skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and can't tell apart ال from ل ا.

Who can't tell these apart? I know literally no Arabic - these characters look very much like latin ones I and J, and it's just an order thing.

It seems like an excellent quick test to me to see if there's ordering problems.
Not to be snippy, but did your relative spend most of those 20+ years in management? I ask because I work for a government agency with civil service rules, unions, etc. that probably make the hiring and firing process similarly onerous as at the MTA, and I hear this sentiment from management but never from an actual worker. I note that the answer Slate comes up with is a management choice to outsource, by the way.

Anyway, your relatives idea sounds like finger pointing to me. Many of the countries that absolutely kick the US' ass in subway and el train construction costs are to be found in Western Europe where labor law is much more employee-sided than even US civil service government jobs. They can do it even with a portion of lazy bums doing nothing all day, so why can't the MTA?
Can't really agree - I still enjoy a good Aurora display - but of course my bar for "wow" is raised to clear night, little light pollution and being blessed by looking right up into the corona - along with some great colors (not just green).

Last winter I had the good fortune to go for a walk and catching the corona right behind my house (on a side I can't see the sky from inside - due to window placement and trees). Beautiful.

But then I also marvel at a clear starry night...

Aurora

lighting up a cold night

Letting us know

below the horizon

The Sun is shining

8 minutes

one unit away

In the dark
I have a couple notes for node.js on AWS Lambda. If you're at all security conscious you'll want to regularly bump the runtime version and update your packages.json. Some automation with GitHub actions or similar should be able to do that. Probably add some basic testing to make sure things still work before you deploy. I haven't automated the ones I manage, and I've updated them maybe 1-2 times a year for security reasons.

As an example, node 12 was released in 2019 [1] and will begin deprecation phases in another month [2]. So it looks like a 4 year support cycle, although old runtime versions will still run. If you're using any of the AWS security scanning tools, these will flag any vulnerable dependencies and then you'd update them. Those seem fairly common in the node ecosystem, so other languages may see lower toil.

[1] https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.0.0/

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtimes...
>the fact that they set out to turn such silly concept into an anime is more about the fun than the money

If that were the case, they could have hired any number of animators to do it, the quality would have been better and they would have had more control over the look and style (it looks the way it does because they trained the AI on a specific anime.) The only reason to use AI is because it's about the money - to not hire artists.

I can all but guarantee this is a service Corridor or a subsidiary company will be offering soon. This isn't a few nerds hacking away on some crazy tech just to see if they can make it work, this is a pitch to animation studios that it's almost time to fire their staff.

And that's perfectly valid from a business point of view, but as far as I'm concerned Corridor loses all of their nerd cred for doing it.
The delivery riders with electric bikes and huge backpacks also give a pretty good draft when you have to slog into a headwind.
It is when you are having fun. For me, it feels like yesterday.
The article even links to a site where you can practice: https://notarabic.com/

Thanks to this training, I can now identify that numerous Arabic strings on that site are backwards. He wasn't joking, IJ is everywhere.
OK, let's say "not acknowledged", and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the tildeverse except for the statement in the about page.

At least I can claim that https://littr.me is part of the tildeverse because it uses ~username as a way to reach its users' profiles.
Most women are looking for a partner of equal or higher standing, and sex isn't a primary concern. A 20yo man has little to offer to a 40yo woman besides being close to his peak fitness, which she cares little for.
Just be aware that the saturated colors seen on photographs are an artifact of the medium and the vidoes making it look like fireworks are typically sped-up.

It can’t really be captured om film - and what you see on film is quite different.
> The article defines client as another thread or process

It does no such thing. The word "client" is given once in the text, and little is said except it isn't a thread due to the fact their support is fraught with peril and often poorly provided for by programming languages

> I haven't said that they're ideal, only that they're demonstrably capable of enabling more than just two processes to interact.

So was carrier pigeon, but sometimes we want to send messages faster than that.

> These aren't points raised by the article -- in fact so far we've been discussing the opposite (extensions and features, not cutting features).

>... about the ability of the architecture to scale -- not the efficiency of calling one specific syscall.

> What specifically do you think POSIX's architecture is preventing us from implementing?

Erm, they are the points raised by the article, that's kind-of why I think you still haven't read it yet. Here's the paragraph right after the one where it defines a client as not-a-thread (and after talking about one specific syscall):

The death of any of these systems is when a user asks, "What about Posix? How can I port my XXX program to run on your system?" Providing Posix-like semantics in these systems is their death knell, because the Posix way of thinking is so narrow and providing its varied illusions requires so many hidden changes and adherences to age-old assumptions that there is no way to have a flexible innovative system and serve the Posix elephant. This means that no matter how innovative and clever a system is, once it is tainted by Posix support, it becomes just another Posix system.

