skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also the McMartin preschool case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial

Played out in LA, CA. I remember following the news about it and thinking it was just insane. Frontline did a great series on it, too.
the moment you cannot in any practical way tell if the data set was corrupted with copyrighted material, nobody will convict you for any accidental violations that may occur, even in the astronomically low probability that they do with standard parameters
The most charitable reframing I can think of is this:

Which costs more, driving to Brighton or eating a steak?

Almost everyone in the UK could intuit this, they might have to look up the distance.

The thing is that the answer doesn't result in a person choosing one or the other unless they're really, really poor.

On a nice summers' day I might drive to Brighton and then eat a steak whilst I'm there.

Actually, probably I'd get the train so that I can have a few pints. Hey, there's a thought.
120 miles of urban driving? Are you a taxi driver?
I'm not talking about people that have been writing Java for years. I'm talking about new programmers. If you asked a new programmer out of college which job they would rather have I job programming Go applications or Java. I would bet 90% of them would pick Go.
I read hackernews most of the time on a phone app that doesn't support favoriting :(
To me, it seems like a good definition.

If scaling the size of the model leads to a linear increase in capability, then nothing is emergent.

If scaling the size of the model accretes almost no gains, and then there is a huge unpredicted step in capabilities, a capability has "emerged".
You're probably right about them not being aware of the reliability of ICE engines.

But I don't see anyone mentioning how the ethanol-mix fuel, which is nearly unavoidable, can turn to shit in a few months of sitting and cause all kinds of engine issues. I'd be more worried about fuel issues over the long term if these truly become "a couple times a year" use cases.

Ethanol fuel needs to be banned, IMO.
The way I see it is that, eventually, the vegans will become a food source
Yeah I maintain compilers for a living so throwing together a parser for my own custom language is fun and quick. The custom language is just event definitions, state machines etc. Nothing complicated.
Not at all. I annoyed the fediverse a while back and that was what I would call harsh. Well that and some reddit comments.

I actually appreciate comments like yours. I did indeed make a mistake. Just as mentioned never intended this post to end up here. Hence the spelling errors and problems like this.
> m2 is just a cache, it has pretty much zero impact on whether your stuff will build

Well… the cache can be broken. I’m not a Java dev so have no horse in this race but “it’s just a cache” doesn’t mean “it can’t ever be a problem”
vim: select your text, press the ~ key until you get the case you want ..
My brain literally locks up when I read King James-style English.

I wonder if AI can discover patterns in language or other signal domains that totally disrupt the modern brain and cause humans to crash.

Biblical passages nearly do that to me, so I think that they must exist.
You do X - typically hastily - and unintended consequences (read: bugs) Y and/or Z pop out somewhere else.
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ELF is way too complex and not really adapted anymore.

We should start to deprecate DT_NEEDED and make dlopen/dlsym/dlclose (maybe, dlvsym) hard symbols in the loader.

And game devs should stop using main() as some genius glibc dev did add a new libc_start_main version in 2.34. Namely, any game executable linked with a glibc from 2.34 will refuse to load on system with a previous glibc.

Actually, game binaries should be pure ELF64 binaries (not using main()) which "libdl" (dlopen/dlsym/dlclose) everything they need from the system. And of course, as much as possible should be statically linked (I think this is what unity is doing, but unreal/godot have a big issue: the static libstdc++ which, as of late, does not libdl anything from the system).
The idea is your task should just run off an ID, no point passing all that data around.
I wonder if anyone has managed to prompt GPT for suggestions like these.
Are you looking for pony (https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-is-pony) ? Never tried it, but it does have actors, reference capabilities (in short, "who can get this piece of memory and what can they do with it") but sadly no repl. There is a playground though (https://playground.ponylang.io/).
"Second, Java's infamous for having VeryLongClassNameFactoryBeans on the one hand, and deep class hierarchies on the other, with new classes being declared for everything."

I have always wondered why Java is hammered for this while Apple is celebrated for this.

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For long async processes:

A worker, or at least, the consumer receiving the messages and spawning sub workers, when getting killed, should restart at some point, inspecting jobs ids unfinished, the one stored just before ack'ing reception, and either resume work or notify failure.

Answering is the worker sole responsibility, and no viable implementation of an app can reliably try to substitute to that.

As for timeouts, they are necessary when waiting for answers from services that are not under your control, eg, you cannot assume they will answer you in all cases. Under your control, you have to keep yourself in a situation where worker response is guaranteed, success or failure.
That's cool, you don't have to attend. The weird part is having a long list of intrusive requirements for even just running a small meetup that uses the Rust trademark. Same with the bizarre swag rules and code of conduct requirement. The Rust Foundation should respect diversity and let organizers set rules appropriate for their local culture and environment, rather than trying to prescribe one size fits all policies by using trademark law as a bludgeon.
I think it's tied with "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
It’s a hard test that doesn’t require specific knowledge and has a short time limit to prevent bruteforcing.

