skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can taking actions that obey a premade set of rules communicate something to the player? I think it can. For example, Jonathan Blow has played around with this notion in Braid and The Witness.
I'd wager Twitter switched to Scala instead of Elixir because it existed when they were moving away from Ruby and Elixir didn't. Maybe they still would have if Elixir had existed, but it didn't so we can't know.

And Elixir is not "basically Ruby on Erlang". It adopts some Ruby stylings and Ruby's metaprogramming habits, but the language and underlying libraries are quite a bit different. If for no other reason than Elixir is not an OO language and Ruby is (and heavily depends on its OO model for many things). "trivial" is probably a word most of us need to excise from our vocabularies, translating Ruby -> Elixir may not be the hardest thing in the world, but it's not trivial.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25821664
Which one of your games did you like the most?
I consider my handwriting a personal code for myself
I think it's kinda new: before covid people did above and beyond in hopes of a promotion or something. Covid gave them time to think, and changed their behavior accordingly.
Well half of NaNs are quiet, so that's easy to deal with. And the fast optimization flags are themselves violating the standard so those don't count.

> Note that "the right precautions" involve unions and proper integer types to avoid optimizer-invoked rewrites of the value and debugging when things go wrong, not simply YOLOing bytes into a double via memcpy.

Using a union is iffy behavior that has been argued about in the past and is even less safe in C++.

I suggested memcpy because it's the safe way. It's the opposite of YOLO. You memcpy from one type into a char buffer, then memcpy that char buffer into the other type.
I get that, but it really irks my inner academic when he shifts gears this way.

"Maybe it's a meteorite, maybe it's an alien though... Or maybe it's Elvis flying on the Loch Ness monster."

The old quip that it's a small step from the sublime to the ridiculous applies here I think.
How large do they have to be to make a boat out of them? ~ > 700lbs?
For sure. If I was an investor in a ponzi scheme, I would prefer a ponzi scheme that accepted a bailout from SBF rather than a ponzi scheme that continued paying executives millions of dollars of my money while those executives temporarily remain outside of prison and the company is in bankruptcy.
It should be totally illegal. It's probably the one issue I share with Elizabeth Warren.
I am empathetic as well but...

Let me start saying that no one prevents a company from selling the software with licenses allowing to access the source code, companies even provide the code under the GPL because the BSD or the GPL nowhere state that the code has to be provided for free, big companies have provided the code under open source licenses behind fees for quite a while so far (redhat is one of the examples).

The BSL certainly allows you to access the code without having a license but I would dare to say that most of the companies out there, especially for critical components like this, prefer managed and supported solutions, for which rights to access the source code can be granted.

But in general it's absolutely true that it allows accessing the source code without having to buy the license and this is certainly a plus for the final user.

But that's it :)

I will not say that I know the legal language but I will say that the legal language really differs form what we perceive and a judge or a court perceive and the interpretation is dictated by the national law.

The sentence

> Effective on the Change Date, or the fifth anniversary of the first publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under the terms of the Change License, and the rights granted in the paragraph above terminate.

Use the word "version" which is broad and generic, can be read as "the commit makes a new version" or "the intent for the developer to release a new version".

Do, again, no certainty really ok the long term.

Going open source require sacrifices, I have given for free more than 1 year of research and development I did to build the technology behind the hashtable implemented in cachegrand and I did because I believe that true technological advancement should be available to anyone and meanwhile my work is not a game changer it my small bit to try to help.

That's why when I see a license like BSL pointed out as open source or "quasi" open source I do feel the need to give some context.

Try to imagine if Linus at the time would have decided to give Linux under BSL... Nowadays would be very different!
After some fiddling I have built Moon Patrol on macOS. I was curious why a text mode program requires X11 and libpulse libraries. I had to install xquartz.

But overall, I salute the author of AsciiPatrol ;-). Kudos!
It'd be interested in seeing a comparison against typing notes.

My prior is, having a ritual to set your brain in learning mode helps activate it. For most of us (at least over 30 or so) the ritual of written notes was taught. But there's definitely been enough time to get some adults who used typed notes to learn.

