skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something does not add up for me here. If you say that Australia is a continent, but Oceania a region.. then how is New Zealand classified?
Shouldnt it count as a continent too? (What is probably wrong)

I think all those things are quite cultural: after all Europe and Asia are connected, arguably with Africa too. Same for both Americas which could be counted as one big thing. On a side note does: Panama canal work as a real divide between both Ameican continents? Similar question for Suez Canal
There's low wisdom stats, too :P
A social credit system, such as the one used by the CCP? Are you sure you don't want to elaborate?
Listen to this article (5min) at https://playtext.app/doc/clggowx2f0002jp0fal6qzpbu
LLM Programming Loops: Giving the Model an IDE
As I am completely and unapologetically biased, Zig hits me the wrong way when in it's default help output it mentions "exe" and "dll". barf.
LittleBird: Efficient Faster and Longer Transformer for Question Answering [pdf]
No thanks. I'm not willing to pay higher taxes just so that we can have a few more academics doing low-value AI research.
I was tickled the other day to discover that Makita also makes a coffee maker that uses their batteries. It's a nifty gimmick to get you to use Makita-branded products on the job site.

https://www.makitatools.com/products/details/DCM501Z

(They also offer a kettle and a cooler, and other things that are useful on a job site but not conventionally "tools".)
I fell in love with the ninja build system recently. It's machine language for build systems, and I can write my own scripts to generate the ninja build file, rather than introducing any new language from someone else just for build descriptions.

Is ninja not expressive enough for your needs?
People really sleep on AlphaSmarts. I first encountered them in middle school and bought one myself as an adult as a zero-frills notepad. It's great.
Doing about 5k/mo passive income on my addon for a popular children's game. Took about 4years to get here though, COVID was massive for the genre. Only costs are time and file hosting, which comes out at about $50/mo.
Steve Buscemi Is a Former NY Firefighter and Helped His Former Unit on 9/11
From the analytical trends and tooling it's passed the hump of mainstream in the sense that it can be used for prod. It's sort of culty still but it's no longer a niche thing anymore and very usable.

The only avenue that it has yet to penetrate is gaming. No other language has achieved this yet, and rust is the closest.
Yes. America.

I know, I know. English speaking countries refer to the continent as "the Americas" rather than America, as the rest of the planet does but, then, the rest of the planet refers to the "United States of America" as the "US" and (normally) not as "America" .

Now seriously, America is a given name for the whole continent (with Noth America and South America as its two subcontinents) and was never meant to be used as the name of any one of its 35 countries.

Many in the EU are often doing the same chauvinistic thing, refering to themselves as "Europe" forgetting that there are 23 European countries that are not part of the EU. That case is slightly (just slightly) less annoying because at least is 27 EU European countries vs 23 non EU European countries, so at least they can claim to be the majority of countries. US case is one country vs. 34, so objectively even more absurd.
> The latter can writes readable, correct code for 500-1000 line programs.

The problem is you can't trust it.

The code might be near perfect in 99% of cases, but might do something stupid that defies belief in that small percent of cases that literally destroys your company.
The continents are defined geologically and not by amount of blue around them on a map.
>This is not a philosophical matter. We know that "statistical learning" which is nothing more than a "correlation maximisation objective" over non-phenomenological, non-causal, non-physical data produces approximate associative models of those target domains -- that have little use beyond "replaying those associations".

Why do you think the data LLMs are trained on are non-causal? Lets take causation as asymmetric correlation. That is, (A,B) present in the training data does not imply (B,A) presence. But of course human text is asymmetric in this manner and LLMs will pick up on this asymmetry. You might say that causation isn't merely about asymmetric correlation, but that of the former determining the latter. But this isn't something we observe from nature, it is an explanatory posit that humans have landed on in service to modelling the world. So causation is intrinsically explanatory, and explanation is intrinsically causal. The question is, does an LLM in the course of modelling asymmetric correlations, develop something analogous to an explanatory model. I think so, in the sense that a good statistical model will intrinsically capture explanatory relations.