The questions are in difficulty order and they’re all worth the same so because of the time limit you won’t be able to answer them all correctly. The quicker you are at solving problems, the higher the score you will get.

Your score then shows how you compare to the population percentage wise and that’s your IQ. The average score would give you an average IQ.
Excellent illustration of the awful onboarding experience.

No one wants to waste their time connecting a constellation, they want to get to content as fast as possible.
This is very common though, isn't it? Every child can hear a tube TV running when muted. Dog whistles too and all. And that's not even at the top of kids hearing range.
Fine. Now do PC-Write, won't someone please ..
Are you not seeing a discussion about surgery here?
There are stabilizing fluids you can add that extends the life to years. If owners can’t be bothered to do that the car could be programmed to use fuel every 6 months to prevent the negative side effects (in the case of cars like the Pacifica PHEV and Prius Prime, this is what happens)

The fuel issue is simply FUD. I’d be more concerned about BEV and range anxiety honestly. In Maine, for example, some Tesla owners reported the range being cut in half, during the winter. Simply unacceptable.
> Alternatively the government could just tax carbon emissions and let people make their own decisions about how to spend their money.

Then, I am sure, those taxes would just be part of the price tag. Just as tobacco duties are. In which case one wouldn't need to exercise their carbon literacy before buying a product, just as no-one needs to give a thought about tobacco duties before deciding whether to buy a pack of cigarettes.
> This is the work of demons indeed!

Unfortunately, no. Just regular humans.
Interesting idea. I am not sure that such is available in Go. In Go, with slices, once the backing array has been allocated, I don’t think you can deallocate some at the end of it. But I might be wrong.

There is a difference in Go’s slices between length and capacity. Length is the number of elements in the slice, and capacity is the number of elements that can fit in the backing array (so len <= cap).
> People give meaning to things. Bible, Quran, etc have meaning only because people express that meaning.

A fairly central part of the philosophy of quite a few religions is that there is a God who is quite capable of giving meaning to things independently of humans. Not everyone views these as "that's nice" documents. I mean, there's a bit in the Bible (1 Corinthians 15) that says that if the stuff in the Bible is actually true, then it's the most important thing in the world, but if it isn't, then there really isn't any point paying any attention to it at all.
I usually let my engine run purposely every 3 months or so. I also try to only keep my gas tank half full.
Gasoline doesn't go bad that fast in a modern sealed fuel system and engines with modern electronic control systems that have a lot of latitude to adjust in real time are really forgiving.

People are mostly projecting their experience with much more finicky lawn equipment to cars.
The relative amount of CO2 is irrelevant because the rest of the atmosphere is transparent in the relevant wavelengths. You don't understand basic physics.
Dale Myers did ok with one eye.
I must concur with sibling comment by sausajez, and say thank you for sharing knowledge and code between the "competing" projects! I feel like everyone is better off this way.
Correct. Green logic is unfair. In order to "prevent the climate crisis" you have to make sure the people of India and China do not reach the same standard of living as those in the West, you have to keep them in the mud. And Belgium can have all the smokestacks it wants. It doesn't matter.
Please help me understand.

> To run your Java 8 application, a user needs the Java SE 8 Runtime Environment, which is available from Oracle under the Oracle Technology Network License Agreement for Oracle Java SE, which is free for personal use, development, testing, prototyping and some other important use cases covered in this FAQ

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jre8-readme....

Straight from oracle.com.

How is this free? Of course I don't need to pay for Linux kernel. Of course some products feature paid support. But how can I justify the quoted text that Oracle JRE is free?

I was going to say to the guy that decided there must be no Oracle Runtime at our company (some software doesn't work without it, I have no status if workaround has been found) - Hey, maybe Java SE is just the support/patches stuff and maybe we can use runtime? Until I stumble on that text - free for personal use, etc...
No, it does not double the maintenance risk. Hybrid cars have one gasoline engine, and one (or more) electric motors. Toyota I believe, uses one of the electric motors to also start the gasoline engine (eliminating the starter motor on a traditional ICE engine). Toyota Hybrids are actually a much simpler setup than a modern turbocharged/direct injected ICE car.

Electric motors are essentially zero maintenance. Also, the gasoline engine in a hybrid is running less per mile (compared to a standard ICE car) extending its lifespan.

The Toyota Hybrid also uses what they call an E-CVT transmission. It's not related at all to traditional CVT transmission. The Toyota E-CVT uses planetary gear sets and the electric motor to vary the output speed. It has proven to be extremely reliable.

Toyota's Hybrid drivetrain likely makes Toyota cars the most reliable on the market. It has been refined over 20+ years and I am not aware of any significant issues with it.

