skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same thing as company being based on Cayman Islands, it's mostly on paper really. Most of their offices, and human force are located in russia, in 2009 they sold golden share for 1 eur to the russian goverment(which allows to temporarily suspend the head of Yandex among other "benefits"), yeah and CEO(was resigned in dec 2022) and several other people from the board members are sanctioned by the West.

> "As founder and CEO of Yandex, he is supporting, materially or financially, the Government of the Russian Federation and is responsible for supporting actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine," the EU's listing states.

> The document also accuses Yandex of "promoting State media and narratives in its search results, and deranking and removing content critical of the Kremlin, such as content related to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine."

from: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/06/yandex_ceo_arkady_vol...

Yeah and they are going to change the formals too - Yandex NV(based in Netherlands) is considering turning the main part of the business into a separate Russian group https://newsunrolled.com/economy/132317.html
Why not implement a method?

var result = myvector1.sub(myvector2)
The word "encouraged" is doing a lot of work here, in the same dogwhistle sense as the thread above.

ALLOWING a teenager desperate to bind her breasts, is not encouragement.

ACCEPTING a teenager and letting them know that this is OK - if they want it - in spite of what peers might think, is not encouragement.

This is like "Pride" all over again. "If you're born gay, and are proud of it, i should be able to say I'm proud of being straight, what's the difference?". No, we're saying "we're proud of being gay" as a response to you saying "you should be ASHAMED of being gay".

"Encouraged to transition" in almost all cases means "given the support, and resources to do so". But you are making it sound like someone is coming up to vulnerable girls and convincing them that they're trans and talking them into breast binding.
You know the answer. Banking and, to a far lesser extent, tech.

They don't exist. Cummings doesn't live on this planet (he hasn't even had enough experience in govt to be called a bureaucrat, he has just had a host of jobs due to family connections...he is the thing he complains so much about).
My brother has a couple of small apps he wrote in Deplhi for his company; is is not a software developer, but an infrastructure manager, but he still plays with Delphi after ~ 25 years since he learned Pascal and moved ~2002 to Delphi. His apps are small web apps with a few dozen users and a SQL database, nothing scalable or cloud native.
There are people, who, if you kick them into the ditch, will lay there thinking, "I must have done something to deserve this."
ChatGPT won’t ruin education, Texas academic says
I was wondering the same, why not SQL?

> This leads to a lot of logical conditions, since to prevent double-counting each aggregate tuple’s conditions must assert both that the matching tuples matched and that the non-matching tuples didn’t.

I understand and know to handle edge cases with SQL, I'd have to learn that all over again with a custom language and its own unique quirks. If I was putting such an investment, I'd want it to be better established.

Unless of course it's to scratch an itch and this is a perfect way to start out and share. Nice work and good luck.
> If a parent comes forward and says "I consent to my child getting sterilized"

Is that happening? We're not trying to formulate a generalizable moral framework here, we're responding to a concrete set of conditions experienced by actual living people.

We're inserting ourself into a specialized medical practice, against the wishes of both its practitioners and the people receiving the treatment, who say it helps them. Why are we doing that? Why are you so invested with what choices people make for themselves, again, with the consideration of their doctors and families?

> Would you describe Sweden as a fascist country?

Yeah kinda actually. Unlike most people with internet opinions of scandinavia I have actually lived there with a non-white spouse and they are racist as fuck. I wasn't surprised at all to hear they decided to euthanize old folks during covid and I wouldn't be surprised if they take a hard right swerve in the next decade either.
> want to research

Social media sites are not where research is done
If architects are responsible for shipping features, they won't have time to be platform-wide architects. If you are shipping product-level features, you are on a scrum team and if you are on a scrum team, your other platform-wide duties are not your priority. At some point, companies realize they need people focused on the full picture, and they end up calling them architects.
I think you're missing the point.

To me the post was answering to someone claiming that

- Americans suffered the consequences of COVID because of China, which is arguably not true, they have handled the pandemic badly because of their own faults, incompetence and hubris (and a President in denial).

- The Americans are at the first stage of grieving over this, because they are obviously victims, while truth is they are often perpetrators that just don't care of the consequences of what they do, because if some non American dies, it's probably because they deserve it. During COVID they proved that they also don't care very much if someone of their own dies, because FREE MARKET OH YEAH! FLY EAGLE OF FREEDOM!
Which has honestly been embarrassing, watching from outside.

If you were part of the 96% of the World population which is not American, you would know the feeling.
Good, every day that they burn coal/gas etc, is a day they are wasting strategic reserves
How to build a high-performing software team
What? Why would anyone be punished for an unintentional lab leak? Scientists are also humans that can make mistakes.
Can you elaborate on this some more or point to a link with more info about this?
What makes people see Lisp-like languages and think to themselves "yep, this is how I want my code to look like" is beyond me
The headline is absolutely, literally true. I also don't understand the nuance that anyone could miss here. The astounding thing is that the Energy Dept. can say that a lab leak is the most likely cause of the pandemic, and people jump out in front of them to say that what they somehow still mean is that a lab leak wasn't the cause of the pandemic.