Cashing out explanation and explanatory model isn't easy. But as a first pass I can say that explanatory models capture intrinsic regularity of a target system such that the model has an analogical relationship with internal mechanisms in the target system. This means that certain transformations applied to the target system has a corresponding transformation in the model that identifies the same outcome. If we view phenomena in terms of mechanistic levels with the extrinsic observable properties as the top level and the internal mechanisms as lower levels, an explanatory model will model some lower mechanistic level and recover properties of the top level.

But this is in the solution space of good models of statistical regularity of an external system. To maximally predict the next token in a sequence just requires a model of the process that generates that sequence.
Have you tried the browser app? https://sketch.metademolab.com/
OR you can listen at 2x speed here: https://playtext.app/doc/clggoylqj0000mj0f01hq9k3t
> Talking to them about work can get very frustrating

The Socratic method has a time and place: symposia. People there were rich, well fed, drunk and came to converse and learn. People who come to the workplace are not rich, usually on a frustrating diet and need to earn money. Sometimes the one who has the information should just divulge it, especially when they don't have a formal mentor-mentee relationship with you.

> It is easier to repeatedly ask why

That doesn't sound like a proper application of the method. SM questions are guided and thus dishonest: the one asking already has an opinionated answer. Just chaining "whys'" doesn't lead to a useful answer, especially if you're already on the wrong track - more "whys'" will just derail the conversation further.

> It seems condescending

Everything consentual goes. It sounds like you're not consenting.

> It is particularly bad when I know the practitioner knows the answer to their question

Now we're back to SM. Earlier it sounded like your colleagues where not following SM (unguided whys'). That is a frequent and imho valid criticism of SM. To be fair, please keep in mind that it was invented in the infancy of philosophy. We have come two millennia since then. Your colleagues don't sound like very smart people.

> Even after expressing that I don't enjoy it

Changing topics from philosophy to labour law, that's harassment.

> How can I convince them otherwise?

Talk to your manager.
You can use a userstyle on the webpage. It works. It's quite straightforward actually.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...

Looks like I accidentally added a T to the end of it, and you were the first person to say anything.
Mapped: Air Pollution Levels Around the World in 2022
Got it, in that case it helps to build a product for a community you can interact with. In my case, this was connecting with folks on Stackoverflow that were struggling with integrating malware detection into their apps... that was all the marketing I did to get the product validated - but keep in mind that was 10 years or so back.

Best of luck with your launch!
The TL;DR: The tail of 737 MAXs going up to 4 years back is not attached correctly. What could go wrong?
Stir some milk into some coffee and just shortly after they make contact but well before it's even half way to being completely mixed, ask yourself where does the complex structure come from?

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/22098576-complexity-and-en...
There are schools of thought with 4, 5, 6, or 7 continents, but all of them consider Australia a continent, and Oceania a region, at least according to Wikipedia; though "some geographers group the Australian continental landmass with other islands in the Pacific Ocean into one 'quasi-continent' called Oceania."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Definitions_and_appl...
Seems legit. If I were a country faced with a belligerent other country avowing my nuclear destruction once they get the capability I wouldn’t be super eager to see that happen. That’s not warmongering that’s taking serious explicit threats explicitly seriously.
Supabase Studio 2.0: help when you need it most
At least until they setup their own AI music division, which they will totally do.
If combining them would require a major refactor then create a unit test that fails if they diverge or leave a code comment. That gets you the benefits without the tedium.
From the original WaPo article:

>According to “signals intelligence,” the intelligence summary said, the SVR reported that China’s Central Military Commission had “approved the incremental provision” of weapons and wanted it kept secret. The report did not indicate the source of the SVR’s information.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/13/...
Would be nice to add a queue. Went through all the steps and then it said the servers are busy losing progress.
They are. It's not a joke.
This would work if Brother/HP wanted to sell fewer printers...
> use it to grease the wheels of the Chinese bureaucracy.

