skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQLite provides a similar benefit with tremendous results using its in-process database engine, although the benefit there is more muted by default because of the very small default cache size. We do have one app where we do this. There's no database server, the app server uses SQLite to talk directly to S3 and the app server itself caches its working set in memory. I can definitely see the benefit of some situations, but for us it was a pretty unusual situation that we might not ever encounter again.

All that said... can't Datomic also do traditional query execution on the server? I thought it had support for scale-out compute for that. AIUI, you have the option to run as either a full peer or just an RPC client on a case-by-case basis? I thought you wouldn't need to resort to writing your own API intermediary, you could just connect to Datomic via RPC, right?
Nerf studio

https://docs.nerf.studio/en/latest/
Semantic Tokenizer for Enhanced Natural Language Processing
I am not a lawyer, but doesn't the Apache license specifically grant the right to redistribute the source code?

> You may reproduce and distribute copies of the Work or Derivative Works thereof in any medium, with or without modifications, and in Source or Object form
My family is super into games, and as the resident programmer, they often ask me to build things related to them. Favorite two to build were

- an Unolingo solver that we used to figure out if there could ever by more than one solution to the puzzle (there can be!)

- a "killer" solitaire simulator that determined the optimal number of players for a max win rate. IDK if this is even a real game, but my family plays multi-player competitive solitaire with up to 8 people at a time. IIRC the optimal number for win rates is like 5-6(?) according to my simulation
and that is what happens when one thinks they've developed an understanding of a term solely from reading how the term is used

you should probably read over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence to convince yourself that emergence as a distinct concept is a useful abstraction to have
Re: 2, why should someone recreating a work of their own invalidate their right to the original? I think current copyright laws are ridiculous, but within that framework why can’t a creator have two version of something they name the same thing at the same time?

While I’m not a fan of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, should the movie invalidate the copyright on the radio shows that invalidated the copyright on the books that invalidated the copyright of the original radio shows?

I have more concerns about companies sitting on works in a “vault” for decades. If a rightsholder isn’t making public a work they’ve been given exclusivity to to encourage developing collective culture, they should forfeit that right, IMHO.

On the other hand, if I was paid royalties for all of the code I have that’s still running somewhere on some system and generating revenue somewhere, I’d probably fight to keep that money coming in, too!
> Keeping that running and reliable and operating it for years or decades sounds like an absolute nightmare

But it's not. I run many such services for myself, and keeping them running and reliable hasn't been a large burden.
This seems to be about actors, not tools. If you have two actors from Russia, the first one can be cat blizzard and the other dog blizzard. The only thing encoded in the name is the group/subgroup.
Can it? The article says disabling telemetry had no effect. Maybe this has changed.
Singapore doubles property stamp duty for foreigners to 60%
The RFK Jr. Tapes
I think one needs to be clear about what type of content one is learning. Is it rote memorization like anatomy? Or is it more conceptual like system design?

It seems to me that you want to apply memorization techniques, or even high school paper writing techniques, to material highly conceptual in nature...

I don't think that's appropriate.
>By the MAXSAT problem, we are given a set V of m variables and a collection C of n clauses over V. We will seek a truth assignment to maximize the number of satisfied clauses. This problem is NP-hard even for its restricted version, the 2-MAXSAT problem by which every clause contains at most 2 literals. In this paper, we discuss a polynomial time algorithm to solve this problem. Its time complexity is bounded by O(n2m3). Hence, we provide a proof of P = NP.

Talk about burying the lede.
Does that also mean you can't land on Phobos (and stay on the "ground" untethered)?
Your message is you couldn't possible understand a public product strategy where they just released a press release explaining what they are trying to do?

Then you go on saying this is a common strategy and is well suited?

Do you understand the strategy or is your comment as worthless as you suggest in your first paragraph?

Understanding product strategies are part of many users day to day lives. Don't dismiss everyone and put them on your level of understanding.
That's not easy to answer. It's a question of:

- mutable data vs immutable data

- tables, row based vs tripple store, attribute based (EAV/RDF)

- table schemas vs attribute schemas

- relational connections vs graph connections

- SQL vs datalog

- nested queries vs flat queries and rules

- remote access vs client side index

etc.
Chang was being a Drow or Dark Elf. I think it would be offensive to High or Wood Elves for them to be grouped in with Drow. Check your human privilege.
That’s a small sacrifice to make.
This has a very preachy christian end-times/rapture cult smell to me, I thought I was imagining it at first, but then the video introduced 'the others'
I could believe that for immigrants who are relatively recent, or still have heavy ties to their original cultures.

However my experience has been that for those who are either natives to the US/West, or "gone native", there are disproportionally far more athiests in the tech industry than in the general population.

