skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course they shouldn't follow a strict schedule.

> Maybe it's just a cultural thing. You value how much the ticket costs and whether the timing is accurate. I value my personal time.

What an interesting clash of cultures. I don't fully understand your point though, if you can't be sure the bus arrives at 10:23 h, you have to come earlier to the station and wait, no?
The little-known history of Champagne
Child specifically describes a person actively in childhood.

Just like prisoner describes someone actively in prison.

Felon has a legal definition, and it means someone who has been convicted of a felony.

The desire to sanitize language 1984 style is baffling... If you were to change the definition of "felon" the way you want to, or ban its use to prevent thoughtcrime, a new equivalent word would be invented with the same definition: a person who has committed a felony. Because that is a useful word.
Because people who routinely steal stuff will draw the line at jumping over a turnstile /s
> If equity is so important

Because equity is about keeping people down, not lifting people up.
Wanting yourself, not others, to decide what you say is not disingenuous at all, that’s what free speech is.

I do think there’s a problem with economic and government pressure causing individual speech decisions to coalesce into emergent extralegal censorship, but surely just revoking free speech isn’t the way to fix that.
This isn't profound, and maybe crazy, but owning only one kind of sock for everyday use so there is no sorting on wash day.

For a while I didn't even roll up pairs and had a drawer with loose socks and knew that grabbing any two was good enough.

Also, when you get a hole in one, the other isn't orphaned like with unique pairs; it just goes back into the pool.

Keep some nice dress socks for days that require formal dress, but but for everything else, just one type.
What language is he working on though? Can we see the initial ideas in the syntax?
You can't join NATO if you have an ongoing territorial dispute. Ukraine would have been unable to join while Crimea and parts of Donbass/Luhansk were occupied.
Erlang is prolog inspired
Maybe the real basilisk is worrying yourself silly over the possibility of Roko's.
Absolutely! I'll make sure to leave a comment here for you whenever something gets written up so you don't miss it.

Getting "as good as davinci" on a single A100 is groundbreaking work. Facebook and the community should both be credited here -- maybe llama-int8 would've been created even if the model hadn't leaked, but I don't think it would've happened so quickly. Everyone is doing phenomenal work, and it's so amazing to see it all come together.

But, we'll see. Going to try it myself soon.

Long ago, I cloned OpenAI's API: https://github.com/shawwn/openai-server -- my plan is, once I get it running, I'll try to host it somewhere so that anyone can play with it. I assume it'll be quickly swamped, but it's still an interesting challenge; some basic load balancing should make it scalable across several A100 instances, so there's no reason we can't just roll our own OpenAI API.
That would be, for example, "Processing"

https://processing.org/
Amazon Employees Are Fighting on Slack About Returning to the Office
Thank you! Imagine everything we like about Python, remove some warts, make it functional. It should feel familiar and appealing to a Python programmer.
As an AI enthusiast, I completely agree with the author's perspective on this matter. AI has the potential to revolutionize the workforce, but it won't necessarily lead to mass unemployment. In fact, AI can create new job opportunities and enhance productivity in existing jobs. It's important to recognize that AI is a tool that can complement human skills, not replace them entirely. As the author points out, we should focus on upskilling and reskilling workers to adapt to the changing job market. The key is to embrace AI technology and use it to our advantage. Overall, this article provides a refreshing perspective on the potential benefits of AI and how we can prepare for the future of work.
Actually, in most cases it is unrealistically difficult to beat the convenience of public transport over private cars without MASSIVE infrastructure investments favoring cars.

Being able to get places with cars requires a lot of things: roads, parking, traffic measures (signs, crossings, stoplights, onways, offramps, freeways, more parking at destination, etc etc etc).
If you only build for public transport, bikes, and walking, the savings in both space used and money spent become ridiculous.

Basically: the world looks a lot different without every building having a huge car park. In my view: a lot better.
> Some of the the largest oil fields currently known were only discovered in the past decade or two.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088739/global-oil-disco...

Interesting I see an opposite trend but that's a 7 year window. AFAIK discoveries are slowing and the general trend is for newly discovered fields to have lower returns on energy.
Very disappointed by the non-announcement. If it were a corp, it would be FUD.

I'm curious as to what these different trade-offs are.

> My conclusion is that there are major, well-justified reasons for why people strongly dislike functional languages.

My conclusion is because most everyone is taught to think empirically and 'play computer' that functional doesn't fit in their preconceived brains. I once had someone say SQL didn't make sense because it's SELECTing fields (i.e. vars) before they're defined/assigned later in the (binding) expressions.

People having trouble with FP is like how people who learn databases using ORM's don't deal well with SQL as expressions of set operations.

