skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sun was very much enterprise, nice reliability and support but commodity hardware completely blew them away for most purposes. They were still selling $10k workstations when a cheap consumer PC running Linux would run laps around it.
Windows applications usually ship their own copy of all the libraries they use, instead of relying on the system copy of those libraries; and Microsoft is better at keeping system APIs backward-compatible (for some definition of system). Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages.
Now my brain is reading that line in a Vin Diesel voice, and it seems to fit.
Northern VA. is the heart of the internet. Not everyone is happy about that
I like nim but I've never really gotten used to the slicing syntax. I guess that I'm just too used to python, plus you have to be a bit careful to leave a whitespace when doing backwards indexing so that the operators work correctly.

So python:

a = [0,1,2,3,4,5]
a[0:5] => [0,1,2,3,4] - half closed interval
a[0:-1] => [0,1,2,3,4] - negative indexing
a[:5] => [0,1,2,3,4] - skipping start index
a[3:] => [3,4,5] - skipping end index

nim:

var a = [0,1,2,3,4,5]
a[0..5] = [0,1,2,3,4,5] - closed interval
a[0..^1] = [0,1,2,3,4,5] - closed interval with negative indexing
a[..4] = [0,1,2,3,4] - skipping start index
a[..<5] - Error - doesn't work
a[3..] - Error - doesn't work
a[0..<5] = [0,1,2,3,4] - half closed interval
a[0..< ^1] = [0,1,2,3,4] - half closed interval with negative indexing
(Important - the white space is required, it will crash otherwise!)

I'm sure that there are good reasons for this behaviour and that if you use nim a lot, you just get used to it but I find the python syntax just nicer.
I don't hate ML or its syntax, but this feels like a reasonable set of irritations to me. I may need to introspect a bit more.
Iran is currently in a position where nothing but violent resistance is likely to have an effect. The people in charge live safely in gated communities or abroad and have no shame, protestor deaths in the streets don't faze them even a little bit.
> Security forces have responded with a deadly crackdown to the protests, among the strongest challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution ended 2,500 years of monarchy.

Iran had a democratically elected government in 1953 when the US and UK overthrew their democracy, and installed the dictator/monarch, the Shaw.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-rol...

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/iran/2017-08-08/1953...
>It's irrelevant if 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis during WW2 instead of 7 million or 5 million. The problem is how this sort of nitpicking revolving high-level gross estimates is leveraged to deny it ever exist and fuel further hatred targeting Jewish people.

The accurate number doesn't matter, but if you say the accurate number, that's bad, because the people who think the number is zero will somehow win. So don't say the accurate number.

Okay.
By this logic, any group of people cooperating to do anything is also a person. That is utterly nonsensical - what is the point of defining a group of people as a person?
The chances are that most people doing this are introducing some nondeterminism that they did not expect, and will have a hard time dealing with it when it bites them in the ass.

What's more to the point is that I am going to have a hard time when it leads to a serious outage or security violation at some major corporation that has become too pervasive in its reach for me to avoid its influence. No amount of schadenfreude is going to compensate for that.
> Why? Why must an apartheid state have so much power?

What's really curious is that you leapt from a discussion of the Holocaust to racist policies of the former South African government.
It will never truly be the year of the Linux desktop until this is fixed. Even assuming the developers of the major pieces of proprietary software were willing to put in the work to port, say, Photoshop or Word, packaging the result is made intentionally asinine.

It's literally easier to run old Windows binaries on a Linux than to run old Linux binaries on Linux.
I agree with all of these points. "Rapid-onset gender dysphoria" is a bunch of baloney, but I do think there is probably a decent amount of teenagers who misdiagnose based on the internet, since this happens with a lot of other mental disorders as well.

I think the issue is that the annoying culture of the left of rejecting all "transphobic" arguments, (i say this as one of these people), means that some clinics are going too far and not being as careful as they should. The answer is probably government regulation, but we have to be careful not to be like the UK, and not just to "ban everything associated with trans healthcare at all" like Republican states are currently trying to do.
Most organizations with any sort of audit, insurance, or regulatory requirements do. Updating software is one of the most basic things covered by any security benchmark.
I’m surprised about Python being the language OP would teach his kids first. Racket seems more approachable for children.

http://emmanueltouzery.github.io/blog/posts/2016-10-13-teach...
It’s easy to maintain binary compatibility if a single company owns all versions and distros of an OS.
We already have people in big companies picking winners and losers via the kinds of projects that they fund. Having more funding can only lead to more winners, hopefully of a different kind than what companies are picking.
This would be interesting and would like to see it.

