skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

The country where I live only banned hate speech in 2017, and I think the world was fine before it. The issue is not that we need more laws to ban any kind of speech, but we need to actually enforce the existing laws instead. Before 2017 we only had a law for “instigation of the people”, which worked fine and did not ban "hate speech" per se.
> practicing engineer

That sounds like a call for professional licensure and personal financial penalties for failures. Ensuring financial ruin for GoF cowgirls and cowboys and their families would be a good start.
Wartime vs. Peacetime Networking
> When I was searching for solutions, I got a lot of snippets like yours, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to turn a snippet like that into a page on the site.

Completely understand. If this is helpful, the way Hugo works (and the way many static site generators work) is that you make a template for each kind of page that you want to appear in the final output. A typical blog might have, say, three templates: a template for the homepage (show a quick bio and your most recent posts), a list template (show all your post titles and links), and a post template (show one post at a time).

When you generate the site, your content will be processed through the templates. For a typivally sized personal site this happens in under 100ms.

In Hugo, when you initialize a new site, these templates will already exist for you, so you won't have to write them, though you can of course edit them. (The out of the box defaults also include other kinds of things you might or might not care about, like tags or categories.)
The good old FXP days…
> My understanding is that it took a while before the (natural) emergence of SARS and MERS was understood, and so for COVID most probably.

The proximal host is the animal that transmitted the virus to humans. That host was identified for SARS-1 (civet cats) and MERS (camels) within about a year. For example, here's an article from 2003:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1140695/

The reservoir host is the animal in which most of the virus's genome evolved. That host (bats for both) took much longer to identify, through Dr. Shi's work at the WIV.

Since SARS-CoV-2 is very similar to SARS-1, we knew its reservoir host (bats) as soon as it was sequenced. We still don't know its proximal host. The proximal host is the critical question in establishing natural zoonotic origin--no one disputes that SARS-CoV-2 evolved mostly in bats, just whether its path into humans involved a research accident.
It "works" in Florida. The incarceration rates are 200 per 100,000 more than Western states (and that's lower than many other southern states). That's 40,000 extra people in prisons. Portland has an estimated 5000 people living on the street. So, there's your solution if you want to go there. And, since the southern states won't even hold a vote on whether incarcerated can be forced to work (some call that slavery) you get the benefit of extra revenue from companies that don't mind hiring "criminals."

As a recent transplant to Florida, this was all news to me. And, very discomforting.
he talked his band of followers into murdering nine innocent people in 01969 through incitement to imminent lawless action, though he didn't directly order any of the murders
I remember viral videos of big halls and hallways full of spastic people strapped into their beds. I still wonder sometimes what that was all about. Who had an interest in spreading such videos? What outcome did they hope for / get?
Sooner or later we're going to get plastered by a direct coronal mass ejection. Backup to nickel while you still can:

https://longnow.org/ideas/very-long-term-backup/

There was a near miss in 2012. These things are not than uncommon, on a century-scale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

We had a miss in 2012:

https://youtu.be/sg3NAdOYp8Q
Yes, there should be channels and delegation. But PM is also answerable to people and should appear to take questions from press. Giving a statement is not same as answering open questions from press.

United States also have different official channels and they all do their thing on their level. But that does not mean that PM/President gets a free run.

"With great power comes great responsibility"
When concept X becomes hot as an alternative to Y, everyone absolutely have to do X or be square. But for large enough companies it's cheaper to influence the industry so that X = Y and we relegate Y to Y', where Y' only contains our bad memories of Y.

This is the "Enterprise Technology Adaptation Strategy".
This is a wonderful writeup. Puts the map back in bitmap.
This, by definition, means you're not a free speech absolutist. Everyone draws the line somewhere and the current collective is that existing laws are mostly good enough, with some movements to curtail things like bullying and online hate speech (although something like requiring platforms to review every comment / beam everything to the government would not be healthy for giving society)
The discourse around clothing performance is so confusing. Clothes insulate you. They don't cool you (except for the case where solar load on direct skin is higher than when clothes reflect some of that solar load). Some yarns are better than others at allowing your body to cool itself through evaporation in the face of too much insulation (potentially via the yarns wicking the sweat and then evaporating it off the outside of the fabric). The best way to maintain homeostasis is to dress to avoid sweating, and if that means removing clothing, then remove the clothing (except when the clothing is protective or required by social norms).
This feels like a rabbit hole argument. So, down the rabbit hole we go!