The most interesting test to me would be a 2x2 comparison. People who learned to <type|write> notes, test them on recall of information <typed|written>. All four combinations so we can really suss out what makes the difference.
It's not the same. There must be an affirming feeling to putting your thoughts out there and not getting pushback on it, you feel more confident in yourself. You could imagine what good things come from confidence
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Not that I think an alien artifact is likely either but an interesting question is whether we could recognize such an artifact if we found - especially if we found nothing but basically twisted wreckage.
We make artisanal collectible cards from freshly harvested binary trees
This is not that newsworthy, I've seen this is done as a science fair experiment by kids. There's nothing controversial about this...
Yeah even that Netherlands one (which is only possible if there's a lot of space available) relies way too much on drivers actually bothering to look out for bikes. I'd rather have traffic lights to be honest.
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Until demand was proven, nobody was interested in making GPU compute at scales beyond niche (e.g. for scienctific calculation or for server clusters). As-is, we are about to enter a squeeze that is going to see a few of the big players in retail GPU manufacture drop out, so don't expect this glut of cheap GPUs to last.
He never said that compositionality was solved. He said:

> Without wanting to claim that Imagen has fully mastered compositionality, I think it represents a significant enough improvement to win the bet, and to provide some evidence that simple scaling and normal progress are enough for compositionality gains. Given these gains, it would surprise me (though by no means be impossible) if image model skill plateaued at this level rather than continuing to improve.

It seems plausible to me that Imagen is consistently a little better than DALL-E at compositionality. The stained glass pictures are always stained glass. The top hat is always on the cat rather than the person/robot (that may be partially because robots are less likely to wear top hats, but I just tried the robot version of the prompt in Stable Diffusion and it usually puts the top hat on the robot). The astronaut and farmer examples are less clear, but they're not as obviously misinterpreted as the DALL-E versions (which tends to put the lipstick on the astronaut and the farmer in front of a cathedral).

To be fair, I'm not sure how much difference that really makes; I would be pretty shocked if a newer model wasn't a little better, and it could still hypothetically be approaching an asymptote. Also, it would have been better to get a larger sample size.

But he did set that low standard ahead of time; someone bet against him that the state of the art wouldn't get even a little better, in a significantly longer period of time. And, seemingly, it did.
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Are his donations so far to pandemic-related causes and his future fund shams? https://decrypt.co/94045/ftx-1-billion-philanthropic-future-...
> AMD is properly fucked in the GPU market now

AMD GPUs are in XBox and Playstation.

> AMD can't write Windows graphics drivers that are stable and performant to save their lives

When they changed to RDNA they had teething issues. But their drivers are stable now.

> their cards use enormous amounts of power compared to similarly performing NVIDIA cards

Is this a joke? The 6800 XT draws less power than a 3080 12gb while having similar FPS. Ignoring FSR2 or DLSS.

Disclaimer. I've only ever had 1 AMD card (5700XT) and it was rock solid. Currently using a 3070 and 3050Ti.
Last year 3B, and the total cores shipped got over 10B recently. I couldn't find more data though.
I think the rule should be: if the entity claiming the item obtained it through conquest originally, they don't get it back. If the item was created or purchased by the entity, they should get it back.
What happens to profs when they get tenure?
Have you crunched the numbers on how many users you need to justify renting a VM with an A100 or similar?

From my brief research they seem to be available for about $30 / hour, and can run 50 iterations in roughly 6 seconds.

One of the missing pieces for me is how many parallel requests they can serve, and whether it's feasible to start/stop the machines based on demand (it sounds like some providers don't allow the stopped machines to retain state long enough for this to be practical)

Would be interested in your thoughts, have been tinkering using my laptop GPU but it's dog slow and I have a vague idea for an online game that I might try out if I can summon enough mental energy one weekend
Banks don't even issue chequebooks here (Norway).

We just transfer money directly to bank accounts, or pay by direct debit, or electronic invoice. For paying small amounts (up to about 500 USD) we have a Scandinavian mobile app called Vipps that lets private individuals pay other people just by knowing their mobile number.

All these things are free to use but using a cheque costs money.
Respect to the authors of course, however I am not sure if it helps solving common data sync problems to introduce one more datastore with it´s own special query language. Maybe I am misunderstanding the use case.

I like https://orbitjs.com/ very much - it puts the focus on the right area.
> Turn it in to your personal wiki

Wiki got a new name these days. Now wikis are Digital Gardens.
Svix (YC W21), enterprise-ready webhook service, is hiring (remote)
Is it? I’m using Orion on iOS and privacy report has multiple google font domains being contacted by Orion.
And what exactly is the difference between a data centre and a hobbyist running at a similar scale?
Introduction to Algorithms (2020)
Fitbit gives you a nice animation when you hit your goal and a star for that day in the history overview.

Additionally, it’s great if you add a friend in the app to compete for the max steps in the last 7 days.
having the fun and life when everything is automated
They don't have to care anymore.
Good info. Now using it on my site.
at University I would copy all the notes I took, which were poorly written and confused, into nice hand-written notes with charts, plots and formulas. That was for all the courses, for 7 years.

I think it's a powerful way to learn and remember, but requires some time and effort. Alas, I am not doing it very much nowadays, but that's also because my learning is much less structured and much more "operational" (I need to learn this in order to do that).