I would also say mentioning that you are Christian at a random tech company or tech conference is likely to be met with more wariness than mentioning you are Muslim/Hindu/Buddhist/other religion.
That's kind of what I meant... If a prompt specifies one "Indian", and one "Asian", that implies that the writer of the prompt doesn't think of Indian as Asian so probably from the US background.
They do eventually send helmeted foes that have to be creatively dispatched at the end of three and throughout 4.
The product team for the touchscreen control system scoffs at the engineering team’s concerns because “customers don’t care, they’re wowed by the touchscreen at the dealer lot.” It’s only after purchase that the regret sets in. Product teams know this and exploit it. The business side knows they’re selling a steaming pile to customers and don’t really care for engineering’s concerns. In most situations they’ll override these concerns forcefully. It’s a hard pill to swallow as an engineer in these companies.
"The Long Movie" decision is way, way different now that most people don't watch in a theater. At home you can pause it to go to the bathroom, check your social media, or even go to sleep.

Pop songs are longer, too. It used to be nothing over 3 minutes had a chance of getting airplay, but a few brave artists broke that barrier. Now everyone thinks they're David Byrne.

There's artistic expression made better by constraints and ruthless editing, and then there's mindless self-indulgence. Usually you're going to end up in one of those camps, unless you're a lot more talented than most of your audience thinks.
Key quote:

> Google Group Product Manager Christiaan Brand told BleepingComputer that due to the possibility of end-to-end encryption causing users to get locked out of their own data, they are rolling out this feature carefully in their products.

I know everyone's pro-E2EE here but this rationale should be taken seriously. I absolutely believe E2EE is an important option to have, but it also makes sense for it not to be the default.

If you keep all your passwords synced in Chrome, for instance, none of them are behind E2EE either. If you use Gmail, all your password resets will go to your Gmail which also isn't E2EE. If you use Google Voice, SMS login codes will go to that, also not E2EE. It's not like syncing Authenticator data is less secure than anything else, and Google accounts are already awfully secure generally.

For most people, adding a new password/key just for Authenticator is just one more thing to forget/lose, especially since it's something they'll probably only touch every couple years. I think it's good to add E2EE as an option, but only for the minority of users for whom the necessity of extra security outweighs the risk of losing access entirely.
> Munich's Augustiner Edelstoff is by far the best lager from bottle I ever tasted.

Yes. The first time I had Augustiner in Munich it was a revelation. Their beer garden in Munich is a magical place and the beer is amazing, served out of huge wooden casks. Edelstoff, Helles, etc. are available. For years I could never find it in the USA but now a couple places near me carry it and it's definitely a daily drinker. Simply the perfect lager.

Beer in Prague is up there too. Pilsner Urquell serviced out of casks is really great.
That's pretty much what the high table task force is wearing in the 3rd movie and the solution is to use bigger guns.
It's not their culture. The religion of the temple they came from hasn't existed for over a thousand years.
After watching Jerry Springer: The Opera a few years back I looked up some interviews with Springer; I was curious what he thought of it. He seemed like a pretty nice guy with some fairly down to earth views of his show and its participants.

The Have I Got News For You episode he did a bunch of years ago is pretty good as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luYG9uWnVDY
> In particular, "market worth" is simply the term for the value at which statistically two sides (each with their own subjective "worth" estimation) mutually consenting to the transaction find together.

This is an idealistic and simplistic understanding of how markets work. Information asymmetry, power asymmetry and other structural issues (not to mention deliberate malfeasance) can lead to two employees who could produce equivalent value to a company, receiving very different offers or salaries.

Contracting companies often serve a role in creating a structure that limits the negotiating power of employees. You argue for "mutually consenting" agreements on estimating value while ignoring that fact in this particular case a middleman has been put between the two parties to limit any potential mutual negotiation.
> Seriously you shouldn't be using USB sticks these days.

Why not? You say that like there's a problem beyond not caring if there's a more convenient option.
You build bike infrastructure in the places where you want more of them, not the places where you have more of them. Or as we say in the active transportation advocacy business, they didn’t count swimmers to decide to build the Golden Gate Bridge.
Temporality in general becomes super handy if you have something like reports that need to be consistent across time. Or if you want to ask questions about the past. Or questions about the future without affecting the present.
How much does Microsoft pay Apple for Outlook on iOS? This is a half serious question because I dont' pay for it out of the app store, so Apple is not getting a share there. Does Microsoft pay anything other than a developer license?