> But is implementing stuff like select() really a "yoke?" It's not exactly difficult, and I don't think you or anyone has articulated how it might hamper the inclusion of more advanced interfaces

Could you show me? I don't think it's possible to implement a select() that works with Linux's fancy new iouring that uses the provided files and buffers features easily, but I'd like to be proven wrong.
Was confused by "news reader" since thought that's what RSS readers are, but then realized it's about Usenet. Never used that for news, only... stuff...
The contents of this article aren't too interesting, but the topic is.

People using dating apps like Tinder optimise for matching profile attributes. The only information we have to filter people is their profiles. And we assume that a greater number of shared interests/values/etc. will make for a better partner.

But that's not necessarily true. I actually find it quite unlikely to be true. There might be some correlation, but it can't be very strong. If it were, than all the long term happy couples would consist of basically identical people. But that's clearly not the case.

I suspect that most relationships fail not because of true incompatibilities, but because the huge increase of the dating pool size has made us believe that it's about finding the right match, instead of making it. And in that process we have lost some critical relationship skills that are needed to make a partnership work.

That's very unfortunate, but at the same time an incredibly helpful realisation.
Insightful

> i have no doubt they'll come along if fly continues owning mindshare at this level. when its obvious on HN but not yet obvious on the marketing sites you just have to wait a couple years

Seems like an accurate observation.

Now please elaborate as to why? And how does one shorten this?

I am unskilled at devrel and wish to benefit from your experience further. Cheers. :)
The difference between LLM cognition and human cognition probably lies somewhere in this dichotomy.
Javascript killer: https://pastebin.com/utE3275J

Yes, I'm using it as a bookmarklet. I'm using firefox but I think it should work the same for other browsers.
I read somewhere that RISC-V is very MIPS-inspired. If that's the case, it'd make a lot of sense to share instructions or facilitate emulation.
Good writing, but bad argument. Some things that make those "systems" different:

1. The market domain is much "wider" than sex. Money influences every aspect of your life.

2. The exact same argument could be made about many other "systems of differentiation". Such as skill or physical and mental health.

It's a cheap argument to make it seem like socialist arguments against economic inequality also applies to some kind of "sexual inequality". Sounds like an argument that eventually leads to Handmaidens tale, but I could just be imagining things.

Fact is that socialism isn't about removing all differences or all unfairness in the world at all cost.

It's about constructing a system that limits the negative side effects of the market economy.
One aspect of that is to avoid the commercialization of non-economic aspects of life.
What Houllebecq describes is the opposite. Love as a commodity.
I wonder if our universe looks like a black hole to the universe contained in other black holes
My father had an utterly torrid time just getting a diagnosis. Sleep apnea caused him so much hassle/torment over the years.
Not exactly Pascal but I write AL languaeg all day every day for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP system:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-centr...

The language is very similar to Pascal in syntax but actually is very modern and very powerful and productive programming environment.
Flight Simulator gave birth to 3D video-game graphics
LTS is making only the breaking changes that I want, of course. /s
Likely also single.
(as a woman)
All the source links still go to her twitter
Again, the assumption was not that Muslims are Arabic speakers...
this comment section is a little grim, I guess it's a bit expected that the audience for hacker news skews nerdy, single and male, but it feels worth saying that you're still likely all fairly attractive guys! hang on to a good attitude, care deeply about the things you care about, get a good barber and you'll be out of the dating abyss soon!
Yea, but access to chatting apps isn't necessarily the same as access to social media apps, except maybe Facebook's messaging. Having WhatsApp, text messaging, iMessage, Line, WeChat, etc. doesn't mean you need to install TikTok or Instagram.
New knowledge synthesized from existing knowledge. For example, you might know of A and B and maybe think that A -> B or B -> A based on their co-occurrence, but an AI might make you realize that C -> A as well as C -> B.
But how do we know what the "right" ways to present yourself are? It used to be that if you were a white kid in the US and you played with black kids, other white kids would treat you badly. I presume we all agree that this is not good behavior, and not good for society. But can you clearly delineate between this, and between kids bullying other kids because they are wearing the wrong colors?

I understand that we have to realistically look at the effects these changes have on individuals. But I don't think that we have reached any kind of "optimal social rules". Deciding to stop right here and now seems arbitrary, and I'm reasonably certain that there have always been people making this exact argument for any kind of change.
We mortals just haven't evolved to his Übermensch-level of thinking yet:

> I never viewed myself as a typical writer, who is writing for a large audience or the general public.