Let's imagine for a minute that using Open Source or FOSS also implies feeding back into the ecosystem. "Normal users" should be feeding back into the ecosystem somehow which then implies some form of understanding of that ecosystem. It can be bug reports (which requires understanding enough to post a coherent bug report), bug fixes (which requires knowing a little more), project leadership (which requires a different skillset and perhaps technical knowledge), monetary contributions (which makes the software less "free")

My argument is, "Open Source doesn't get you past tanstaafl." The work to use it still needs to be done by someone. If you want to be a user of it and the thing you want to do isn't on the already-paved/easy-path then you need to get someone to pave that path for you or you need to understand how to do it yourself. That's the nature of the beast and has nothing to do with being a "walled garden."
Ah, so less a hash table and more vanilla KNN?

Edit: I missed this on the first pass, but I'm totally lost as to where 1.5T comes from. Even if you only have two tokens there are vastly more 8192-length subsequences than that (something like 2^8151.5 times more), and if we're just trying to replicate the same space as something like GPT3.5 or LLaMA then you only get on the order of 0.065T to 0.175T entries to play with, much less when you consider that you have a full probability distribution to store (divide by your unique token count, and again by at least 2 if we store at least IEEE f16 probabilities).
A big problem was that Trump was into this theory early on: the Chinese virus, from Wuhan. Let's time travel back to May of 2020 for example: "Trump claims to have evidence coronavirus started in Chinese lab but offers no details" [1].

According to the Swamp, Trump cannot be right about anything ever, therefore the virus' origin is unknown and don't call it the Chinese flu because that's racist - even if the early Chinese accounts of the disease literally called it the "Wuhan pneumonia". This became Woke dogma the minute Trump said the opposite.

This whole thing has been disgusting and if we were a serious society thousands in leadership positions would have been fired or resigned in disgrace. Instead, Hollywood made fan films about people who quite easily fit the definition of having committed crimes against humanity, Tedros still has a job, and the WHO won't see any reform - it will see a major expansion of its power. I fear for the next pandemic, because if it's anything deadlier than COVID it might legitimately end civilization given the amount of incompetence we've now entrenched into our civilizational safeguards.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/donald-trump...
That's inevitable when most science is funded by people in power; you don't get funded if you're the kind of person who tells people in power what they don't want to hear.
> Removed Redis 4 years ago; average latency remained unchanged at 20ms.

A hidden taken away is that NVMe storage databases are so fast, they are comparable to in-memory (redis) databases these days.
They may still believe in god, but not pray daily.
> The best coaching in the world isn’t going to help me and my friends beat a pro sports team

No, but a good coach will start with you team, replace single player and get slightly better results. Replace another player and get better results. Rince and repeat until you and all your friends are long gone but your team plays in the NFL.

Being able to detect, attract, nurture and retain talents is exactly what the coach is doing on a daily basis.
You're closer to being correct than my initial estimate. I was taking the average number of children born to a woman at 8. The population wasn't stable, it was growing.

Mortality during childbirth either 1 or 2%.

So somewhere in the 12-15% range that a woman would die of (one of her) childbirths.

So, yeah seems about right. What is .85 in your calculation?
Wow we are really never going to learn anything from the pandemic. Listen to yourself, "done under the normal overly cautious test protocols". The lesson we need to learn from the pandemic origin is that we need to be "more" cautious with bleeding edge medical research. The cost/benefit is not there for a lot of research if there is a tiny chance a mistake can kill millions people unintentionally.
Thankfully I exist in 2023. I would not have, and will never, support apartheid or genocide of Black Americans. China is perpetrating this as we speak.
Trans teenagers that want to transition are going to need puberty blockers, so obviously you can’t postpone any conversation around trans identity issues until adulthood.

Your perspective strikes me as a modern version of the old “concern” that talking to teenagers about homosexuality turns straight kids gay. By now we hopefully all understand how that’s just bigotry, and your argument is basically the same. You make some vague allusions to confused teenage girls being vulnerable to gay^H^H^H trans propaganda based on purely hypothetical worries. Gut feeling all the way down.

Note also that your concern is that a straight teenage girl gets mindwarped by the evil trans lobby and not the symmetrical scenario of a hypothetical teenager daughter that is trans but feels unable to come out of the closet because she doesn’t trust the adults in her life to respond reasonably.

Maybe ask yourself if you would be disappointed if one of your kids turns out trans and then ask yourself why.
Yes but I can't legally tell you (weird exotics and fixed income models with lots of daycounts that you'll make a mistake on are a hint)
This! This is what freedom of speech is really about!
> Well, they used the ⎇ symbol for the “Alt” key, which is also very rare

No, they used the ⌥ symbol, which is the option/alt key symbol also established by Apple. All of the symbols they used for their keyboard layout are Apple's symbols for a particular key.

> I personally prefer standardized spelling and words being a bit more strict in their definitions.

