skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time I’m talking about the cause of the famine was an extreme drought, and all sorts of other problems as you allude to. More than population growth was war and instability - all great reasons to migrate if you could, but the lack of food is an even more common and compelling reason to migrate throughout human history regardless of the reason.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983–1985_famine_in_Ethiopia

I didn’t assert the west should unilaterally open their borders. I stated that borders are inhuman - as humans are naturally migratory. Taking that to the real world, that would mean their neighbors should open borders as well - not just to Ethiopians, but to everyone.
Not supporting a feature doesn't mean actively preventing you from attempting to use it. It might just have not given the expected result.

> To even raise the question seems to imply that it supports function calls

Yes, but it doesn't imply a stack or support for reentrance. If the language supports only global (pre-allocated) variables like early versions of FORTRAN and BASIC, then there's no allowance for recursion.
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Ruby: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6811

GCP: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-d...
Autopilot requires both hands to be on the steering wheel. It does not mention the position of the steering wheel.
AFAICT recommended max daily dose of molybdenum is 2mg per day. Above that it starts to get pretty nasty
Right now they've got Ozempic. That will buy them a few extra years to figure it out.
I tend to think the dark matter particle is a right-handed neutrino because that is not ‘physics beyond the standard model’ but rather ‘a missing piece of the standard model’. If right-handed neutrinos don’t exist that is a sign that neutrinos are their own antiparticles which is also very strange.

RU neutrinos could exist in different mass ranges, around a keV or so they are dark matter candidates, much less than that they are a candidate to explain neutrino oscillation anomalies (discredited in recent works), much more than that and they might explain why there is so much matter and so little antimatter.
I remember it from my parents driving, mostly. I haven't cleaned my windshield at a gas station since something like 2006 or 2007, though it used to be needed constantly. I remember air so thick with insects that the space illuminated by the headlights was alive—and that wasn't unusual. I haven't seen that since the 90s.
When I went through this vueville had enough info for me to build an intuition for what to look for on Amazon.

https://www.vueville.com/home-security/cctv/ip-cameras/ultim...
> In most situations medical professionals can just ask someone if they’re feeling anxious.

Except they literally refuse to believe your answer. You can swear up and down "I was not anxious, I actually felt great" and they fire back with "many people don't know when they're anxious. You can be anxious without realizing it." It's completely unfalsifiable, like the old asylums where everything you could ever say is just more confirmation of whatever mental illness they already decided you have.

If they don't know what's wrong with you and you don't have symptoms that very specifically fit their pre-determined list of the 100 things that might ever be wrong with anyone, then some use "anxiety" as a catch-all, regardless of whether you claim to have it or not. Everyone feels stressed occasionally, so there's no objective way to self-report it. My "very anxious" might be your "normal Tuesday night". They capitalize on this to make it completely impossible to argue with their "diagnosis" so they can get you out the door with a magic pill to fix all your woes, while they move on to the next patient they can give 3 minutes to out of their overbooked 12-hour workday. I would do the same if I were completely overworked in a trainwreck of a system run by incompetent hospital administrators and faceless insurance companies.
I’d be surprised if context vars are more expensive than a dict lookup or two. But I haven’t profiled. Could be wrong.
I haven't tried, but the Open AI docs mention priming on the whisper model being available

prompt
string
Optional

An optional text to guide the model's style or continue a previous audio segment. The prompt should match the audio language.
From the synopsis itself:

> To make matters worse, our best and brightest graduates are often redirected away from public service into consulting.

That’s your problem, right there.

Government agencies have pay caps, severely limiting their ability to hire competent permanent staff. There is no limit for a contract with a consultancy, which can then use that money to pay a competitive wage to highly educated and capable staff.
yet as we see here those teeth are only applicable to specific classes of businesses - it offers no protection against medical companies selling or leaking your private medical data unless HIPPA applies to the business. There needs to be a law governing the handling of any private medical or health data regardless of business, and that law needs to preclude T&Cs that let a company ignore the law
The real and the only relevant question is: do EAs rape/sexual assault more than the the average population (and if the answer is no (it is), then we need more EAs).
I'd question if that's true. Research wise both applied and theoretical Germany's still a really good place to be as far as Computer Science is concerned. We're just not and never have been a consumer driven economy and that's what people focus on these days.