I wonder if this will cause a lot of people to migrate to an area that could be risky to live near. But, I guess if yellowstone blows, it would not matter where you live in North America.
There's an area NE of Seattle in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness that I've done a lot of hiking in. That puts it downwind. Every time I've been there, without fail, I've found multiple balloons. Sad to think of all that plastic pollution in an area with pristine rivers, lakes, and glaciers - and all for just the inane reason that people like floaty round things.
OK sure I’m a sociopath for not buying a Mercedes and an Hermes handbag for my wife. And guess what lots of people live even in expensive cities without making $400k. Go look up median incomes in major cities. You’ll be surprised.
Ask HN: Is literary analysis more important than teaching grammar in the AI age?
So maybe English teachers were right all along to focus on literary analysis instead of teaching grammar?
> What is weird is that they want to make it illegal in Canada and the US to even study or question history.

I don't believe that was ever the case. Holocaust denial is such a pervasive and murderous conspiracy theory that any free and open society cannot tolerate. But denying the Holocaust is not the same as studying it.
Yep, in Germany the Tower folks are not the ATC folks. The latter take over at the runway. And neither controls ground traffic by other ground vehicles, e.g. busses, trucks, cars... Tjose have to respect traffic rules, from right of passage to traffic lights, are bound to certain market "roads" and so on.
what if one of them die of an y diseases?
That misses a lot of context. The Affordable Care Act is considered by many to be an attempt to meet medical care needs with a market solution while most competing ideas go a completely different route such as Single Payer. It isn't just a patch to a system, but an attempt to fit some difficult constraints. Portraying extremely complex systems as simple may be the most common form of the first failing listed here.
It couldn't possibly be that VSCode ships with a build for a language that is enormously popular preconfigured instead?
There is a market but how big, I'd assume that these are real offers

https://wordpress.com/pricing/?compare=1#lpc-pricing

that seem like what somebody would pay. If you'd assume somebody spends 4 hours a week blogging and their time is worth $25 an hour you'd be putting $400 of hour of labor in a month and spending $40 for hosting is a fraction of that. That $25/hour would seem low to some people but high to others: some people are time-rich and cash-poor and others the other way around.

The horrific truth about the "Next Medium" is that it is going to appeal to people who are too lazy to write a successful blog by having GPT-4 write their blog posts for them.
there's a c++ fork of whisper that can run the smaller models on a laptop CPU in real time
In an ideal world absolutely. But war and violence is foundational bedrock of humanity, it will never go away.
The 007 Knife: Infamous 1970s Lockback
Does it not work to put a track element inside an audio element?
I dont understand why do you refer to China?
I wish they would show actual photos of the thing or a video instead of renders.
I've known a couple of people who masqueraded as the opposite gender online and eventually discovered that they fit more as that gender in reality as well. Online is an interesting playground to experiment with gender identity, because there's less stakes and you can experience people referring to you as a different gender.
Consumed by a black hole of legal wrangling and excessive billing.
Everyone's perception was that Russia was the "second army" of the world before February last year. How did that go for them?
If you want to go even further, use something like this https://chromium.googlesource.com/linux-syscall-support and compile statically.

The syscall interface is stable enough that you can create binaries that will run against Linux kernels from decades ago, if needed.
From a user perspective, AppImage files seem to behave similarly to an .exe on Windows.
whisper is mit licensed.
There are pics of a protoype in their Twitter feed. Also you can see lots of pics/videos of their previous model laptops: https://twitter.com/starlabsltd/

(Star Labs has been around for years making Linux laptops)
Flatpak is awful, i tried install software from it a few times and not only it always in a ton of unnecessary stuff (practically an entire distro!) but also the software doesn't integrate seamlessly with the rest of the system. GUI software looks wrong (themes do not apply, font rendering is wrong), command line software doesn't show up in PATH. Example in [0] for the GUI bits (Bless for theme, Notepadqq for font rendering) as well as the disk usage for two simple programs like a hex editor and a text editor.

Even worse, while there is an option to install things in the user's directory only (so i can make a separate user to try some things that i can easily delete later) not everything installs with that options and wants root access to pollute the rest of my system.

Nowadays i simply avoid anything related to flatpak. If something doesn't provide normal binaries and i really want it, i'd rather compile it from source (and if the source language is something exotic or the program needs a ton of dependencies i'd just skip it).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/9tmo26J.png
Text Compression Is Equivalent to AI (2009)
Diagram Critique Bingo
Not surprising. They shouldn't have, FWIW. What an abject failure of the American people to elect such an asshole, one that can't even tweet without managing to break anti-racist rules.
It's a very clever idea and a really cool proposal. The paper's abstract does a great job summarizing it:

