skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> maybe the kids

Really? You posted a divisive and absolute statement and people pointed out how it's not accurate. Considering "Program Files", a very common Windows path, was introduced back in Windows 95 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120307-00/?p=81...), almost 30 years ago, it's pretty hard to blame it on "the kids".

That doesn't sound like "those damn kids and their newfangled apps that can handle spaces, they'll never know the pain I went through!!!" and more like "I said something that was clearly not accurate and people pushed back".

The whole thing reeks of https://www.mouser.com/blog/Portals/11/mrb-singularity-f1.pn...
Corbusier and his acolytes were almost singly responsible for the many urban planning (and related social justice) atrocities of the mid century, especially in the US.

If you’re interested in the more recent counter-movement trying to roll back some of these mistakes, see the Charter for the New Urbanism: https://www.cnu.org/who-we-are/charter-new-urbanism
He was able to explain the concepts to me with his words just fine, he just wasn't able to write them down too well. Again, I did not correct his work, I was an English student and knew sfa about his work. But I transliterated his Bad English explanations into Good English explanations and he got excellent grades on his essays, so it seems to me he was very competent.

I'm pretty sure there's a critical mass of famous science dudes who relied on someone else to turn their scribble into coherent writing. No difference.
On one hand this effort sounds like a good way to generate some interesting concepts. On the other hand, as a long-time resident of a rural, wildfire-prone area, it's also important to educate the public and politicians that there is a large body of proven land management best practices that can already significantly improve prevention, control and mitigation. While we can always do better, we often aren't sufficiently utilizing the tools and techniques we already have.

The issues are more often political, economic and systemic than they are not knowing effective ways to further reduce risks and harm. Things like properly managed controlled burns are under-utilized because they are politically controversial. Enacting and enforcing codes mandating land management around private structures are politically unpopular. Out where I live, the local fire rangers just point-blank tell property owners "If you don't clear out all the brush and downed trees within a couple hundred feet of your structures, we're defending your house after the others that meet code" but no politician is willing to tell voters that. Worse, land owners continue to get permits issued to construct permanent dwellings in isolated locations which are extremely difficult to defend. If they want to build there, I say let them but also issue fair warning if they choose to proceed, they are on their own in the event of fire. Volunteer firefighters shouldn't need to risk their lives to defend houses which should never have been built in inaccessible, indefensible locations.
That's wrong. CSAM is a problem, the tech industry has failed to get to grips with how easily it facilitates CSAM sharing (not dissimilar to piracy, though I support the latter), and until the tech industry can point to a credible CSAM mitigation policy proposal it will keep looping back to the CSAM-v-privacy framing.

Skip the rhetorical flourishes and come up with a proposal that addresses the issue. If you refuse to do so, then you can't complain about privacy-eradicating opponents offering their mediocre or bad policies. Refusing to acknowledge an issue exists is an automatic loser.
It's not the free or lack of free press that's the problem. Fox's audience wants to be lied to, and there are countless people in the US and elsewhere that are honestly just done thinking about the complexity of the world. No free press can break through that.
Because the people in my life who aren't as technical as me and I support will be taken advantage. Sideloading would make their lives noticeably worse as scammers, hackers, and thieves trick them into doing dangerous things. Not giving them the options makes their phone a safer place, which is why people want it applied to others.

Smart tech users do lose out in the trade off, but it is a trade off.
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Moon 'sighting' is much earlier than the Islamic tradition. It's discussed in the Mishna, so it was at least debated in the 2nd century CE: https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Rosh_Hashanah.2?lang=bi

The charitable case is that while something might be predictable, it's our conscious interaction that's important to these religions, not the theoretical knowledge.

The uncharitable case is that religions derive a lot of power from being able to fix time, and this demonstrates their sovereignty over people's lives in this sphere.
My favourite one was an ad for a dating site, with the reject button saying "No, I don't want to be happy" and "No, I want to be alone".
In that metaphor, the 2MB GUI toolkit is Wordpad, and QT is Word.

I find the analogy particularly apt because it is often said of Word "Everyone uses only 10% of Word but everyone uses a different 10%", and the same is true of GUI toolkits. Once you get out of the super-basics of text widgets and radio buttons, you're in a hugely diverse world where nobody is using the same thing but to be a "real GUI toolkit" you need to support them, like, table widgets with complicated lazy loading, rich text widgets rich enough to implement a full custom editor, arbitrarily complicated graphing libraries, OpenGL support, internationalization and FULL Unicode support (far beyond merely the rendering of text), and so on and so on. I mean, take a minute and click through this: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/classes.html Some of it is because QT is also a framework, but a lot of it is there for a GUI toolkit reason.

