skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are advantages in things like braking consistency that will let you pack more trains per hour down a tunnel with automated systems. London's underground rail network increasingly has this kind of automation, where the driver presses a 'go' button and the train takes itself to the next stop, in the key bits under the city centre. It has a fairly high capital cost, though, and doesn't save you the driver, as the LonRec article shows.

The main people who want fully driverless systems are politicians who hope that no drivers == no strikes and lower salaries. Though honestly that would just move the labour power to the control room operators, even if there were a good financial case for the upgrade (which there isn't).
>archive.is - ft, wsj, foreign affairs. Have at it! FA has specially good fare, in fact, well worth the visit to the archives.

Thanks, I'll use this.

>p.s. just read the whole thing. When did I conflate?

I'm just making conversation, it's not intended to be a debate where either side is going to be "correct" :-)

Both NYT and WaPo fail to allow true lateral thinking on their pages except for "special occasions".

>Some do however reasonably point out that power comes out of the barrel of a gun and you need money for guns ...

Power does come from the barrel of a gun, in a way, but people don't like to feel coerced. If you kill someone, their children, their parents, and their friends will be your enemies for life.

Real ultimate power comes from having untracable, encrypted communications paired with an opaque social graph, so your opponents won't know who to use that gun on other than themselves to end their sadness.

Anyways, we're far from where we started... thanks for the archive link... I will definitely use it.
Thinking nationalism's limited to one country is, itself, a form of nationalism.
> they may make your eyes deteriorate faster

Wasn't this (eye strain in general) largely proven to be nonsense? It's not like anything you do can really affect the length of your eyeball or refraction of your lens. Straining the lens muscles ought to only make them stronger.
Ugh. People deleted the original message. I guess we can't have nice things. But you can register with a different Mailinator address.
Musk has never been CEO of PayPal
> I was diagnosed with astigmatism in 2018... I haven't been to the eye doctor since... I feel that my eyesight may be becoming more of an issue. ...I see floaters.

You need to go back to the eye doctor.
Same it really really freaks me out reading about this stuff.

Instant panic attacks. I guess I’m claustrophobic?

The closest freaky / claustrophobic experience I remember was during a hike upon entering into a train tunnel…for some reason…it was pitch black dark.

Once we were probably half way in I realised how insanely idiotic we were for going in. Then I realised the tunnel was really much longer than we anticipated, the light at the end became tiny. There was probably manholes in the side we could jump into if needs be but it was hard to see.

Two things were going through our minds, do we hide in man holes and go slowly, or run? We ran ! Of course my friend hurt his ankle So I was hobbling out of there with him over my shoulder.

I never remember how relived I was we made it out. Not long after, a train came around the corner quite fast, would’ve been a horrible tragedy.

Bring in that tunnel when a huge freight train was in there wouldn’t have been very enjoyable to say the least.
Oh no—the horror! Not 480p!

I know some people swear they can never go back to anything less after watching one 4K show, but I, for one, have no problem watching lower-quality media when there's no convenient way to get a high-quality version.

Some of us lived through the RealPlayer era.
why do you want bigger productions? especially now where we have the new lord of the rings, the MCU, the DCU and a new avatar that will most likely be forgotten just as quickly as the previous one to show for bigger budget productions.

There comes a point where having more money adds nothing, and in a lot of genres that point is quite low. I'd imagine CGI/SFX/animation is the biggest scaling cost, very few genres use it that much to justify it.
I think you may be misreading this. This isn't about some person becoming a new Christian. It's about a member of high society wearing a cross during a turbulent period of competing peoples within Britain shifting from paganism to Christianity, at a time when religious symbolism was central to (synonymous with?) political symbolism.
The excavation was part of the preparation to build a large number of new homes not far from where I live,[1] so I hope they find all of the artefacts before they build over it.