"Facilitating payments" aka "grease payments" are explicitly allowed in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

This article is about actual, real bribery, which is illegal under the FCPA.
Vendor lockin is why. These things are expensive, but they're not a pure profit center as one thinks....

Most tool batteries just wrap high quality LG Chem 18650s. I don't know the wholesale price, but since they're roughly $4-$5 at retail, lets say 8x @ $3 wholesale. Then you have electronics bom/assembly (generous $10) and casing/asembly ($2) and labor ($1) for a total of $37. Following the "Double your cost and charge that rule" = $74

I made my estimate before looking up the cost of batteries, but Ryobi (Owned by TTI, same people that make Milwaukee hilariously) falls around that price point as do others. So the prices, while seemingly ginormous, aren't as absurd as one thinks. 18650 LiOn prices are insane.

DeWalt (Owned by Stanley Black & Decker) is now creating tool batteries that use flat cells (called "Pouch Batteries"), which honestly, makes _a lot_ more sense. Square tool batteries = square batteries = more mAh per unit volume. No idea why don't use these in BE-EVs.
Unlikely, if they use a secure enclave or similar.
It's a great sysadmin tool, and great to write servers. It can be used for many other things obviously, but that's clearly its niche. And there's nothing wrong in being a niche language, after all, if the niche is big enough (and it clearly is). Javascript is also a niche language, after all. It's mostly a web language, and there's nothing wrong with that. So is C, which is slowly becoming the ultimate low-level glue language.
60 microseverts an hour works out to about 525 millisieverts (mSv) per year. The general public limit is set very low, so for additional reference, the annual limit for emergency worker was raised to 250 mSv per year after Fukushima, half of what you'd get on the Moon. An effective dose (whole body, sum of all equivalent doses for the organs) of 200 mSv is enough to increase your risk of fatal cancer from 25% to 26%, so 525 mSv obviously represents a substantial stochastic risk.

The ICRP occupational equivalent dose limit for hands, feet and skin are 500 mSv per year, so for these you're under the limit (the 525 mSv effective dose above is spread across you, not on one organ). However the equivalent dose limit for eyes is 20 mSv average with no more than 50 mSv per year. I haven't done the math but I think 525 mSv effective dose over a year would put you at substantial risk of deterministic damage to the lenses of your eyes.

In other words, Moon men probably get cataracts and are more likely to die of cancer.
Curious how those would work. 100-150k BTUs would be 30k-41k watts, which is a) dramatically more than any of the ones I've seen out there, and b) would presumably deform a carbon steel wok pretty badly? Not sure.

The math definitely isn't as linear as I'd like to be, so I'm super curious to hear how well it works in the real world. Best of luck!
Fraudulently obtained inventory is actually something I actively want to avoid. I don't want to go to jail, or risk getting banned from marketplaces - among ethical considerations.... I only go to authorized distributors where there is legal permission to resell these types of items. Incomm being the largest. Blackhawknetwork being another large player.
China is not erratic. They are the most long-term managed superpower out of them all. They don't have to worry about the next election nor bickering with their oligarchs. They just continue slowly and steadily with their plans made years in attendance. Geopolitically they are often in conflict with us but they are really predictable.

Kim Yong Un is the total opposite of that, he has a similar stable position but many internal challenges like food supply that destabilize. And he uses his nuclear ambitions as a distraction.

