skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand Alpha Centauri IV will have population of whopping 3B

https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+alpha+centauri
I'm aware of that thanks.

The images have been scaled, to varying degrees.
It makes them basically useless for comparing fonts.

You can see obvious signs of this by comparing the below two screenshots, the macOS window UI elements are different sizes.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/02/09/-big/inco...

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/02/09/-big/droi...
And yet almost all the rest of the world has these rules, and we don't see crime waves.

To me, you're describing the incompetence of your police forces.

> thieves steal a car, ram it into a store,

This is really considered a non-violent crime in the US?

I live in a city where car chases would be impossible. And yet there are criminals here, and they have a higher apprehension rate than in the US.

If this crime happened here, they would use drones, helicopters and roadblocks. They get way ahead of the escaping criminal. The different police departments cooperate well here, so you can't just drive to another area.

Which is why, generally, criminals dump their car almost immediately and try to escape on foot.
What is ‘sky trash’ and is it linked to the mystery objects shot down by US?
I feel you! Unfortunately, all those millions to billions allow those organizations to ignore reality far longer than they should be able to.

Just recently I came to a realization, people and organisations exist in a competency / incompetency matrix.

The competent orgs with incompetent people are your blue chips and "traditional" companies. They ship stuff, have customers, grow along with the overall market and economy and are abble to survive most non-existential threats and down-turns and even existential ones from time to time. All, or most, the competency is institutional, recorded in implicit knowledge held by people and various tools and processes. Unless those companies loose that knowledge for some reason, things are good.

Competent orgs with competent people are incredible places, e.g. Amazon. They grow like crazy, rarely screw up and develop. They ship and have happy customers, they innovate. These places are hard to come by, harder to create and even harder to maintain.

Then you have incompetent orgs with competent people. By definition start-ups, those only reach competency when they serve, sucessfully and not depending on outside funding, markets and customers for a while. Doing things right, those orgs can create orgabisational competency based on the people competency.

And then there are incompetent orgs with incompetent people. Places were you think, as you said, you haluzionate all your training and experience. The only thing standing between a start-up (incompetent org and competent people) and such a nightmare is leadership. The thing that allows everyone to pretend to not be obe of those doomed places is endless cash. Sooner or later, those places come crushing down.
> By the time I was 18 I had lived in five countries across three different continents

You are not a data point though.

You think your experience is universal, it is not, people don't like to take kids around the 5 continents and see them losing all their friends everytime, change school everytime, be away from their family etc. etc.

It's very stressful for every family, especially for kids.

My nephew would be inconsolable if she was separated from her grandparents.

I bet your dad works in the military, there's a reason why not many people want to do that job.

I also bet your mother stayed home.

I am not saying kids cannot survive it, there are kids who survived alone in the jungle, I am saying that it's something people do consider as a reason to settle down.

Because people usually make choices based on what is best for their families, when they have one, and usually the most important part is not putting kids through something they are unprepared for if it's not an absolute necessity.

Doesn't mean it never happens, it means it usually doesn't.

Imagine that one of the main theories on why hunter gatherers settled down and started farming is that by settling down they could involve elders and children in food production. Because kids and elders cannot go hunting or walk for tens of kms to gather food. It basically bootstrapped civilizations as we know them.

It's something we've been doing for tens of thousands of years, it's not new.

Also, we're not talking about "digital nomads" that is just a fancy term to describe "rich westerners constantly on holiday on their very expensive van"

> and familiarity with a variety of mindsets, languages, and cultures.

that does not involve moving constantly.

I too have family and friends all over the World, nothing special about that in 2023.

> There are durable social apparatuses that do not hinge on close blood relations for the elderly to be supported.

You mean I should not care about people who cared about me and loved me when I was a kid?

I am not a monster.

Do you know that when he was a kid Hitler too moved a lot, because his dad didn't care much about his well being?
Attachment Style Isn’t Destiny
https://archive.is/at6aL
Don't forget

* The workflow to use your software is so unintuitive I've had to learn it by muscle memory

People don't mind when a nice discoverable UI adds some more features. They don't like it when a horrible poorly thought out one that they had to painfully learn is suddenly different. That button that used to be hidden in the edit menu? Now it's on a ribbon menu which has to be expanded. Good luck hunting!
sounds like you could have anonymous currency.

heres our FHE bank. we both have accounts. the entire ledger is encrypted.

i give you 5 dollars, i have no idea what your starting and ending balance, but i am still able to initiate a transaction that will deduct 5 from mine, and add 5 to yours, and verify i actually have 5 to send, and the entire thing will be done without exchange of information about balances with any outside party. its just approved/declined by the algorithm. i can see my own balance with my own key, you can see your own balance with your own key, but we cant see each others balance. ---nor could anyone else including the bank---.

weird. and kind of scary. and most definitely illegal in the real world since the bank itself could never prove its reserve level of deposit met the percentage set by government.
What would be your recommendations?
Quibble: "uninterest". "Disinterest" means "impartiality". Disinterest is good.