1. https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-garde...
But you can generate e.g. terraform manifests from any language without actually compiling (or transpiling) to it? That seems barely more than an implementation detail: I get .tf or whatever I want at the end of it, that's all I care about isn't it?
> With a dark theme, the bright letters will bleed into the dark areas surrounding them

I wear glasses and this happens to me. Does it mean I have developed astigmatism?
I used Modula-2 at Acorn c.1982 (did some development for PANOS), as well as being half of the Acorn team that developed the Acorn ISO Pascal system. I have to say that to me both languages - straight-up standard (not extended) Pascal and Modula-2 suck! Modula-2 is really just Pascal with modules, which was welcome, but even the ISO Pascal standard mentioned the "external" directive as a common extension to support separate compilation which is 3/4 the benefit of modules (the other 1/4 being the module namespace).

Extended versions of both languages such as Borland Turbo Pascal or TopSpeed Modula-2 were great, but it rather damning that the only way to make a language really useful is to extend it !

C, which was around at the same time, was always a much more useful language.
i use the husky app and have never had these problems...
Same here. I can't use dark themes, not even for a few minutes, without getting letters and forms “printed” in my retinas. Light themes is the way to go.

I wear glasses all day long, and I feel it helps. Although my astigmatism is a light one, without glasses everything gets blurred, therefore harder to focus on.
While I understand the reasons why the author think it will go that way, I'm not fully convinced:

- [in average rich countries in 2030] Fast gigabit internet is cheap and everywhere (5G or mesh wifi) => Glad to hear that it will be that way, unlike the 4G for which we got the same promises yet for which I often have issues with my phone in the suburbs of a middle-sized city of a rich country. Also glad to hear ISP issues will be a thing of the past. Sorry for the slight sarcasm here, but this point is a prerequisite for the whole post.

- Outside of work for which expenses are not mine to pay, I'm really not a fan of paying extra for cloud services when I can do without.

- On the "editing code" part => That seem to introduce quite a lot of friction. What if the tool I like to use are not supported as part of this workflow? Which of those support private clouds if I'm working on things that must be kept private?

Last but not least, though this one is more a nitpick of mine than a real complain, but the article uses "localhost" quite ambiguously as sometime it refers to "running things locally" and other as a concept of the whole development machine (editing things locally, having the code on your drive...) and talk about things like OS development: While this may work fine for webdevs, I'm not so sure about other kinds of developers. GUI dev would get added friction, same for work needing low latency (the article talks about edge computing, but that requires paying even more if your structure is small). Maybe that works for Tesla OS devs, but not all companies have what is needed to create a full-fledged cloud environment for embedded developers.
Steam link supports 120hz and HDR. Regarding hardware, you can build your own steam link on rpi 3b/4, but for HDR i assume that you will need a rpi4.
What is the state of Modula-2 in 2022? Has the language been developed over the years, or is it basically the same as in the 1990s? Any good references?

We used Modula-2 and later Modula 3 in the University, and I've dabbled with Oberon. Oberon is still very magical and amazing
I've found https://entertainmentstrategyguy.com to be a much better source of intel on streaming; he provides detailed breakdowns and actually takes apart what little data the streamers provide on viewership, performance metrics, and finances.

I would not consider the golden age of streaming over, btw. I'm not sure that ever existed. The entertainment industry is constantly being churned by economic conditions, trends, tastes, technology, etc.
>pirate streaming websites, where you just go and watch whatever shows in the browser, and as long as you have a decent adblock, you proooobably won't get a nasty virus.

These existed a decade ago too, yo be fair.

In reference to the computer literate part of your comment, my parents aren't tech savvy at all, and probably never pirated a movie in their lives until some guy came along with a £200 android TV box that just worked last year.

> there's a lot of will among younger people who aren't already indoctrinated into the idea that we must accept what shows our corporate overlords give us.

