skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Perhaps that's because it is not inherently Linguistics?

I can admit that linguistics is a specific field of knowledge and has certain methodologies associated with it that are not always fitting or practical for all forms of analysis, but I think it's still inappropriate to say that any investigation into the operation of (spoken) language is not in some way a form of "linguistics."
Thank-you. Porcelain vs plumbing
The paper in question contradicts your hypothesis.

> Only one experiment has tracked moth trajectories to lights over long distances, and found only 2 of 50 individuals released ended their flight at a light source 85m away. This and our results suggest artificial lights may only trap passing insects rather than attract them directly from farther away.

(Also: If "death by attraction to artifical light" were a significant factor affecting insect survival, then this evolutionary pressure would certainly cause a rapid change. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution.)
> If the government wants everyone to pay their taxes, why doesn’t it make it as easy as possible?

Seems like they do; those easier ways are "not with cash".
(Possible) AI Impacts on Development Practice
I liked the original more than the final version. The vector style drawing was much more futuristic and more interesting.

Seems like lots of work went into that and I hope the author enjoyed the process and enjoys the final result.
No, not at all. Why would you even say that?

Actually the opposite at least where coal is concerned per kWh it emits "only" 2x more CO2 but (according to estimates) causes 10x more deaths than natural gas.

20-30 thousand people die every year due to pollution from coal power plants in the EU alone. That's basically 2 to 8 "free" Chernobyls every single year...
In the case of Ookla's speedtest, many ISPs host speed test servers to eliminate any variability of the wider internet. That's why it may seem they are prioritizing it. It's not a useless tool either as lets you narrow issues down to either your network or ISP.
It's too bad they don't disaggregate the data by state, instead assuming states which voted particular ways are equivalent. I guess that the Benford Law analysis wouldn't be as easy if they did due to the fewer number of counties to analyze per state?

So I wish they had instead grouped counties by how they voted (since certifying votes is done on the county level, typically), and run the analysis that way.

I'd also like to see an analysis based on county size (by population density, and by absolute population). As you get non-random effects based on density.

It's also interesting that in certain cases they use a 10%-level for confidence.

Edit to add a question: Does the registered voting population of these districts follow Benford's Law?
Typical Midjourney workflow involves constantly reprompting and fine tuning based on examples and input images. When you arrive at a given image in Midjourney, it’s often impossible to recreate it even with the same seed. You’ll need the input image as well, and the input image is often the result of a long creative process.

Why is it you discount the creative input of the user? Are they not doing work by guiding the agent? Don’t their choices of prompt, input image, and the refinement of subsequent generated images represent a creative process?
I have the horrible feeling you're terribly right. Made me sad
Many, if not most, of those are franchises owned by a single operator.
It wouldn't be a user-supplied binary. The user would provide C++ (say) source code. The service would compile the source code once to wasm say. A subset of the standard library would be available. The service would spin up resources to run the wasm binary on demand from end-users.

I am not proposing to try and make such a thing myself, but I'm hoping someone has done it. It would be widely useful. Programming languages are a dime a dozen but sharing simple programs written with them is problematic when there is such a disconnect between the I/O model of most programming languages plus their standard libraries and the realities of web architecture and plumbing. But adapting one to another is something people do. Web REPLs are a thing, I just want a web REPL taken to the next level.

Surely it should be possible to do "Hello World" on the web.
> for example, the Apollo moon landings and the first breach of the Berlin Wall – are owned by Getty.

How does that work? Works by us federal gov employees are generally public domain
reddit is already heavily astroturfed and this is getting worse by the day.

while this method may work, as often as i see this type of comment, i’m guessing reddit’s quality of information will be worse than even google search within months
I don't know anything about Goyal except that his name is Goyal, he maintains Kitty and he thinks muliplexers are stupid.

That's something I learned digging through kitty's github issues when doing a deep dive looking for a term that runs on Linux and supports tmux control mode.

This turned me off from using it as someone who needs tmux daily and I wanted to share that information so that others like me might save some time investigating.
> I assume that's because power users are simply a statistically insignificant group

They probably assume the same, but the problem with this assumption is that it's self-fulfilling. The reason power users are so small a group is, in part, because software and UI/UX design trends actively prevent it. Especially with SaaS, we live in the era of perpetual MVPs - features get offered the moment they clear the "demo" bar, and hardly ever improved afterwards, except to cut them down further. There is no space for mastery - what you learn to do in first 30 seconds is... all there is to do. More powerful functionality, if it existed, is already removed, after being first hidden away in a non-discoverable "advanced" menu, and then removed, citing low usage. Well, no shit, people won't be using things you go out of your way to hide from them.