An example of this to me is Dickmann's autonomous cars which were driving around on highways in the 80s (https://youtu.be/_HbVWm7wdmE), yet you'd hardly think they even existed given how the rate of progress is framed in that industry by consumer products.
I wonder what percentage of the failures to recreate a pitch are due to people not being able to adjust for the difference when they're hearing it through their own skull.
There's two fronts to why it's a low bar.

The first is that it doesn't cover key platform features. I don't see anything about error rates on metric ingestion or error rates/timing on sending out alerts. Being able to log in and look at metrics is like 4th or 5th on my list of things I care about. It also doesn't preclude a severely degraded service being considered up (e.g. a 25% error rate, but refreshing enough times will get it to load). DynaTrace, by comparison, does count the service as unavailable if it's unable to receive any inbound data.

The second is that their SLA doesn't give out credits, it just allows you to cancel your contract in the calendar month following 2 months of not hitting their SLA. In other words, using their SLA means finding a new provider and migrating within ~30 days. It also means there's no real penalty to them for violating their SLA, since customers upset about the uptime would just not renew their contract. This just lets that happen at an accelerated rate.

99.8% is also not that high of an SLA (especially with what it covers). That's ~1.5 hours of downtime per month, which I would consider pretty average or even mediocre. That's almost a half hour outage per week. To me, 99.9% is good (~45 minutes/month) and 99.99% is impressive (~4 minutes/month).
Yes it changed a while ago. They are now storing exactly the kinds of information they loved to brag about being able to say they couldn't hand over because it wasn't being kept in the first place.

Specifically, they now keep your name, your phone number, your photo, and worst of all a complete listing of everyone you have been contacting using Signal and all of it is kept in the cloud.

The community was upset and wanted this to be optional since many didn't want any of their data saved in the cloud (https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-...) but they were ignored.

Security concerns were raised very early (https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...) and to their credit Signal did make it possible to create pins longer than 4 characters, but they still called them pins (which in most people's mind is a 4 digit number) still allowed short/simple pins, and in the end everyone's data is still sitting forever in a leaky SGX enclave and can still be brute forced.

If you are a signal user and you had no idea this data collection was happening that should tell you everything you need to know about how trustworthy Signal is. The truth is they went out of their way to be confusing about all of this leading to tons of people having the wrong idea. (for example see this whole thread, but especially the point made by this guy about their communications https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...)

My guess is that some three letter agency showed up and forced them to start collecting data. It'd explain why they collected the data, refused to make it optional, were so unclear in communications rolling it out, and why they seem to be trying to scare away their own users ever since.

At this point I consider the fact that the very first sentence of their privacy policy has been a lie since 2020 to be a huge dead canary. It's not like people haven't asked them to update it (https://community.signalusers.org/t/can-signal-please-update...)
Not exactly.

This is inaccurate in part.

HIPAA governs covered entities and business associates (BA) who work on behalf of a CE. Covered Entities are healthcare providers or insurance companies. CEs are required to have their BAs sign business associate agreement where they’re regulated under HIPAA.

GoodRx convinced patients to provide them their health information directly. Unless, they’ve signed a BAA with a CE, the FTC is the only government body with regulatory power here however I would imagine there’s a legal firm prepping a class action against GoodRx right now as well.

The class action is what will be expensive for them. The fact that they have been fined is what should make the action hopefully a slam dunk.

Sources:

- https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...

- https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/laws-re...
IIR, the biggest barrier to that idea is the kids with special needs, and either the ADA or similar laws. And at least in some states, "Chris has really special medical needs" can be a license to bleed the school district to financial ruin.
Well GoodRx would have to re-offend for that to work.
> They're about 10 years in and he posts weekly changelogs and updates[1].

This isn't quite the brag you think it is.

10 years in, a product like this should be mostly fleshed out. On the linked page, I'm seeing design as well as technical changes mentioned. Also, they apparently only started working on translations recently.
Excusing violence as a flower of trauma does disservice to all of us who have survived trauma without becoming violent assholes.