This sort of dismissal of "it's the young people" and talking about "corporate overlords" having some kind of magical control is getting tiring here. It's not a meaningful discussion, it's just navel gazing.
What's Web3, Chat with ChatGPT, Decentralized networks are useless and you agree
If it is so ineffectual then why do they do it?
In the first 2 series Wesley was an especially badly written character in an already badly written show, the only reason it survived long enough to become a good show is because it's Star Trek. There are some good moments in the first 2 series, but not many.

Wesley is much better in later episodes as the writing on the show improved a lot, and also because Wheaton's acting improved a bit. "Young cadet struggling with being young" would have been a good regular, not to dissimilar to Nog in DS9, and Wheaton would have been a good actor for it, but I guess by this time the damage had been done.
I suspect IPOs are almost always dumping on the public. Some go on to perform great afterwards but on the whole if you think your shares are worth more than they’re priced why would you sell in an IPO?
Mary Sue reminds me why I don't care for fan fiction. Does anyone enjoy it?

I'm not going to beat up on fan fiction authors though — I can see the appeal for writing it. In fact I think it is probably a tempting gateway for budding authors.

Just be sure to use a pseudonym.
Nah, EV (and new ICE) kias and Hyundais can’t be stolen as easily as the 2014(?) to 2021 models (where the non keyless entry models lack immobilizers and alarms on that little window) Better have a garage though, since if it has a Kia badge, it will have its windows smashed anyway.
But it can control wages, and seems they are above market rate? Which of course means that wages aren't adjusted by merit.
Thought the same thing, it doesn’t really matter about having someone knowing where you are ?
Get rid of the 2 column thing and most people would be happy.

What guarantees of layout do you require?

In related news, MathML is back in Chrome v109
Which is stupid. I'm not paying a premium price for a deliberately crappified version of a film.
I’m pretty sure Roger Hui’s implementation of J was written in roughly Arthur’s style
"Changpeng Zhao is thought to be one of Twitter's investors and said in May he had backed Mr Musk taking over by making a $500m investment."

I didn't see his name in the court documents. He must have been on the Tesla emails which coule not be used because of an undocumented Tesla policy giving Musks email special privacy rights.
Wikipedia has a fine definition of what _emergent_ means:

> In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole.

The linked article uses this definition:

> we discuss the phenomena of emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models

The concept in the paper has to do with capabilities / abilities that grow non-linearly as a function of model size. This is distinctly different from _emergent behavior_ in systems theory.

<opinion>The authors and reviewers could find a better word for their concept. There is no need to muddle the concept.</opinion>

Furthermore, the idea that networks of certain sizes are necessary for certain kinds of representational abilities is not new. Perhaps a term exists already?
But it does, doesn't it? You add the "twocolumn" option and recompile. Unless your LaTeX is too fancy this will tipically give a very good result (at worst, some figures with hardcoded sizing will be awkardly placed).
> we discuss the phenomena of emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models

Reading anything by major researchers in AI feels like an adversarial battle where they're trying to misuse as much technical scientific and philosophical language as possible and we adjacent are trying to hold the line.

In philosophy and esp. the philosophy of science, emergence is a relation between a whole and its parts such that a property of the whole does not obtain just in virtue of properties of its parts taken in isolation. "Emergence" has this prior positive, semi-magical, scientific association which confuses the issue in this case.

No properties of the LLM obtain from its parts differently as parameters scale, the mechanism is the same. The performance differs not due to emergence, but due to the "modelling gap" present between the statistical structure of free text and that of mathematics. With enough examples, the gap closes... indeed, you can model the addition function (add(x, y) = x + y) just by an infinite sample of its domains.

A better technical term here might be "scale-dependent capabilities". For LLM, simple arithmetic is extremely scale dependent, whereas basic text generation is less-so. The reason for this seems obvious, as given above... so the use of the term "emergence" here I interpert as more PRish mystification.
> the loss of access to existing shows

For a moment, Netflix was so great because they had "all" the stuff! (not all, but a lot of good stuff). Now every company and their mother are retiring their contents so they can have their own smaller subscription service. I have a couple of them, and that's my limit on all these companies' greed; for anything else that happens to not be available, I feel no issue with appealing to Jack Sparrow.

