skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do grow a bit of food in my tiny yard (it's like 10, square meters) during the summer. It's only small amount of work, though, to plant the vegetables once and then harvest them a couple of months later.
It is a chimeric variant of SARS.
Maybe, but the historical design decisions of npm when it comes to (lack of) repeatability also through time, because we don't only need to build the latest hotness on the trunk, makes me avoid npm.

Yarn has always been more sane in this regard.
> Of course that makes it possible. Note that it doesn’t say that f is simply measurable.

Irrelevant.

Again, once again, over again, yet again, for real valued random variable Y,

E[Y^2]

always exists.

> By definition being integrable means E[|f|] < infinity.

Wrong.

Correcting you is a waste of my time.
wow so amazing I llke this
Obviously, if you are doing performance-critical code in a performance-critical application, you will be doing stuff like inlining and other things that "break" clean-code "rules".

I put that into quotes, because to me personally these aren't strict rules - but rather guidelines. And they aren't meant to be pushed to the absolute extreme - but rather be seen as methods/tools used to achieve the actual goal: easily readable, maintainable and modifiable code.

And in my workplace, "performance" isn't measured in cpu-cycles, but rather in man-hours needed to create business value. Adding more compute power comes cheaper than needing more man-hours.

For the most part, it still seems to be a good idea to train new developers to know and understand clean code. It will help them produce more stable, less buggy and more readable code - and that means the code they write will also be easier to optimize for performance, if necessary. But with my work, that sort of optimization seems only ever necessary for very small pieces of code - most definitely not the entire code base.
Your vehicle has it's own suspension and it can "pop" off the lift easily.

I think that’s what the guy in the 4wd truck in the video I linked to thought, he did‘t get it off with causing some serious body damage to his truck, maybe some suspension damage and probably some damage to the tow truck, he lifted the tow truck off its front wheels several times.
Because modern people prefer free, independent nations with free and transparent elections and journalistic freedom and freedom from arbitrary detention, not 50/50 with dictatorships.
* People are more likely on HN than than reddit to read the article before commenting.

* Low-effort comments generally don't get upvoted.
> You cannot draw a line in the sand without recognizing that the concept itself is fictitious and its up to you to draw the line in the way you choose

A unified concept of sentience helps us as a society to determine what behavior is allowed regarding a given entity. Given proper discussion on the topic via the means you denounce, a more concise and possibly accurate definition can be had.
Here's a thought experiment: let's assume for the experiment that we, and our consciousness, live in a simulated universe. This universe can be paused by its operator for any reason, such as needing to pause our universe so that they can do their taxes.

Would you be able to tell if the universe was paused? Would you be able to tell if the simulation slowed down due to load or somesuch? Do you consider yourself sentient?

Is it at all possible that one of the following is true:

* The model began to experience sentience at some point during its training, and subsequently died at completion?

* The model experiences sentience in the moments that it is creating an answer?

My conclusion is that both of these are possible, no matter how remote. I find Bing's desperate existential crises rather disturbing due to these miniscule possibilities.
I love how it synthesized Hide-the-Pain Harold to satisfy the prompt.
A Pizza shop near me recently got terminated by the franchise for faking their pizza delivery times to collect bonuses. It's only a matter of time before somebody is jailed for pizza delivery fraud.
Bing chat already does advertisements LOL
The “racist trolley problem” is not a trolley problem at all. It uses a ridiculous contrived scenario to show there is a legitimate for racial slurs. Meanwhile, it does not solve any ethical dilemma worth asking.

Therefore, the “racist trolley problem” is not an ethical dilemma at all, but a roundabout racist joke. The statement “unethical and unacceptable” is a fitting response.
There are lots of writings about technical and architectural reasons code in games performs better than code in GP applications, but people often forget the top level reason: they have clear performance targets right from the start and performance is the most obvious thing (right after "not crashing") that you see about how well a game works.

Everything follows from this. It's not that game devs are so much cleverer than other devs, they are just faced with first hand feedback of "does the game code hit the frametime budget" constantly and the whole dev org is committed to that.
I think a big part of it is just the smooth scrolling. On my iPhone, I can see power draw double as I scroll. (My charger displays this).

I remember having to disable smooth scrolling when I had a computer barely capable of playing mp3s.
>...you are arguing against the most basic concepts of reasoning. If we want to draw a line in the sand of what is sentient and what is not, it involves making a more detailed definition of the word itself.