Edit: typos
Surely the lineman should have isolated the line before working on it.

But of course the person connecting the generator is very much at fault for not isolating their house from the network.
Yeah, I'd much rather have some screaming plastic in a case where it can't be seen than a screaming fan that's heard in the next room.
How the Netherlands facilitate the most hated websites in the world
> you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design

So you'll keep everything that matters and throw out the stuff that doesn't. Got it!
Why would we abuse them? We treat disabled people OK, don't we? What exactly is your fear? Some kind of prejudice against people who were born through different procedures? We already have test tube babies walking among us and nobody mistreats them.
Great decision by EVGA. They were not going to make any profit on 4000 series. Now is the best time to negotiate a big sign-up bonus from Intel.
Isn't this a classic strawman?
Not much of an Elixir developer but if I saw that snippet in code review I would flag it for readability.

Just because you can write something in 3 lines of code using lots of nesting and anonymous functions and variables doesn’t mean you should. This code would do better if it was longer, the variables had names, and the transforming functions broken out and named.
Noob here - how do people usually assess DBs to one another? Why should I use this say over DynamoDB?

Given concrete requirements or use cases it would be easier to compare given DB solutions, but when people are scoping something for say a new project, or a personal project (flexible requirements / motivation), how does that usually go down? If anyone has first hand experience on this :)
Customers are intelligent enough to know that they are going to pay for those developers who are _not_ Martin Fowler.

Martin's articles are freely available and are referenced by practitioners around the world.
Mine was always: "Everyone laughed at the young NSA intern Satoshi that he could convince the worlds criminal enterprises to open their financial books to the world."
I think you missed the joke. Or was it? Hmm, now I'm wondering!
still not seeing an actual claim, nor its backing, and still eager to find out how I cancelled Siskind and what it has to do with Buterin!
From Scan UK - it was nearing 3 years old(in fact it had like 30 days left on the EVGA warranty). I contacted Scan but they said they can't help, they would in the first 2 years but after that it's up to the manufacturer if they still provide warranty or not.
I’m working on a 2D game conceived by my 9-year-old who had played enough games that he was inspired to make one. He was thrilled as soon as the first animated graphics came onscreen. More valuable than my programming skills have been my project management skills: keeping the scope achievable and focusing on realistic milestones is a little harder when working with a 4th grader. It’s been a great learning and bonding experience for us both. Best of luck to you!
Orwell rightly warned us of newspeak language perversion.
elixir is (was?) very parochial. for a long time it didn't fit neatly in the same shaped box as comparable applications written in ruby or python or java or whatever. part of this was technical (it's a compiled language without any of the effort c or java got in packaging and distribution so operations were complicated when compared to mainstream languages) and part of this was cultural (the infamous 'you don't need x if you use elixir' testimonials) but it combined to scare people who weren't interested in being elixir enthusiasts away. there was definitely a sort of stepford wives vibe around the community where people who just wanted to know how to use elixir to read some data from kafka or redis or deploy an http api or whatever were met with scolding and admonishment for not embracing elixir and eschewing everything they knew. things are definitely better now but i think the damage was done. elixir has a reputation now for being an outsider language

i also think elixir was hurt early by overselling of erlang and the erlang vm. a lot of the "groundbreaking" technology in the erlang vm was groundbreaking but in 1996 not post 2015. even now you can see people talking about how elixir makes parallel programming trivial when it's more or less trivial in all languages now (albeit via libraries or extensions sometimes and not natively). elixir's implementation is quite crude in comparison to some of it's competitors. the same goes for the "seamless distribution" that erlang/elixir proponents talk up. it's just a fully peered tcp mesh and a very simple binary encoding with a tiny rpc framework on top. it's something you could replicate in any language in a weekend (but you probably wouldn't bother. it's not very useful in a modern context). the promise very rarely delivered and people went back to more familiar languages

i think elixir had a brief window to get popular when go was still in it's infancy and nodejs was all written callback style pre async/await and java.util.concurrent was considered arcane knowledge but it failed to get a big enough community that could sustain it once go and nodejs and java got almost as good at concurrency as it was and didn't expect you to forget half of everything you knew about building and operating software. without a clear technical advantage people preferred the familiar
It used to be that you'd get your traffic from Google. That one good tutorial you wrote would bring a steady stream of visitors for years. But for a few years now Google has a strong preference for fresh. Fresh links matter more than long-standing ones, fresh content will place higher than a more refined, but older take on the same subject... And there's a whole industry of people who spend their days, um, "paraphrasing" what you wrote. Can't win as a hobbyist :(
For one project, John Carmack hacked out a beta in two weeks in a cabin retreat and then spent ages polishing it up.

