skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Yet, the ban is not unrelated to economic stagnation. To borrow a term from Ross Douthat, there is something decadent about putting a complete halt to the development of a key technology simply because a few otherwise harmless sonic booms might annoy a vocal minority. With boom-shaping technology we know is possible, a tiny vocal minority. The cultural forces that led to and sustain the ban have certainly halted other progress."

Straight from the Silicon Valley comedy show. Next: "Why sonic booms are actually a good thing."

Noise leads to health problems and should be outlawed.
All in all the northern part of the country got relatively little damage. The front line in the Donbass looks like this, pretty much nuked down to basements:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/10ee9at/destroyed_...

Areas like Marinka have received kilotons of conventional artillery. Z-channels on Telegram call this process "city-cide" (gradocyd, something like that).

I've been to Ukraine recently and what's really heartwarming is the amount of reconstruction going on in the Kyiv Oblast. Many of the bridges north of the city are almost rebuilt. They were blown up to slow down the Russian armored assault.
The Kremlin has been extremely busy with psyops deployment over the past year. See https://www.state.gov/disarming-disinformation/disinformatio... for a full report.

| It's absolutely fantastic to me how people can just suspend reality and start believing the most absurd notions.

There are three specific components to this.

* It's important to understand, that brains are fundamentally survival machines, and agnostic to truth. If it gives delta-advantage, brains itself lie, hallucinate, and make up falsehoods to justify, and rationalize whatever that advantage is.

* Living in a society introduces linear dependencies on other people's beliefs. Knowing, or behaving-as-if-knowing a "truth" when that "truth" is being negatively selected for, leads to a disadvantage, leads to no one actively speaking up for it, leads to only ever hearing the "pro" side. This is doubly so, when the party line has boots attached to it.

* If you look at that list of lies above, you notice how extreme length they went. There is a bug in the brain, whereby when being told a big enough lie, internally the brain goes "surely this couldn't all be lies, right?", adjusts a little bit on the basis of "propaganda", then assumes the rest as "truth". This has been term'd "big lie": the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
It sounds like his biggest problem is that he's bored. "I want a bigger toy!"
Absolutely, but if you have one regardless, it’s much better to finish it properly the first time around, so you don’t have to do the same thing twice.
Well, if it was your country being invaded and the others have occupied your cities, how would you proceed? Tell them that it is okay and you will let it go?
paralegals seem like they're very much at risk
Sure, asset bubbles are a known phenomena. Zero-interest rate policy made a lot of big bubbles. That doesn't mean there are enough units built, or that there's no real demand. (It means the opposite, the bubble happened because it is such a good investment.)
My flippant response aside, this is an awesome thing to learn about on a Sunday morning .. thanks for that! I might have to give it a whirl.

Although ChatGPT seems to be making it easier and easier to program in English and get code in any language to run anywhere needed ..
"public transportation is, on a good day, adequate[0]."

In a world where NIMBYs weren't the most important people on the scene, building a tram (streetcar) line between those two campuses would be a working solution. High capacity, intervals can be adjusted to the needs of the school, no traffic jams on the track.

And Harvard sits on an enormous warchest, it could cover the costs handily.

But pushing such a construction project in contemporary atmosphere would take longer than landing on the Moon.
Knowing how to drive is not 100% the same as knowing every little local rule and exception. Believe it or not, it is still practically useful to know who has priority when entering roundabouts and it can differ from country to country.
You are so smart! I suppose now I can start a gambling site for users in all states, in violation of state regulations, as long as the servers are hosted in a state with loose gambling laws. Can't believe other gambling sites weren't doing this!
On Linux the clock_gettime syscall can absolutely return TAI with CLOCK_TAI
It's not just that the budgets are harder to justify; it's also that prospective clients consider themselves to be experts. Having your judgement and expertise consistently overruled is disheartening and you often end up just following instructions, sapping any joy from the (diminishing and cheaper) role.

I started my web business 25 years ago. 5ish years ago I started photographing and filming travel content, primarily with a drone. More fun, more interesting, better feedback, etc. When building my own web projects though, I still love it.
Lebanon wakes up in two rival time zones
Is it not? Not at all? Doesn't its training data contain textbooks on psychology?
Aleppo and Homs come to mind

Have they been successfully liberated from the scourge of Al Nusra front and the moderate rebels of the Free Syrian Army?
They sold them without your consent? In a cash account? Or margin (and not fully paid)? If the former, I'd be personally looking into recourse, or at least reading any agreements you have on file, because nothing about that sounds remotely above board (though brokerages are known for staying pretty on top of regulations with pretty sizeable legal teams). Asking that you transfer it off the platform is one thing; selling something you custody with them without your permission, on the other hand, exposes you to market risk and ultimately sounds like it's in violation of at least a few rules, given they've not been given discretionary authority in the account.

