicide article. Killing someone for having depression and deafness is not the same as for having terminal cancer and constant pain and being bedridden.

This is really not a decision for the individual patients to have freedom in. I know multiple young people who have been suicidal and attempted it. Most survived but more could be dead if they were able to simply ask the doctor for it and it was all easy and painless.
I think the mechanism is simple "imperial overstretch." Societies that go to war give a lot of their resources to the people who produce military material. Those people's disproportionate control of resources gives them a disproportionate influence in politics, which they then use to encourage more wars, creating a virtuous circle. As long as war delivers plunder and expansion, society has the resources to continue this.

But the incentive of war suppliers to encourage war is not the same as an incentive to win wars. War suppliers profit more from wasteful use of the military, and endless extension of wars, than wins (which replace them with peacetime producers.) This slows down the rate of plunder and expansion until the resources expended on war material become a huge drain on the rest of society.

This brings general unrest as the lower classes become desperate, civil war when different factions argue about which wars to pursue or end and on strategy, and secession at the borders, especially the areas that were the fruits of expansion. This is weakness, and invites invasion by a neighboring society in the growth phase of the same process.

I think the association with complexity is just because complexity in society rises with the size and organization of the military and its infrastructure.
> By making it cheaper people will consume it more

Yep!

> isn't this counter productive?

Nope!

Increasing the use of the already existing infrastructure (rails & train stations) is not that much more additionally expensive.

While encouraging the use of trains you're also discouraging the use of cars - effectively paying people to not use their car seems pretty sensible in a time in which we really want people to stop using cars.

For additional leisure trips that people wouldn't have made otherwise, it still stimulates economic activity and at the very least general happiness and contentment, which is important anyway, but especially so in times that are likely to become harder in the next few months.
I find this a very puzzling reply, and it may be that I misunderstood to what you are referring with the "they're" in "They're, for the most part, things we tried to put in libraries (or more ideally language standard libraries for a lot of things.)" It might refer to "the things Copilot does for you" or alternatively "the things you need to know yourself to be in industry."

The thing is, regardless of which way you meant it, we need some people who can make the sort of libraries we need in part precisely because automation such as Copilot is no substitute (at least not yet.)

This observation does not (and is not intended to) endorse current methods of instruction or hiring; on the contrary, it supports spcebar's view that riding your way to a degree, certificate or entry-level position on the back of Copilot is not doing yourself any favors.

The point about Larry Wall is that we don't get labor-saving tools without someone making an effort.
Adding a simple floor to the tax rate would solve much of the regressiveness. Nobody would pay taxes on their first $40k (or whatever number works), and then a flat rate above that. The floor could even be done as a prebate to gain some social safety net benefits. Every citizen is given $tax_rate * $40k every year, doled out as monthly payments, and pays a flat tax rate on all income.
Adobe Photoshop and Quake 3 are JS apps nowadays so depending on your use case it's completely legitimate to download hundreds of megabytes of code and data in modern browsers. I once worked on an app that was a heavily optimized tree shaken 40MB bundle of JS because it was a telephony system, video conferencing and document sharing and collaboration app. Completely ok size for that use case.

If it's just a normal non-interactive website then it shouldn't have any javascript in the first place.
Back when I was working for a company that was heavily into GIS, I wandered one day into map rendering code, trying to render _something or other_, and man, it was an ed-u-cation. Not in "yeah Mercator is not literally true" (this I thought was common knowledge) but also there there are a ton of different projections and ways to deal with said projections.

It's a fascinating niche of computer graphics.
They should just be built into cars
You're conflating two different topics. The article asserts (correctly) that the Mercator projection, while useful for navigation, distorts the globe at a macro scale when used for educational purposes. A globe solves that problem.
I think bats favor them. Lots of birds eat them too. But is there anything "good" about any creature? Everything just exists for its own survival.
You seem to have missed the point of this thread.

The problem an earlier comment expressed is that the student will sabotage themselves.

What else did you think that means besides exactly what you just said?

They sail through the beginning and splat in the middle, because they didn't have to learn anything in the beginning.

My comment is reponding to one that says the problem is that students get diplomas witbout learning.