And then there's the "attention economy", to which power users are anathema, as the attention economy's core idea is to make things as hard and as annoying as possible, and then make money on friction.

So honestly, I wouldn't trust such A/B tests alone - they generally cannot distinguish between something people like, vs. something people hate and have no chocice but to make do.
The more general phenomenon of what the parent is describing is rent-seeking becoming an outsized portion of society. When the rent-seeking class becomes too powerful they drain an unsustainable amount of productivity from the rest of society that eventually causes it to become weak/unstable and fall to internal or external forces. The Ottoman Empire is a good example of this.
The Library of alexanderia only had to burn once.
America’s Most Popular Neighborhoods
Speculations about Transformers and Compositionality
> How do I know that the code the developer wrote is what I am running?

Because of reproducible builds?
https://archive.ph/j0hbV
docker by default gives root access.
me believe that if you want to achieve something.. you can do it in USA. and if you goal not to change world or become rich but just lift from poverty.. yes you can do that in this country. just need hard work and determination.

but if you idea hard work that you have easy job.. little stress not too much labor then USA not enough by itself. Now you must blame someone and show you victim.

People and companies who would quickly kill unprofitable business cheerlead propaganda campaign. CNN writes this propaganda article against business but how willing is CNN to keep funding ventures that do not make money? Where is their justice war then?

They don’t care. Its just to get eye ball and clicks.
"Input into the creative process" is surely broader than simply "painted the portrait". Artists most certainly never consented to have their works used as training data. To this extent, they might be justifiably pissed off.

Artists and designers have furthered their careers (and gained notoriety) by 'ripping off' others since the dawn of time. This used to require technical artistic ability; now less so. The barrier to entry is.... not necessarily lower now, but different.
That's correct about the specific energy, it's partly related to sodium's atomic mass of 23, vs lithium's atomic mass of 7.
But did you still use booking.com for that other European city trip, or another platform?
If by "this" you mean "no reflowing", yes. If the maths is laid out client-side at run time, the exact dimensions of the formula are not known until the Latex code is interpreted.
Or, Occam's and all, they're just doing keyword matching on resumes and - surprise - people laid off from a role most closely match the (now contract) role.
The article mentions that they were "lucky" because in many places throughout the country, the physical location they would have needed to visit would have no available appointments until after taxes were due. Further, it wasn't a 30 minute appointment, it was a 30 minute appointment made well in advance, after which they (illegally?) _refused refused cash payment_, followed by another 30 minute appointment a week later. Except it wasn't timeboxed to 30 minutes because they didn't bother to tell them (or didn't know) how long it would take to make this simple transaction. Notice your options are to 1) have a bank or 2) use non-traditional digital means which all charge some form of "convenience fee" or 3) suffer major hassle to pay cash without surcharge.
Personally, I think it's sufficiently interesting that "emergence" happens and that we have multiple examples of it. I'm not hung up on whether the study of it will lead to new testable predictions (though that would be wonderful). I think in the worst case, it already gives us a vocabulary to explain that some unintuitive or surprising phenomena of a certain category are normal, and that higher-order patterns will occur naturally even from very simple systems. In the worst case, it's merely a word for an abstract pattern we observe all around us.

I'd wager the vast majority of laypeople cannot conceive how humans (or life) came to be without some sort of divine intervention. I certainly don't think anyone has the answer to that haha... But having this vocabulary, and "mere knowledge" of the existence of various examples of emergence can replace this incredulity with a more grounded appreciation of the inherent beauty and wonder of nature. I think the concept of emergence is profound in itself, because of how it can shift our perception of our own place in the world.
holy smoke, she keeps updating it!? did not expect to see content for the live action series
Your response here has failed to address any of the points I made in my original reply. You have not identified any threat being made, without which there is no extortion - and as Google does not regard this situation as being a vulnerability, it is going to be difficult for you to identify a credible threat that could be used to extort something from them.

Notice that you are also taking the author at his word when you say he literally compromised live systems. To turn this into a case of extortion, you would have to go beyond that and invent a number of things that have not been said - and some highly implausible things at that, given the very public way in which this supposed extortion is being conducted.
Whatever, blame it on chrome/chromium.

We’re talking sqlite here, your comment is off-topic.
Microsoft's prompts that turn GPT into Bing revealed (or hallucinated?)
My friend @gopejavi[1] has managed to make Bing reveal the original prompts that Microsoft used to instruct Bing.

There is the possibility that these are hallucinations but the method itself is quite interesting and the output looks legit.