There is no excuse for violence. There is always choice.
Maybe nation-states?
You'd just get a different kind of ads then I guess.
Long covid researchers-- is the current body of research converging on any cause(s) for the myriad long covid symptoms? Endothelial damage?
Why? What rules?
You won't need $11B to create an LLM in a couple years. Stable diffusion has created the blueprint for open source large models. Sure it might be worse in some sense than the cutting edge ad bloated products, but some people will take that tradeoff.
Thoughts…

That is a generous term to describe what you'd find in newspaper sites' comment sections!
Here is a question: what is the point of

if test x$var = val ; ...

instead of using the [ command?

Some years ago, I checked: the [ alias for test was already in the Bourne shell in 1979.

Assume the year is 1999. What real portability problem do you solve by avoiding [ in favor of test?

Real meaning that the rest of the script, and the software stack the script is related to, runs on a system where [ wouldn't work.
Are you familiar with the US immigration system? That is exactly what they consider in criminal history. What they examine includes arrests, not just convictions, so it's precisely the stat we want.

See form I-485 for PR:

24. Have you EVER been arrested, cited, charged, or detained for any reason by any law enforcement officer (including but not limited to any U.S. immigration official or any official of the U.S. armed forces or U.S. Coast Guard)?

I'm not sure what we're talking about if you're excluding non-convicted arrests, but it aint immigration.
I mean, that is how it works, but sometimes agencies overstep their delegated authority and are overruled by the courts. Then they have to go back to the congress and get their authority amended or not.
Ok so if I'm not mixing in compute heavy workloads like the stochastic gradient descent described in the article, then it's less likely I'll saturate the CPU. Perhaps that won't happen at all and then I won't have to scale horizontally.

On the other hand if I'm doing stochastic gradient descent that's saturating the CPU then there's a good chance I'm doing offline training of an ML model. In that case my latency tolerances are probably much much higher. In other words, I can also avoid scaling horizontally provided I can live with longer training times. That might be a worthwhile trade-off to me given the added complexity of horizontal scaling.

Good to know!
They'll cram into the companies with better perks, retire, cash out on their options, take up hobbies, do more mediocre work, or start their own companies.
An explosion which sometimes, but not always, includes vertebrates.

And which usually happens on a time scale which most of us would consider "long"
Websites are seo-ing Reddit now (shit things like: Top ten airfryer recommended by Reddit), so appending reddit is not enough anymore. In a very close future
we are going to have to type the whole site:reddit.com.
Just want to say what a gift Bunnie is to the hardware hacking community. Thank you for all of the work you do helping to push hardware forward in our world!!
It depends a lot on the publishing house and editor you're working with. I have heard of editors who allow for sensitivity reader suggestions to be ignored, and some who are quite militant about enforcing all suggestions from sensitivity readers.

There seems to be little rhyme or reason behind how strictly the edits are enforced. (e.g.: One friend got to keep a very crude weight-related joke that a sensitivity reader wanted to remove, because she convincingly argued that it was needed to show-case the character's dark side. Another friend was aggressively forced to remove her teen protagonist's insecurity over having freckles, because it "encouraged low self-esteem and depression" and would be "damaging" to the audience.)

The difficulty with disagreeing with edits of any sort is that publishing is a reputation based industry. So if you put up a huge fuss and escalate issues up the chain of command, and possibly even involve the public, there is a chance you can resist even the most aggressive attempts to edit your work. But you will absolutely ruin your chances of another book deal.

For this reason, it's frustrating to hear the typical retort of, "Well no one's actually forcing authors to change anything, and they have the ability to protest, so it can't be censorship." This is like telling a junior engineer at a large company, "Well no one forced you to write that code. You had the chance to disagree with the design and write the program differently." Sure, no one physically forced them to write the code, but did they really have the option to balk at the design handed down from senior engineers and management? Of course not. It would be career suicide.
Yeah, I get it. My condition is more of a genetic sensitivity to foods/environment. Yours was more caused my the environment alone.

Different causes, different cures.

Glad you are doing therapy. While it had no impact on my anxiety it helped me deal with the ramifications.
We need a comprehensive, people first, data ownership bill drafted and pushing to law ASAP. I know a lot of work has/is being done on this front, but I'm even someone who cares and I have trouble following it all. It seems corporations and private/government interest are running the show completely. Am I wrong?
Source identification isn't a space amenable to guessing, no matter how much data you throw at it.