Parent comment is still valid. Microsoft dominates enterprise office tools across all platforms, including mobile.
When I took my Instructor Methodology class to become a Firefighting Instructor, I recall the gentleman who ran the class exposing me to the quote (which I've come to embrace wholeheartedly) that goes "You don't really understand something until you've taught it to somebody else."
This paper makes the case that we can get a big improvement in transformer performance on text by using smarter tokenizing. Byte pair encoding and similar techniques tend to find words and meaningful word fragments, but really words should be tokenized in a way that represents word morphology, so “magically” should be “magic”-“al”-“ly” or something like that. BPE can do that sometimes by accident but doing it consistently improves performance a lot.

One more small improvement that will boost future models.

Notably these guys have found semantic tokenization helps with embedding-based search

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BczDZ59seII
It's from the 16th century
> It frustrates me when Jewish people, especially very smart Jewish people like Freud, fail to understand that Judaism is more than just a religion, it's also an ethnic group.

This is because the waters have been, seemingly intentionally, muddied. I have seen criticism of Judaism, oddly enough even criticism by ethnic Jews, as being considered "anti-Semitic" and similar terms. Furthermore, the distinction in my experience seems to be rejected by many Jews who consider "being Jewish" as being essentially and intrinsically related to the Jewish religion enshrined in cultural practice.
Except that the term "processed foods" is a colloquial term that is ubiquitously used to describe only those foods that are industrially processed, thus often being stripped of many nutrients that you get from non-processed foods. Context is important.
Well, this is somewhat heartbreaking for me. I haven't read the paper, but the result sounds very plausible to me.

I am also an amateur working on P=NP. Last week, I think I also proved that P=NP, but with a different method, and was about to seek publication.

My result seems very similar to his, yet very different. I can prove that class of SAT which is intersection of 2SAT and XORSAT is NP-complete by reduction to 3-SAT. Then I follow the approach in Melville's Krom 1967 paper on 2-SAT, and prove that certain polynomial-sized logic (that corresponds to the intersection) is refutable complete. So you can essentially generate all formulas in that logic and if you don't find contradiction, the instance is satisfiable.

I have also did some preliminary testing of my method, and was able to factor small integers with it. However, there was a bug.

So, to sum up, I am not surprised that P=NP with a constructive and efficient algorithm. Take it for what you want. The future is gonna be interesting (crypto DOOMSDAY).
...Or worse, they start mining and monetizing your personal data under the pretense of a "free" service. There's no free lunch.
"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things." (Frank Herbert, Children of Dune)
This looks ideal. Thanks!
> The Best Apocalyptic Fiction, recommended by Elliot Ackerman

> 1. The King James Bible
I always thought the John Wick character represented death itself.
Of course you decide on a number first. Do you think the CEO has any idea what the names of all their peons are? Much less which ones would be reasonsble to get rid of.
Anything that involves hosting is going to involve a monthly fee if it is sustainable and non-toxic. It also seems that a no-code product ought to incorporate hosting in most cases because if you're trying to eliminate hassle and friction, hosting ought to be baked into the product.
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I'll add my 2c because I'm getting a little annoyed that folks who only have familiarity with Dropbox's consumer offering seem to think they have any idea what they're talking about.

In an enterprise, it can be extremely difficult to ensure your permissions are what you want them to be: that people can share things easily with the right groups, but also that sensitive data is not inadvertently exposed. Dropbox in particular excels at sharing documents with others outside your company, but that is also where there is obviously the most risk.

Currently, I find Dropbox's enterprise permissions management tools pretty difficult to use. There are loads of options and it's too easy to get something "wrong" if you inadvertently miss checking the right checkbox. It's not hard for me to see how AI tools could help improve this situation, and especially to provide additional capabilities in the DLP (data loss prevention) space that would make it easier to detect misconfigured access.
The stuff on Amazon is the stuff from Alibaba.

The stuff in Target, Walmart, etc., is not. (And specifically, I mean the stuff physically sold in retail stores.) That is because retail stores are held to product liability laws in a different way than Amazon is (was? depends on the outcome of several pending product liability lawsuits against Amazon).
Try "sunrise" instead.
My understanding is they encrypt your database with a password before syncing to the cloud. They don't sync the password and there's no recovery.
I think this is the entire problem: some people are talking like there’s an angry censorship mob going around demanding changes but in all of cases which have come up recently it seems to be more along the lines of large risk-averse companies trying to market to younger people or, at least in the Dahl books, not have something blow up their Netflix adaptation.