Just blipping through that, a list of features that are absolute drop dead requirements for someone out there that I didn't think to mention includes: Printer support, animation support, OAuth support, canvas support, filesystem support (for that open dialog and friends), font interaction for if you need direct rendering, help support, alternate calendar support, video support, and who knows what else I missed. Few apps need all these things, but there's plenty of apps in the world that absolutely, positively need at least one of those things.
I'm curious, how would you obviate the need for foreign keys with "good" code? Can you provide a toy example or a reference to an article so I can understand better? I've used NoSQL databases a long time ago and currently rely on on good ole PostgreSQL, but I'm having a hard time understanding how "good" code can be a better solution for managing relationships between data than a foreign key.
You are correct, the US has very few rights for workers, at least federally. Different states have different work protection laws, California has a lot of well known work protection laws.

49 states out of 50 are what are known as "at will employment" states (Montana is the only exception). "At will" employment means that the worker or the employer can terminate employment at any time with no notice. There are some restrictions on this, for example an employer can't fire someone because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Additionally there are laws about how larger companies have to handle mass layoffs.
Perhaps I misunderstood you? What did you mean with

> instead you are seen as a blank slate and whatever actions you do impact your life here and the life hereafter

I assumed you meant that people will be welcomed because they are a blank slate that can be written upon by those seeking to influence them.
> I think the margin of bat vs sh is a larger margin [...] the entire file is reread for each line

Ye agreed. Separation of data and code always was a mistake.

I wonder if this feature of bat files was like a thing once as a "best practice"? Practically, you should only append lines I guess. When I close my eyes, I can see a DOS batch file doing actual batch job processing, appending to itself and becoming a intertwined log and execution script.
If I believe I have a lot of knowledge to transfer, I'll do a 2 week + X notice. I've done 1m notice, and that was excessive I believe. Otherwise, 2 weeks is standard in the US, and I have no reason to deviate. Nor would I conventionally just walk out that-day, as that leads to a bad odor.

If I was waiting for a bonus or cliff, of course I'd wait until after the date before formally giving notice. Because, of course, that would be a problem if the Management decided to terminate me immediately.

It's quite contextual, of course, but I prefer to follow local standards.
Not GP, but security refers to the protection of the system, while privacy refers to the protection of information.

So you need to protect the system to protect the information on it, but there are also sometimes trade offs between security and privacy when you offload some system protection by giving away some information to another party. For example SmartScreen with Microsoft, and Safe Browsing with Google Chrome.
Great video. Thank you. A good reminder that religious practices are like human beings. You can try to generalize, but in the end each person's faith is unique in some way.
for MySQL? only that they do not seem to be commonly used at all, within the already small set of modern applications that scale out on stored procedures successfully. MySQL's base of maturity is the PHP application that is using straight SQL.

I'm not an SP guy so while an SP app using a platform with lots and lots of widespread use and maturity for that style of programming, like Oracle or SQL SQL Server is already unpleasant for me but at least I'd know I was on well-trod ground, doing it for MySQL where issues I hit would have very little precedent / workarounds / community I'd not want to get involved with for anything important.
"Pay us money in order to pay us money"? wat?
> Your suggestion is to do the data manipulation outside of the database which typically means pulling data sets out, doing something with them, and then putting them back in.

It doesn't mean that at all. You can still leverage SQL to get amazing performance for queries and mutations across large datasets without burying that in a stored procedure. Yes it's generally a bad idea to pull thousands of records across the network and into memory to manipulate them before putting them back. But that's a false dichotomy.
I think this mostly depends on the then current employee market situation.
That's a scarily good comparison. Children need to be protected, but it feels like there is a steady erosion of basic rights to privacy, free speech, free expression, and free choice that are being justified with "whatever it takes to save a child".
Session cookies and user accounts are obviously not necessary for the proper functioning of discussion boards - 4chan is one of the most popular in the world. Shall we haul the Hacker News admins off to jail?

I'm not trying to be cheeky here. Who can say what the "necessary" and "proper" functioning of a given website is? You can always imagine a similar-but-different website. I think usually people are talking about ad-related stuff, but then why not regulate that in particular?
yeah its really odd how so many investors got suckered into thinking that all these "tech" companies that are firmly not tech companies and whose businesses make money in fairly mundane ways based on things happening in the real world are going to make trillions of dollars.

