skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally know people who fly into Russia with entire disassembled gaming rigs in their suitcases (and do their best to avoid customs) from Turkey, etc. I'm sure if the Russian government needed these, they'd set up an operation to let them through. Russia is not as closed off as people seem to imagine.
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> It's very very dumb legislation, and I think derives from a very odd facet of belief found in some American Protestant belief systems - that for Jesus to come back, the State of Israel has to exist.

I remember reading Bill Clinton's biography. At some point, he mentioned that a pastor told him something along these lines, and that it was an important realisation for him. (I read that years ago, could be slightly wrong but that was the idea).

I found that extremely disturbing that archaic religious beliefs would influence foreign policies.

That being said, it's well known that our former French president got advised by an astrologer [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/25/jonhenley.theo...
Harvard's CS50 course is the best place to start (I think much better than MIT 6.0001). The teaching is great, and it covers a lot of stuff without dumbing things down. They also have a couple of follow-up courses which focus on web/games/ML.
In mathematics first year students who have started specializing already have knowledge that PhDs in other mathematical specializations don't. CS is exactly the same.

You can't teach Joy to someone who has only programmed in JS any more than you can do the reverse. The difference is that we have a lot of people who have learned only algol derivatives and don't understand just how _weird_ the zoo of non-standard languages is.
Sadly, Windows Sandbox doesn't expose a proper GPU interface, even games barely run. You can create a Hyper-V VM and use a vGPU instead (still requires some PowerShell fiddling) but I'm not sure if the same interfaces needed by ML are supported by Hyper-V paravirtualization.
Wow. So let’s unpack that a little more shall we? A kid with no parenting in the 1950s? Maybe they’d find their way into the care of the Catholic Church, where approximately 1 in 10 of the priests were abusers. Or perhaps to a residential school like the ones Canada where 1900 kids wound up in unmarked graves.

Can you please be more specific about what ‘complexity’ in the modern world you feel would contribute to it being so much harder for a kid to survive?
You'll be missing out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32674503
I’m pretty sure that this is illegal in the EU.
So what exactly is the use of GPUs like A100 apart from in mining cryptocurrencies ? Also isn't mining cryptos banned in China? Am I missing something?
> S3 is a cloud service provided by one company

At this point it's basically a standard as many blob storage providers just implement the S3 API.
While I agree completely with the premise of this article, on the other hand I'm weighing the relatively robust findings by Meehl et al. They find, time and time again, in all sorts of fields, that extremely parsimonious models like equal-weighted linear regression of one or two predictors outperform expert judgment[1].

One would think this is cognitively dissonant enough, but it gets worse:

This article, with the thesis that good arguments are more important than data, is based on, well, a good argument – not much data. On the other hand, the work by Meehl et al. claiming pretty much the opposite, is based on, well, a lot of data, and maybe not much intuitive reasoning. (There's some, yes, but the main thrust of why I believe it is that variants of the experiment have been replicated reliably.)

I don't know what to believe. Fortunately, as I've grown older, I've become more comfortable with holding completely dissonant opinions in my head at the same time.

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Edit a few minutes later: This actually prompted me to refresh on the subject. It might be the case that Meehl is actually making the same argument as this article, only it gets distorted when repeated. Some things are reliably measurable; for those things be data-driven. Other things not so much, then use your expertise.

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[1]: Here's just one relatively early example: http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/JJBAReprints/PSYC621/...
Ask HN: Swift is a good language, so why doesn't it get much attention?
I am primarily a C/C++ software engineer. And I am trying to decide which new systems programming language to learn. So I started reading about Rust and Swift. Both look very similar and nice. Swift looks bit intuitive to me though.

Anyway, it looks like Swift does not get much love from the rest of the developer community apart from developers from the Apple ecosystem. Is this because Apple is leading the development of Swift?
Exactly this. Not sure how much of the scientific messaging reaches the lower socioeconomic subsets of society either, I don't think kids' obesity is because they 've tried everything to lose weight and can't help themselves or rather their parents don't really understand the intricacies of how processed food works. There's something that defies intuition about a 50g mars bar having the same calories as a 300g potato even if most people vaguely understand that 'sugar is bad for you' but can't really put it in perspective, what does that mean in practice? The dosage makes the poison.
There is still a human in the loop for now, but I'd wager a guess that this won't be the case for long.

A lot of the "humans will still be needed" arguments implicitly rely on the assumption that the trend of AI progress stops here.

The original DALL-E was released just a year ago. In one year, AI image generation went from generating images that looked slightly normal if you squinted really hard, to the beautiful, detailed and creative results we see today.

The same speed of progress can be observed in almost all other domains, from code generation to question answering and music synthesis.

For many of these problems, it almost feels like the next step up in quality is just two hours of planning and a couple months of training away. Like they're already solved and just waiting for someone to implement the solution.