This nut should really have been cracked before he got his hands on nukes. I know the thousands of artillery shells pointed at Seoul were a problem but it's nothing compared to what it is now. It would have been better for their own population too which is living in a hellhole.
Isn't that why HN sucks?
I tend to agree. I'd also like to state for the younger crowd that mastering a language is no means a prerequisite for building a successful company.
they don't actually go into any detail how it's supposed to render, though. they refer to the standard but don't actually say what the browsers are supposedly doing wrong. It's not that the shadow being applied makes the text blurry somehow, it's that the shadow itself makes the text look like it's blurry, because it's very subtle. So, I don't buy it.
Yes, if you grew up being told that the continent is Oceania, and all the people around you were also told the continent is Oceania, then Australia is indeed the biggest island. Language is fun like that.
Thank you - I love this tool
> Take note, doing unwarranted nmap scans is considered network abuse. Doing it from your VPS might (depending on the hosters TOS) get your contract terminated.

Makes you more excited to read the man page doesn't it?
I wonder how much the citizens of a country rife with low-level corruption would appreciate the US taking the high road and refusing to allow their companies to do business with them.
To me, it depends on how novel the thing is.

Coming from a C++ background, learning Python required a trial-and-error process similar to what you've described. However, learning Groovy while knowing Python and Java took only a single pass through the Groovy docs - just to figure out what exact elements of Python and Java has Groovy incorporated in what way.

In context of tutorials, a lot of people write them "for themselves" without realizing it - there's just too much implicit knowledge assumed. And it's hard work to expand on all of it, without going down the rabbit hole and ending up explaining the concept of Turing Machines.
Don't really have to involve blockchain here (yet again), publishing on a website and letting Internet Archive archive it is good enough. Or even posting it on Twitter/HN/$social-media-with-edit-limit
Dbdev: PostgreSQL Package Manager
Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development
https://web.archive.org/web/20230414041241/https://www.nytim...
Trusted Language Extensions for Postgres
How do you deal with drinks?

As a customer I'd probably want to run a tab at the restaurant for whatever I drink (assuming they're alcohol-friendly) but as an organizer I'd probably want an upfront corkage fee I could take a reliable cut of.
Sidekiq is special because it's crazy performant, and it _works_.

Mike has built a system that's rock solid, and he doesn't twiddle around with it willy nilly. He keeps it super stable.

The people paying for it (I'm one of those people) are paying for the reliability, in addition to the features.

Mike's also managed to find a real sweet-spot with the features he holds out for Pro/Enterprise. The stratification is just right to nudge you up, but it always feels like you're getting a good deal when you pay.
Correct! customer buys a playstation $10 card for $9.80, I buy it for $9.20, and pocket the spread.
Jobs may crash due to VM issues or OOM problems. The more common cause of "orphans" is when the VM restarts and jobs can't finish during the shutdown period.
For a project a couple of years ago, I used Go language and what I did was a very simple thing: I took advantage its channel mechanism and created a slice to save (memoize more or less) 100K generated data which I inserted with a BEGIN TRANSACTION / END; in other words, every 100K I would insert them once and repeat.

If my memory serves me well, in approximately 6.8 seconds (give or take), I could insert 10M rows and bear in mind I didn't use WAL at all.

Not bad I would say, not bad at all.
Just get the basics down for traits, borrowing and move semantics. Make sure you have thorough understanding of heap and stack. Once those are down you can move on to projects.

Rust is sufficiently complex that you have to do projects to encounter every nook and cranny of even the core language. Other language like python expertise in the language often involves knowing the libraries.
Fair enough about idempotence.

I'm still confused about what you're saying though. You're saying that the language of "enhanced reliability" doesn't reflect losing 2 jobs over about 50*7 million (from your other comment)?

And that if you didn't pay for the service, you'd have to add some checks to make up for this?

That all seems incredibly reasonable to me.
Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
The better question is how many person hours would it take to model a scene like that with alternative approaches, and can a NeRF be used to create outputs that could be used in a game engine?
That's how we learned it in middle school and beyond here in the US, but the Australia question boiled down to "yeah, technically it's an island, but are you really going to start your conversations about Australia with a bunch of quibbling around islands v. continents?".
You know, not all AI algorithms in use are derivative of statistical curve fitting.