In order for something to be a standard it actually has to be used. A dictionary doesn't make up its own words then add it to the dictionary, then tries to tell everyone that's what they have to use. They add words that they find to be broadly used by the general public. Countries like France try to control this sort of thing, but I don't think it works all that well. People ultimately decide the language they use, especially when it comes to new phenomena.

> And, similarly, I give some weight to an ISO standard for keybord symbols, since such a standard does exist (especially when the author actually used one of those symbols already).

The author is using the symbols established by Apple. Any overlap with the ISO standard is coincidence.

> I am also loath to use company-specific words or symbols

What symbols aren't company-specific when it comes to symbols on keyboards? You even suggested in your original post to use "◇" as one of the symbols which is, shocker, company-specific. I've at least used a keyboard with such a symbol on it, but it is not used at all on keyboards today. The symbol they use in the ISO spec you're pointing towards is the "⌘." Are you sure you don't just have a distaste for Apple?

> Likewise, I would avoid using a keyboard symbol exclusively used by Apple, since another symbol exists which is used by others.

It's not used by others, though. It's not used on MacOS, Windows, Linux, or BSD in any of its menus. It's not printed on keyboards. It's not known by anyone but someone looking up ISO standards for keyboard layouts, which isn't even the established standard for keyboard layouts in a lot of the world!
I am a big fan of unicode.link[1] for inspecting existing strings, searching for codepoints, and comparing how strings get encoded.

[1] https://unicode.link/
Hadn't thought of that to be honest, but it's a good point.
It seems like you are misunderstanding the nuance of what they are saying.

Its best understood after watching and grokking this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNv2PlqmsAc

Putting what is being said in the correct context, outlined in that video, which is how government typically operates.

Its pretty clear what they mean to any educated rational reader what was meant. The characterization you made is poor and doesn't aptly apply.
Zelensky: Three more European countries ready to train Ukrainians on F-16 jets
“Low confidence” does not equate to “overwhelming evidence”.
I'd been a Delphi dev for several years. One of the funny things I share with other devs is how Universities are sometimes maligned for teaching content that is interesting and in depth, but perhaps not applicable in the real world.

I learnt Pascal in my first year of University. After a brief stint of BASIC, I fixed up a failing project using Delphi. This was the start of a long (long..) stint of Delphi programming.

I've now opted for a lower paying role to learn new skills. I'm loving it. I should have done this a long time ago, but life is what happens while you make plans.

I think one of the biggest problem older Delphi apps have is that they lock themselves in to working well in a Windows GUI environment. Early Delphi based project successes, because of quick initial deliveries (due to RAD/ROI), of mostly working applications mask the problem of a lack of architectural forethought.

I suspect a very difficult problem for most Delphi apps these days is disentangling working, legacy business logic from many sometimes very old forms and code into a more web consumable format. I've thought of starting a business to do this very thing, but others are doing this quite well I think.

The well thought out apps, that did have some reasonable architectural forethought, have probably been ported to C# by now. The apps that can't do this can be quite tricky to work with.

Working in a dynamic lang, Python, Scheme, etc. also I think allows easier shape-changing for new requirements. Whereas I think Delphi apps can get bit locked down into a way of thinking/doing tasks (GUI talking to a DB).

YMMV,. but that's my experience :-)

Glossary:
RAD: Rapid Application Development
ROI: Return On Investment
What would make you feel more connected to your remote co-workers?
Absent of being in person, what would make you feel more connected to your remote co-workers?
If you were 10 years younger you might not have had the means to do that?
With a caveat that pingdom will mark "a connection from pingdom server from other side of the world to the server" as downtime, even if the target and your ISP, and the ISP of your ISP had no problems.
Ah, right, I misread your post. DO WHILE is indeed a "normal" while loop. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent to "do { ... } while", as found in most C-style languages.

> There seems to be a unfortunate inconsistency in the naming of this thing.

Well, Fortran is older than C, so you cannot really blame them :-)
> And this is (one reason) why so many are keen to believe Lab Leak - because then it was done by 'bad humans' and so can be fixed, instead of being (another) consequence of our encroachment on the natural world and indeed something that often just happens.

In my experience it's rather that "lab leak" means "bad foreigners we're already hating did this to everyone, why won't we nuke them already or something", when the alternative would be to actually think about failing healthcare, vulnerable supply chains, lack of trust in institutions, etc.

"Lab leak" is a cop-out. It should lead to improving procedures in biolabs, but people there are already doing it anyway, because they're smart enough to think about possibilities ("oh, even if it was a wet market issue this time, the next one might be someone here fucking up; let's review the procedures to make that less likely to happen"). For general population, the media and political sphere, it's just a permission to dismiss and ignore any potential fixes ("You say spending more on X would reduce the spread of the virus? It's not like the last one was because of problem with X - it came from a foreign lab, nothing X can do about it!").