There are varying limits to how much people like and handle abstract constructs before applying the construction to the data at hand but you can do a whole lot of effective and unsurprising development before getting to such esoteric levels.

Edit: I was super-excited to open the link, and now on re-reading expect this new FP language to be as much an advancement as Go was to 'systems' programming. I hope I'm mistaken. Also odd that only Haskell and Lisp were mentioned when there are so many others. On the plus-side if Google were to make F# and back it as well as they have Go, that would be a win-win.
1.4B People Will Have to Apply for Etias Before Travelling to EU
Both are problems, but naive people expect Google and Facebook to do differently. Google has always been intertwined with the government, and Facebook was absorbed early on. I am not denigrating people by using the word naive. Those who are most naive need protection and knowledge. More tyrannical/medieval rule seems to be trending.
I use React a lot, as well as hooks (though, generally, I find that many hooks aren't even necessary w/ a bit of refactoring of the app logic).

With that in mind, I wonder how difficult it will be for them to add signal support into the library.

It feels like maybe React will be replaced, more often, if they can't keep up w/ the rest of the libraries that use signals.

It seems like a hacky "signals" concept could be made to work with React, by using an event emitter and a custom component (or hook) that accepts a signal as a property ("true" signals support is totally different, I know), though it wouldn't be nearly as optimal as signal support in the library itself.

I'm not really sure where React's priorities are now. It seems they are targeting more and more SSG than true frontend, these days, while I actually enjoy making SPA's as I usually make media-type applications that I want to keep some sort of streaming persistence active as I navigate (that kind of thing intrigues me as well).

They say they want to make a "compiler" and I assume the fundamental reason for that is because of some realization that hooks w/ dependency arrays seems a bit archaic compared to the other libraries that don't even need them.
I think you’re missing the point. The really wealthy can just stop receiving income and have enough to draw on from their accumulated wealth. You can start looking at net assets but it’s a cat and mouse game against lots of very well resourced opponents.
Instead of running high-current switched power to headlights (and have some module doing the switching) you can just run a constant power and a couple network wires everywhere, with the headlight itself doing the switching based on orders from the network.

It's not a bad design per-se, the problem isn't that the headlight is on the network or that the network is accessible to the outside - the problem is that in the automotive industry a lot of what happens on that network is "secured" by obscurity and any "security" is more there to keep the legitimate owner/independent repair shop out than actual bad guys as you can see.

Someone must've reverse-engineered the security by obscurity - my guess is they reversed the factory flashing procedure allowing them unrestricted read/write to the ECUs' ROM where they can either write their own keys' codes or outright patch out the immobilizer check.
https://archive.ph/dcad1
Also, there is https://mailsnag.com that has more generous free plan and error simulations. Helped me uncover couple bugs in my projects
Achieving High-Performance the Functional Way (2020)
And watching periodically

https://youtu.be/vGVJYoKIzjU

John Hughes why fp

https://youtu.be/1qBHf8DrWR8
Do you have a source for this? Otherwise I’m calling bullshit.

This is dangerous, eliminationist, anti-trans rhetoric that should not be tolerated on HN (or any other forum).
Fair point

It may be better to see rust as sitting between functional and imperative paradigms
some rights and policies which you have to comply with.

Correct, but determining whether the content on my server is illegal is the province of a court, not my registrar, and certainly not some asshole lawyer who has no liability for false takedowns.
Abstract: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3408974
Is there ample housing near your place of work with enough supply to keep prices affordable?
Friendly reminder that Tor privately tips off the federal government to security vulnerabilities before alerting the public [0].

[0] http://surveillancevalley.com/blog/claim-tor-does-not-provid...
"I want to be paid a fortune for making a programming language, so I need a reason."

Of course, I would do the same in their position.
Can you elaborate on the “different brain and habits”?
I once at party spoke with a Swiss lawyer that focuses on these infringements. He told me: 'If you label something as "Swiss" and a certain percentage is not actually made here, you will eventually get a letter from me'. I wonder whether there is another country that takes this as seriously as Switzerland.
There are plenty of forum posts like this ranging over years: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T-...

Anecdotal, but the T14 was also prone to throttling all around my previous company.
Seems similar to https://semantle.com/ but backed by a different "similarity" calculation.

The "bar" visualization is also nicer to track how close/far you are.
No, I don't agree. I directly address the problems by arguing that they aren't actually problems. I feel I plainly stated the reality of the situation as it was described, and was not manipulative and accusatory in any way. I do not appreciate your characterization however.