I mean just look at Netflix. They were never a tech company, they were an entertainment company with a tech advantage and thats extremely obvious now. Same thing with something like Carvana. How the hell did they ever manage to convince people they are a tech company and will have tech company margins when they are just selling cars.
If you get fired in Switzerland, your employer gives you a notice period of 3 months as well. Which is nice because it's plenty of time to find another job.
The authors added "electromagnetic field", which also happens to involve particles.
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> The bill also makes specific allowances to allow the use of encryption to constitute evidence in court against service providers.

So if you enable iCloud advanced protection, that is "evidence". We really really need a younger congress.
It is not your job to put yourself out there in order to finally get your company to do the shit they should have been doing all along.
To clarify, a blank state in your relationship with God. Like, you aren't judged for being a certain sexual way until you actually act on it (or choose to not act on it).
Ah so it is just a preference? Is there usually an actual difference on when Eid is between the final "traditional" observation and the predicted calculations?
I assume Activision actually knows how to scale databases, but has "join queues" for hype? I think everyone knows the infamous Blizzard queues in release week, where you have to wait an hour with only 5000 people in front of you. Happened recently with the OW2 release.
I’m reminded by a speech by Frederick Douglass [1] that

>This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Emphasis mine)

1. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1857-fred...
"Now that I've condescended to you, I expect you to let that be the last word."

I'm not religious, but your comment ought to be engraved on a monument to pomposity.
Finetuning a Commercially Viable LLM with Flan-UL2, Dolly15K and LoRA
I have a fairly sophisticated user registration system that can't handle people without family names. We had to jump through some hoops to be able to enroll people who just have given names.
It's all a farce, like diversity, work/life balance, community engagement, sustainability, recycling, net zero...

Investors, clients, and prospective employees demand that companies pretend to care about this, so companies dutifully pretend to care. That can be difficult in practice, so anything that employees do to help keep up appearances is greatly appreciated, so long photos can be taken and hours tracked for the relevant websites and annual reports.

Outcomes, on the other hand, are not measured, so there is no need to actually achieve anything in any of these areas, only to create a convincing smokescreen and keep the farce going.
I’m guilty of sending results to null island for various reasons and it can be confusing, but to give the user simply an error would be worse, as they have nothing rather than something.

If for some reason we can’t get a geolocation, for various reasons, even a user simply denying access to gps, we can still deliver meaningful results as while the data is improperly located, it still has meaningful coordinates relative to itself and can be transformed later.
presumably still O(n2) in theory, but not for practical cases.

I think that anything reolacing attention will suffer quadratic growth for some pathological examples.

maybe if we have a better understanding of the data we could give a better definition (much like graph complexity is usually given in the actual number of edges, which are theoretically O(n2).)
Eid sayeed!!
US Begins Planning for 6G Wireless Communications – Slashdot
Well —

"Chapter 26 described the function of the Smalltalk virtual machine, which consists of an interpreter and an object memory. This chapter and the next three present a more formal specification of these two parts of the virtual machine. Most implementations of the virtual machine will be written in machine language or microcode. However, for specification purposes, these chapters will present an implementation of the virtual machine in Smalltalk itself. While this is a somewhat circular proposition, every attempt has been made to ensure that no details are hidden as a result."

p568 "Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its implementation" 1983

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Blueboo...

"To check the accuracy and the clarity of the first book, we invited a number of groups outside of Xerox to build implementations of the Smalltalk-80 system. Those groups uncovered problems with the written description, and with the system itself, which we then corrected. … Paul McCullough of Tektronix suggested that all of the implementors submit papers describing their experiences to a software engineering journal or to collect papers from each group into a book form. This book, then, is the outcome of that suggestion."

iv Preface "Smalltalk-80, Bits of History, Words of Advice" 1983

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/BitsOfHistory/Bi...
Since Ruffle is running the Flash for this, couldn't one just keep using Flash via Ruffle?
It also do this for monitor or usb/bluetooth earphones. So you end up get earphone(2), monitor(2) even you never have a second one. The only way to fix it is delete the hidden device in device monitor and rename it back in monitor/audio manager.

It's really a confusing thing to me that the script I use to change sound output and leveling suddenly didn't work after a bios/mobo software/whatever windows update and noticing the device have an appended (2).
Marcus Raskin's 1976 paper "Democracy Versus the National Security State" [0] is a good backgrounder on how we've gotten to this state of affairs. If politicians want to continue with their careers in Congress, they'll either serve the national security state or have to pretend to their constituents that it doesn't exist.