I am saying that diplomas and certs are not a problem, not that there is no problem. The problem is what the earlier comment said in the first place.

Actually I'm not even sure that's a problem either in the long term, but it is the immediate problem. It may just be during a transition period while schools have not yet adapted to reality and are still worried about calculators in math classes. But at this moment, it's a problem.
> The Mercator projection was adopted because it preserved bearing lines for marine navigation

Specifically, Mercator preserves angles, making it possible to plot courses on the map using a protractor. Attempting this on a map with a non-conformal projection would be a nightmare.
They transfer food from large animals near the top of the food chain to small animals nearer the bottom, by air and over a range of several miles.

They might not be the only thing that can do the job, but it’s an important job.
Counter-point: What's the point of having a reference CRT that doesn't reflect the everyday experience of normal consumers from that time period?
They're telling you the guy in your neighborhood isn't most homeless people.
There was a game-of-life board game created way back when, The Immigration Game, which has since been implemented in Golly.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129088/immigration-game
I love this kind of bad humor of HN.
I agree 'software engineer' is too broad, but it'd definitely take non-trivial effort (and perhaps some otherwise pointless resigning) to avoid it in domains/companies/roles that could use it, or similar alternatives.
GP got the reasoning a bit wrong, it's to lower the impact of the increased energy prices. As far as I'm aware the 9€-Ticket has had a decent lowering impact on measured inflation due to reduced transport costs.
I’ve heard they do some percentage of pollination.
Let me be a devil’s advocate against your devil’s advocate: Pedestrian, bicycle and even bus-only crossings costs a fraction to grade separate compared to car crossings. It is much easier for cars to take a significant detours then other transport modes. It is always a much cheaper option to simply close the road for cars and force them to cross at the nearest crossing that is already grade separated, and build a ped/bike-only bridge/tunnel over the tracks.

Cars are the reason this negative externality is so expensive to mitigate. Why should funds from other modes be diverted to it?
Most doors wouldn't really keep a serious attacker out, but a locked door does make it a bit harder to the prospective thief to enter.

But "security" is an economic good, with a cost and a value. Locking the door is a small cost. It has a much higher value, so I do it.
North being up hasn't always been the case; for quite some time, east was commonly up and west down; it's where the "orient" in "orientation" comes from.

Which side is up really depends on how you imagine the earth going around the sun. If you look at the earth from its side as it revolves around the sun and you choose to depict the earth moving counter clockwise, the north is up. If you consider the earth revolving around the sun clockwise, south is up. The earth is at an angle, of course, but that angle isn't enough to really change the definitions of up and down.

North being up makes logical sense when you consider that around 87% of humanity lives in the northern hemisphere. We generally read top to bottom and the populated parts of the earth are often what we're really interested in.

There's also the choice of "north" that matters. There are many definitions for what constitutes as the north since the magnetic poles don't stay in a single place on the surface and the top/bottom of the spinning planet isn't anywhere near the magnetic poles. Then there's the north star moving as we move through the galaxy, making any north determined by celestial navigation questionable over time; currently Polaris is commonly used as the pole star, but on humanity's time scale that's a relatively recent (±1300 years) development.
> people overthink the value in being able to self host “just in case”.

This. I'm guilty as charged here over the years. As I've grown older I've realized a few things. Nothing is, or ever will be perfect. Nothing lasts forever, so trying to build for what might happen in the future usually hampers what you do in the present. (IOW, don't worry about what might happen. Just build with what you have now and do the best you can. If what you build lasts until the next wave comes and makes it all obsolete, call that a win.)
I live near a track that was converted a few years ago and runs at 125mph. It is very very quiet and barely noticeable even when you are close. There is no engine noise like you get on diesels.
Jonah Hill to stop promoting films to protect his mental health
Nah by the time you get there you will be the villain your were trying to defeat. Even if you win you loose
I don't see a single invalidation of my ridicule.
Right, Georgian is some fraud being pushed by the developers and real estate firms who currently have such little power to incentivise the direction of the ownership landscape. If a real estate magnate ever did something like become president surely they'd push Georgism through.
Those kinds of apps appearing are due to circumstances that set the wheels in motion a long time before.