> Instead, I wanted to introduce some new, unconventional or contrarian ideas into the world that most people would not fully understand or be able to follow (at least not currently).

> Maybe in several decades once humanity evolves and thought progresses they will understand my ideas and their complexity.
> Current techniques can sometimes get causation right. What's it going to take to get it right as reliably as a person?

In the same way that Sydney is able to refer to the internet, an AI that can get causation right would probably require the ability to refer to a formal logic engine
> Try opening a realplayer video file today and you know what I mean.

I keep seeing this idea pop up from time to time and I just don't get it. Even if the format is somehow still undocumented despite once being popular, the original players/viewers for it must still exist. Due to the popularity, sure enough there will be enough copies of that software around forever, including on places like archive.org. From there, you have options:

- Run the original software on hardware from that time

- Run the corresponding OS in an emulator and run the software on it

- Reverse engineer the software, document the format, and build a player/viewer for those files for your modern

In the particular case of RealPlayer videos though, I'm sure I could play one on my M1 Mac in IINA or VLC with no trouble.
Different perspective: the market is always right and it's the individual that is wrong in the moment.

Successful day traders over the long term learn to be fairly humble.
> You’re anthropomorphizing these chat bots.

Oh? don't anthropomorphize the thing we are supposed to "chat" with? It's basically what they're designed for except when they rudely tell you "I'm just an LLM!"
Google Cloud Run is very easy.
Covariant Return Type
What do you think black people want that is impacted by their behavior?
I suggest you read this:

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-...
Don't Be Fooled by Serverless
Becoming disciplined enough to use the CPAP every night was a real struggle for me. Ironically, what ultimately helped me was starting to take modafinil during the day. Taking that as a stimulant in the day gave me enough energy in the day that I could make good decisions about other things that influence my sleep (exercise, sleep discipline). Something of a virtuous circle for me.
Well, in almost every case, first there's bonding and building of a connection, but for me and I think the majority, the physical attraction plays an important part. The grade "6" is relative and the judgement will vary between individuals.
Thanks for sharing this, it rings very true for me.

I've had many of the same symptoms for years, I put mine down to a dust mite allergy. It's the bane of my existence! :D

I'm very interested in your experiences of surgery.

I've often considered this as an alternative to antihistamines or anti-inflammatories like Flixonase. I don't think long term use of either of those is good for anyone. (Antihistamines being linked to dementia and steroids being linked to membrane damage amongst other things).

Anecdotally two things I link with improvements are religiously keeping my teeth clean including flossing to reduce gum inflammation and improving my hydration later in the day. Obviously there's a thin line to not drinking too much water and having that wake you up.
Interesting, Hinge uses the Gale-Shapley algorithm for their "daily match" recommendation.

For those unaware, the algorithm solves the Stable Marriage problem: find a global set of matches, where there's no pair who prefer each other to their own partners.

https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2021/09/30/hinge-and-its-...
If you want something that you have a right to, other people have to change.

Not being discriminated is not a "nice to have", it's a human right.

Sex with attractive women on the other hand is definitely not a human right.

Is it just me who finds it ridiculous that this has to be spelled out?
The authors post about attempts to innovate with screens sizes for lower end up 1980s computers is also really interesting:

https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1173829224026628101
It might even be enough that you’d start trying to list the nine billion names of God…
I think they mean about the medium being readable. Carved graffiti (o paper) is more durable than a CD-R. As this media they're using for the "Very Long-Term Backup" hasn't been fully tested yet (we'll need to wait a thousand years for that), they're hoping it will work, but they aren't still sure.
This reads like sarcasm, but I don’t really understand it. Is the cutthroat dating world not tough for the older single women out there?
How does it interop with the existing Java libraries?
Police call for help to find Brazilian national, 70, missing in Sydney
Many studies disagree with you thought.

Here's one article:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2...

Single women, it turns out, are the happiest. And then single women with kids. Men have to change or we'll become obsolete. Our UX, in general, is bad.
My sleep study cost roughly $2300 with insurance (US). I purchased my own machine and supplies because going through insurance requires you to rent the machine. It phones home and if you don’t use it every night it impacts your coverage! No thanks. You need a script to purchase the machine too which you need a sleep study to get. Then billed periodically for supplies. Also, the initial settings they configured for the machine did not work and I had to adjust them on my own using an application called OSCAR. The website CPAP talk is a great place for folks who are new to using a machine btw. I definitely still feel ridiculous putting a mask on every night but it has been absolutely life changing for my energy levels and health. Please do not delay if you think you have this - I promise it is worth it!
The gp is quibbling about the overuse of the adjectives "just" or the more common "simply" to qualify multiple actions, which are often not simple.