Some industries get to get away with making a lot of their own decisions there and just shooting themselves in the foot if they feel like it, but with the thick regulations in the capital markets, this sounds like an overreach. They can kick YOU off the platform, but even when doing that, they typically need to leave your securities alone in an account that you still get to choose when to sell.
I’ve been shuddering to think what this will do to search engines for the last few weeks
AI can filter through thousands of Legal case files and court documents to pinpoint exactly what cases are relevant to a current case that a lawyer may be advising on! It took me exactly 30 minutes to go through 428 case files... :)
Mate, it’s democracy vs dictatorship. Russia didn’t invade the US, it invaded Ukraine. We would keep fighting even without US support. Freedom is non-negotiable.
> Like the article explains, laziness is a big part of this.

I don't think the article does a good job addressing this. They have a conclusion they want to get to, but I don't see how they get there with the arguments provided.

Languages that are eager by default but support lazy evaluation are also not really discussed, and it's because they are the best of both worlds. Yes, lazy evaluation has its pluses, but more often than not, you don't need it. So it's better to have optional lazy evaluation and then reach for it when you really need it. F#, OCaml, Racket, Elixir, etc. work this way. And F# and Elixir, especially, heavily use compositional code with pipelines.

The article states:

> On a strict FP language, you end up writing more explicitly recursive functions (hopefully with tail calls) than using higher order functions that express your intent.

That is not my experience at all, and I haven't seen anything that supports that.

Lastly, Idris has a short FAQ as to why it's eager by default: https://docs.idris-lang.org/en/v1.3.4/faq/faq.html#why-does-...

And that addresses something else the article doesn't get at. Preciseness and explicitness make code much easier to reason about. Lazy evaluation increases mental burden.
Does this run windows apps, I seen to get the idea it does from that text ?

If so, how ? - via Wine, HX DOS extender or it's ow. implemention?
Finished but with a lot of problems

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1615462194023473152
I can’t describe how much better Europe, specifically Netherlands felt due to the social safety nets provided, and do not tell me that The Dutch aren’t hard working people, because they are.

People are so much more relaxed there. 99% of the concern about AI is because we’re living in a cut throat capitalistic society, if we knew that AI didn’t mean starving or losing our homes, we’d be way more relaxed about it, and imo we’d take out time a bit more and think about safety.

It’s the American race to the bottom attitude which is IMO no longer compatible with a highly automated world.

To start with, if the economy breaks, AI breaks.
I saw Microsoft is winging because other search engines are stealing ChatGPT responses, get used to it M$, you own nothing.
The citizens of Donbas voted to be Ukranian.
Agreed, but also having a boat load of VC cash to invest in a massive marketing campaign helped.

It's just a shame W3W couldn't have been an industry consortium, or open standard. Due to EU/UK database laws it's illegal to have an open source implementation with the same words. W3W are the sole gatekeeper of the system, it's almost worse than UK postcodes being owned by (the publicly traded company) Royal Mail.

Interesting connection... one of the what3words founders is a question editor on the UK game show Only Connect.
> If you ask 100 humans the same thing, you'll get some mistakes too

Yes, still, it's pretty easy to find a somewhat good judgement human who never does that mistake. If you tell him/her: "This is of utmost importance: ..." — But as of now, these text gen machine learning programs don't totally understand that?
I heard from the people close to the frontline (medics, soldiers) that you're supposed to tightly tape all the glass in the windows so that a nearby explosion cannot blast you with glass fragments.
> If 99.9% of code you write works, but every once in a while code nondeterministically encounters space leaks, that's a bad thing for the reliability of the language as a whole.

I don't know what you mean by "nondeterministic"? The behavious is occasionally hard to predict, but it's completely deterministic.

Compare it to e.g. writing C in a certain style, relying on GCC to optimise it. Those optimisations might not apply for one chunk of code, so we end up with bad performance. Yet it's completely deterministic.
The irony of using a LLM to write a text that complains of the pervasiveness of automated tooling for web design is hard to miss.

But perhaps it’s just that the author has internalized copywriting formulas to a degree that their text appears machine generated?
Just go on Google maps, those cities are virtually untouched.
Would you prefer a chatbot?
Same for me: People that argument that the western world, NATO and Ukraine were antagonizing Russia and it‘s a just war. I can‘t wrap my head around this mindset. I minimized my interactions with those friends.
I think it's fair to say that what this current generation of AI enables is cheaply generating a limitless amount of content of not great but acceptable quality.