I am somewhat of a car enthusiast. I don't own any Toyota products because I find their cars a bit boring. But, for anyone who just wants reliable transportation, I always recommend a Toyota.
How much power have you quantified saving by disabling JavaScript over the course of a week?
I’ve driven a friend’s (non-plug-in) Prius a few times. It’s uninspiring but totally fine on the highway.

Any Prius driver you see being a hazardous rolling roadblock on the highway is a Prius driver problem, not a Prius capability problem.
Raspberry is an overkill for this task. A few transistors and the cheapest FM transmitter might solve this.
So is Apple/Swift, but Apple always gets a smile instead of a smirk here on HN.

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She should have done a tiktok dance holding a DVD copy of the Armageddon movie. That would really inspire young people

After all Harry died so we could live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Z9MV3nwjQ
So, is the Bible saying you shouldn't swear oath on a Bible?
I believe the reason people keep arguing with you is that you keep saying "must" instead of "my preference is that...".

It has discussed in other comments as well, but you seem to only grudgingly acknowledge that other people's preferences are as valid as your own, and you keep insisting that your ideas "must" be followed. It comes off as arrogant and disrespectful.
> Actually, probably I'd get the train so that I can have a few pints

Oh, I agree with that; that's very relatable; but then, that's what being poor always has been like — prioritize, economize, save, think about whether you can afford that ride or that dinner... We didn't have to compound those basic arithmetics with an ethical dimension :-)
Cigarettes are a good example of a cultural paradigm shift that happened quite quickly (at least in the UK, US and Australia). Perhaps younger people don't realise that just a few decades ago cigarettes and cigarette advertising was everywhere.

But it wasn't taxes that squashed cigarettes usage. Cigarettes were already taxed heavily, but that didn't put people off. What squashed it was marginalising it. It was banned from indoor places and many public spaces. They were no longer allowed to advertise, even to the extent that they can't display fancy logos and colours on the boxes. It was essentially stripped of all glamorous elements and was laid bare as the unhealthy, disgusting and archaic habit that it is.

Advertising and marketing are extremely powerful and therefore can be extremely evil. Cigarettes were the most perfectly marketable product of the tobacco industry. The way they looked and felt was so perfectly appealing. It's easy to look back and see the marketing as evil now. What's not so easy is looking forward.

I want to see the same treatment applied to other harmful things. Why are fast food companies allowed to advertise everywhere? Obesity is essentially food addiction. Nobody wants to be obese. They are obese because they are addicted to food. But we still allow fast food advertising everywhere. It's nothing short of exploitative.

Car companies are allowed to market their vehicles as an extension of one's self. So they can produce ridiculously overweight and overpowered vehicles by appealing to the insecure male part of the population with names like "Ram", "Viper" and "Raptor". Large vehicles need to be strictly utilitarian. Need a large vehicle? Fine, but it's going to look like a white box and be called something like "Cargo Master" or maybe just "Van size 2". Also they should be banned from car parks and smaller roads that are designed for cars or smaller vehicles.
In theory, sure.

In practice it seems like if you give people one step forward in acceleration they get two steps picky about what gaps in traffic they need to do their thing (merge, left turn, whatever) resulting in a net decrease in the overall performance of the car + driver system.
Baidu sues Apple, app developers over fake Ernie bot apps
Swearing on a Sagan book is arguably better. It's based on fact, not an unverifiable and highly unlikely fairytail.
Feel free ;)
God forbid we have names that explain the subject
I learned about Bookshop from Pragmatic Programmer's website; they rely on Bookshop for selling print versions of their books (you can't order from PragProg directly). I bought a ton of their Elixir books, as well as some well-known CS titles, and the service is top-notch.
Probably because they have agreement between these companies.
They don't really need marketing once they sell their machines.
I've used auto tab discard for a long time and exempted the outlook tabs. I think Firefox was taking that feature to main, but not sure how they interact.

I don't go low on ram often enough to notice anything, or the exemption still works.
Hey, everyone! I found the grumpy old guy!
FWIW, I’ve taken some concrete lessons away from this post and the ensuing discussion.
What you're referring to is society's attempt to re-build itself based on rationality and individualism as a replacement to political and religious institutions. A canonical response to your point would be that we're seeking to build a society where the rational action would be for the head of NASA further the aims of NASA. This follows from an ideology set out by Ayn Rand. There are a collection of documentaries by Adam Curtis covering the arc of this philosophy: "All watched over by machines of loving grace." is probably the main one here, but "Century of the Self", and "Can't get you out of my head" are also very good.