They have "low confidence" that it was a lab leak (there might not even be a physical way to prove that conclusively), but they have higher confidence in that theory than in any other theory or possibly even than in all other theories combined. When evidence pointing to your previous belief being untrue makes you more confident in your previous belief, you're in When Prophecy Fails territory.

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edit:

Just wanted to add this wikipedia quote because it makes me sad...

* 12:05 am. December 21. No visitor. Someone in the group notices that another clock in the room shows 11:55. The group agrees that it is not yet midnight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails#Sequence_o...
Mainly it is because the tar pit paper proposed the relational algebra in its functional relational programming.

I do think for some it might be easier to reason mechanically about dataflow through collection-oriented operators. But I suppose it's subjective.

clj-3df [1] to my understanding does something like Relic for datomic datalog using differential dataflow.

Disclaimer: I now work on XTDB [2], so datalog is somewhat now my day job.

[1] https://github.com/sixthnormal/clj-3df

[2] https://xtdb.com/
>personally believe that most people are smarter than this

Every single time someone's uttered those words they were eventually proven wrong

Not that I think we should be banning speech, mind you. Just figured a reminder on that tiny bit was warranted. Assuming people aren't morons is the doom of many endeavours
Adobe Photographers is actually a pretty reasonable subscription for me. I don't use Photoshop a lot. But I do use it and Lightroom I would do pretty much every upgrade anyway. If I just did the occasional Photoshop thing, I'd probably buy Photoshop Elements (Or use GIMP).
I can parse fine, can you?

From the article:

> The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak

People used to be called racist for saying this!
Hence is disapproval amongst Russians. Russians don’t give the moniker “great” to humanitarians.
It seems you have great insight for adjustments in many books excluding one that has the most outdated ideas of them all which you conveniently know nothing about.
GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone, but refuse to switch
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Independent of the other threads here (talking about freedom from prosecution from government vs private companies vs individual reputation)

And everyone talking about their own limitations on free speech (I support Bernie Sanders, but I draw the line at Trans rights)

I think it's also worth noting the changes in expectations of magnitude of reactions and reprisal for free speech today vs say Voltaire's age.

Reputation and shame used to drive so much of our public discourse. Whenever you hear about people challenging each other over some disagreement or disapproval, it's always the most benign stuff.

In that context, saying "not only will I not challenge you to a dual for disagreeing with me, but I will actually fight to PROTECT your right to say it" is pretty revolutionary stuff.

We should ask Voltaire (or whoever was actually responsible) if he would feel the same way if the person who he disapproved of was a person of significant means and power and was calling for the destruction of Voltaire's life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness.

So when people today scream about cancel culture because of some heinous shit they said about black or trans people, then use this quote to suggest that we should be defending to the death their right to call for systemic discrimination and repression of others....it's just not the same.
It looks pretty typical for BASIC of the late 70s to me.

You wouldn't want to waste characters on commenting code: machines of that era would have only a few KB of RAM, as low as 1K. For the same reason you don't want to waste characters on long, meaningful variable names or on well spaced code. Multiple statements per line isn't to save print space, it's to save RAM.

Meanwhile, the program's pretty well structured for such a short bit of BASIC: subroutines start at multiples of 100, for example, and each subroutine starts and ends clearly, no shenanigans like jumping from the middle of one sub to another, no multiple exit points for subs, all as linear as it can be. The use of IF is limited to skipping forward a short way to conditionally execute a line or two only. GOTO only exists in those IF statements.

I'd have been happy to have written code like this, back then.

I am pretty sure that my uncle ran this exact program on his computer and printed out biorhythms on listing paper, in the mid 80s.
I, on the contrary, believe that free speech absolutism is morally and intellectually lazy, naive, and wrong. Banning some speech is in fact necessary to preserve freedom.

Speech has real consequences, otherwise why would you consider it important to defend? Hate speech is a real problem. It is poisonous to society and results in real people getting killed for real. And no, the "marketplace of ideas" where you offer your own opinion to disprove lies is a hopelessly naive concept. That's not how the world works. In reality, people prefer to stay in echo chambers. And fascists laugh about how you're working towards making it easier for them to abolish all freedoms.

> When our enemies say: well, we gave you the freedom of opinion back then- yeah, you gave it to us, that's in no way evidence that we should return the favor! Your stupidity shall not be contagious! That you granted it to us is evidence of how dumb you are!