So yeah, humans are still needed right now. But I wouldn't base my hopes for the future on that, because the world of AI capabilities will probably look very different in just one year.
California legislature has just voted to save Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Is there some kind of bias, I kept being sent to Croatia
I think you have a wrong understanding of nude beaches. People are usually very friendly and relaxed. Most have not a model body and are a bit older. When I was younger I also could no imagine I would go to there, but it's just so a much nicer experience. I feel much more calm on a nude beach than on a normal beach.
> some slack during paid hours for people to learn and improve

A key ingredient missing in the blog post, IMO. :)
If that human had hired 5 painters to paint images (instead of the AI), told them what to paint, and refined his instructions to them over the production of 10 rounds of canvases - would anyone consider that human to be the artist? He's a client.
Chinese Startup Biren Details BR100 GPU
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USA loves the free market, as long as they own most of it.

So much for their talk about the future of glorious globalization.
I think a lot of them use bundlers but they use them for transpiling, going from ts to js and creating esm and common js files not for bundling in dependencies. I’ve also seen bundlers be used to include css in js as to not require users to manually import it.

It’s not so bad, working with just tsc can be a little more cumbersome as you have to running it multiple times to get esm and common js and it’s slower than some alternatives. I see it more akin to using a makefile than an anti pattern.
Bingo. The current work-around to get electronics to Russia is via Dubai. It's harder with Turkey because their airlines don't allow lithium batteries for safety reasons.
If the monkey only has 10% chance to pick each word appropriately, then in a million years of picking one word per second, you expect only 14 consecutive appropriate words.
To get just 100 consecutive appropriate words would take the monkey 10^100 seconds, or over 10^83 billion years...
Sure, but ironically sounds a whole lot better than nominative deterministically.
For the project last year, it wasn't a bunch. It was just me and the ex-Bridgewater guy who was learning.

Also, I taught myself back in 2017 while working on my own startup. Even back then, the docs were good and there were lots of helpful people on the internet.
> I find it odd for a vocally “progressive” institution to echo the sentiments of right-wing twitter trolls, but here we are.

The followers of Nazis were made to believe they would be taken advantage of. International Jewry for the most part, but also just other countries and that they supposedly were a threat was a fundamental in their believes.

I see a lot of this mirrored in DEI discourse. Not Jews, but straight white heteronormatives males in this case. Many call it populism and it works because there are countless instances where people really are being taken advantage of. But certainly not along racial lines. Especially in affluent and educated circles, racism simply is not that much of a problem anymore.

To me this charade looks like a coping mechanism to explain their privileges they so readily try to diagnose in others. But they cannot live up to their elite status as they just tend to bolster their positions and demand action from others. Cheap, harmful and useless efforts remain and their religions entirely needs an image of an enemy. These people are very often simple racists. They leverage and abuse the fact that most people do not want to offend others. But DEI personal needs to be offended quite distinctly and that would still not prove their original thesis, which is based on lies.

Institutions that jumped on this bandwagon should face critical examination on the quality of their publications.
I lived in Oregon for awhile and it was commonly said that this was a make work program for reformed felons trying to turn their lives around, like a starter job out of prison.
I'm not sure I understand the reposition-your-hand thing. If you're turning the screwdriver you either continuously manipulate it with your fingers or keep rotating your wrist back and forth regardless of whether you have a normal or ratcheted one. Only difference being in the ratcheted one you don't have to release the grip on the screwdriver (and in non-ratcheted you just have to not grip tightly). And if the screws aren't tightened too much - like in a PC - then you'd need a really light ratchet action for it to be of any use.

I guess it's just a personal preference thing rather than a real need of some sort, which IMO is fair enough
I don't have CS degree but I do have 7 years commercial experience with Python/Django Rest Framework and I have no idea how pointers work.
Very brave of her to stand up and say this. She sets an example, and more should follow.
Yeah look if your spam operator just blocks a whole ip bkock because he dosent know better...change that system. If he thinks blocking a tld is a good idea fire him/it.

That's just bad practice.
There are several problems with real messy solutions as the real world isn’t beautiful. Time and time zones comes to mind. Some countries just deletes or add days. Contracts in HR are usually completely a mess as they differ from company to company. The list goes on. I believe the “fallacies-that-programmers-believe-about-X” is a good indication that problems aren’t that clear cut as they seem. And when you do get trapped with the “simple solution that doesn’t fit the next iteration of the problem scope”, where someone else tries to fix your elegant solution to yet fit another problem which the original code didn’t really solve or was thought of, creating a mess.
TypeScript: Microsoft

Kotlin: JetBrains is the main backer and later got embraced by Google/Android

Hack (closely related to PHP): Meta/Facebook (but not used much anywhere else)

PHP: WordPress (one of the main reasons why is PHP so popular although not a major PHP backer as far as I know)
I often experience the inverse: people come up with hypotheses and theories that should see expressions in observable data - but no-one bothers to look and instead everyone argues around logical constructs etc.
Original whitepaper is a great overview of how the system works, but devil in the details. I still have a lot of questions about implementation, for instance:

from where did master get information about chunkservers (chubby, configuration files) ? did chunkserver know about which master it belongs to? etc.
In that case they should have probably not picked Elixir?
>Chinese are one step away from figuring out this technology anyway

Even if they do they are far away from fabrication.