Here are the obtained prompts[2] and his write up about how he achieved this [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/gopejavi

[2] https://github.com/gopejavi/AI-bugs/blob/main/bing/InstructionsReconstruction/2023-04-15-bingInstructions.md

[3] https://github.com/gopejavi/AI-bugs/blob/main/bing/InstructionsReconstruction/GettingTheInstructions.md
We had a class the first year of high school that taught various skills every quarter. Things like giving presentations, properly using the scientific method, etc. The writing and researching papers component used that specific site as an example for making sure you dive into the source of "information" and making sure you have corroborating evidence. She would ask the students to check it out, and use the various techniques we knew already to evaluate it. Pretty much every student would fail and call it trust worthy and she would then reveal that it (at the time) was run by one of the largest group of white supremacists on the internet.

Not sure if the librarian who taught the class still uses that site, but as a 13 year old it was a very powerful lesson.
sigstore is trying to replace pgp signing adding cloud?
I agree with you on the technicality - if we say the promter is an artist, then the picture belongs to him.
>... and someone did without his permission. Unfortunate.

Unfortunate, or the result of releasing something as a CC0[1]? Not saying he shouldn't have done that, nor am I particularly blaming him, but this is the very risk inherent with that type of license.

[1]https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...
>it's a feature for your benefit (somehow)

They don't count the "shaped/throttled" sites against your data plan limits, so I can see some people liking it.
The paper shows dogs with very distinctive fur coloring. Particularly the corgi with a white strip between its eyes. I think the paper would be completely fraudulent if this dog were also featured heavily in the training set. So the point is the white stripe corgi isn’t in the set, and with a few examples, the model could then generate brand new images of corgis with a similar fur pattern. Maybe all it can do is fur patterns but it’s a start.
Larimer County Among the Healthiest
Asking GPT-4 top solve simple few-step classical planning problems
ITDashboard.gov
The original title is also incredibly clickbaity and has little to do with the actual article.
Having to make 1 appointment is unacceptable, let alone 2.
> You can take things back. Undo grants freedom from frustration.

> Are you sure? Confirm before commit. Eliminate slips & mistakes. A slip is an unconscious, inattentive error. A mistake is a conscious error, but domain (mental model) mismatch.

Additionally, don't use the former as a replacement for the latter. While a way to undo destructive things should be present wherever possible, they should also be prevented from happening in the first place where reasonably possible.

Google apps are bad about this. Rather than add a small amount of friction to avert common types of disasters, they tend to lean on undo, which works fine until you end up too distracted to notice the little "X happened [Undo]" notification until you realize what happened a week later when the action you accidentally committed has become irrevocable.
Anyone can argue that any language is efficient based on some ability to express a (relatively) complex idea in (relatively) few words.

In Sanskrit, for instance, one can express entire metaphyiscal/philosophical systems in a single word, using compounds, and in philosophical commentaries this is actually quite frequent (which is what makes reading philosophy in Sanskrit so difficult, because everything is so condensed). The compounds can be of an arbitrary length, and feature extraordinarily complex syntactic system that allows for such complexity of expression. See the Wikipedia article below, for more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_compound
Forgot to mention. The brother/sister words don't necessarily need to be referring to an actual brother or sister.

They can be used endearingly to refer to older males/females you are close to.

오빠 can be used somewhat flirtingly/romantically as well
Well, there’s always hackernews then
Rare in the US from my experience. The only real exception I know is companies owned by the PE firm Vista Equity Partners, who all use such a test. The once ubiquitous Microsoft/Google logic puzzles seem to be mostly gone here as well.
> If the military is capable of producing its own weapons, lacks civilian financing to do so, but can sell excess production to foreign allies, then you've handed the military the keys to self-financing. This undermines civilian control of the military.

Interesting point. I would say that handing production to profit-maximizing corporations also undermines civilian control of the military through corporate capture of decision making.
Lithium is great, the low atomic mass of 4 is close to as good as you can get.

They haven't invested trillions, the lithium ion technology is in a relatively young and poorly optimized state and is similar to the state of the art 40 years ago.

You are right, disruption isn't the correct word. Investment, incremental improvement and niche applications are where we see most progress. Other chemistries are not seeming particularly promising for mobile, lightweight applications.
Generally what we do when we fall back to scanning depends on the architecture. For x86 you can find the logic here: https://github.com/rust-minidump/rust-minidump/blob/77638ab7...

Since we do post-hoc stack walking our ability to actually look at the assembly is limited. In most cases where we have no CFI we also do not have the binary to begin with, so we're in random memory land.
I remember writing this kind of stuff. Couple years after I left they'd re-written it, just so they would have somebody who understood it. My friend reported their engineer visiting his office often to exclaim over something he now understood!

It helps to rewrite something with example code in hand. You end up understanding everything.

