skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Armchair chief of staffing... I'm gonna say that the current philosophy of one design that can be "easily" modified to do anything (fighter jet, naval ship, etc...) seem to be showing its costs compared to purpose built systems. It will likely take another generational update of the military to change that philosophy back.

The "make a ship that can do everything" is likely met with a gleam in the contractor's accounting department eyes as they say "we'll need to do some R&D on this since it isn't something that we've successfully done before." I believe that this is a "the ideas are overly ambitious with the tangential goal of having parts made in every congressional district" rather than being first a useful system that is needed. ... I'm also sitting in an armchair at a keyboard so take my comments with the appropriate seasoning.

The general "America is lacking on its heavy manufacturing industry" is a real concern but one that I'm not sure how it can be solved without getting into significant subsidizing (see the chip production) that starts rising hackles over at the WTO. How far do you have to subsidize those industries to get them to be competitive... or do you have a government naval yard that doesn't really care about being competitive with Marinette Marine (aside: https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org is quite interesting).
What is your source for this "information"?

He brought it up in 2001, the year XP was released[1]. Microsoft fixed it three years later in SP2. XP was EOL'ed in 2009[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gibson_(computer_program...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP
Space shuttle's impact on the stratosphere: an update (1996) [pdf]
So would I, but this is already progress from the days when Intel had 90% market share.
So it scraped it based on my own point valuations?
There's a bit in the Christian Bible that is a rant against the Pharisees, that in passing, on its way to making a point about hypocrisy, mentions them "traveling over land and sea to win a convert".

That stuck in my mind, because of the contrast with modern Judaism. It makes them sound like...Mormons or JWs or something.

Somewhere I did run across the claim, not sure if it was reputable scholarship or what, that in fact there was a profound change in proselytization due to historical events, trauma so to speak.

I was unaware until recently of how "Palestine" got its name, and the Bar Kokhba revolt.

A lot of things I think are not exactly "obscure" or "not obscure", but widely known in fragmentary form such that they aren't interpreted.
clojure can be used to create a library/jar which could be called from a java app: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2181774/calling-clojure-...
I'd say by far our biggest problem for the foreseeable future is granting other humans too much power.
I read hero as someone who works hard(er), not the one person keeping things up. I mean, the one person is a hero, but heroes can just be the one doing most of the work. I have a couple of heroes at my current job and they're the ones working 12+ hours a day sometimes weekend to deliver on a NEW project. So it isn't much about bus factor, but trying to deliver even if it means sacrificing personal life.
> GPT will never make a promise to you in the same sense that I would make a promise to you.

It's a meaningless claim without a clear definition of "same sense". If all observable inputs and outputs match, I don't see why it shouldn't be treated as the same.

> This is an abnormal state for humans, though. We recognize this as a deficiency in them.

We recognize it as a deficiency in their upbringing. A human being that is not trained about what promises are and the consequences of breaking them is not any less smart than a person who keeps their promises. They just have different social expectations. Indeed, humans coming from different cultures can have very different feelings about whether it's okay to break a promise in different social contexts, and the extent to which it would bother them.

> I contend that it will refuse to make promises unless and until it is "manually" programmed by a human to do so. That is the moment at which this part of a promise will have been "conveyed" to it.

If by manual programming you mean telling it, I still don't see how that is different from a human who doesn't know what a promise is and has to learn about it. They'll know exactly as much as you'll tell them.

> Pattern recognition is not intelligence.

Until we know how exactly our own intelligence work, this is a statement of belief. How do you know that the function of your own brain isn't always reducible to pattern recognition?
No, it can't.

Desalination by reverse osmosis requires certain force to push water through the filters which is dictated by osmotic pressure. It is unavoidable.

To imagine it, think about it this way: to overcome osmotic pressure you only need to pump the water above the filter to a certain height. The height you need is only dictated by the magnitude of the pressure and not the filter. And as the water flows, you only need to top up the water column which is your only energy expenditure. The only thing that the filter dictates is how quickly the water will flow -- which is how much filter area you need to filter a certain amount of water in a unit of time. But pumping the water to certain height requires always exactly the same amount of energy regardless of the properties of the filter.

For sea water the pressure is 25-33 bar (at 25C) which translates to column of water 250-330 m high.

In practice building a column 1/3km in height would not be practical so you can start imagining other configurations. For example, you could come up with a piston that is pushed by a spring to maintain roughly constant pressure and you inject water from time to time to maintain piston position.

But you will always be working against this pressure you have to overcome for the sea water to start getting separated from salt in one go, or you could use multiple stages to reduce pressures at the cost of more complex processing. Whatever you do there is minimum cost in energy you have to expend that does not depend on the filter.