I will likely not respond further as this will quickly become non constructive.
The CLOUD Act allows the US government to compel a company to turn over their data even if that data is only stored in servers in a foreign country, with no due process in that country. It requires American companies to violate EU law. The only way the EU can protect themselves from the CLOUD Act is to forbid any EU data be stored with any US company. Maybe you could accomplish that with a wholly EU subsidiary of an American company that is able to refuse and block requests for that data from their American parent corporation, but the CLOUD Act would still require the American company to hand over that data because the EU subsidiary is owned by the American company.

The only rational response from the EU is to ban EU companies from storing EU data with American companies.
> I was under the impression GDPR has been useless since day 1.

Most laws are. Local regulations need to come into place, which takes time. Monitoring, auditing and enforcement takes even longer.

We're slowly seeing countries fining companies for violations. We're slowly seeing countries issuing advisories. We're slowly seeing countries putting it into action.

People thinking the world would change with GDPR day 1 have no idea how the world really works.

> depends on what you mean by "privacy".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privacy
Even the primitive, weak AIs we have now are already way beyond human capabilites in many ways.

One they acquire the je ne sais quoi of consciousness, we're toast.
Great. So now you miss the bus when you arrive at the stop on time and have to wait for the next one.
(Matters less when the next one arrives a couple of minutes later of course.)
Route planning in congested cities is a complex problem and following a schedule as close as possible is one of the ways to ensure you can do any kind of route planning involving a change of line.
If an AI model like this isn’t able to evolve and improve is it really useful? Example is code generation or questions that more recent training data can teach the AI
> For starters, if some how the leakers becomes a person of interest and still has the printer that matches the serial number present in leak documents, that would obviously link them to the leak.

Your adversary doesn't need to be logical. You assume they need good evidence that is true - they don't. They can decide they don't like your face and that makes you guilty (and that has been the default for a lot of human history). They can also decide you are just nervous. Or that you seem like the leaking sort. They can jump to whatever conclusion they want, including the "let's hit them with a $2 wrench until they admit guilt".

If they are in your house and sampling your printer, they are also going to pull your electronic storage, physical storage, etc. SecureDrop doesn't help you here either - and a bunch of demag'd harddrives is pretty smoking gun.

> printer could intentionally embed information by make small algorithmic changes to the fonts that are unnoticeable to an untrained human eye.

The printer could have a secret implant, or broadcast a vhf beacon of what it prints, or have left an imprint on a second page of paper or....

But those things are unlikely. That you can theoretically think of some potential gotcha is not "opsec". That isn't risk analysis. That is you playing secret agent. That's fine - but don't confuse it with risk analysis.

> Anyone that’s worried about OpSec needs to understand their threats and related risks

Correct, the REAL actual threats, and the CHANCE of those threats happening.

You can not zero out a risk. Risk does not go to zero. You can only reduce a risk to a mission tolerable degree.

> possible this is over kill

The point is to achieve the goal. "OpSec" helps reduce risk. Let me repeat this.

There will always be risk. You can not remove the risk. The goal is not to remove the risk. The goal is to reduce the risk to a tolerable degree such that the goal can be achieved.

"But I can hallucinate a theoretical attack!" - Great, write a spy thriller. That has no bearing on "Opsec" or even risk analysis. At the very least you have to show the attack CAN happen, your threat actor CAN (theoretically) execute it, and ideally they are willing to (resourcing).

Give people practical advice. Prepare them for reasonable scenarios.
This has to be one of the most poorly researched articles on the subject I've seen.

First, they want to introduce BT-maize, which has nothing to do with drought resistance - it's been engineered to produce a biotoxin that some pests have already developed resistance to:

(2021) Resistance to Bt Maize by Western Corn Rootworm:

> "Since the 1990s, an important innovation in the management of agricultural pest insects has been the commercial cultivation of genetically engineered crops that produce insecticidal toxins, which in turn act to protect plants from feeding injury by insects. To date, these transgenic crops, which include cotton, maize and soybean, have produced insecticidal proteins derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). Benefits associated with planting of Bt crops include reduced feeding injury from pest insects, decreased yield losses from pests and less harm to the environment. However, the evolution of Bt resistance by insect pests can diminish these benefits. One serious insect pest currently managed with Bt maize is the western corn rootworm. The larval stage of this insect feeds on maize roots and can substantially reduce yield. In some parts of the US Corn Belt, western corn rootworm rapidly adapted to Bt maize, and currently, some populations show resistance to all commercially available Bt traits."

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/2/136

The next question is, what's the cost of introducing this in terms of patent restrictions on seed production, seed costs to farmers, etc.? Reuters at least addresses the issue:

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenyas-gmo-maize-push-s...

Given the inexorable climate trends, maybe Kenya's farmers really need better irrigation systems or help with transition to more drought-resistant crops like cassava?

https://www.devex.com/news/kenyan-farmers-look-to-drought-re...