(I did not mean to be opaque; we were a startup and it was hurry-up-and-be-done-yesterday code)
There are frequent articles talking about various researchers that are investigating that vulgar Sodium as a new chemistry for batteries.
Not everybody is allowed to have bank accounts.
The act of stackwalking breaks. You often end up in completely nonsensical stacks halfway through and then all is lost.
I was doing student summer job for a month in Crimea sometime in 70s. We were building dwellings for locals. The walls were made of stone that was billions of shells cemented together. It was very soft and we were all covered in dust. In combination with the summer heat it was awful.
This is a horrible proposal. Whether or not you are upset about PG&E knowing your income, the mere fact that it would be a flat rate reduces or eliminates the incentive to reduce electricity usage.

If this goes through, we will probably see people running their AC and heat more because there's no incremental cost for them to do so.

We need to be incentivizing reduction in energy use, not making it free to use more.
Here in Canada, taxes can be paid in person at a retail bank, or the post office.
I find that responsive design works well for simpler webpages. But for more complex pages or apps, yeah: it totally falls apart.

However... whenever I see an app or site that has two separate websites, I know I'm in for trouble: sometimes one version will miss some features, and I'll invariably have to request the desktop website. The worst of them was my previous health insurance provider, that only had one very important feature in the mobile version.
Dynamic Compression Members (1989, PDF)
The Atom of Intelligence
> what does a trademark policy have to do with guns?

In the case of this particular trademark policy, it's because they won't endorse an event that allows attendees to carry firearms. They consider the use/display of their marks in a way that suggests they endorsed an event when they did not to be an infringement of their trademark. They provide a basic set of conditions that should be met "at minimum" in order for them to endorse an event and grant the use of the marks. One of those conditions is that the event prohibits the carrying of firearms by attendees.
> The average French person has a life expectancy of 82. In Mississippi it’s 74.9, on par with Lithuania.

That's a great bunch of cherries you picked there. If you are comparing Europe to the US, comparing France and Mississippi is disingenuous. Compare best-to-best or worst-to-worst [1][2]. The worst European countries are Azerbaijan (66.9), Moldova (70.2), Ukraine (71.2). The worst US states are W Virginia (74.8), Mississippi (74.9), Alabama (75.5). The best EU countries are Norway (83.2), Switzerland (83.1), Iceland (83.1). In the US, it's Hawaii (82.3), California (81.7), New York (81.4).

In short, the best of US is somewhat worse than the best of EU. The worst of US is fares much better than the worst of EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
HTTP3 uses UDP and doesn’t have to use the same port, although I presume it does. “A browser first connects the server with HTTP/2 To discover the service. The server responses with an Alt-Svc header, including the port for HTTP/3, such as Alt-Svc: h3-29=":443"”
Hey now, don't say anything bad about cookie consent popups, the Europeans will be waking up soon and they'll downvote you to hell.
People drastically overestimate the security properties of TLS.

The correct mental model is that it’s good enough to convince 1990’s US internet users to type their credit card into a web page. (Where the downside of a breach is that you have to dispute some charges and change your CC#.)

If you need stronger security than that, then many, many caveats start to apply.

For instance, by default, anyone that can reliably man-in-the-middle port 80 on your website can get an acme certificate for your domain from a reputable certificate authority.
Thanks for pointing this out.

I can now ignore anything you say about caste since it shows you don't know anything about it.

Most last names are used by multiple castes.

Except for popular surnames like Iyer, Sharma or Agarwal the link between surname and Caste can be quite ambiguous.

Given how regional some castes are, in Geographically mixed work places it's really hard to narrow down the caste via surname.

What does a Punjabi know about the caste their Telugu coworker belongs to?
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
> Everything you say flies in the face of Nvidia continuing to get away with ridonkulous pricing despite continued claims of gamers wanting to see AMD Radeon become competitive.

That's the problem though: unless AMD can offer GeForce equivalents at lower price, gamers won't be buying it. They'll keep buying Nvidia products instead, because they want to play their games now, and they aren't going to settle for a worse card just to make a point.

> If you want changes in a company's behaviour, you buy or boycott their products as applicable.

No, you don't, because boycotts don't work. They never did[0]. They cannot be made to work, as humans simply can't spontaneously self-coordinate at the scale necessary[1].

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[0] - Except hyper-local cases where the majority of the target market knows the vendor personally, and know each other personally, because they live in the same area.

[1] - This being the general reason for most of our present-era large-scale and global problems.
There is only one date format, ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD). Everything else is just a mistake that hasn’t been corrected yet ;)
> Items are no longer a unique thing that exists in the world.

Given that anyone can apparently throw up their own instances of the game server and you can freely exchange NFTs generated by each that would seem to be a given from the start? Or how do you decide which copy of the dagger+1 NFT is legit of both where generated by different instances of the game?