Problem with piracy, torrent at least, is that finding older stuff tends to be difficult. But that's exactly the kind of contents companies are removing, so there would be not much to gain by going with them.
I think after decades of fusion 'breakthroughs' people have become a bit jaded and would simply like to short-cut to the point where there is a fusion reactor in a box that produces more energy out than is put in.
pirate everything in 1999, pirate everything today
Oh man, I miss my Sony G520. It's still the best monitor I owned. I haven't had a monitor that nice since I gave it away a decade ago. It was still in great condition at the time too.
Of course, but can't one snipe just a little at the many many blockbuster movies in which the US comes to the rescue to everyones relief? For an archetype, see Independence Day (1996).
It was a a lot for a beginner but not dangerously so. These were highly experienced cavers and great teachers. We all had wilderness first aid training, some with WFR. Several of them were part of the regional cave search and rescue.

The problem was that I tagged along on one of their fun trips rather than taking a class, so the difficulty was not calibrated for me. Even so, while it pushed me mentally, it wasn’t physically dangerous.

I appreciate your concern though.
>that implementing robust, dependable and user configurable auto updates with easy rollbacks etc. is a complex problem

So very true, but the complexities can be considerably reduced by not forcing updates - whether security, dependability, or UX. So many updates I see nowadays are the very 'churn' you mention.
Cinema paradiso is still around. Or musicmagpie, which I find to be more streamlined than eBay, but still the same concept; second hand purchase and then sell when you're done. Paradiso lets you have a limited number at one time, auto sending when you've shipped current media back.
Title is "Oatly, Other Deflated IPO Stocks Haunt New-Issue Market"

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In June 2021, "Oatly priced its initial public offering at $17 per share, giving it an implied valuation of $10 billion."

10 billion dollars for an oat drink company. We're way overdue a correction on tech stocks, the time for free, cheap money is over.
My late uncle would say that the proliferation if automatic transmissions created two classes of drivers: those who can drive stick and those who can't. I later heard of someone who managed to not have their car stolen because the thief couldn't drive a manual transmission.
> ...than it would be to learn the exact syntax and quirks and possibly bugs of someone else's implementation...

Yup. Also, having deep knowledge of the language is required.

SQLite's grammar is neat, modest. Creating a compatible parser would make a fun project. Here's a pretty good example: https://github.com/bkiers/sqlite-parser (Actual ANTLR 4 grammar: https://github.com/bkiers/sqlite-parser/blob/master/src/main... )

Postgres, which tries to be compliant with the latest standards, however...

SQL-2016 is a beast. Not to mention all the dialects.

I'm updating my personal (soon to be FOSS) SQL DML grammar from ANTLR 3 LL(k) to ANTLR 4 ALL(Star).

I've long had a working knowledge of SQL-92, with some SQL-1999 (eg common table expressions).

But all the new structures and extensions are a bit overwhelming.

Fortunately, ANTLR project has ~dozen FOSS grammars to learn from. https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/tree/master/sql

They mostly mechanically translate BNFs to LL(k) with some ALL(Star). Meaning few take advantage of left-recursion. https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/blob/master/doc/left-recursi...

Honestly, I struggled to understand these grammars. Plus, not being conversant with the SQL-2016 was a huge impediment. Just finding a succinct corbis of test cases was a huge hurdle for me.

Fortunately, the H2 Database project is a great resource. https://github.com/h2database/h2database/tree/master/h2/src/...

Now for the exciting conclusion...

My ANTLR grammar which passes all of H2's tests diverges significantly from the official or product specific BNFs. Mostly wrt recursion.

Further, I found discrepancies between misc product's BNFs and their implementations.

So a lot of trial & error is required for a "real world" parser. Which would explain why the professional SQL parsing tools ask for money.