But if you have some more general definition for "pattern recognition" than this, you should be perfectly able to notice that it's more general than what LLMs do.
From the JS community, this is sadly the level of snark we expect.

It doesn't have to be like this. Your community tried to be better once. Have you forgotten?

https://jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/courses/stepping-up-rails/ma...
Add in their points-based system for highly skilled professionals (that allows for permanent residence after just 1 year), and it becomes a very attractive option if the cultural, workplace and language requirements are workable for you.
Without democracy the rule of law itself is corrupt.
Bluetooth is much more complicated than the basic power negotiation on USB-PD.
Lol I just went down a rabbit hole about language. Idk which he is talking about but there are a few million people who speak Mayan languages in Guatemala still.

The same might be true about the south part of Mexico, like around Oaxaca, I'd fact check though before believing me.
I just finished teaching a class this morning and this came up during a design thinking segment. It's a male-heavy class and when these terms come up, they tend to laugh it off as some kind of esotherical side-quest. When I ask if anyone feels comfortable explaining the difference, it always ends in a beautiful disaster because that one person feeling brave enough to go for it, usually completely derails, only to be taken over by another student taking it into a similar dead-end. It almost always ends with them agreeing that this is a complex topic and therefore impossible to pin down.

I then bring up the scenario of someone who lost their dog (in a tragic freak accident) a while back...

A sympathic friend asks them how they cope, or feel, they acknowledge the fact that there is a process of grief happening. They show sympathy by observing your state from the outside.

The empathic friend stops by to check how they can help and then leaves with the rest of the dog food. They're able to walk a moment in your shoes and see the problems you're facing.

Which, I think, should be a fundamental quality of a good product manager, planner or user researcher.

Anyways, dumb teaching stuff, but I kinda like the example.
Sounds like a lot of pedantry tbqh
I'm far from a Trump supporter - I don't consider myself to be a republican or a democrat. I like some policies from one side and some from the other, and I think in a lot of instances (like abortion) a compromise would be best instead of fully one way or the other.

I think Trump getting elected made a lot of people on the left that felt they had some "power" over elections feel like they somehow failed. Keep in mind how scared they were. This American Life did a show on how Trump could basically launch nukes whenever he wanted, for instance. We had years of "Russian collusion." Suddenly it became their mission to not only ensure it didn't happen again, but their opinion of republicans radically shifted.

If you can't tell that NPR is hard on the left then it's you who is off of the charts politically. The way they've treated the Trump administration vs the Biden administration is absolutely laughable.
> A few inflection points that made a notable difference (releasing rewriting support & Android support particularly)...

Do you mean that improving documentation helped get customers? I have a small side project and I think this is one of its weaker spots, even if it is relatively simple [0]. I noticed "helper popups" are getting used quite extensively.

[0]: https://aihelperbot.com/guide
They said larger gamete, not larger adult size.
Why is this being downvoted? could you expand on what you mean
Parler goes offline after being sold to a new owner
Haha, this is great. Present as you will. Don't enslave yourselves to the refinement culture horde. It's okay.
I live in Africa. Nairobi, Kenya to be precise.

One obvious problem I have seen is the procurement laws and procedures. Especially in government and public companies. For example, you need to go through a tender process to procure basic stuff like licenses for software.
So a separate company (not Microsoft) submits a tender to "supply" another company for licenses to use Microsoft products.

This opens up a clear avenue for corruption. And it is heavily exploited.
These companies basically submit tenders for the these licenses at exorbitantly inflated prices while doing absolutely nothing.
There is nothing preventing these public companies and government agencies for purchasing directly from Microsoft except for the procurement rules and procedures.

So we end up in a situation where folks that are awarded these tenders end up pocketing large amounts for "supplying Microsoft software".
Local Microsoft employees are obviously colluding with them.

Reviewing these procurement rules and laws may have some impact in reducing these obvious form of corruption.