skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I encountered a case a few years ago where a query failed because the database had been opened read only but it needed to recover a journal. The solution was to just never open the database read only... but this seems less than optimal. Anyone else seen this?
Technically yes, but if they can’t form a government the King can and will call an election.

I think there is a very high chance they will be unable to agree on a new leader and will therefor be unable to form a government. Even if they do elect a new leader, if that leader can barely control the party that would not a functioning government, and they should call an election.

At some point Tory MPs need to grow some, call an election, and except that it may mean loosing their job.
Perhaps what you need to know:

https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/2552/bench/Power-p...

493W system draw under load with a largely idle GPU!

Under load, throttling after just 17 seconds.
Interstellar object 'Oumuamua still puzzling scientists 5 years after discovery
I don't agree 100% with that but there's some truth in it. we will get more Github co-pilot like products to do lot of data organization summarization and predictive work. And then humans will do the nuanced decision making and narration. so yes less # of people needed but you people STILL needed. People will be expected to wear lot of hats. "Oh I am Operations Manager" No sir you are not, you are also expected to drive product development and your people development. No bullshit departments like Product or HR Management would exist within a decade. People are going to be judged purely on raw critical thinking skills. Not the COlleGe they went to ExPErienCe they have
> Did you mean private schools? Public school education in the UK is quite problematic.

Ita confusing. In the uk, private schools are referred to as "public schools". The last person to know the reason for this died in 1764. Probably.

Schools that the actual public go to are called "state schools" because they're funded by the state (and not by daddy's estate).
I dont have that high an opinion of astronomy, but my issue is what counts as an explanation (a model with causal variables), and what counts as an experiment (setting the value, etc.) -- astronomy can often pass these tests on the underlying models.. and are usually good at reporting the confidence intervals as a appropriate.

My issue with something like a human being is that the state space is going to be non-linear, in the sense that suppose we have an explanatory model of the human in their environment, state = h(x_env, x_body, t, ...)

This makes controlling, really in any sense, those variables is going to be nearly impossible. So close values in `x` space, eg., two environments that look nearly-identical, are going to have radically different values in state space.

Psychologists, using linear "mereological intuitions" based on classical physics, will deny this. A physicist however, would not make this mistake. In cases of hysteresis and complexity, we're well-aware tiny variations in an environment can produce radically different paths thru' state space.

(And I think people are more complex than magnets!).

The fundamental issue with the field of studying human behaviour with scientific methods, is that (imv), we dont have scientific methods. We shouldn't expect science to provide us a method which works in every env.

I have, perhaps, high standards on what counts as science; it's esteem imv comes from disciplines that can meet those standards. Everyone else is rent-seeking.

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> genes do not cause intelligence

If there's an infinite number of possible people P, our genes make a subset of those impossible because they're not "biologically possible".

There is a narrow sense of "cause" which therefore says that genes play a causal role.

I was taking a more robust sense, in which (one plausible view), is that the set of effects we call "intelligence" are gounded in the body, but a cause of the environment.

Splitting these issues out is very subtle however.

One simple way of making this clear: most possible bodies arent intelligent; they dont speak; they dont think; etc. And all those are biologically possible.

Just as genes dont cause English speaking, they dont "obviously" cause intelligence. Most biologically possible people are basically unable to think, never having been developed in a social environment.

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I always find this [1] article to be the most trenchant regarding Forth:

> "Forth is about the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS or even the hardware design".

> …And the freedom to change the problem.

In my employed work life it has been fairly rare that I can make more than tiny changes to the problem, making Forth not useful.

[1] https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...
Perhaps if it is taken to the extreme. But it may be pretty efficient to have teams where workers only interrupt the boss when there is a strong reason to interrupt, and sparingly, especially if the team is gathered.

Especially if the boss came by the role as boss BECAUSE he/she is a good communicator.

Similarly with parents and small children, teachers and pupils or other situations with large asymmetries in competencies.
Yes, that's what that means. He's upset because a human didn't actually double check it, so Twitter is lying by saying that.
>VPNs are mainly for downloading movies and shitposting on the internet.

or not giving your ISP a list of which websites you visited when in a situation where you could only get internet by agreeing to allow the ISP to analyze your traffic and sell the result

or to avoid regional legal restrictions which are not on the level of "if you are found out you have major problems" like non GDPR compliant US sites blocking EU users and you are from the US on holiday in the EU (most such sites are very US-local specific)

or to avoid doggy price differences depending on from where you buy something
> After promising "no new taxes" during his campaign, he later agreed to do the fiscally responsible thing and raise taxes in order to offset spending increases.