And I think you're exactly right that this is going to make it extremely difficult for the great stuff out there to rise to the surface. It's going to be suffocated.
Parents have some measure of authority in their homes, although sometimes the law acts in the interests of e.g. abused children. Public employees on public property don't take direction from parents, nor should they. Public school employees are managed by an elected body called the school board. Since school boards meet in the actual communities they govern, they are often somewhat democratic in nature. If parents don't like this situation, they can keep the children home where bookshelves, if they existed, would contain nothing but bibles and the "Left Behind" series. (Too bad about algebra and English...)

State legislatures are mostly not democratic. Rather than implementing the will of their constituents, state legislators spend their time campaigning and representing for those who fund their campaigning. TFA is just another example.

"...to draw the line as you say..."

To be clear, you introduced this banal cliche, and I used it once in response.
Truth is the first casualty of war.

These stories have been going on since April of last year.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-army-days-away-running-out-...

Each side is basically creating an echo chamber for their citizens to believe, so they will keep supporting an ongoing war until “the other side” is “100% defeated” so it “can’t attack us again”.

I have seen this rhetoric in every proxy war, including Yemen since 2014 and Syria even before that. Sadly the same thing repeats in every conflict but most people don’t know that.
> it seems that the political structure in place within Google exists purely to perpetuate it's own existence

This is true of any system. What has changed is the perceived "greatest threat". In the past the greatest threat was that the entire operation ceased to exist. They might be outcompeted or fail to deliver value. Now that Google has firmly cemented itself as a stable monopoly, in the economy but even more importantly in the minds of the manager, the greatest threat is that their department is deemed unimportant and allocated fewer resources.

There's no longer any perceived threat to the collective, so instead the whole thing turn cannibalistic.
Housing is still a very conservative industry, productivity is very low, because any transformative technology only works at scale, but the US is super big and even the population centers are low-density, in many jurisdictions, zoning basically mandated labor intensive low density housing for decades, etc.

Land is available. What's not is infrastructure, and economic surplus to maintain all the required new homes and infrastructure (roads, pipes, power grid, etc).

Housing suffers from the same curse as the transit infrastructure, or the nuclear industry, enormous economic and political inertia keeping/prefering the status quo, any new projects are small, low-efficiency, lack economies of scale, lack innovation (because copy-paste building just one more is the lowest risk thing).

Look at the recent California zoning remedy program, so few real estate developers are taking it, because it turns out that those small local markets are basically incompetitive cronyist distopias, and it makes no sense for them to get into a fight with the zoning/approval board.
TZ doesn't do anything magic. It just tells libc you want your local timezone to be something different than the default. It affects output formatting in a way that the app mostly doesn't need to deal with if it only works with one timezone. I'm not even sure what claim you're making now, but the original msg is just wrong. If an app uses libc, it uses TZ setting - regardless if it's systemd or date or something else.

> but I can’t imagine it arbitrarily converts anything away from UTC time if /etc/localtime is set to UTC.

It really depends on which part of systemd you mean. There's lots of code in there and quite a few bits deal with timezones explicitly. (Since it sets it for users to begin with)

But for basic display it sure uses TZ and localtime as set by the user - and it can be different than the system default. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/cccc14c5a88f000931c6...
Here in the Netherlands such voices exist, but they are quite fringe and limited to the usual crowd. In part this is due to the downing of flight MH17 in 2014 by a Russian surface-to-air missile fired by a Russian crew operating in the Donbas to support the separatists (not with the intent of shooting down a commercial passenger plane obviously). The deaths of almost 200 Dutch and the subsequent investigation and trial leave little room for doubting that Russia is the aggressor here.
I think they probably more meant something like chaotic, in that small changes to your program can have big changes in the space leak space.
this is right. but its mostly the proof that when you have the highest military spending in the western world you suddenly get things moving your way.
I think we should be critical of any information that is coming from states engaged in the war and their supporters. I imagine Ukraine is generating as much false information as Russia, prime example is information about losses in personnel and equipment, both sides report small numbers of their own losses and astronomical losses suffered by the enemy.

I think we will learn actual truths about this horrific war only after decades has passed and historians will be able to dig out all the Russian crimes, all civilian and militant’s death tolls.

I hope this war will stop as soon as possible, it creates nothing but piles of corpses and destroyed cities. I can’t imagine how Ukraine will build itself up after all this is over.
> Conservatives think trans people are crimes against God

You're mistaking christian fundamentalists for conservatives. Conservatives are saying that changing your name doesn't mean you now get to compete in women's sports.

My point was: "Progress is always good, conservatives need to go" has been touted by the same people for decades, and suddenly they want to change the tune when it affects them. It's predictable and should be ignored.
Programmed Input Output vs Direct Access Memory Devices
Can you please put what the story is about in the title so those of us who don't care or don't want to read it can avoid it?
This articles describes much of what many youtubers explained in their videos in the recent few weeks.