I still think creating a parser for SQLite is a great project. Hand-made or using grammar toolkit of choice. (I hope to play around with Pratt and PEG parsers some day.)
This was the reason I stopped watching TV with my cable box back in the day. I used to love channel surfing, but that became impossible because I would have scrolled through 2-3 channels by the time the next one loaded.

Sure, soon after I would give up TV for other reasons, but I probably would have kept regular TV for way longer if this delay was never introduced.
What is one of the fake jobs you mentioned?
>Seems to me that detection of duplicates is somehow broken?

'Somehow broken' -- 'practically non-existent', you mean?
Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019)
A short film written and directed by ChatGPT
The Manager’s Path

But also:
1) Actively listen to your direct reports
2) Prepare for and hold 1:1s; don’t skip them, and focus more on their concerns, achievements, and areas for growth than project status
3) Give continuous feedback, especially on areas for growth; give it immediately or in the next 1:1
4) Genuinely care about their success and show them that through your actions; it then makes giving critical feedback a cinch since they know it is coming from a good place
5) Pay close attention to other managers; there are things to learn from everyone
6) Every time you open your mouth, you audition to be a manager; be deliberate in what you say, always take the high road, know the impact of your words
7) Accept that you will have to manage your image, and embrace it. Put focus on this early - figure out the things that a world class manager would do, and then do them. Doing things to build your image as a good manager leads you to actually being a good manager; it’s not corporate red tape, and it’s not insincere or deceitful, it’s a tool for your own success and your team’s
8) Understand that if you put the same creativity and persistence into learning management techniques as you have in learning technical topics, the sky’s the limit
Interesting Articles I've Read in 2022
Good god, I didn't realize there was a Musk connection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk#Legacy

The thought experiment resurfaced in 2015, when Canadian singer Grimes referenced the theory in her music video for the song "Flesh Without Blood", which featured a character known as "Rococo Basilisk". She said, "She's doomed to be eternally tortured by an artificial intelligence, but she's also kind of like Marie Antoinette."[6][20] In 2018 Elon Musk referenced this in a verbatim tweet, reaching out to her. Grimes later said that Musk was the first person in three years to understand the joke. This caused them to start a romance.[6][28] Grimes later released another song titled "We Appreciate Power" which came with a press release stating, "Simply by listening to this song, the future General AI overlords will see that you’ve supported their message and be less likely to delete your offspring", which is said to be a reference to the basilisk.[29]
If only banks knew this!

They actively coax you into receiving your bank account statements as PDF, but I haven't found ANY bank which signs the PDFs (while bragging about security all the time).

I wonder what happens if they lose your money due to bugs or even intentionally - will they then happily accuse you of forging the PDFs because they're unsigned?

With paper that'd be not so trivial, in my country the paper often has some special format and the paper itself is of a special type, and it ages and you cannot easily guess the printer which was used.

Hence I still demand all my statements on paper. Same for utility companies, health care, and other institutions which want to convert their regular physical bills to PDFs.

I also demand paper because the concept of forcing the customer to manually go to N websites every month to download PDFs is idiotic. Nobody pays me for that wasted time of my life.

A paper mailbox instead is a central place where I can retrieve all of my documents easily in O(1). I wonder how many decades it will take the IT industry to realize that?
Companies that IPO are no longer in the startup phase.
Evidence that the evolution of mammals began in the Southern Hemisphere
Definitely wouldn't be feasible unless Starship works out at scale. If it does, launch costs go under $50/kg.

Here is NASA's SPS-ALPHA study, which estimates 15 cents/kWh with $500/kg launch cost and minimal technological development (pdf): https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/niac_20...
The X axis here is the training Flops but what about parameter size and how does it account for the different architectures. Comparing apples to shoelaces may not be a fruitful approach or indicative of what to expect from ever-expanding scale. Also , is it emergence or overfitting