-- Joseph Goebbels, 1935

And no, there is no slippery slope here. Many European countries have well-designed, robust hate speech bans that have worked well for decades to protect freedom against those who would destroy it.
3. The difficulty with my genius is not that it’s there but that you don’t seem have any to recognise mine.
I think LLMs understand things in abstract. e.g. they know that if a 'Cat' is 'Miaowing' then if you 'give' it some 'cat food' it will then be 'happy'. It doesn't know what any of those things _are_, but it knows how X and Y and Z relate. And so in the abstract sense it knows that 'hunger' causes a 'cat' to 'miaow'

it will still have no awareness

We dont know how awareness works, so we're not in a position to say what has and hasn't got it.

Think about the milliseconds in which ChatGPT uses its 4000 token length to analyse approx 2000 words all at same time, in a process encompassing a massive number of GPUs processing a mind boggling number of parameters. How are we to say what it going on for those milliseconds? There could be some sort of abstract analogue to awareness happening there for a burst of a few milliseconds. These LLMs are all about emergent effects from huge scale. Similarly, me and you are made out of 30 trillion microscopic dumb biological robots, none of whom know who we are or care, but nonetheless, we have awareness.
I remember installing Windows 95 some time in the late 90s only to realize I didn't have a license key handy. Out of frustration I entered all 1s in. I have never been more surprised at something working unexpectedly like that.
SigmaNest is written in Delphi (TurboPascal? I'm just a welder) as far as I'm aware:

https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/application-engineer-at-ca...
Honestly I think the "interface" vs "implementation" part of a Pascal file is a genius idea.
My point was that the architect shouldn't plant the weeds in the first place.
You seem to assume no Iraqis were killed, which is pretty odd.

In "costly and fatal", I also include that the Iraq War arguably marks the end of the US as the world's only superpower. Both in terms of cost and moral status, it was a huge abdication of status.
Why was it so stigmatized before and now it's the preferred hypothesis for FBI and DOE?
No, you're right, it's a half-baked idea. There's got to be some way of slicing things such that freedom from discrimination is prioritized over the ability to use that freedom to implement discrimination, but I'm not seeing it yet.

It does bother me that the status quo enables straight-up discrimination on the basis of religion, though, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_School_v.... The whole broad application of the ministerial exemption thing is a perfect figleaf for arbitrary bullshit, laundered as inspired by faith.

e: s/religious discrimination/discrimination on the basis of religion
You know, sometimes it's okay to just say that you don't know.
This part where you are convinced everyone is being baited and just you got it right is getting quite boring. They call it tone deaf.
It wouldn't prevent them from making fake new versions, but it would prevent them from suppressing the original version.
As the exception to that rule, I changed careers completely in my 60s, and picked up yet another at 66. You are welcome to remain in a bucket, I'm way too busy.
One "interesting" thing about aging as a guy is that male pattern baldness starts at the back of the head where it's really difficult to see on yourself.

I didn't really realize how much hair I'd lost until I saw a random photo of a crowd of people with me in it with my back to the camera. That was quite a surprise.
> The plane was at 70,000 feet, the balloon at 60,000.

It was quite a bit closer. Just look at the sizes of various things in that photograph (the length of the plane's shadow vs. the length of the wingtip, both those vs the diameter of the balloon, etc.). If you read 70,000 somewhere, that's because they were quoting the plane's service ceiling.
This huge thread is such a send back to old times. Nostalgia overload.
The ATmega 328P an Arduino Uno or Nano uses has 2KB of memory and 32KB of flash storage for the program. Having some sort of micropython interpreter there would be impossible, and even if it could be achieved, somone still has to write the low level C/ASM code to make it all work. For many embedded systems, low level languages like C or C++ (perhaps Rust for a lot of ARM micros) is the only sensible choice. If it's not a multi user system that's connected to a network, people trying to abuse memory unsafe code isn't a concern.
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Those are just regular loops, though, right? I’m looking for the posttest loop, sometimes known as the do…while or until loop. There seems to be a unfortunate inconsistency in the naming of this thing.
My Rottweiler adores watching TV, same issue though - I’ve got to keep an eye on her or else she’ll go ahead and give the tv a pretty big (and potentially destructive) boop with her nose to check if the animal she just saw on the screen is real.
That remains to be seen. Let's say we want to use AI in a safety critical tool. In its current form, that would be insane. It might be like self driving cars have been. Right around the corner for at least a decade while we realize the depth of edge cases.

My hope is that individual pieces end up being usable in a modular way that is controllable by composition, which is the same reason formal logic and cause and effect are such useful paradigms. We might even need to encode formal logic or causation into the system to get the right kind of modularity into it.
Symbolic AI didn't lose, it just stopped being called AI. We call it "decision trees" and stuff now.
> What will be the assurance that such deadly mistake won’t occur again?