See

Avoid "Just" and "Simply" in Documentation http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2019/09/20/avoid_just_an...

Don’t say “simply” in your documentation by Jim Fisher https://www.knowledgeowl.com/blog/posts/dont-say-simply-jim-...
> But really, if you are regularly reading content on a site you should subscribe to support the journalists employed there.

While there are some paywalled websites that allow you to read _n_ articles per period for "free", there are many that don't. How do I know in this case whether it's worth the cost?

There are also times where I'll see a link to something behind a paywall with an interesting headline (frequently on HN), but from a publication I don't regularly read, so have no intention of a subscription. It would be nice in this case to be able to pay a one-time, small contribution.

Worth stating I don't disagree necessarily with the sentiment, there are just a few "edge cases" that make it impractical.
Here's some code I wrote 12 years ago, which implements Grover's algorithm on a superconducting quantum processor for two qubits [1]. This is not using a quantum algorithm compiler (which didn't exist at the time), all pulses are handcrafted. In principle it's rather simple, for each operation you want to perform you add the necessary pulse sequence, which can be either microwave pulses on each of the qubits (which drive the qubits along the x- or y-axis of the Bloch sphere), or voltage pulses in the qubit fluxlines (which drive the qubits along the z-axis of the Bloch sphere and/or put them in resonance with each other so they can interact). Finally, you would add readout pulses to read the qubit state at the end of the algorithm. In the case above I added some more pulses to perform quantum state tomography, i.e. repeat the sequence many times and rotate the final qubit states around different axes before measuring them, which allows to statistically reconstruct the quantum state of the qubits at the end of the algorithm. For a real algorithm run you wouldn't do that but instead directly measure the qubits (which I also did), which gives you a two-bit output value (00, 01, 10, 11).

The pulse sequences get loaded into arbitrary waveform generators and many other parameters are set like microwave generator frequencies. Typically you also perform a tune-up of the system to determine the correct timings and qubit frequencies (as all microwave components and the qubits themselves tend to slightly drift over time).

Today it's much more complicated as you can optimize each gate sequence individually and in conjunction to get higher fidelity, but in principle you can build up any algorithm uses these basic blocks above.

1: https://github.com/adewes/python-qubit-setup/blob/master/scr...
What archive.ph does is not just caching, it is hosting.

Technically it is illegal. Do I use it? Yes.
Differential Mode Ferroelectric FET in‐Memory Computing Macro AI Accelerator
Hmm, the meteorite never reaches the core of the Earth. It just happens to explode on contact with the massive crust that's constantly rotating around it. Similarly, that rock would be pulverized by the heat of the Sun before it ever came to a rest at its center.

Assuming of course that you could "throw" that rock hard enough to counter our massive rotational velocity.
Nice visualization! But the optimizer could use some work. It wasn't really able to handle the data I had lying around for an 0402 hyperbright white LED (EAST1005WA0) even though this should have been in its ballpark. (Though this LED is particularly "soft" which might have been troublesome for the basic 3-parameter model?)

If you want to improve things the change that will probably get the biggest benefit for the least work is to have the optimizer work in log Is instead of Is directly. (At least, that helped me a lot when I did the super-basic 2-parameter version of this in Excel for somewhat cruder purposes.) If you're up for heavier lifting, because this is only a 3-parameter model, you can probably write out an explicit or approximate explicit solution for 3 input data points, then expand that into a least-squares solution for N data points, then use the actual heavy machinery optimizer as the final correction step. It will run very quickly if you give it a good initial starting parameter set.

That parameter set will also be a decent starting position for the more detailed models used by LTspice and friends, should you like to go there.
> It is of course possible to construct a problem that will require strictly more steps than the most efficient algorithm for SAT; for example, we could give a language SAT-PRIME = {<φ,n>: φ is satisfiable and n is prime}, which will take longer to decide than SAT.

A minor point, admittedly, but the second part of this statement is not true. Running time is w.r.t. the length of the input, and <φ,n> is longer than just φ. Deciding whether n is prime is easy, so per bit of input the algorithm is faster.
No, generally there is no respect for the complexity of libraries. There is a reason why library authors themselves are reluctant to do many or broad changes.

But first the sysadmin culture (which I generally like, but not in this aspect) taught us that anyone can modify anything to make it work for him.

Now the equity culture teaches us that anyone is equal and has a right to do any modifications. Correctness does not matter, and if you insist, you are a class traitor.

Projects that deviate from upstream with this attitude have frequent issues.
But they do want you to read. They also want to be financially viable.
I made everything loosely coupled. Will my cloud bill go up?