Here's an exercise you can try: Cite some information from the next issue of Science to be published. Cite anything you like from it.

You can make some plausible stuff up. You could make even more plausible stuff up if you went and scanned over the past few issues first. But without specific knowledge of the contents of the next issue, you aren't going to be able to create real citations. This is what LLMs lack, by their nature. It's not a criticism, it's a description.

You can't guess sources. The possibility space is too large, the distribution too pathological, and the criteria for being correct too precise.

GPT will never cite sources correctly. Some future AI that uses GPT as a component, but isn't entirely made out of a language model, will be able to, by pulling it out of the non-GPT component. Maybe it'll need to be built as an explicit feature, maybe it won't, only time can tell. But expecting language models to cite sources correctly is not sensible. It's just not a thing they can do.
Did that sound a lot better in your head or something?
Wasn't CFS a widely reported outcome before vaccines were available?
I have always wished that companies would tie their status pages to their monitoring systems, but alas, they don't due to PR concerns and overall disingenuousness.
Has been in the 'disk setup' part of the FAQ for quite a long time I think. Do you have special requirements e.g. external key disk or something unusual?
We also do this as we want to keep it all local and we thought this would be most private
Couldn't be a more false statement.

AMD's success was also due to their new Zen architecture and move to chiplets. TSMC alone wouln't have been enough to save them if their architecture would have sucked.
Congratulations on launching! What advantages does this have over NocoDB which is open source?
In computer science we typically count from zero, not from one. So even though a category has two different sorts of entities: objects and morphisms, since we count from zero, ordinary categories are one-dimensional. Objects are zero dimensional and morphisms are one dimensional.

Since you are concerned with sets and functions, the following analogy is helpful to build your intuition for the subject.

Dimension 0: sets

Dimension 1: functions

Dimension 2: commutative squares

Dimension 3: commutative cubes

The majority of categories, expressed in terms of structured sets and functions, never touch on the second dimension. That is the domain of 2-categories, which although they have three types of elements are nonetheless considered to be two dimensional because we count from zero. That is also where commutative squares come in to play, because as you can imagine squares are quite obviously two dimensional.

Functions are 1-dimensional lines or arrows from one place to another. Sets are more analogous to points then anything else, and so naive set theory is zero dimensional. But I think you have the wrong question. You should ask the opposite question: what if functions can be re-expressed or founded on higher dimensional category theory?
Indeed! Not everyone has the capability to up and move. I've recently heard that having a good community around you is one of the best things for healthy longevity, it becomes even more difficult to do this.

It also happens to be an issue that I am facing, move for more closer alignment to my ideals and abandon my established community, or stay and try to change where I am.
But where's the key?
> then what prevents them from using that power to sabotage (or threaten to sabotage) well behaved companies to line their own pockets?

Well-behaved companies won't line their own pockets out of fear that the FTC will sue them out of existence.
Power outages force businesses across Africa to rely on expensive generators
If only there were some sort of regional authority, a local group of people to whom we all gave money to, that could hire someone to administer such a system. This group could take on the responsibility of running, not just this neighborhood network system, but also, I dunno, the fire department and the police department and maybe also the schools?

I know it's an "out there" crazy silicon valley leftist idea but maybe something like that could work?

Okay no but for reals, the USPS could do that!
That is false. The only systems which have /bin/sh shells that have that sort of bug are proprietary Unixes, which also ship improved shells that better conform with POSIX, installed in a different location.

A much smarter thing is for the script to detect, at the top, that it's running on a crappy /bin/sh, find the better shell, and re-execute itself with that shell (setting some environment variable to prevent recursion).

Then the rest of the script doesn't have to use unusually stupefying coding techniques. Just the regular stupefying techniques.
Use NLP to predict human scores on open-ended math test responses
For those of you interested, perhaps a side project to test your training models? $100k prize pool
Most Westerners never think about why exactly their standard of living is much higher than the global average. The implicit assumption is that that's just the way things are and will always be.
I first thought CPU register, ruled it out and then vocal registers, and finally formal speech registers in some foreign languages.