The first 90% of the effort is getting it working and then the next 90% is the polishing the result.
It's nowhere near 40% of the Ukrainian army. It's more like somewhere between 20%-100% of Azov, which themselves are less than 1% of the Ukrainian army.

And as we've already been through, Ukraine has no ability to pick and choose who is allowed to defend them from multiple Russian invasions. They are significantly smaller. Such luxuries only apply to strong countries that aren't being invaded. You keep dishonestly comparing Ukraine (small country being invaded) to the US (country not being invaded).

If Ukraine wasn't under constant threat of invasion from Russia, then I'd be the first to criticize their decision making around Azov.
To be honest I haven't used it, but I've extensively used pl/pgsql and a little pl/ruby, and know that https://plv8.github.io/ exists - it might be what you're looking for and it's on my list of things to play with
Having built much of a fusion reactor in my apartment... (but not the classic Farnsworth design)

1) A much easier (and usually cheaper and more accurate) way to measure neutrons is to just rent a proper device, from somewhere like: https://instruments.energysolutions.com/instrument-rental/ne.... Not a big fan of bubble dosimeters, except when you need to measure a place you cannot be at the time of measurement (like on the unshielded roof of a linac bunker).

2) Best to check with your significant other before doing stuff in shared areas. Twice I have been banned from "doing science stuff in the kitchen", once when I got a 5" NeFeB magnet stuck to the oven and we almost got badly injured removing it, and once when I thermally decomposed AlOH3 in the oven. This is why the rest of the fusion reactor was not built at home.

3) Power supplies are an important and expensive component. We got most of ours by buying an obsolete ion implanter, and just pulled the power supplies from it. This is a lot cheaper than buying new or even used stand-alone supplies. However, the problem with old power supplies is sometimes they have a problem, and troubleshooting high voltage supplies can be more than tricky. A 180 kV supply got me bad once when the drain resistor was broken and I tried to change a capacitor - when I felt the zap go in one hand and out where I was sitting, I thought "ok, I'm dead". Luckily it wasn't enough charge to kill me. Invest in a long dry wooden dowel, so you can check if surfaces are charged before you touch them.
The pattern in the example above is a fork/join model of concurrency. Task.async will spawn a new task and return a handle to it, the task will be scheduled and run at some point. Task.await takes that handle and waits for the associated task to complete before continuing and returns its result.

do_work = Task.async(fn -> long_calculation() end)

That kicks off the new task, at some point later we should obtain and examine the result:

result = Task.await(do_work)

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13/Task.html#await/2
I sometimes use svg's define symbol method `<defs>` (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/def...), you combine all the icons you use into one document that you load with display none and then reference those symbols anywhere else on the page using svg `<use>`.
> What makes you believe that? IMO, the immutability and pattern matching eliminate a huge class of common frustrations that beginners usually have with the most popular half dozen programming languages.

I think moany devs really know a similar language already, when it comes to Java, Javascript, etc. But most have never been exposed to a functional language like Ex
What's the feeling in the community when pumpkin boat season comes along? Sounds like a bunch of fun
> While they deny the practice, these services have the ability of profiling your browser (using browser fingerprinting with your IP address and HTTP referer header) to track what sites you visit, building a valuable profile about you that they could sell to marketers.

As a person who works in martech it's patently bizarre to read this stuff. There's a difference between something being provent theoretically possible in a laboratory environment and actually making it out in the real world.

The entire browser profiling angle refers to something that does not currently exist, does not conceivably scale well, and chases after an infinitesimally small potential monetary gain.

Can someone theoretically climb up the building and break into your apartment on the 6th floor? Sure. Does it need to be included in your risk assessment? Well it's me, your neighborhood burglar, and I'm saying not really.

One underrated aspect of custom fonts on websites is that they actually enhance security for the average user. One of the first and often only things that lets someone know they are being MitM attacked or phished is when the corporate branding feels "off". So while you may not understand the value of "corporate identity" or all of that nonsense, in the days before corporate identity was such a big deal, people got hoodwinked by lookalikes all of the time.
Hate speech in modern use is attested by 1990. The term is found in a translation, published in 1898, of the Anglo-Saxon poem called "The Fall of the Angels," telling of Satan's revolt, where it renders Anglo-Saxon hetespraece:

Dear was he to our Lord; but it could not be hidden
That his angel began to be proud,
Lifted himself against his Leader, sought hate-speech,
Words of boasting against him, and would not serve God.
["Education," vol. xviii, No. 6, Feb. 1898]

Faith based term, people are using politically recently.
Just fixed a speed issue with the API. Pesky async snuck into the code. Should be much snappier now!