Naturally, the problem with society's attempt to do this is that rationality is not sufficient for the head of NASA to not go against her duty as NASA's head. A utopia of radical individuals free from any ideology or institution hasn't (yet?) been realized. It's probably not a good idea, but it's the central dogma of silicon valley, the blockchain movement, the AGI movement (especially the sentience-heavy ones), much of the modern scientific community, and (as it happens) hacker news. So here we are.

Also, your logic holds that swearing on a Bible is — in the limit — more likely to lead to moral behavior than swearing on Carl Sagan's work. Nobody believes that Carl will punish wrongdoers (he might even reward them for being rational, or face questions on why he's pushing morality on others). However, people do believe that God punishes. So regardless of whether a deity exists, swearing on religious texts is more likely to alter behavior than on Sagan's.
Right, out of those two options the AI friends do sound more appealing.
Yes. You can make a slice with zero length but the required capacity and append to it as you go. You can also make a slice of the estimated length and then reslice to the actual length.

arr := make([]uint64, estimatedLength)

...

arr = arr[:actualLength]
Super Mario Bros. theme part of the 2023 Library of Congress registry
I have way more faith in the oath made to a real principle than a made up one. I haven't read the book in question but am familiar with the picture with the same name and Sagan's works. Someone that chooses to make an oath to something that is essentially meaningless except for itself is in my opinion way less likely to break that oath.
If you target the classic .NET Framework on Windows, you could just ship a single folder for a long time The .NET Framework is shipped with Windows (though not necessarily at the latest version), and the deployment strategy for your average desktop/console app is just "copy the entire bin folder".
Because it's not inherent to the system itself.

For example there's nothing inherent to token prediction to make it capable of doing arithmetic and you wouldn't expect a small/briefly trained model to manage it. But if learning a very large model on a huge dataset leads to it "learning" the decimal number system and arithmetic via token prediction then that is an emergent capability.

It's just like the Chinese Room thought experiment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Chinese_room_thou...
> Thankfully they weren’t thrown in prison or executed for it this time.

> In 2017, 19-year old Croxteth resident Chelsea Russell quoted a line from Snap Dogg's song "I'm Trippin'" on her Instagram page. The line, which read "Kill a snitch nigga, rob a rich nigga", was copied from a friend's page as part of a tribute to Frankie Murphy who was killed in a car accident at age 13. Hate crime investigators were alerted to the presence of the slur and charged Russell with "sending a grossly offensive message by means of a public electronic communications network". Defence lawyer Carole Clarke stated that she received a request from one of the arresting officers that the word "nigga", the subject of the trial, not be used in court. In April 2018, District Judge Jack McGarva found Russell guilty and delivered a sentence which included a £585 fine, a curfew and an ankle monitoring bracelet.

Not that far away.
what got me wondering is, how much the contents of the book is actually relevant. that is, i think it is, because it suggests that the person is promising to act according to the principles given in that book, at which point i want to ask how anyone else can accept a book whose contents they are not familiar with, or worse whose contents they would object to?

Carl Sagan isn't going to rise from the grave and smite you for your transgression. Whereas I believe that is exactly the point of swearing over a bible

that depends on what someone believes.
for a believer in god, god may well judge that person for violating the goals or principles from carl sagan's book. or they may meet carl sagan in the afterlife and face his disappointment there.

again, the problem for me is not what the person swearing the oath believes, but what everyone else around believes about the gesture. and for them, if the document is not something that everyone is familiar with and supports, the gesture becomes meaningless.
Having worked with maven for about 15 years… it’s largely not a problem anymore. Unless you publish snapshots and depend on them.
This article by the New Yorker gets to the meat of your question within the first few paragraphs: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-brief-history-...

Since swearing in on a document has no official requirement, the idea is to telegraph your values.
This is why I'm perpetually confused by the official swearing of oaths by practicing Christians. There aren't a lot of new rules in the New Testament, but this is one of them.

Am I misinterpreting the passage?
IIRC correctly from a visit to a Roman site in Jordan, the Romans used thin lead sheets between the segments of tall columns (in temples etc). This allowed the columns to flex slightly. The guide demonstrated this by inserting a coin between two segments, and you could see the coin moving very slightly up and down as the apparently immobile column moved.
Kids get fed mountains of acetaminophen every year. Why do you suppose that acetaminophen packages have prominent warnings about not exceeding dosages?

It's because acetaminophen is extremely hepatotoxic at levels not very far above the recommended dosages.

> Hepatic injury and subsequent hepatic failure due to both intentional and non-intentional overdose of acetaminophen (APAP) has affected patients for decades, and [...] remains a global issue; in the United States, in particular, it accounts for more than 50% of overdose-related acute liver failure and approximately 20% of the liver transplant cases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4913076/

I would assert that acetaminophen is far more likely to be dangerous to far more children than puberty blockers and yet I don't see any moral panic over children's Tylenol.
Another point to this is that if you're not religious you no longer have to swear. You can affirm instead.