When religions like Islam, Judaism, and Christianity heavily control mixing between the genders, it's for a reason. Once the boundaries broke down and the so called "sexual revolution" took hold, it was only a matter of time.
Certain symbols are provided by the dynamic linker, such as __tls_get_addr for certain forms of TLS access, or the __rseq_* symbols describing the restartable sequences area maintained by the kernel.
Low effort stuff can (and often is) better and/or more entertaining than high effort stuff.
study cited:
https://doi.org/10.1111/ijd.13838
Ok, that's a start. But my point is that US rail treats passenger traffic as a second class citizen and it doesn't have to be that way.

Mandating Positive Train Control and adding in track to allow better multiplexing of traffic could be done for a fraction of the HSR budget.

I think this should be done at a national level (nationalize the rail lines and invest in infrastructure to better utilize a very constrained resource). Yeah, crazy talk.
Most homeless are recently homeless. And often homelessness creates or worsens mental health problems and addictions.
I'm guessing it is a cost related choice, and the lock only needs to be as effective as a regular key lock that can also be opened easily using one of a number of different tools and techniques (picks/rakes, bump keys, tin or plastic cut-out clones, key guns, etc).

The fact that you have to unscrew and open it to expose the vulnerable bits means it is at least that much safer than a key lock, which doesn't mean very much since they are both easy.
Ah, yes, sorry, I got confused by this thread. Yes, globes are great educational tool. I think it’s actually valuable to show all of globes, Mercator, and the weird equal area projections, just to teach about trade offs.
I think grading on multiple dimensions makes sense, though scaling is a challenge.

As for analysis write-up: turns out, language models can also explain what the code does really well, in convincing vernacular. They generate reasonable comments.

https://twitter.com/emeryberger/status/1560618825208320001?s...

As an illustrative example, I just typed in a little test into Copilot. I only typed the first line and the text that starts with "a paragraph explaining...", and typed a "#" for each comment. Copilot filled in the rest.

def compute_sum_recursively(n):
"""A paragraph explaining what this function does and why, and explaining its running time:
This function computes the sum of the first n natural numbers.
The running time of this function is O(n).
"""
# Base case: n = 0
if n == 0:
# The sum of the first 0 natural numbers is 0
return 0
else:
# Recursive case: n > 0
# The sum of the first n natural numbers is n + the sum of the first n-1 natural numbers
return n + compute_sum_recursively(n-1)
I think you're hitting on a more fundamental issue: benchmarks are pointless. It'd be extremely trivial to write a program that gets tired of doing the same thing, or that wants to engage in another task. And so if you set that as a benchmark for anything, it will likely be achieved by gaming everything to focus on the benchmark, rather than as a component of the real target.

With something like AGI you don't need a benchmark, because it would be undeniable to anybody. AGI would be able to effectively learn from any form of material I give to it, apply the material in novel and creative ways, and generally and competently execute any task related to the material or its derivatives without further input. The obvious catch is in that definition one also gets recursively better self improvement, so AGI would trend towards rapidly becoming more capable than any given human, or even humanity as a collective, in every field imaginable (or not even yet imagined). It's this catch that makes one wonder if it will ever be possible.

So many of the things we now view as absurd in the past came from people extrapolating outward from exponential progress in a field. As we discover the ever more exotic mysteries of our world, such as tree bark that takes away ones pain when chewing on it (also known as aspirin), why should we not expect there to be some fountain to reverse aging just waiting to be discovered? The universe is endlessly bizarre and interesting, but always seems to have this habit of cutting short the fun just before it becomes game breaking.
Here ya go:

https://imgur.com/a/kgQtUMf

I don’t know why it’s got the over-18 warning. It’s 100% SFW.
> maybe this line of reasoning works on potential Raytheon or Palantir employees

The people who work at Raytheon or Palantir think they are less harmful than the people who work for Google/Facebook. Nobody who has decided to work there thinks they are just drone striking children.
Pardon me, but why have modern binaries grown so big? When I wrote my thesis in TeX, the entire installation would fit in some 30 megabytes or so. It was actually right in the uncomfortable middle. Far too big to carry around on a set of diskettes, but a CD would be waste of space.
I'm not aware of any benchmarks. Neither am I aware of any performance deterioration in Safari 15.4+.