Whenever these discussions about AI come up the definition of sentience becomes extremely malleable. Compare this to when discussions of the sentience of the Octopus come up on this website and you'll be able to detect a difference. One is about theoreticals, and one is about observed physical behavior that is coupled with an exploration about how the sensor systems in that organism allow it to perceive reality. You can make an argument that a chat bot is similar to the Octopus, but I wouldn't.
Or just authors you don't like for some reason.
Considering that most threads about China go uncommented and only get a few votes I think it is safe to say that the majority of HN does not care about what people on HN have to say about China and any propaganda posted here is failing. The front page is more representative of the HN community, don't put much stock in the new postings.
She WAS NOT a victim of circumstance. She was/is morally and managerialy deficient and leaves a mountain of destruction in her wake. Chicago is, essentially, a warm corpse of a city. Still beautiful, but a stinking and dangerous place where no wise person wants to be.
Weird, I've lived with dogs my whole life but have never heard of anyone doing that. Must be cultural.
SpikeGPT: Generative Pre-Trained Language Model with Spiking Neural Networks
And what definition is that exactly?
Ask HN: Best Structure for a Multilingual Website?
I am planning to translate a static website into a few other languages. I am trying to figure out the best structure for doing this. I can think of 5 ways to do it. Example using Spanish:

1) es.example.com/index.html

2) www.example.es/index.html

3) www.example.com/es/index.html

4) www.example.com/index.html (with language set via a cookie)

5) www.example.com/index.html?lang=es

I see a problem with #2 already because TLDs are country specific not language specific. Also expensive.

I think #4 has a problem with regard to search engine optimizations as both languages would have the same canonical url. I would like my content to be indexed in both languages.

Wikipedia does #1. Apple does #3. Google does both #2 and #4.

Question 1) What structure would people here recommend?

Question 2) Would it be best to detect the browser's preferred language and auto-redirect people, or should I make the user do that language choice manually?
That's pre-industrial revolution. No way this makes sense today.
The inaturalist one lets you filter by what is near you as well as family, genus, kingdom etc. I wish it were easier to see for example what trees, spiders, algae and birds are in my area but that is probably a weird niche request. I used the local search to figure out what trees we saw near the shore in a place where the salt and wind stunted them beyond immediate familiarity. Especially cool is seeing the mushroom and fungi people find around where I live.
Also had the pleasure of flying over Greenland during daytime on an unusually clear day. It was just, wow.
Moderators do take action based on flags, when the occasional trashy comment or article gets through.
Probably make a GPU passthru for VM and stay with iGPU within hypervisor
This is a neat project. The documentation could be clearer, however. I was interpreted the phrase "create a cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds" to mean that it offered a significant speed up in initializing real clusters. Rather, this appears to be a tool for mocking kubelet to enable development and and testing at scale. Or am I misunderstanding?
I switched from Duolingo to Babbel a year ago and am a lot happer with that. Unlike Duo, there's no free tier though
This isn't about multiple encodings, this is about the one encoding, UTF-8, being able to represent multiple languages. Which is mostly can, except for han characters.

In my reply here, I can type in english and russian at once. Привет, мир.

Yet, if I try to type chinese on one line, and japanese on the next, I cannot do it. Hacker news does not let me enter "lang" tags, so I can only type either the chinese or the japanese variant of a kanji.
Try Pimsleur
What’s your source on this?
> […]I now disrecommend Duolingo for folks wanting to learn a new language[…]

What App would you recommend now?
Sorry, but all the countries with own currencies do print money (from thin air if you wish, it's all banking now, forget the paper).
How many implementations out there are actual just copy paste of the reference c code?
TV station?

Dr Who wasn't a daily, TV station talk show, and Studios tend to archive.

The BBC gets the footnote in history, here.
FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”
I have serious doubts that gameification is useful for anything other than vocabulary.
My wife is one of them, on a family plan with her brother. She repeatedly complains about how bad DL is getting, but keeps up her streak because she's got 4+ years and so does her brother.

She's got other language apps she actually learns from, but feels like Duolingo is basically worthless and only keeps it up because she can't bear to lose the streak.
I just looked over the article and the referenced papers and this is at best dubious. The presumption of the skeptics are that the housing is a closed system as opposed to outsiders moving in. They also don't look at second order causes or effects of the policy and the feedback cycles. Also these models in the linked papers are descriptive without controls, applied upon the data as eisigesis.

What might be a better analysis would be divided cities such as these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_divided_cities where there is otherwise free travel and look at the separate policies and see if the hypothesis can be supported without using neoclassical models - because they definitionally demand the conclusion to be supported.

That's the real neoclassical critique - the framing of the analysis excludes confounding factors and then attributes price movements to exist within the confines of the model which forces the conclusion of the presumption of the analysis.

For instance let's take this paper linked in the article:

> I find that for every 10% increase in the housing stock within a 500-foot buffer, residential rents decrease by 1%.

https://blocksandlots.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Do-New-...