"Encroachment on the natural world" is mostly orthogonal to that. We are going to keep encroaching on it anyway, and the way to do it safely is to do those fixes that "lab leak" gives an excuse for not doing.
My personal ideas of fairness are based on moral reasoning and scientific understanding. To state that more precisely, the criteria for this fairness being useful is the degree to which it is consistent with moral reasoning and scientific understanding.

In a democracy, I think of fairness as the general underlying ethical ideas implied by the set of laws. As such, this idea of fairness will seem inconsistent in some ways, because it is the result of various laws and court precedents established over time.

Individuals in any society have varying ideas of fairness of course. How they express and act on them varies considerably with the form of government they live in.
The LLM has no idea what words mean, so its quite impossible for them to reason about things. They just statistically mash up patterns of words from massive input with no clue whatsoever what those patterns of words actually mean in the real world.
and unfortunately that does not matter for the things the post mentions, ie. population and geopolitical dominance. :/
Here's the best aurora forecast tool : https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast from NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
Looks like cloud free parts of Canada are in for a show (minus the most populated part).
[edited, thank you, anthomtb]
Audi’s EV Concept Features Support for AR Glasses
The Island Erased from the Map, Okunoshima
In actual crime, those who participated, either physically or not, go to jail.

But we should not ban speech when there has not been any crime.
Does a tree have goals? Does a wealthy man have unlimited resources? (Time is also a resource.)
Maybe I am misremembering, then. Perhaps I had a 9600 bps HST.
> You'd just pull out the target loop body rather than the whole loop.

that's a "good solution" in the sense of "lambda is the ultimate goto", but if you're writing a loop over the rows and columns (or more dimensions) of something, pulling out and segregating the control structure for the innermost (and potentially other) layers of the hierarchy can make a simple depth first exploration look obscure. If the total amount of code is fitting in a screenful, I'd rather put multi-level break or continue labels and then goto them sparingly.
Hmm, my conciousness now feels significantly different from before. Not necessarily saying it is different, but I experience life differently from when I was 12.
> Unfortunately, random Asian people getting brutalized when they're going about their daily business has been a long-standing problem in a number of cities.

It increased after the pandemic (https://abcnews.go.com/US/hate-crimes-asians-rose-76-2020-am... and https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-hate-crimes-against-c...). It's hard to get data on people's motivations for crimes, but we can very clearly see drastic shifts in trends and this was trending higher than the baseline "generalized ethnic resentment" you'd expect to see normally.
Hehehe. This is absolutely true and trying to explain it to anyone around me makes me feel like a Cassandra quoting battlestar galactica: "All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again". I'm not even old, I just happened to witness the tail end of SOA when I was still a student, followed by the rise of micro-services afterwards. Your service mesh is just someone else's message bus. Sure, it's different. Except not really. Also, bonus points for younger developers reinventing features for json APIs that SOAP already had.
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> I could care less about the U.S. justice system, society has plenty of tools to punish individuals, and I have no problem using them.

You are interested in fairness, no? What kinds of systems of justice are you interested in?

Do you subscribe to the might makes right argument?
A corollary to this is that it doesn't matter how "dumb" people are or aren't, being affording democracy, free speech, etc. is better than other options.

At the end of the day, autonomy to be dumb morons, and the autonomy to not be, is what people deserve.
The phone sizes aren't that much different.

5: 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm

12 mini: 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.4 mm

The more important difference is, the 12 mini screen is 5.42" diagonal instead of 4" like the 5. This is maybe marketed as a benefit, but it means I can't comfortably reach the entire screen during one-handed use.
Maya Deren, the symbol and champion of American experimental film (2022)
Source material is from 2022, so title should include that disclaimer.
https://archive.ph/x9cZv
This is pretty much it.. you can't make parents be parents unfortunately.
MLB feels effect of new pitch clock rules as violation ends Red Sox-Braves game
In the future, I wonder if someone may write an article "Restoring an ancient airport from the rubble of a lake in Mexico City"...
> While condos are attractive for people who can't afford regular homes

The people profiled in the article are not clinging to their condo because they can't afford a "regular home". They already bought a house, they just had two properties:

> In 2004, right before they had children, they moved out and into a house four miles away, so their twins could grow up with a backyard. But they always planned to return to the condo so they held onto it, renting to a trusted tenant and looking forward to retirement there.

Where's the article about how people who own two residences are depriving people with no residences?
Your link might get popular on HN, and inevitably someone will comment "well that's stupid", and you will read it and feel bad. Not reading HN comments is apparently not an option.