What is your point exactly? That performance should be one of the most important aspects in browser engine development? I agree. Hence, I asked OP to elaborate their claim that this selector harms slow devices. And I'm not interested in the (outdated?) historical concerns of a parent selector. But the actual effect of the specific selector implementation in WebKit which this discussion is about.
According to the article in the link, erythritol doesn't change bacterial populations.
El Salvador(central america) was in a bloody civil war between socialist rebels and the US-backed government in the 80s. The tactics taught to the Salvadorian forces by the US are considered controversial and some "incidents" may have happened.

Thousands of refugees fled into poor neighborhoods in the US where Mexican and other American gangs already existed and this led to the formation of MS-13, a notorious organization. Over the years thousands of MS-13 gang members were deported or traveled back to El Salvador and became prolific throughout the country. When the civil war ended, the rebels became a political party(FMLN). Both parties traded presidencies over the years but due to poverty and post-war devastation were very ineffective at combatting gang violence, running the economy, and maintaining public order.

Bukele, a descendant of Palestinian immigrants from the former Ottoman empire -an ethnic group long discriminated against and held back from holding public office in El Salvador- is part of a new party called Nuevas Ideas.

This new democratically elected third party won a majority of its government seats and the presidency but is not well liked by the Biden administration. It has been accused of "subverting democracy" for replacing judges accused of corruption and of violating the human rights of gangsters who by definition have to commit a violent crime to initiate into the gang and are pledged to it for life. He's achieved this by doing broad roundups of hundreds of gangsters at a time. This is considered controversial by first worlders who aren't familiar with having a crime syndicate in every town and nearly every street and what kind of wartime-like operation it would take to address that. Violence is at a historic low, below what can be attributed to a downtrend. The Salvadorian response to COVID was also exceptional among its neighbors, far beyond what can be attributed to accidentally getting it right. Anyways that's my perspective. It's a bit biased but not one I see regularly so I'm just doing my part to show how central Americans might see it.
That would be Stewart Brand. There's a movie that just came out with that quote as its title: https://weareasgods.film .
Entertainingly, the second one has been flagged as potentially "erotic".

That's parallel processing for you...
In all the testing I have been doing across a variety of use cases, from BigData, to databases, to games, I have not come across a scenario where Zstd is doing worse than Zstd.

Compression time CPU is lower for equivalent ratios. Maximum compression is better. Decompression CPU is much lower (i.e. faster), and that is independent of the level used at compression time.
Its clear that "good" or "bad" in this context means if it helps in any way any other species (including us) or environment, and given that it stings a lot of animals causing them some pain it already has some points on "bad".
Just don't grade HW and have handwritten quizzes and tests in class? (Yes, the grad students will suffer when grading... unless you pay them and then they will be lining up)
Although if you're Jonathan Blow you can stream yourself writing C++ and ranting about how terrible C++ is, while implementing your new Jai language.

[I watched a few hours of Jon doing this, but annoyingly I can't find a recording of Jon actually finding and fixing the subtle Heisenbug he realises during those hours must be in his Jai code - he resolves to investigate "later" and I can't find "later". I think this would be insightful to watch because this is exactly the sort of bug Jon says he doesn't have much trouble with in his C++ and so doesn't need to prevent in Jai... so if it's five minutes to fix that shows Jon is correct, if it's hours of difficult searching or eventually was resolved by just unrelated changes to the code not so much]
> in some languages at least, what constitutes a grapheme isn't always well defined.

Can you provide some examples? People say this a lot, but the cases I've been able to find tend to be things like U+01F1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DZ, which is only not well defined in the sense that Unicode defines it wrong (as one character rather than two) presumably-on-purpose, for compatibility with one or more older character encodings.
It’s by far the most popular data type for training neural networks.
There's now a movement trying to accelerate the collapse: "accelerationism".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
You compute the Fibonacci sequence first. Then you use that as the input for another function that produces the modified sequence by dropping 5.