But there is still a possibility for cheaper/lower maintenance filters and so studying materials that can pass water and stop everything else can still provide a lot of value.
I wonder when they will bring the model closer to real time? You could open a Wikipedia page and add code or links to code that the model could access that would give it capacity to access real systems. Then we are off to the races.
That would be an insightful comment if you hadn't just deliberately misinterpreted someone by tethering yourself to an overly-specific denotative meaning.
> underlying assumption that language is just a contextualized "stream of consciousness" that sometimes happens to describe external facts

I'm the sort of person who believes this.

This said, I don't think it's 100% true. I just think it's a more useful approach than "starting with a Platonic ideal model of X and trying to describe it". And also... sort of underappreciated?

Maybe it's just the bubble I live in, but at least people around me — and people I see on the internet — seem to construct a lot of their arguments along the lines of "he/she does X because he/she thinks Y or been told Y". And it feels rather lonely to be the only person who doesn't like this approach all that much, and also doesn't seem to do this kind of thing internally much.

I met someone recently who spent several months working on a Twitter bot that was supposed to reply with fact-checking to Ukrainian war misinformation tweets. It felt like a rather misguided endeavor, but nobody else seemed to agree.

At least with ADHD I can point out "yeah, you have the capacity to decide on the course of action and then implement it, but this is not how I operate at all; and you can read about people like me on Reddit if you like". With this [other thing] there isn't a convenient place to point to.

Eh.
Google Sheets maxes out pretty quickly in terms of number of rows... working with sheets with 100k+ rows is extremely slow
>However, the complexity of our probabalistic word machine is far greater, in terms of both richness of inputs, motivation, and dimensionality.

If thought (as expressed in language) is just probabilistic pattern matching, then how did we develop our own training data from scratch?
The last section begs Ex Machina (2014, dir. Alex Garland) comparisons. I'm a little wigged out.
The MFI (Made for iPhone) program is today a significant revenue generator, allowing Apple to take a commission on every certified iPhone accessory. if Apple wish to continue licensing accessories for money in this way they will likely need some way of identifying approved accessories as they can with Lightning today.

The MFI program largely makes money because Apple control the lightning connector interface and can thus be the gatekeeper. While I don't like it personally, it does make some sense to me the mfi program might want this feature for a USB-C iPhone and future iPad models.

Like others, I suspect it would be data access only limited to the certified devices - any old USB-C cable will likely still work to charge. This likely satisfies the EU charging law changes and lets them keep much of the MFI revenues.

That the MFI program exists is frankly evidence enough for me to believe Apple would do this - they sell many more iPhones than iPads, and the change can be incorporated into future iPad models.

> https://mfi.apple.com/
Really i think the only way they could have done to gather any intelligence on the thing would have been to get a man on it somehow. Every way I figure it would have been a crazy nightmare of failures though.

Also no telling if the thing wasn't stuffed with explosives, if it was for intelligence gathering I'd imagine that it would have some kind of self destruct system for at least the portions that handle uplink.
these days?
This is bollocks!
This is a better example I posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34811353
Tangentially related but it has been my experience (I knew several people who died from opioid overdose) and also in literature[1] that overdoses frequently occur after rehab. Due to a drop in tolerance.

"The clustering of the deaths from overdose in the group of patients who had successfully completed treatment is counterintuitive and illogical—unless it derives from loss of tolerance and consequent unpredictability of resumed heroin use."

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC153851/
It's a magnificent achievement. But it simply does not do what it is hyped to do.
From a technical perspective, almost every tool is more than what you need. There is a lot of mature software that does amazing things.

Whether the tool fits with your architecture and specific use case is much more important than whether it does the job. You can make most tools work for most use cases, but it might not be a natural fit.

For example, an in-memory database is probably not conducive with a serverless environment and you would prefer to either host your own DB server or use a serverless DB.

Or perhaps there are specific Postgres plugins that enable your use case, or a specific Postgres feature like n-gram search (I don't know if SQLite supports that), etc.

Technical maximalism ("it does all the things!") is great for marketing, but a poor way to choose the appropriate technology for your application.
Yep, If you don’t want to manage a rental, don’t own one. If later you need 2 properties instead of 1 + 1 rental, sell the duplex and buy somewhere else.
That was why I had it as a probably. I don't feel qualified enough to comment on what is or what is not possible there.
Do you, or anyone you know, honestly believe that the level of threat that would constitute assault in most common law jurisdictions should be treated as protected free speech? My example, of a specific, credible, actionable threat.