I can't quibble with any of the rest of your argument, though.
I stopped pursuing it. I'm married and have a child now, so I guess that approach worked for me.

Don't date, don't search, don't lok. Be a whole and complete person by yourself, and enjoy your life on your own terms.

If you're a person who functions well without anyone, you're a million times more attractive, and in an honest way (you can always make someone fall in love with some false projection of you, but this is not what you want, since you can't comfortably be anyone but who you are for any real amount of time).
Of course.
She moved from an F500 to an F100 company in a global leadership position.
It's crazy how a person like that, without any kind of skills (neither human), can have an amazing career only for the right name on the resume.

But at least my company replaced her with someone better.
This guy should make a pro version, you want the absolute latest pollyfills, you have to be a paid supporter of the project. Otherwise your polyfills lag a year behind.
From the article:

> On Thursday, a university student named Marvin von Hagen independently confirmed that the list of prompts Liu obtained was not a hallucination by obtaining it through a different prompt injection method: by posing as a developer at OpenAI.

Although one cannot be 100% certain.
I love the idea but it is not working for me : even the example prompts are saying they cannot generate any design.

So how does it work? SD is not gpt right? So does it use sd or gpt or some clever mix, like gpt3 writing prompts for dall-e to make sure they are designs for web components?
Vapor phase formaldehyde breaks down in the air within hours.[1]

It will also be destroyed in the soil by any number of mechanisms, with a half-life of about 14 days. [2]

[1] https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/tfacts111.pdf

[2] https://webwiser.nlm.nih.gov/substance?substanceId=1&identif...
A simple example would be going through a rest response. If a value is present the text should display, if it isn't return null. Passing back a blank string would be the bad pattern.
From my non-US perspective, this kind of views that China has somehow done something to disrupt world order look like obvious delusions, and I don't understand why they seem to be believed in America.

Sure, China is authoritarian. But it has always been. And it has never promised otherwise. Maybe some naive neoliberals expected it to become democratic due to some magical thinking that trade brings democracy, but as far as I know this is just Western imagination at work, not anything that China ever vowed to do, so why is China acting coherently with its decades-long policy is suddenly seen in America as some sort of treason?

And then, there is the military aspect... and sure, China is warlike, threatens Taiwan, etc., but is anyone going to seriously defend that the US is less warlike than China? Come on.

The only real explanation seems to be that China has lately been successful in becoming more powerful (the goal of any country) and the US isn't taking that well at all, the rest looks like blatant propaganda.
> But then another customer still wants gamma@1, they are allowed to do that! But they also want your new features.

In this case, you still have the option of working with them to help them migrate to gamma@2, if the cost of maintaining gamma@1 is indeed too high and would negatively impact you in serving other customers. This was the original premise, wasn't it - upgrading all your dependants when you upgrade your library? That's still an option. The point is - you have more choices. And you can also help customers one by one - you don't have to do it all at once

I will agree though, restricting choices helps when the company is finding difficulty in aligning incentives through communication. But you do give up a lot for it - including ability to move fast and avoid stagnation.
Because they have expressed the intent to run it by scheduling it on the event loop?

I don't follow the argument wrt tidying up rogue tasks. What does it mean for the task to be "rogue"? If there was some state change that made the task redundant - because it clearly wasn't when it was submitted! - then the code that makes that change, or some other code that observes it, should cancel it. If it isn't cancelled, the fact that nobody is able to observe the value that the task will yield is not sufficient to auto-cancel, as there may still be a dependency on side effects.

And, speaking of tidying up, what if the scheduled task is the one that performs some kind of cleanup?
Addiction meant something in old 1500s Latin. It meant to 'devote or give onself up to a habit or practice'.

Offering one's self up to social media can allow you to mechanistically escape pain, but it also does damage at the same time.

The more you offer yourself up to social media, you are giving away a chunk of your mental health to be liked and adored by instagram.

How could anyone own their mental health, when you can dump your hopes and dreams into the void anytime you want, to offer yourself up in hopes of relief.

Gabor only tells a quarter of the story.
A gentle introduction to SMT-based program analysis
Yes, war caused by Russia trying to genocide Ukraine is caused by western industry.

Jesus Christ people do you even listen to yourself?
Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. all offer current-gen "business" notebooks with 720p or 768p screens, to placate the penny pinching soulless big corporations.
> My opinion is that The Economist is looking for any angle to support the fleecing of the American people to the tune of $130B which we just handed over to the arms industry. The war was crafted by this industry through its puppeteering of the US government for expressly this purpose.