>They will not trust us again.

China already massively distrusts the West.
America tried the Japanese economic model with China (allow your factories to be exported there, remove trade barriers) and it didn't get them very far.
However, for Romans, MM would mean 2000 :D
Overdose is disproportionately high though[1]. I mean, take a stroll thru most American cities and you can see what a toll drug use has done to many many people.

Outside of the cities, the opioid crisis has claimed the lives of millions. I have had friends and family die from overdose and complications from over-prescription.

It’s no secret; addressing the problem would cost drug manufacturers billions, which is why nothing is being done IMO

[1]: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/overdose-deaths-s...
Why abide by free market rules if the Chinese are going to be mercantilist anyway?
Again, politics is part of science.

Your politics and beliefs will shape the research questions and hypothesis you are asking.

Please define worse. I think it was worse in the past (and can give you examples if you really want to read them), there was a lot of sexist and racist work done under the term "Science." I don't see that much work like that anymore ...

Yes, maybe some fringe gender science folks are overstressing sth. but come on, I don't see a problem in that (compared to how people misunderstood Darwin in the past ...).
It's more a research question.

I think it'll be more like ordered keys in JSON - not ordered, according to the spec, but very useful in practice, because easier to compare, locate keys by eye etc. This order might not merely be "the same" as the input happened to be, but an order customarily used - and there might be a semantic reason for that order in the first place, used in some original, non-JSON, representation.

Tenuous.
I mean, it’s great that they’ve done a study, but practically any cat person can tell you this. Mine have a bunch of distinct calls with different contexts:

- Greeting chirrup. Staccato rising chirps. Every time they round a corner and see me.

- “Reunification” greeting. Reserved for when I’ve been away overnight. Similar to above, but with higher frequency overtones, longer chirrups.

- “I want” - flat toned short meows. Usually expressed at an empty bowl or a closed window.

- “lonely” - mournful yowls, long, rising then falling.

- “have prey” - similar to “greeting”, but intermixed with longer rising meows

- “lost prey” - similar to “lonely” but with a sustained flat tone at the end of each meow

- “frustrated by inaccessible prey” - chattering, occasional high flat chirrups

They talk to each other, and definitely understand what the other is saying - if one hears “have prey” from outside, it will go out to watch. If one hears the other greeting, it will swiftly appear making the same tones.

I talk back to them with whistles matching their patterns, and they absolutely understand.

Thing is, it doesn’t seem to be universal, as when they meet other cats they try to talk, and then give up in frustration. It appears to me that there are dialects, and idiosyncratic isolates from cats raised apart from other cats - and they do learn the dialects of others, eventually - each time they spend any extended period with other cats I note new or extended vocalisations.

Birds, too. I’ve lived in a forest for years, and they talk - I’ll hear the long-tailed tits making one call, and I’ll look up to see a raptor - or another call, and they’ll be alerting each other to the cats.

Oh, and really interestingly, we have a fox who consistently visits and hangs out with the cats - we don’t feed her or anything of the sort, but nor do we shoo her away or show aggression - and she’s learned bits of cat body language and vocalisation - greeting chirps in particular, which she expressed to both me and the cats, and cat-style “I’m relaxed, so should you be” stretching and belly-exposure. The cats accept her as one of their own, and I’ll often find them all just chilling in a little sleepy triangle.

Anyway. It’s all apocryphal and likely in no small part me anthropomorphising, but I am absolutely convinced that animals have rudimentary language.
AdGuard’s new ad blocker struggles with Google’s Manifest v3 rules
Maybe it's because that the religion is one of the most important factors which formed these alliances and adversaries throughout the history.

Without these cultural and religious layers, what remains is same for everyone. A human body.
> In my experience a lot of people actually do think that it's case sensitive.

I don't think they really do. They may think case matters somehow, and so may be careful to reproduce the exact case that they used before, but I don't think many people would expect JohnDoe@gmail.com and johnDoe@gmail.com to be too different email accounts.
Honest question without "shady" purpose or intention.

Are you vaccinated ? If so, before or after your COVID infection ?

Thanks
To give a few comparison numbers:

In Switzerland, arguably the world's experts in tunnel-boring, one death per tunnel kilometer is considered acceptable (and it is often less than that).