"The USA is confronted with three epic-size problems: (1) the need for production of energy on a scale that meets the current and future needs of the nation, (2) the need to confront the climate crisis head-on by only producing renewable, green energy, that is 100% emission-free, and (3) the need to forever forestall the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. This paper offers both a provable practical, novel solution, and a thought experiment, to simultaneously solve all of the above stated problems. Through a new copper-based engineering approach on an unprecedented scale, this paper proposes a safe means to draw up the mighty energy reserve of the Yellowstone Supervolcano from within the Earth, to superheat steam for spinning turbines at sufficient speed and on a sufficient scale, in order to power the entire USA. The proposed, single, multi-redundant facility utilizes the star topology in a grid array pattern to accomplish this. Over time, bleed-off of sufficient energy could potentially forestall this Supervolcano from ever erupting again. With obvious importance to our planet and the research community alike, COMSOL simulation demonstrates and proves the solution proposed herein, to bring vast amounts of green, emission-free energy to the planet’s surface for utilization. Well over 11 Quadrillion Watt hours of electrical energy generated over the course of one full year, to meet the current and future needs of the USA is shown to be practical. Going beyond other current and past research efforts, this methodology offers tremendous benefits, potentially on a planetary scale."

The obvious questions have to do with political feasibility and cost. Is this realistically possible? Is there enough citizen, business, and government support to move forward with it? Do we have the resources to pull it off? Can we afford it? Deep inside the paper I found this tidbit, suggesting the authors don't know:

"There is no question that this entire project, including facility construction, as well as the upgrade for the power distribution network, would cost trillions of dollars. This paper was not, however, written to discuss the wisdom of such a costly investment. Even if spending these many trillions of dollars is not practical, it does not mean that any of the proposed ideas is not doable and should not be contemplated. This paper was thus written with the intent to propose these ideas and analysis within the realm of a thought experiment. The ideas presented here are entirely implementable with enough national will, and a large enough pocket book to do so."
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/2956#issuecom...

We updated the certificate about an hour before this post. It takes 6 - 8 hours for the certificate to fully propagate.
Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, (and party balloons) these are what we stay alive for.

- dead poets society
My guess is that psychological gender identity is USUALLY linked to biological sex in the majority of people.
Period Three Implies Chaos
This implies that Holocaust deniers are somehow amenable to facts about the Holocaust, which is a contradiction in terms. Put another way: there's no number that is "correct" in a way that a Holocaust denier is likely to consider a valid data point. Approximately 6 million is the best number we have given the sum of public information available.
If you want to go even further than that, you can use APE (αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε) which lets you compile a single binary that can run on Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
The certificate was renewed, but it wasn't deployed correctly. We're looking into the root cause.
> It reads like someone losing an editor war and taking the conversation to some other medium where the people involved in the process have no way to address, let alone present facts or even their case.

Wikipedia is vulnerable to coordinated, tendentious editing, and the "in Wikipedia" process has no effective way, nor even will, to address it. Making accusation itself can get you sanctioned.
It's not bad data though, it's just old and cached, which seems fine IMO even if the stale period is longer than you might expect.

It's not like it's serving the wrong content for a specific commit ref, it's when you request the file as on a branch, and that branch has recently changed.
It's irrelevant to the truth to study history and try to make it accurate? If people were trying to determine how many people died during the civil war no one would care, but simply trying to determine how many people died during WW2 is antisemitic? Yeah, keep pretending like that isn't fishy.
> the anthropic principle

How interesting. Can't exactly run a placebo controlled double blind experiment against the full state of the universe, hm?

I've never thought about the universal preconditions that must be true for me to be thinking about them. This is shifting my whole worldview, thanks!
Actually Jobs showcased ‘rather than this WAP version of the site we’re showing you the whole New York Times website’

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EfxMOElBE Around the 1 hour mark
The early 1980's were an amazing (yet strange) time in computing.

On one hand you have these $10,000 UNIX workstations that almost seem futuristic.

Then you have the IBM PC for 1/4 the price. 16-bit CPU, DOS, enough memory to be usable.

And at the bottom for 1/4 of that price, you had the Commodore 64. Minimal memory and storage, 8 bit CPU, almost a game console on steroids.
Of course corporations shouldn’t be considered persons. They’re corporations.

Now it’s possible there’s a complete intersection in the legal rules which apply to persons and corporations, but that doesn’t mean they’re the same type of entities.

It’s useful to remember that corporate personhood is little more than a legal shortcut or convenience at best.
Either the atmosphere can be damaged by human's releasing stuff, or it can't. If it can, then we're on the side of curtailing human activity that damages the environment.

Releasing things like CO2. Methane, nitrous oxide.

By the gigaton.