> "Cassava production in Kenya dropped in the nineties and early 2000s due to diseases, unavailability of clean seeds, poor varieties, and agronomical practices."
how do you plan to refer to these nameless functions when they are reused multiple times?
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You can’t do a 32 bit load followed by a 16 bit load, the memory address is in one register so the only option is a 64 bit value be stored there and you need to know what the first 16 bits are to see if the last 48 bits refers to the high or low portion. It’s trivial to check it’s passed all 64 since things like “0xFF0F…” gives an exception but adding “0x00F0…” to the same register and doing the load/call does not.

It’s not a matter of what wizardry you can do in the high level languages to act like it’s a true 48 bits for the sake of speed/size in your data structures it’s a matter of what happens when the rubber hits the road and the CPU loads the address. One thing you can really do on x86 CPUs is run them in 64 bit mode (i.e. get the newer instructions and registers) but only use 32 bit addressing. This does actually go faster do to halving the address sizes, some examples can be found in the Linux kernel as the x32 ABI.
Nvidia makes superior graphics cards which are for dirty gamers while Apple makes superior webshit development machines.
Relatedly, this announcement came on the same day they announced they were pausing the second phase of their HQ2 development in Virginia:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90860480/amazon-hq2-construction...

This is significant in that the HQ2 bidding process was basically a competition by local governments to see who could give Amazon the largest tax breaks and other incentives so that Amazon would choose their city as the site its location. See:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/five-economic-development...
That's indeed one great question

Specially after this:

Butterfly Effect

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/02/geoengineering-reining-...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/18/us-and-s...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-blocks-u-n-re...

https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/regions/
Off the top of your head, do you have a strong sense of what work would interest you? And, if so, why you have not been working on it or working towards working on it?
Well he is still his “friend”. Perhaps he has repented and paid for the education of a number of people who would otherwise not be able to afford it.
Target is an interesting word choice here because it doesn't have a valance or imply anything about the ethical or legal responsibility (because there is none).

In this case hitting an easier target is like attacking someone random on the street just because they're there rather than going to the target responsible and attacking it.
IQ and race have a confounding variable - poverty. Malnourishment, abuse, lack of healthcare, etc can all be detrimental to a child's development.
Different people have different skill sets.

It makes sense to evenly distribute resources in elementary schools, but that’s not what is being’s discussed here.

You could give me the same violin lessons as a virtuouso, and stick a functionally-illiterate Michelin-starred chef in my favorite calculus series, but doing so would be a complete waste of everyone’s time.
I’m far from an expert but the people of Fiji at large may not be benefitting from the water anywhere near as much as you think.

Unfortunately, articles on the issue are usually over a decade old and the new ones source the old ones. One of them presented information that a significant number of people gained access to clean water in the 2010s and then used the improved number as a slight to Fiji without information on how it progressed. If the official sensitivity to bad press remains that could be a contributing factor.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/fiji-spin-bottl...
> What I am saying is that its largely a fallacy that Universities are commonly put to the decision of a more social candidate versus a more academically talented candidate.

> The more common reality being that the leading academically talented candidates are as or more qualified in their extra-curricular participation.

I have no particular objection to this, but doesn't it imply that the SAT requirement is superfluous, with the combination of grades and extra-curriculars adequately measuring what the colleges want to measure?

> You may as well ask what the purpose of special education or gifted programs are... the answer is educational justice.

I don't feel that's an answer. It's just a couple of words that sound nice.

(I was in a gifted program in junior high school, by the way. In retrospect, it's not clear to me what purpose it served, other than to separate us socially from other students. Maybe it wasn't a very good gifted program, but I did live in a fairly well-off school district, so I don't think that was from lack of funding. In high school we had Advanced Placements courses, which are obviously more practically useful, though I wouldn't place them under the category of "educational justice".)

> in a manner that raises the living standards for have nots.

That's the issue. It sounds nice, reminiscent of the Rawlsian difference principle, but empirically I'm not seeing it in the world. What I see is largely self-enrichment of the minority, without much regard for everyone else.
Why, do you think, most sites didn't block EU users?
Taking a $0 salary for a few years is feasible for most rich people. That's why the FAFSA (financial aid form) also asks about assets.
At least at the start of 2022 invasion Chinese internet propaganda and censorship machine was set to full russian bias. They even had official Chinese TV journalists embedded with ru forces documenting all the territorial gains. Last time I saw any mention of Chinese journalists was around July when one witnessed first hand a rather good T-72 entry into turret orbital tossing contest on theoretically secured back road around Mariupol. Up to that point all ru critical voices on Chinese internet were being actively muted, but that might have changed with Ukrainian August counter offensive. All in all its really hard to know what young Chinese people think, you can only know what government allows to publish at particular moment.