Care to explain how exactly the US is to blame for Putin invading Ukraine due to Ukrainians ousting Yanukovych 8 years ago?
Rebellions Inc, a South Korean startup, rolled out an innovative artificial intelligence chip that uses 80% less power than NVIDIA's microchip.
Shadow roots are a nightmare when doing any kind of Web scraping or UI integration testing
Kings English old chap :-)
It's social media.

The more social media gives us almost bespoke communities (not even including chatbots) the less resilience people are developing.

The movie M3GAN satirised this nicely.
Thought Experiment: You’re in an Arena
> Passing back a blank string would be the bad pattern.

That would actually be idiomatic Java behavior.

But with REST, I think you should return different status codes and different types entirely if you're returning an error. Not try to communicate through the presence of absence of fields. You should definitely not return half-complete representations when something half-worked. Either it's complete and guaranteed to be fully populated, or it's not returned at all.

e.g.

HTTP 200: { "message": "hi mom!" }

HTTP 404: { "error": "you came to the wrong neighborhood!" }
https://darvozaosilencio.org/

In english: https://darvozaosilencio.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SUMA...

(page 11)

In 58.5% of cases, victims mention that they knew of other cases of abuse, although their recollections of these vary considerably in terms of precision and accuracy.

In a very rough calculation, we estimate that the 512 victims knew of or were in contact with close to 4,300 other victims.

The methodology is similar to that used to estimate bird populations.

Australia has had Royal Commision Inquiries in the Catholic Church [1]:

An inquiry examining institutional sex abuse in Australia has heard 7% of the nation's Catholic priests allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010.

In one religious order, over 40% of church figures were accused of abuse.

Over 4,440 people claim to have been victims between 1980 and 2015, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse was told.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38877158
I switch to “lower intensity” tasks that could still be useful, like tweaking our Datadog dashboards and monitors, writing or editing some documentation, going through old company announcements, Googling some things, etc.

Or I go take a walk, make coffee or do household chores when I’m working from home.

If you’re able to get a few hours of productive work done in a day (let’s say 3 to 4 hours) and spend the rest of your time recovering from that and recouping your energy, I think it’s okay.

However, if any work is completely draining you, it might be a good idea to take some time off.
Youtube was founded 15 years ago, and might, possibly be profitable now… but I still doubt it. Between the eternally escalating storage and bandwidth requirements, political pressure to involve more humans in content moderation keeps rising too.
I do get a lot of Elon Musk tweets on my for-you page even though I'm not really politically aligned with him at all (and most of the people I follow aren't either).

I always just thought, hey, he bought it so it is what it is. But it does show the lack of transparency these algorithms and platforms have which is a huge issue imo.
I like how you refer to people being able to defend from being enslaved and murdered as "throwing gasoline on the fire". If I started torturing and killing your family, would you let me do it because trying to stop is throwing gasoline on the fire?

Just how inhuman can you people be?
Beliefs in a conspiracy can be the majority position, and not at all a contrarian position.
Yes, it is about boring and unfulfilling jobs...
The universe and the brain are just assumptions, you're already in the realm of imagination when you talk about them as they can't be empirically known. You only know what you experience right now, that could be the entirety of it. When you move from a place to another, you simply just imagine that new place. You join those thoughts coherently because you like to think logically, but otherwise nothing necessarily exists outside of perception.
> "at 3 AM, I was driving home. Two deadly drunk 18-years-old girls in dark clothes decided somehow to crawl across a poorly lit highway"

There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
People are just saying words.
The "mov is turing complete" thing is mostly about x86 mov having a lot of functionality. It can do arithmetic. The mov mnemonic basically encapsulates a bunch of functions (and opcodes), kind of like how git checkout can do at least ~3 distinct operations depending on arguments.

That said, to have unbounded loops, they either need:

- A branch at the end.

OR

- The use of pagefaults.

So even then, it's not quite just the mov instruction alone.
That's not entirely true. Reddit when was launched was the underdog to a very popular Digg, and maybe to a less extent Slashdot. Reddit gained popularity when Digg updated their interface to something that most users disliked strongly. And HN had reddit as a competitor right from the start - maybe not the same reddit of today, but still notable.
And I suspect you've spent too much time in the world of reporting if you think that journalists are some paragons of truth and honesty.
It was the Python community that consistently treated CPython behavior as the spec, in many cases contrary to explicit statements in the official docs to the effect that "this is a CPython-specific thing" etc, the most notable example being reliance on deterministic refcounting and on the GIL.