Whatever assurances you want will be a fantasy.

There has never been accountability among the elite class and there won't be, because whatever mistakes they make only affect everybody else.

It's like a video game - imagine the game characters you 'mistreat' asking what consequences you will be facing. You'd cackle at game designers having thought of such an amusing feature and proceed to go right back to doing as you please.

It's about the same in real life.
Helix uses ropes for strings. Supposedly it's well suited to lots of little edits. I've been meaning to dive into the code, but all the issues marked 'good first issue' already have a PR waiting to be merged.
Have you evaluated RemObjects Oxygene?

The blurb says it integrates with .NET well.
> astalavista

Phew that takes me back. And it's huge list of cracks and other things is what got me started looking into reverse engineering and security analysis haha
I like the structure that S-expressions convey. Must be something with how my brain works. It's probably also why I find Python code utterly unreadable.
> [0] C++, Rust, Go, or anything else with automatic memory management and destructors

Go's automatic memory management (GC) doesn't come in to play here, but the defer statement does. It doesn't make Go a RAII language, but it makes Go a language with a nicer "run this code at the end of the stack frame" feature than goto.
> against the wishes of both its practitioners

Because our wishes conflict with their economic motives

> the people receiving the treatment, who say it helps them

Again, children who aren't able to consent

> Why are you so invested with what choices people make for themselves, again, with the consideration of their doctors and families?

The same reason why I think the distribution of opiates should be tightly regulated. Because I see something that's inherently wrong, and I see corporations benefitting from it
Link to "people feel 20% younger paper": https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03193996.pdf

The curves really are very good!
As long as this logic also applied to the “confidence” in the original official narrative that the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory. In the LA area, many in the science/tech communities were on board with the official story and joined in the fun - laughing at the “morons” still considering the possibility of the lab leak.

I suspect many of those are the same ones who are eager to sweep it under the rug, or now turn to conspiracy theory that THIS story is part of a psyop but not the original response from the science/health authorities.
Mastering Container Networking
Yes, I tried with Firefox on normal, private and via VPN, same fingerprint.
Covid lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship
Right, I wasn't suggesting you could deploy with Docker Compose on fly.io. Hence why I prefaced my suggestion with "It's not exactly what you're asking for..."

And I think you're exaggerating the "huge gap" there. Fly.io can run multiple docker containers for you. Their docs are great so it wouldn't take much effort to learn how to create an equivalent or better setup that covers everything Docker Compose does (and more).
This is because US law was not written by free speech absolutists.
If, hypothetically, it did leak from a lab, there are two important things that should happen:

1- China has suffered more than enough to revaluate protocols around virus handling. The pandemic has done more to undermine confidence in their government than anything else in decades. They've got plenty of reason to be invested in change if change is warranted

2- The US government could put stronger regulations in place around funding companies that turn around and fund foreign labs (such as ecohealth) unless those projects can demonstrate compliance with new, safer protocols. What you call simple sanctions, I call the power of the purse.

All of this happens only if we determine whether the existing protocols, or lax enforcement of them, gave rise to the spread of the virus.

Just shrugging it off and saying "meh, it's hard so why bother" is a recipe for future man-made disasters.
>Lastly, new mothers had a (if I recall correctly) 15% chance of dying during childbirth or shortly thereafter.

.85^4 = 52% chance of surviving 4 childbirths. Does that seem right?

The figure I've heard is 2%.

About half of children died before maturity, so each women had to have 4 children just to keep population stable.
"the realization that I have a lot more behind me than ahead is a thought that lives rent free in my head now"

That's a limitation you placed on yourself. At 55 I divorced a lead weight and started investigating opportunities. At 67 I am doing more and accomplishing more of my own dreams than I ever have. Don't ever underestimate yourself or your options, no matter what your age.
> On rough weeks I feel I get ptsd or fear of night time.

Been a while since it was very bad, but I do have a low-level anxiety about time after 23:00. There are days when I stay up late to catch up with stuff, while my wife goes to sleep, and I recently realized that I'm no longer able to do much then, because starting 23:00, I keep expecting one of our kids to wake up and start the 30 to 90-minute cycle of trying to get them back to sleep. That waiting is terrible for focus.

In fact, I'm writing this comment in the middle of such cycle.
> Voltaire? François-Marie Arouet?

Ha! Voltaire is François-Marie Arouet! Oh dear!
How does one definite hate speech? Who gets to decide? That's my entire problem with this philosophy. Some one or some group feel holy enough to be the arbiters.

A lot of religious texts, beliefs, and/or sermons would probably be considered hate speech to a not insignificant number of people.
We know they constructed Chimeras of the WIV1 SARS-1-like virus because they published it:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517719113

Pretty bad secrecy.

We knew WIV1 existed as well because they published it 3 years earlier:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5389864/