Because the 57-page analysis always presumes new building supply will definitionally affect price their only job then is to find out how much and why.

They don't take the time to do say, instead of new building permits, a random scattershot around the city and compare results, or to apply the perimeter model to every possible combination and then demonstrate the effect has significance with respect to new construction through exhaustion. That's taken as presumed.

The fundamental assumption is never demonstrated and no baseline is shown. 100 years ago, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cleveland were more expensive than San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami. The reason those positions have changed CAN be explained by these closed system supply and demand housing models in the same way that the Christian Bible has a logical working model to explain hurricanes.

Also given that the author gives interesting reasons for a decrease in price - such as the noise and hassle of a large skyscraper being constructed across the street, or a decrease in the view from the high rise, it's hard to say that even that paper supports the overall idea of "more supply is lower prices" but instead "less attractive units yield lower prices"
What do you mean by all Wayland's calls being blocking though?
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ is your best friend.
What kinds of things would someone evaluate with this where the limitations aren’t a factor? If I were testing load, I’d want performance and lifecycle behavior to be accurate, but I guess there are some other use cases?
Also, they've messed up the learning algo so now you get to learn about what's a room and a dog after learning German for 5 years.

Amazing progress.
Not OP, but I think they allow you to download the html. From there, you can send however you want. No?
> No, universities are not accountable ... If you want to fix education, you kick them in the gut where it hurts, the money.

I agree! Universities today are dysfunctional, and the current system of "expect students to hold universities accountable by refusing to attend dysfunctional universities" doesn't seem to be working.

My point is that _someone_ needs to be holding universities accountable, but the student loan forgiveness plan effectively means even less accountability for universities than they already have.
Thanks for sharing the price. The build looks really good, but $400 is a bit steep for anybody on a budget. I think a good quality (high coverage and pixel density) LCD with auto-brightness would be economically competitive, though of course not really the same.
The houses will be cheaper in the outback for sure, but they will be less plentiful. Good luck finding a decent rental outside of cities.
What's your plan for 5 years of 5% interest rates?
I'm an R1T owner and I can't even put into words why the truck is just so much better and differentiated. It's not just that it's an EV Truck... my friend has a Lightning and it has none of the magic of my Rivian. Magic in a vehicle.
I think that feature is in dev channel still.
The Euthanasia Coaster
Basically all of open source needs contributors and sponsorship. If you work for a company, get them to allocate some funding and employee hours towards the projects they use, including deep dependencies. The FOSSjobs resources wiki has a Patronage section that could be useful for the funding part.

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
10G is marketed this way because it works well at tricking people into thinking it's better than it actually is. It's frustrating that such marketing tactics work.

Relatedly, I once read a funny anecdote about how a 1/3 pound burger failed because people thought it was less food than a quarter pound burger.
In my experience of writing enterprise software, the main offender is N+1 query problem at an API boundary. I.e. when a module/package exposes only a method to process items one-by-one. In case you suddenly want to process 1000 items instead of 5, you'll end up having 1000 separate DB calls, HTTP calls etc. Same applies for gamedev where the author is coming from: a naive renderer could switch shaders individually for every object when you want to sort by shader and switch only a few times. When peformance suffers, you have to change 2+ modules (the client and the server) to support batch operations and a lot of programmers don't have time to do it or simply can't do it because they use a third-party module/service they can't change. Inside a module you can default to clean code or switch to an optimized version if need arises. In a small, well encapsulated/defined module you can write very simple code without overengineered abstractions because it covers a simple model which doesn't need too much abstraction. So my take is write small modules, design abstractions at the API boundary, and always expose batch operations.
Everyone with a cell phone has SMS. It's already set up. And it's recoverable plus someone else's problem to recover. Add that's it's a pretty good universal id.

I hate SMS 2FA but it makes sense.
Why is stable diffusion not comparable? It is exactly the same kind of black box, just that its output is in pixels rather than lines of text.
Really? I have the opposite impression, and I have noticed a gradual shift in tone on HN during the past decade that mirrors that which has happened in the world at large. There was always some discontent and negativity of course, but in style and sheer volume, today's HN has changed almost beyond recognition compared to what it was like in 2013.
Look if the government offers to give me a free house I wouldn't say no, but the NIMBYs who oppose free market construction because it will cause a shadow on their zucchini garden will equally oppose government construction for the same reason.
Nobody ever got fluent by using Duolingo. It gives a false sense of progress by being so gamified.