While I understand the core concept of 'just' picking the next word based on statistics, it doesn't really explain how chatGPT can pull off the stuff it does. E.g. when one asks it to return a poem where each word starts with one letter/next alphabet letter/the ending of the last word, it obviously doesn't 'just' pick the next word based on pure statistics.

Same with more complex stuff like returning an explanation of 'x' in the style of 'y'.

And so on, and so on... Does anyone know of a more complete explanation of the inner workings of ChatGPT for layman's?
When you can't provide basic needs to your population, it doesn't matter how good the scientists are
How much better is this than a keyword search across the documents?
There's much ado made over street name vs your name, but the reason margin and hypothecation agreements are so long and you need to sign them to open a margin account is so they can even take steps such as lending out your shares, because unless you have, they can't actually touch them, per your agreements with a cash account. Street name is primarily so that when you go to sell they don't have to go find YOUR shares (adding time and cost) to sell, but can simply find shares of the particular stock that you have in your account which they have a quantity on, to sell. Basically, it maintains fungibility to streamline the process.

But you're right, if you care to not trust that, you do have the ability to either get certificates (if they're issued for the stock in question) or do a direct registration (DRS) so they're held directly in digital form at the Transfer Agent. Just of course bear in mind that if you're NOT intent on holding these shares forever, selling at this point can become a multi-day process, so you become a bit less able to react quickly to market activity.
Eh, de facto legalised. When states legalise marijuana and the Fed’s don’t enforce, we freely call it legalised, even if that isn’t technically correct, because it practically is. Shoplifting is de facto legalised in San Francisco.
It's a form of propaganda to shame anyone who doesn't believe things unconditionally. The comment you are replying to is an example, using shame and insults to herd you into their preferred narrative.
Wait until you find out how much wage theft occurs.
And when it’s a probabilistic LLM instead of a keyword search, how do you know you didn’t miss anything?
Copyparty: File server with uploads, WebDAV, media indexer, thumbnails, etc.
This is not the case in Italy. While Rome is probably more accommodating to foreigners than a random 100-people village deep in the Alps, Rome is also the worst mess of a city we have. Milan, Turin and Florence are probably more suited for somebody who doesn't speak the language or understand the bureaucracy. If you can afford to live there, smaller municipalities used to deal with tourists are also a good choice. At least they'll speak English.

I think one of the most important things to keep in mind, if you want to move to Italy, is that Italy is a diverse country. There are places which are very open-minded and welcoming and places where people don't want even other Italians to move in, let alone strangers. Doing some research before moving will help a lot.
>That it is Ukraine bombing their own cities

They do bomb them. Or do you think it's the Russian or rebel forces bombed Luhansk and Donetsk since 2014, and the Zaporizhia nuclear plant since the war started? There is a ton of blatant lies being told by the pro-Ukranian side before and after the start of the war. For example, the infamous "air conditioner explosion" was later confirmed to be a targeted strike of the Luhansk state administration building by the Ukrainian government.

Of course, it goes in both directions.
I think you misread the parent comment: "where the bureaucracy is bad"
> This is irrelevant - a US brokerage cannot arbitrarily trade your shares, whether or not your shares are held in street name.

Indeed. It seems most people think the Hypothecation agreement on a Margin account is something brokerages can do without having such an agreement on file. They can't.
In theory yes, in practice that'd require some way to channel the profits from the tech back to society, which has proven tough nut to crack. Notoriously Keynes predicted 15 hour workweeks due the productivity improvements of 20th century. Well, the improvements happened but work weeks didn't get shorter
Yesterday? Everyday since 2020 people on here and every other forum on the internet have been blaming the $1200 check for bringing on the apocalypse
This sort of thing makes perfect sense if you somehow manage to excise from your brain the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine and no one attacked Russia. You can discount everything the US and Russia says but that fact remains.
They've seized cryptos from exchanges and from impounded computers. They can't seize them if you haven't got them on an exchange and you have your secret keys well hidden.
Yeah, clearly developers think they will come out on top...
I mean, they did, last year, and we're done changing clocks now, at least in the US, after this last change. At least until what happened last time we tried this (in the 70s) happens, and kids start getting hit by cars while going to the bus in the dark all winter long. Though perhaps the glow of their phones will save them this time around.
As an ex machinist, this is the way.
The other one that seems common seems to be a belief that if only you cede as much territory as possible to anyone who threatens you as soon as possible, then you can prevent a war and surely they won't come back and ask for more.
It's so hard to justify firing people. You can never have enough "logic" behind it.

Basically, aquariums everywhere, looking at you.
Moats are lame. Rate of innovation is what matters in fast-moving fields.