"The national security state emerges from war, from fear of revolution and change, from the economic instability of capitalism, and from nuclear weapons and military technology.It has been the actualizing mechanism of ruling elites to implement their imperial schemes and misplaced ideals. In practical terms its emergence is linked to the rise of a bureaucracy that administered things and people in interchangeable fashion without concern for ends or assumptions. This state formation matured during a period in which the office of the President be-
came supremely powerful as a broker and legitimating instrument of national
security activity."

"...The society is at a turning point. And in this regard so is the legal profession. Either we will surrender representative democracy, embracing instead
different forms of corporate fascism and bureaucratic control (military, police,
and social) which cannot be halted through citizen action and democratic pro-
cesses, or we (including the legal profession) will begin the difficult task of
dismantling the national security apparatus. It does not seem likely to me that
those who struggled in the sixties to develop a new meaning of democracy
will settle for bureaucratic or corporate fascism. And those who are neutral
on the question will be less likely to acquiesce in fascist or bonapartist deformations once it is clear that they are inefficient, and that they provide only insecurity, unemployment, imperial wars, a deepening arms race, and a pro-
cess of repressive exclusion which reduces politics to an empty game."

[0] https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol40/iss3/7/

Plain text at:

https://archive.org/stream/democracy-versus-the-national-sec...
Anyone who uses that argument, ask them to hand you their phone, unlocked, and a list of passwords for all of their accounts. If you have nothing to hide, why would you have a problem with me poking around in the most intimate aspects of your life?
AI has most Americans scared about privacy, job losses
GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
Blog post: https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-07-hyena

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35502187
Fire Mark Zuckerberg
They at least have a very reduced ability to hurt anyone, to the point where most of the moral arguments seem like a _big_ stretch. Some random guy who's just vaguely unpleasant to be around is almost certainly damaging society more than the worst prisoner. Should we kill them too?

Prison guards do badly mostly because our prisons are shit. Too few guards, too little pay, too few resources, no societal will to improve anything.

> A captured criminal could also be a famous or powerful person like Osama Bin Laden or a cartel boss and they could still run things from the prison or foment violence and revolution from supporters outside the prison.

In that case, the moral arguments start to be similar maybe, where prison isn't effectively stopping someone's evil actions enough.
Here come all the aircraft.
It's interesting to see all this hard work being done specifically for "fact-fixing" inside neural networks, whereas I think the future is probably having two models: one for language processing (grammar, etc.) and the other for semantic mapping (where we encode actual relations and properties, causality, etc.). To wit, unless you squint really really hard, this is not exactly true:

> Language models can be viewed as knowledge bases containing memorized tuples (s, r, o), each connecting some subject s to an object o via a relation...

LLMs don't have the concept of objects or relationships. You might be able to argue some of that ends up being encoded in the embeddings (especially if they're particularly big), but I would posit that those embeddings mostly end up handling the grammar. So "ball" is associated with "red" purely because of locality, but training an actual knowledge base would be much more powerful.
Say that somebody talks some trash about a random person online.

This isn't the New York Times where there may be some link authority, or may Allah forgive me for even uttering these haram words, Buzzfeed News.

Where should that random trash-talking rank? Doesn't it seem more relevant than a lot of the random links about random people from random data brokers online? Should random unsourced trash talk about some random person rank closer to the first page or closer to the last page? To me, it seems notable and should be close to the top.

And I think one improvement (that will never happen) is that Google should be telling people some polite version of "Literally everything you read on the Internet should be considered bullshit until verified".
You got to live and let live, otherwise you are acting no different than them. Greta Thunberg chooses to repress her desires to eat meat or travel and see the world for something she sees as greater good. When she gets older, she may well decide against having children to keep human footprint on the planet smaller. I am not doing any such things myself and I don't accept rewilding as an intrinsic goal of environmentalism. I believe that humans are the apex species on the planet and, like all such species, are primarily concerned with our own thriving - which may involve conservation but not self denial.

But, I am not going to try to stop her or make her life difficult with constant needling. Just like you shouldn't stop those who are willing to constrain their own sexuality for the sake of avoiding what they perceive as spiritual pollution, just like Greta is willing to constrain herself to avoid environmental pollution. To each their own, and for some living up according to their idea of honor is a greater comfort than more direct gratification. In time, we all learn something valuable even from those we don't agree with.

Can we however agree that America and other countries that embraced Western culture are great because you can live your life as you want and observant Muslims can live their lives as they want?
Come to think of it, it was quite nice how they accommodated Muslims; however, they could have just postponed the exams.