That is an extremely charitable parsing of the events. The more accurate (realpolitik) version is Bush said the no new taxes quip, and Democrats subsequently laser-focused on making him (slightly) raise taxes, showing he is a "liar".

My take away is to learn not to promise overly optimistic outcomes when your political rivals have a significant stake in seeing you either be a success or a failure.

Edit: Not sure why this was flagged. Did not mean to come off as hostile or aggressive. Anyways, cheers.
follow these 37 steps and drive the ff beta, or just use kiwi browser.
Here is what "Date" is used for [1][2] if that helps you decide what impact it will have on your site. FWIW I have removed it before but I also don't care about search engines. As for wasting CPU, the date is already fetched by the server used for logging each request even if logging is disabled. Excluding the header will reduce the header size but unlikely improve CPU load of the server. If the goal is a reduction of server load related to headers, then telling the web server daemon to not generate ETag's will have a more significant effect and also impact search engines, proxies and CDN's

An origin server MUST NOT send a Date header field if it does not have a clock capable of providing a reasonable approximation of the current instance in Coordinated Universal Time. An origin server MAY send a Date header field if the response is in the 1xx (Informational) or 5xx (Server Error) class of status codes. An origin server MUST send a Date header field in all other cases.

So one could make the argument that if one choose to not have the correct time on their server then one must not send Date.

[Edit] I should that that FWIW if one wanted to tinker with time, one could change the system clock and/or recompile the web daemon to call time differently but this is a whole can of worms in and of itself. [3]

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1610254/whats-the-ration...

[2] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4726515/what-http-respon...

[3] - https://blog.packagecloud.io/system-calls-are-much-slower-on...
IIRC Google were scrupulous about ensuring there was no possiblity that the implementation might be derived from the original.
Another downside of the deluge of dependencies that I don't see discussed often enough is bloat. If you import something that imports something else that imports something else ad nauseam, you're importing a lot of stuff you're not actually using and won't ever actually need. Tree shaking was supposed to help with that, but it barely moves the scale.

The author says that "Reusing external code is a huge advantage, and when everyone does it, it’s also a competitive necessity", but when I've taken it upon myself to "reinvent" something that there's already a moderately decent solution for, I've found that it really wasn't that much extra effort and the end result was insanely more flexible in the ways that I needed it to be than the supposedly off-the-shelf alternative.
The sad part is that there's a can of worms just like her in the Conservative Party. She's merely the one that got sacked for it, but the next Tory PM will most likely have the same agenda, although he / she will most likely tread more carefully.

After leaving the EU the UK economy has become extremely unstable, with strikes occurring almost on a weekly basis, just like we had in the 60's and 70's before the UK became a EU member state.

Mind you that the UK isn't self-sufficient in terms of food (hasn't been for more than 120 years) and economic dire straits could actually lead to food shortages and famine!
> Is Microsoft or Github using Copilot for the proprietary software products they sell? (that is, are they "dog-fooding" Copilot?)

Yeah, that's my question. Are MS devs allowed to use Copilot? For, say, developing Windows? Edge? Office? If no, then I'm gonna continue to stay the hell away from it.
> I'm confused about what he means. "After careful review" means that a human double checked it right?

I think he's angry that didn't actually carefully review anything.

Which probably means "careful" is one of those words that sounds positive but is legally meaningless, so corporations will abuse it shamelessly for propaganda purposes.
They will definitely have a leadership election.

Lots of people here and labor-aligned folks in the UK want another general election.
This is an interesting idea. Although if anyone has enough money to single-handedly move the market price, it devolves into a dictatorship of that person.
It's interesting that from the perspective of today the Alto looks limited, but at the time it was built it was basically a look at what powerful hardware might be like in 10-15 years (so mid 80s - which was pretty close in terms of a Lisa). So the equivalent would be trying to imagine what an individual's computing power would be like in 2035, and building a system to that.

For example, about half the memory of the Alto was just used for the bitmap display, which makes the system even more remarkable for what it could achieve with an economy of code. From what I've read, they had a plan to design a new system in the mid-70s (that would again look 15 yrs into the future) but at that point they got enough pushback from Xerox that they were not able to get the funding for that.
Practically everyone imports what they need, at need, today. Only pipelines have lately been considered a problem. "Strategic National Reserves" are a thing, but thus far only used for economic leverage, to my knowledge. Underground storage of NG is pretty common, but again used mainly for price stability.