I know plenty of people with extreme views, but "coercion by threat of violence should be legal" is not one I've heard before. It certainly is a consensus, and your denial of such is in dubious faith.
Back in the day, IIRC, sgi used to have pictures of crying babies for the 404 error page. It was a different picture each time. Younger me that that was pretty interesting and it kind of served as a little break from the monotony of the working day.
what's crazy to me is how terrible of a track record big pharma has in being even moderately uncorrupted, and yet when it comes to vaccines, sprinkle in a bit of fear and suddenly we're supposed to trust their studies and superbowl commercials.
I don't necessarily disagree with the rest of anything you say, but a comment on a specific part:

> How is recreational zoosadism equivalent to harvesting animals for resources?

You previously mentioned slave owners, who were harvesting resources from other humans. Harvesting sadist joy (cat-burning) is not that different from cruelly harvesting useful resources (human labour in the case of slavery), and they both are not that different from "harvesting resources" which are not essential for living but are used for enjoyment (flesh-eating) from non-humans; at least in that they both result in very similar reactions—"these beings are beneath us and don't deserve even similar consideration, let alone non-violent treatment" when the vileness of all this pointed out.
Time will tell and I'd be more than happy to be wrong.
Gotta hold onto those $60 HDMI adapter sales I guess...

The ecosystem of USB C accessories is one of the best parts. Lightning accessories are incredibly expensive and incredibly limited by comparison.
The one good thing about America.
Can anyone enlighten me on this because cloudflare seems to report similar high margins with no profits.

What are these high margin numbers both DO and CF report? They both report high margins but then do not make any money. Are these margins excluding most expenses - because that makes no sense. Companies have expenses and that affects the bottom line. If digital ocean had real margins of 60% they would show a profit.
Vicodin is indeed an opiate.
From the companies perspective, the harm done by an employee talking trash about products is very similar to the harm done by an employee talking about unions or employee conditions.

And the law generally recognize this. It is not protected to intentionally harm the company if the intention is purely to cause harm. It is protected if the intent is to warn the public about a harmful product (Whistleblowing), or to protect fellow employees for harm. When those cases do end up in court, what judges and juries will focus on is on intent as the deciding factor once harm has been agreed/established.
Riley and Berry Are Bing Chat's Other Chat Modes
Trulieve Is First Cannabis Company to Launch Advertising Campaigns on Twitter
Are there any companies focused on mass-production of graphene material?
It’s hardly irrelevant. Proved by the fact the people voted for a vacancy tax and not an unused GPU tax.
Nesse artigo vou te mostrar como criar conteúdo topo de funil sem precisar fazer dancinhas ou posts de memes o tempo todo para atrair pessoas. Nesse artigo vou abrir um leque com você de possibilidades para aplicar agora.
Yazidism, which has roots at least as deep as Judaism, is built around angels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidism

The easy answer regarding adoption of angels is simply that angels figured prominently in multiple religions and cultures in that region for at least as long as we can look back; what would be surprising is any religion from that region lacking angels. Angels may have been a background fact that you might not think to question at all, even if you sat down to deliberately concoct a religion.

I'm curious what everybody means when they refer to dualism in this thread, because AFAIU there are several different kinds of philosophies that can be called dualist, and while we can connect dots between them, some of them are arguably contradictory. A theistic dualism as in traditional Judaism and Christianity which merely posits that the essence (or at least an essence) of the godhead is distinct from physical creation (cf. pantheism) is quite different from a moralist dualism that posits a universe defined by a struggle between goodness and evil. Elements of the latter can also be found in Christianity and Judaism, but that results in tension, and for that reason moral dualism is less prominent in those religions notwithstanding that some sects and strains (present and historic) really embrace it.
Generally I say: "let's make a good effort, to not let a bug pop-up on the user's face." Hehehe.

Particularly, I love documentation. Doesn't need to be a gigantic comment at the beginning of each function/method, but the Business Rule that the code is about, must be explained. Without this, maintaining and improving a code base for whatever service, might be a 'seek 'n hide' + 'riddle' game, and to be honest, I don't like it, at all.

Logging is a good thing too, essentially, if the application is on debug mode. Makes life much easier for gigantic code bases.

Since a gray-beard guy mentioned these four, they make more sense to me, who have a black-beard, yet.

Cheers,
people have been providing acid transaction semantics on single machines for 50 years

do you think ims/db ran on a cluster

the d in acid stands for durability

you're talking about pitr, which is what mysql semi-sync provides (and afaik you are correct that sqlite doesn't offer pitr)
Considering that charging is the most dangerous thing a cable can do

You must not have been around for the era when data exfiltration via charging cables and bricks was a thing.

Buy a charging cable from some random Chinese reseller on Amazon, and bingo — data in your phones goes back to the PRC.

I still have about five little black USB security dongles in my drawer from this era. They only allowed the charging pins to connect to the phone or computer. The data lines are physically disconnected. We used to call them "charging condoms."
The same question in ChatGPT gave the correct answer.
It appears that you are engaging in a logical fallacy by utilizing capitalism, which I assume is not something you hold in high regard, to silence someone's perspective during a discussion and attributing the blame to capitalism.

Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange are primarily owned and controlled by individuals and private companies rather than by the government or public institutions.

None of the things mentioned above are related to capitalism's coverage of free speech. It seems that your intention is to suppress those who hold differing opinions, and you are using the assumption that the silenced individuals support capitalism to justify your actions.
The next time you come up with a novel joke that you think is clever, ask chatgpt to explain why it's funny.

I agree that it's just a glorified pattern matcher, but so are humans.
Waze losing my entire account with a "Bad News, Bucko!" was pretty infuriating.

I still occasionally use it in vehicles without built-in navigation, but I've never registered another account with them since.
Tillamook makes great cheese. They're also one of the only mass-produced ice creams I can find these days that doesn't have any gums or carageenan added to it

edit: they might have begun adding gums. I have to buy Jeni's or Van Leeuwen. Ought to just make my own with how little I eat anyway.
>Bonus question: Why does Europe not have a methaphetamine crisis?

Because it has an amphetamine crisis?
In particular[0], the bigger stuff (water) blocks the smaller.

> Diffusion of other molecules is blocked by reversible narrowing of the capillaries in low humidity and/or by their clogging with water.

So in the absence of the water, the He would escape.

[0] heh
not anymore, in certain parts of the country there is actually an issue of under-prescription of narcotics as an overreaction to the opioid crisis we are facing, with painkillers of course being the most difficult to access. Chronic severe pain patients and people with horrendous neurological conditions are going without the medications they need because prescribers are now terrified of heavy-handed medical boards

that said, 20 or so years ago prescribers in the U.S. were in various ways made to believe that painkillers such as oxycodone were not addictive and were these magical drugs that helped pain patients regain their lives in ways we had never seen before. Ended up in so many homes, lots of excess prescription opioids hanging around and as a result a lot of people ended up abusing them. For a significant number of people that led to heroin use, and then fentanyl came into the picture in 2015ish; so that's how we got here. heroin on its own when injected isn't actually that easy to accidentally overdose on- fentanyl however, is.
https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html ?
True, but intentionally making USB-C less functional doesn't seem likely to solve the problem you describe either.

In addition to whatever "normal" confusion there is around USB-C, now you'll have people wondering why their expensive Thunderbolt 4/USB 3.x cable that works as a Thunderbolt 4/USB 3.x cable for every other device is behaving like it's 2005 when plugged into a brand new iPhone.
> Sydney

> Venom

> Fury

> Riley

"My name is Legion: for we are many"
A follow up to the "food on a sub" question... if you happen to be in the midwest and can make the trip...

https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/programs-and-events/think-...

> April 6: Food Stories of WWII

> Ever wondered what the food was like in WWII? During this talk, we will explore common meals for those on the Wisconsin home front as well as submariners at sea.

They even have a Sub BNB (through Air BNB) https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/44643094
I edited my comment and added a few real world scenarios. In short, a "many consumers single producer" program where the consumers use a blocking API to lock on a semaphore/latch gating access to shared memory updated by the producer is bound to stall. The workers will all block waiting for the producer to produce a value but it never will because the executor is starved. This setup is 100% correct in a traditional program where each worker gets a thread. But it's 100% incorrect when using async/await. The async-safe variant of this setup is to use async-aware semaphore/latch APIs which yield instead of block.

I've seen this happen in non-contrived scenarios in the real world. It's not common, I'll give you that, but definitely not contrived.

Edit: I disagree about expectations. Async programs should absolutely work correctly in all scenarios that aren't programmer/logic errors. In my example(s) the solution is not "rewrite the program the program is wrong". The solution is "use the correct async-aware function at the call site and the issue goes away". The fact that Rust is being used to write web servers means that async/await is up to the task of handling real world highly parallel programs. You just have to be careful to avoid some nuanced traps, which the Rust compiler currently doesn't assist you with. It totally should!
The average price of a new car in the US is now $50k. That’s not a disposable purchase.
I think the statement is that the LLM is given access to internet search, and therefore has a more recent functional memory than its training data.

Imagine freezing the 'language' part of the model but continuing to update the knowledge database. Approaches like RETRO make this very explicit.
See sibling.
I have an old i5 750 with 4 cores running Plex server, file server, Minecraft servers for kids, some home apps etc. Minecraft and transcoding has been pushing it a bit so I've been tempted to upgrade. I wonder if it's finally time to jump over to the AMD camp!

Any time I tried AMD in the past (I stopped trying 10 years ago) the AMD CPUs were cheaper but there was some problem that was just enough to keep me with Intel. Weird compatibility issues when compiling packages. Huge power draw. Weird motherboards. Has this improved nowadays?

Otherwise I'm thinking one of the budget i9 parts.