The much easier Channel tunnel has had around one death per five kilometer.

The Japanese Akashi Kaikyo Bridge prominently has had no construction deaths, which was considered extraordinary at the time. The Humber Bridge, which was the longest suspension bridge before Akashi Kaikyo, did cost four lives.

Construction is a dangerous business. You operate heavy machinery. You move large amounts of heavy material. You deal with power tools. Death is always a possibility - and that's something we IT folks tend to forget in our clima-controlled environments with our cozy desks and expensive chairs.
A lot of things that are illegal in the EU still fly until the offending company is taken to court and order to pay damages and mend things.

Having laws is one thing, enforcing them is another.

Just look at the huge number of websites that are not GDPR compliant.
>Chinese are one step away from figuring out this technology anyway

Then they can ban their products from the US
"You don't have to know languages in order to be familiar with the concepts."

If you only ever coded in a language that doesn't even offer you the ability to tinker with some concepts, you can't be familiar with those. Reading one article about it without ever touching code, is not being familiar with a programming concept.

I'm not saying you should know 10 languages, but if you want to be anything more than a frontend dev or a bad web dev, you need to be exposed to more than 1 language IMHO. I'm not saying you should be an expert, or used multiples languages for years, but at least trying other languages with concepts not available in your favorite language.
If that's the case, the domain is short for "Fine Bodies" presumably.
> Most of us will have illegal, unregistered phones then, running hacked firmware.

How easy is it to hack an iPhone to make it run unsigned code, which reports to a remote server that it is running the latest iOS version (with the correct cryptographic proofs)?

Maybe other phones are more hackable right now, but I'm sure Apple wouldn't mind lobbying for a law that requires phones to meet the same standard as them, and that makes ISPs / mobile networks refuse access to any device whose Secure Boot implementation has been circumvented by "independent researchers".

Five years from now, the only people inconvenienced by such a draconian law will be 1) those whose phones run on completely Free Software, and 2) those who illegally import devices that use unpublished zero-days in order to commit highly profitable crimes online. Both groups will probably end up paying thousands of dollars per device, but governments will not care about the desires of either of them.
There may be technologies that would enable American energy consumption at global scale. Whether it is realistic is not certain, though.

But in terms of resources it is simply not possible. If every human being consumed as many resources as an average American then the planet would go up in smoke in 6 months. That's not really an opinion, these are the numbers.
- it's more difficult to do "agile", churning out lots of code, working simultaneously on the same pages, or functions between different teams, which then needs to be merged together by some unfortunate (possibly clueless) dev. it puts a restraint on ignorant management who don't appreciate downstream issues.

- merging and branch maintenance is more rigid with svn, so teams tend to have dedicated release teams to handles this, instead of offloading this onto devs - most devs now are expected to handle git merging and so on, not so with svn.

i worked about 10 years with svn, and 5 with git, and just my exp only of course.
OK, it wasn't even all that subtle. HTH!
Socket activation means systemd is the listener, and has higher priority.

Other forms of activation... idk maybe the same essence. files and dirs and processes are all owned by someone.

I don't claim to have thought all angles out, and don't even claim it's a good idea, just a response to a specific point about first-come-first-serve.
"Whataboutism" is not the ace-in-the-sleeve you think it is. It's tucking the tail between the legs and stubbornly refuse to acknowledge defeat, because once the blatant hypocrisy has been pointed out there's nothing sensible to respond with.

But I see what level you're taking this to: anyone who disagrees with the agenda is a Chinese or Russian spy.
> A weak argument founded on poorly-interpreted data is not better than a well-reasoned argument founded on observation and theory.

So a good argument is founded on...good data and good understanding of data?

The article more seriously makes the mistake of begging the question: it presupposes the known classier of good and bad arguments and then goes on to say bad arguments with data is worse than good arguments. But how do you know good arguments from bad arguments in the first place? What makes a good argument if not empirical data?
My UK employer in 2004 had the brilliant idea to save money by establishing a subsidiary in Bangalore. Find some awesome engineers and only have to pay Indian salaries & office rental! Took them a depressingly long time to understand that interviews are a two-way street and what most of the best candidates wanted was a multinational that would support them living and working in an exciting new environment for better money, i.e. moving to London and using the London salary to see the world and have fun. Some really good guys, but would have been cheaper and less disruptive just to recruit them straightforwardly. OTOH the director in charge of the project moved to Bangalore on a London salary with his housing costs and domestic staff paid for, living like a Maharajah and filing following progress reports. So the exercise wasn't entirely futile.
Has IT development changed recently – from In-House and outsourse to Studio
There is no contradiction in being in academia because you want to spend your time doing research and accepting a nice bonus from the government now and then.
And that's how you get desktop chat apps that needs 8 GB of ram and 50% of your cpu to stay idle.