But this is not the only place where I see people honestly believing that seasonal storage would be desirable and important. I hope they are not, in the end, disappointed by slack demand.
Primary election participation varies by state. The U.S. does not have a blanket open primary system, and the federal government cannot adopt one without an amendment to the Constitution.
This happens all the time. People close to any administration "leak" plans to the media to see how they land.

Not good? Just deny it. Good? Guess we go ahead.
Influence is not the same as authority. I'm sure he has influence - but then so do lots of people. And at least as public figure he has a degree of visibility. Governments don't exist in a vacuum.
That is basically how I feel about my LinkedIn. Now I am actually working on a personal replacement of that online presence piece. Frankly, it was high time.
> we coded in assembly and looked up opcodes in paper books

Don't threaten me with a good time.
The big unaddressed issue is that conclusions based on empirical data can only be as good as the observations. If the data is biased, manipulated, "massaged", etc, there can be no good output from that poisoned tree, and other persons cannot contradict the results without attempting to replicate the entire research process beginning to end.

With math, physics, applied math, computer science, etc, bad results can be usually (but not always) deconstructed by anyone with the merest tools of the rational; formal logic, application of various categorical laws, etc.

Science as a process is useful, but its conclusions can only be as reliable as what its body of producers are incentivized to produce.
I feel you! I had an ASP.NET Core Web API using a SQLite file for data storage. It was working exceptionally fine in development. When we released it, as soon as more than 10 users were throwing request upon it, it got so deadly slow. Obviously caching and some tweaking helped a lot. But it was far from easy to find, understand and test (!) all required options and optimizations.

Other than that I still love SQLite.
Open core companies are not incentivized to make their projects good
New account. So? People create new accounts all the time. How do accounts come into existence?

Tweeting out links. So? One of the most basic use cases there are, for example a brand tweeting links to press releases.

From multiple locations. So? You mean like every multinational?

None of these factors have any smoking gun indicator to decisively and permanently suspend an account. On the other end of the spectrum we have a zillion crypto bots having the exact same avatar, name variations, auto-tweeting within the second of a main tweet being posted, and this is not spam.
Many of the politicians insulting each other in the chamber are on quite good terms outside of it. There are exceptions, of course, and the conduct of certain MPs can be troublesome - but it is broadly good natured. If you watch closely during PMQs, you can even see the adversarial act breaking from time to time when one of them gets in a good joke about the other.

Politicians being killed is clearly unacceptable and I'm pretty sure the vast majority of even very politically partisan people in this country would strongly condemn any kind of violence. However, we don't routinely have much security for MPs when they are at their constituency office, so it only takes one nutter to do something. If anything, it's sadly surprising that it doesn't happen more often.
If I wasn't living in this timeline, the current Republican politics would be HILARIOUS.

In short [0], the idea of republicanism is that the people cannot be trusted to make political decisions; you need elder statesmen to do that. In other words, you need grown-ups. To this end, we have the electoral college, which is supposed to block any egregiously populist president. Well that is not how it worked out.

0. So short that it is misleading. I won't defend anything I say here, even though I believe it in principle.
The problem here is not ADHD being over diagnosed. The problem is using academic performance in place of actual diagnosis in the first place. It's a good predictor, but we are entirely capable of more. ADHD is the best studied disorder there is.

ADHD has been very significantly plaugued by misinformation and stygma. Misinformation is still baked into the name itself!

But things are getting better. People are learning that ADHD is actually an executive functioning disorder, that you aren't likely to grow out of it as an adult, and that stimulant medication isn't the Boogeyman that the war on drugs has made it out to be.

So it's no wonder that we are seeing increased diagnosis rates! We're seeing an increase of LGBTQ+ identification rates, too. It's pretty obvious why.

This whole article is just fear mongering backed by circular reasoning. Do better, NYT.
Yep, I've got lots of experience in this area. It works very well for read-only use cases and is interesting for read-write like tedit. Also it's amazing for build systems like the one built into tedit. I wish the webdev world in general would move to that model. It would save so much compute people would joke it would slow global warming.
What's "chinchilla"? is that a codename for a specific CPU/GPU?