It seems like the best angle for this would be copyright reform and simply moving on to fresh IP so people aren’t worried about how young people will feel their grandparents’ world.
I’m not convinced that outsourcing it to private enterprise is bad. Outsourcing it overseas, that’s a really big issue.
I hope this isn't too simplistic but it might help to think about what GPUs were originally designed for - banging out arrays of coloured dots at ridiculous speeds. Crudely (caveat: from my layman's understanding), when rendering graphics, a shader is a function whose input is a set of parameters that help identify where the pixel lies within its source triangle, and whose output is the appropriate colour for that pixel. A simple example might be to set the three vertices of a triangle respectively to red, green, and blue, and then interpolate the colour between those three points. When rendering the triangle, the shader is executed once for each pixel within it, and since each pixel's colour is independent of its neighbours', the problem is 'embarrassingly parallel' and can therefore be accelerated by running the same shader across multiple execution units varying only the input parameters.

Since computer graphics calculations are math-heavy, GPU cores are as you know excellent numerical processors, and therefore also great for other embarrassingly parallel maths problems; the challenge is that you have to think in broadly the same way as for graphical workloads about how to break up and execute the problem.
Love that video! Linked to it in the footnotes because it partially inspired the post.
I figured it was called a moonlet because it didn’t have enough innate gravity to form a sphere shape. The pictures from the article have it looking quite bumpy.
The problem with this argument is that there are many contradicting sample points. Like chrome.

On one hand, Google created the JS-Engine V8 which finally made the web fast. But on the other hand, did nothing to fix the RAM issues that came with that until recent years.

So I see it as "Let's do performance only when it's an advantage for us". Which all of the OP examples falls to. OP want to conclude from that that performance=advantage so everyone need to work on it all the time (because who will ignore advantages?), but all we see is if(performance=advantage){refactor}. Which does not support his conclusion.

Example cases are startups, monopoles, high cost (like refactoring bank code) etc. which have other silos of advantage.
Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat – and Female?
Good question! I don't have any personal experience in that regard. I would probably have paid up for enterprise support (or bought the entire company ;))
They do. John has to get creative to get those guys.
While these shows in the 90s were the beginning of the scripted reality TV genre, these talk shows were an interesting blend of scripted situations concocted by the producers and real world situations that were greatly exaggerated for drama purposes. People were encouraged to call in with their situations (whether they were real or not on your end was up to you) and producers would work with you to get the best angle for maximum drama.
The homelessness issue is mostly people with severe substance abuse problems, and concurrently brain-damage/mental-illness, roaming the streets, making people feel uneasy.
That is terribly political and ignorant. San Francisco has a great deal of commercial space that has been converted to either pure residential or live/work. One potentially interesting recent example is the tower on Van Ness which was empty and abandoned for many years. That enabled it to be sold at an extremely low price which still did not make the renovations pencil out for anything except high end luxury apartments. Commercial to residential conversions tend to be expensive and complex and political convenience is not much help for that.
Some of us like those cities and don't want to see them die? That's a huge blow to the lives of millions of Americans.
>However, commuter rail has recovered less than other modes, so if some of those people are now driving to their office instead, then they will be making traffic worse

There's probably some of that. At one point I took commuter rail after traffic seemed as bad as ever and it was pretty empty. But last time I took commuter rail in during December, it was back to standing room only again from about Waltham. (That said, I think the schedule is still reduced relative to pre-pandemic which both skews the perception of how many people are taking the train and makes the train a less attractive option.)

I'm honestly not sure though how to square the number of cars apparently on the road at rush hour with reduced office occupancy. Some of it is probably day sensitivity (more people commuting mid-week than Monday/Friday) given that occupancy--depending on how it's measured--than actual office vacancy which is high but at 18% not that high.
Royal Ordnance was privatized in 1987, most of the factories have closed now.

The UK had problems sourcing enough ammunition for Iraq and Afghanistan.
BlueHat IL 2023: Microsoft rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
> I used to be a web dev, and got tired of what you’re describing- things like the CRUD app of the week in the JS framework of the year… it’s all problems that have already been solved. Meanwhile I find data engineering and data science to be actually-interesting.

Yep I asked the question as I'm in the same boat. The churn is unpleasant and the work isn't particularly exciting in my experience.
Great! The Board of Supervisors will get right on that! /s
Gough Island: Worker sought for one of remotest places
The fact that you found this out while drunk at a party doesn’t really do CalTech any favors.

Again I’m sure there is value to be had at many universities, I just don’t believe most students care anymore.
He's got one of the best editors in the business https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Schoonmaker
Seattelite here.

We get that rain too periodically.

Sesttelites complain about rain because we regularly experience 100+ days of rain.

Seattle rain is not not a storm, it's a marathon.
Good thing John Wick isn't scifi then. It'd be like complaining that the Predator has elements that aren't realistic when it comes to physics: it's true, but it's not exactly the point of the movie to make you think deeply about physics, is it ?