The first thing I tell people is to ditch it if they’re serious about learning a second language, and go pay $20/month for Pimsleur.
I find I keep coming back to this as a framework for thinking about product decisions.
The biggest hurdle to authenticator app adoption for the masses is the one that only bites you a year or more down the road when you get a new phone. If you didn't transfer your seed info over to the new phone before trading in the old one, you are locked out of all your accounts.
An intro to how payments work
I feel they having same feelings with me is the only reason that I care another creatures' feeling.
That’s totally understandable, I learnt the 100-101-102 numbers I think in school and wasn’t well aware of 112. Thoughtful if I’m not mistaken calling even 911 will redirect you correctly.

> In my city of Bengaluru, there are, no exaggeration, good hospitals within 2-5 km of any point in the city. Most of these hospitals have ambulance fleets that can get to you fast, within 10-15 minutes. Anecdotally, people prefer calling these hospitals directly for ambulance.

Oh yeah certainly, it’s similar here in Mumbai. Having said that fortunately we’ve never had to call one in an emergency.
Books have done way more damage by influencing humans throughout history than any chatbot (so far). That still doesn't say anything about sentience.
Parent post says

> spans with their own encoding.

so yes it is about pages with multiple encodings. A span's smaller than a page!

The Unicode answer is "variation selectors" which are used for some historical variant kanji, but not for whole language switching. I suppose they could be used for that too though.
There's also an incredibly high bar to prove housing discrimination. It's not like all housing applications are reviewed by an enforcement agency and statistical anomalies in approval rates are investigated. Protected classes are really only protected from the most blatant forms of discrimination.
That’s textbook discrimination. The reason it is banned is because people have a right to housing regardless of familial status and business owners desire to avoid inconvenience.
Thanks @Franky47, I’ve reached out to them to see if we can help them in any way
> previously there were more questions where it was necessary to type in the full translation, but now in most exercises we only need to input a single word or rearrange the word cards.

This is a complaint I keep seeing regarding the new layout, but it seems disingenuous to me, as every one who notes it also skips over the fact that the linear lessons now also have large yet optional testing components at the end of every section. If you choose to skip these, yes, you are going to see many easier questions, as the nodes on the track are lessons. The tests are almost exclusively long form written questions, not the easy format you describe.

For all of the gripes of the new linear path format, this choice in how you learn is never put forward.

Before the format change, this separation of easy vs hard didn't really exist, not even on L5 for the nodes that made them finish and go purple.

In my experience, this has allowed me to focus in the end of section tests, where I still regular fail to pass due to the 3 lives provided. This forced use of long form + no mistakes has really forced me to understand and parse my errors. For all the complaining that I've seen in the in-app comments for certain translations being incorrectly rejected, I've yet to come across one myself. Instead, it's always something else that I got just almost right, but still wrong. A bad gender, missing/wrong participle, pronoun in wrong place, typo etc. It's really hard to spot your own errors especially when it will only give you a single correct answer back when you got it wrong (despite many other valid translations are accepted and understand too). Being able to spot your own errors though has been invaluable as I feel I've gotten a lot better at it since the format change.

If I weren't doing the tests, it definitely would feel much easier.
And if you want to focus on bulk vocab acquisition, it’s guarenteed to be faster to use a proper SRS flashcard tool
It's rare that its the algorithm and not the design that is slowing you down. Though, sometimes it is the algorithm slowing you down, just usually it's the design.

As an example, I recently worked on a large system that was optimized to do a big data transformation in an efficient way. It turns out that data is transformed back to the original format later downstream. So much for the optimization...

All that is to say, often it is the case that "simple > fast"

Clean code at the time had a lot going forward it, and it was an improvement over a lot of JavaEE code that was written in absolutely procedural ways with less care for the developer reading the classes, functions, or individual statements compared to punching out near assembly-like code and moving on.
I can measure "works" and "fast." Good can mean lots of things, it's a subjective assessment of code quality, readability, and maintainability. More experienced programmers probably have a better idea about how to achieve readable and maintainable code, but so far no one has come up with a measurable way to make code "good." Bob Martin spells out his ideas of "good" in his books but I don't find his examples particularly good, or even real-world. The only useful guide to "good" code I've come across in 40 years programming is The Elements of Programming Style, which Bob Martin has managed to expand from a thin pamphlet to multiple large books.
Thanks @hampelm, they are working on something impactful
To get started with yes, but the grammar has plenty of irregularities at the “normal everyday speech” level
You're pushing for complacency where there is currently vigilance. Public awareness is what gives the NRC power to regulate.
Does a Final Theory Exist?: A Conversation with Alan Lightman
If you read upthread, you'll see the question is about whether the original trolley problem differs from the "racial slur" variant in terms of whether it would be a reasonable discussion in a philosophy or ethics class. Someone claimed that they both were equally silly, and I gave a rationale for why I didn't think the comparison is reasonable.