But that's not what makes performance hard to fix. It's rather the fact that most Python code out in the wild depends on packages written in native code, and the CPython ABI for said packages exposes way too many implementation details. If you ditch ABI compatibility, you can ditch GIL, for starters (see e.g. IronPython and Jython) - but few people are willing to make do without all the affected packages.
We haven't sent them that much of actual material and most of that is outdated. A lot has been promised but deliveries outfit scheduled years from now. Money is useful but you can't shoot it, and a lot of Ukrainian capital is lost because of the war. And the most important resource, soldiers, is the one thing we can't send them. And Russia can just conscript as many as they want.

And it's Ukraine itself that wants their territories back, including Crimea and Donbass. Making it hard to negotiate. But also understandable, once you start giving in, you're giving Russia an incentive to do it all over again and capture now territory.
A bit outdated, but "Securities Operations" by Michael Simmons might be starting point. "[It] focuses on the settlement aspects of a securities transaction."

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Securities+Operations%3A+A+Guide...
Very few switch games use Vulkan on the Switch. NVN is the true native graphics API on the Switch, which is Nvidia's API. Those that have tried Vulkan on Switch usually end up ditching it for NVN as Vulkan leaves too much performance on the table on a system with little power to spare.
I was pretty much like this for a long time, 1 / 10 would not recommend. For me the change was gradual but basically it was a couple of realizations revolving around separating my identity from my career and finding personal stuff I'd rather pour my emotional energy into, instead of pouring it to fight my employer to do things I thought they should be wanting me to do.
In theory yeah, though I think this would be incredibly expensive.

It's probably something that will happen as pixel exclusive. And most likely, just Pixel 8 or 9 but maybe the rest of the line is blessed. Although people expect different things from virtual assistants.
Conservatives don't want to stir up anti-industry sentiments.

Progressives don't want to stir up anti-railroad sentiments.
A few months ago I stumbled across a Star Wars comic [0] that perfectly explained Talent vs. Training:

"Think of yourself as a door. The wider you open [training], the more easily the Force flows through you [learning something]. Some people just start with their door a bit more open [talent]. But any door can open wide"

[0] https://imgur.com/a/Leu354e
Daily reminder that humans are not good to each other (this doesn't mean we don't have the ability to be good to each other, but we generally are not)
We changed from teams to google meet when we otherwise do everything in 365 just for the video conferencing. Teams was so bad, it was costing us a lot of frustration and time, working mostly remote it seriously impeded our ability to do work.

We still use teams for chat, but it always bogs my mind how broken it is, especially for devs. The last time I used slack for work was maybe 7 years ago, I still miss that. Being forced to move to teams killed any sense of online community in the workplace, biggest example of how tools can actually shape culture.
Lua is a joy to work with, one of my favorite (scripting) languages.

Having tables as the primary underlying data structure gives it a very LISP-y feel despite having an ALGOL syntax, providing a nice middle ground between the two styles.
Curing patients is a great business model. If you don't do it someone else will, and they'll take your customers.
I think your guess would be the most likely.

Step 1. Get a huge email list

Step 2. Grep that email list for peter

Step 3. Do a custom audience in FB and run a Peter t-shirt campaign

I don't know any other way to do anything "dynamic" in Facebook Ads. And FB doesn't really like that advertisers creep out their audience, even though they can. I assume it's the reason behind their policy that you can't call out personal attributes. E.g. you can't say "Hey hetereosexual white person! Click here", but you have to write it as "Here's a fun website for hetereosexual white people".

I just double checked the policies and using a first name in the ad is actually not allowed, BUT I think you can get around that by having a general ad like "Cool name t-shirts" and then the image happens to have "Peter" printed on the t-shirt.

Source: https://transparency.fb.com/policies/ad-standards/objectiona...
I can guarantee you that eastern Europe during cold war, or any other heavily oppressed / enslaved region by russia/CCCP never experienced anything from world cuisine, curries including. Even travelling within ruskies sphere of influence was forbidden for most population, you had to 'earn' it as viewed by regime.

Sure, we had 'curry' mix in shops, exactly 1 same mixture, but nobody apart from few lucky mountaineers and diplomats had any clue what curry actually means. And taste of it had nothing to do with anything that can be eaten in Indian subcontinent, just yellow bland bleh.
The point is that pre-230, no one knew who was liable for comments, and 230 clarified. The tech industry needs a law detailing who is liable, the way 230 clarified.

The AI-Generated art world seems to want the prompter to be the "artist", but if you prompt bing for search... are you the "creator"? It seems unlikely. On the other hand, Microsoft is "simply" using an algorithm to rehash the existing web.. just like search results page did before, so this is no different.
Conda is a special type of hell though. I have read the manual. Multiple tutorials. Yet I, not even once got conda to work for me.
Interactive History of Philosophy – Summarized and Visualized
>It seems the west is willing to fight to the last ukranian.

"The west" isn't fighting unless you mean "the west" = Ukraine and nothing else.