If we're safe, if the science is wrong, if the atmosphere is too robust to be affected by an industrial societies entire output, then there's no issue with this guy doing what he's doing. Right?
yes, I admit that I've been trying to think about social interactions through this lens too.

but there's a difference between any random group and a corporation. The idea being that writing so many things down, and maybe more importantly, putting money into the 'group' (and all the associated formalities) makes this transient person formed into something more permanent, something that can change out the people involved and make the corporation outlive its creators (which most corporations do normally).
sorry for misreading that from your post! my own benching with threads vs. asyncio has never found any performance difference between the two approaches (asyncio slightly slower). if you need very wide throughput, then yes asyncio is better. otherwise, it's very difficult to create equitable comparisons between threaded and asyncio code.
How Frank Gehry Delivers on Time and on Budget
He talks about bloodletting but ignores the elephant in the room: circumcision.

You go to the US and you have to be careful if you have a boy because they will circumcise your child without asking for permission.

If you ask Americans they will tell you that it is an hygienic, prophylactic measure, but the real reason is that it became fashion to copy the British royal family that did it, and after that they just continued the tradition.

People support it not because they "don't have skin in the game" but because they have. Because the majority of them were already circumcised and there is no way back,or experience the alternative, so they want to believe there is a real reason for that, instead of the bogus Royal thing.

I asked a lot of people there and they painted a terrible world if you dare not to do that. I come from a country in which 90% are not circumcised and the image they had about the alternate reality was surreal and made no sense.

Another thing that Americans do is boiling eggs requirement, for "hygienic" reasons, destroying natural antioxidants, or natural antibiotics and antifungi so eggs could be way more dangerous than natural ones after time.

In France we had irradiated food for a long time. Crazy if they don't let you choose.

Today there are lots of things that could lead to secondary effects:

You have forced Water fluoridation.
You have forced GMO food you could no opt out.
Forced electromagnetic signals everywhere you can not opt out.
Forced flame retardant in foams, sofas and bed mattresses.
Forced COVID vaccination.

But the most absurd of all is the Daylight Saving Time.

I believe the real culprit of that behavior is human hubris. People simplify the world, and under the simplification a new idea is fantastic.

So for example you take the statistics and see smokers usually burn their houses while they smoke in bed and something happen, and forcing everybody to use flame retardants will save the risk of those people, but you can not see the new dead people that you create after they get cancer that will never smoke in bed.
As I detailed in another comment, I definitely think that the pendulum has been swinging too far to the unsafe side of medical opinion about trans people, because of the somewhat toxic culture of the left. (this is an introspective by one of these people). I think the answer is probably more government regulation that strikes a balance between requiring diagnosis and the crazy stuff like the UK NHS or banning all trans healthcare.
I remember doing this 30ish years ago. It was all the rage. Lots of people did that to get multi-threading on the OS of the time.
No, because any further details would highlight where I work and specifically what office.

Lets just say the data intersection of: density and geocoding of users, density and location of office sites, travel time bands, and service level expectations all have a part in the final calculation.

The data is either base layers imported, or calculated layers. There is no one "comprehensive layer" nor does that concept make sense. Different groups handle their own data. We import it in and use their data for our final result.

(In fact, its the OSM approach of everything as 1 layer and tags everywhere is why a DB import and data handling is so obnoxious.)
This article wasn’t very convincing, but let’s play along: if this works it could make sci-fi floating devices a possibility.

A drone or other flying object could float by pulling a vacuum (also not really feasible with today’s pumps) and control it’s density, without the need for any kind of reservoir. Maybe just enough buoyancy to massively reduce the power and noise needed on propellers. Add some form of wireless energy transmission (laser?) to remove the battery weight and voilà. UFOs!
Yeah, but right or wrong, sensemaking and long-term coherence are very few bits from the viewpoint of the compression model. You get much larger gains simply by realizing 'e' occurs a lot more often than 'z' and coding accordingly.

It's a fundamental issue with A.I. and has been since the 1960s that we often use metrics that approach an asymptote: maybe between 0.94 and 0.92 bits per character you are finally forced to eke out predictability by never generating "wrong" text, but I don't believe it.
So I have asked the same question in the chatgpt subreddit. even if the babies were not born on the same time they have to be put on watch to check their health condition so they will be separated from their parents side.
> Around the turn of the millennium Sun was talking a lot about grid computing […]

Not (just) talking, but offering:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Cloud

Also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Grid_Engine
> Then why don't you correct the number, if it's irrelevant?

The number is not wrong. It's an estimate. Any reasonably intelligent person easily understands that the Nazis did not operated a counter which stopped the genocide when I hit 6000000. It means nothing if you say "up to 7" or "up to 6".

What makes a huge difference is the relentless effort to leverage this sort of revisionism to argue that nitpicking over estimates means the Holocaust did not happened at all.
Yes hi, ehh, asking questions is extremely antisemitic and should be banned.
I think it’s more nuanced and can mean both, depending on what the speaker wants it to mean. Like two buddies trading insults )it could be banter or of could be a genuine insult). The tone denotes the meaning.