EDIT: no, it's a competitor with GPT-3 [1]

[1] https://analyticsindiamag.com/deepmind-launches-gpt-3-rival-...
I wonder how many checks Microsoft has under the hood to prevent this from happening? We'll never know but would be pretty enlightening.
Is it possible to calculate how much redshift it has had relative to us from the beginning (or at any point?)?
It does not really help in our scenario. I really hope that this feature will evolve more in next versions.
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You assume a lot of competence on the part of these large actors to collude and conspire at the macro level.

Let’s assume, for sake of argument, the conclusion of your assertion is true in that we are being poisoned and offered medication to mitigate the effects of said poison. This is more likely the effects of independent actors acting upon their respective self-interests.

Food companies try to drive costs down to sell cheaper products at the same price, which may end up having poor health consequences by virtue of untested substances having mass exposure. Pharmaceutical companies respond to market forces by developing drugs they can get funding for, which usually ends up being ailments that a lot of people have. There are way more efficient ways for them to team up and make money, this is just a side-effect of large institutions acting in self-interest.
So, two things. First, if you find a modern high-precision multiaxis CnC on Ebay for $5K, snap it up, you saved six $digits.

Second, dual-use tech is not about cost or sophistication. Did you know that Casio F91W watches get special attention from LEOs in many places? That isn't because a 1980s watch is super advanced. It is because they're popular bomb triggers.

And a bonus thing. When I see something happen in the world that seems absurd, there are two alternatives. Maybe it really is absurd; stupid things happen. But the other possibility is maybe I am ignorant of important details.

I personally learn a lot by entertaining the second option, even if it turns out the first was the case.
Just go to the passing around the talking stick with a timer attached model.

It's also why the 15 min presentation followed by 5 min Q & A is a decent communication model, you can do three per hour and then the meetings over.
While they do, I'm not sure they ever have in quite _these_ circumstances. The UK is (a) seeing some of the highest rates of inflation in the developed world and (b) needs to massively subsidise energy costs due to the energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now, I'd argue that borrowing enormous amounts of money to give a tax break to the upper-middle-class is almost _never_ a good idea, but it's particularly not a good idea in the current climate.
A better option is to legally require all web sites that provide third party distribution of content to hire actual human beings, with a livable wage, to moderate content rather than leaving it to users to target and report everything on their own. If they don't want to handle the cost of having a labor pool then they can go into some other sector like investment banking or whatever. Social media isn't a labor free sector of business.
Can We Please Stop Smacking People with Our Backpacks on Planes?
Who says this wasn’t a precision CNC jig grinder?
I completely agree with your second point, but nevertheless we should recognize the ease that these electronic devices offer us to train, communicate and also develop profitable businesses.
Good point, and also I wonder how many of these diagnoses are deliberately sought by parents aware of the "relative age within school year" phenomenon. Holding kids back a year because of this has become so common that it has a name: redshirting. Having them diagnosed as ADHD and either medicating or holding back seems like a natural extension.

I don't mean to suggest that anyone's faking it BTW. As the authors point out, the real problem here might be underdiagnosis of September children. But parents of August kids might be more than a little predisposed to schedule that doctor visit, listen to that diagnosis, etc. in a way that parents of September kids would not be.
Although a vegetarian guard sounds intriguing (but not as cool as a Vegan Guard), probably this was the Varangian Guard.
I'd like to stake out the position, which I hope remains within the overton window, as tenable, that "information wants to be free". There was a pretty strong contingent of people in the tech world that believed that at one point, though tech has grown to the point that "adults" have stepped in, and lawyers, and big money, etc, etc.

I remember using Napster for the first time back in the day. Amazing! All this free music at my fingertips, sharing P2P, so cool. And I thought Aaron Swartz was a hero. More recently, SciHub is one of the greatest things to happen to knowledge sharing ever. Software patents are stupid and cause more harm than they're worth, and everyone hates patent trolls, right? Copyright is just a tool to be abused by Disney's lobbyists.

I think the latest tools like Copilot and the stuff Stability AI is releasing fits right in here as amazing tools heralding a new future of exploration and leveling up the power of creators to create. Remixing existing data, maybe copying it, whatever.

Obviously, I'm an adult now, and when working for my corporation I have to be diligent about respecting software licenses and getting lawyer clearance for using tools like Copilot and such, but at some level I've got the Mr Anderson vs Neo thing going on in my head and it feels a little bit like we've lost something from the freewheeling days of early tech.
Are you sure they did this all by themselves --- no external forces and/or quantum physics involved?
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