skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hammurabi was just an example, describing global attitudes vs children globally across all of written history is a monumental tasks so let’s just focus on infanticide as a proxy for how much society actually protects kids. Genocide and slavery show a disregard for some children rather than all children. But be be warned it’s not pretty and western civilization pre christianity defiantly practiced it.

If you go to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide

“Most Stone Age human societies routinely practiced infanticide, and estimates of children killed by infanticide in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras vary from 15 to 50 percent.”

“Infanticide became forbidden in Europe and the Near East during the 1st millennium.” Except if you dig into the details those bans where very local, it continues:

“Christianity forbade infanticide from its earliest times, which led Constantine the Great and Valentinian I to ban infanticide across the Roman Empire in the 4th century. Yet, infanticide was not unacceptable in some wars and infanticide in Europe reached its peak during World War II (1939-45), during the Holocaust and the T4 Program.[2] The practice ceased in Arabia in the 7th century after the founding of Islam, since the Quran prohibits infanticide. Infanticide of male babies had become uncommon in China by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), whereas infanticide of female babies became more common during the One-Child Policy era (1979–2015). During the period of Company rule in India, the East India Company attempted to eliminate infanticide but were only partially successful, and female infanticide in some parts of India still continues. Infanticide is now very rare in industrialised countries but may persist elsewhere.”

Thus as far as we can tell it was common globally from the Stone Age, through Bronze Age up until quite recently. Also of note, those bans wouldn’t necessarily be reflected as a change in all cultures in that area only the options of those running the country.
That's like IBM doing research, or "thought leadership" from consulting companies. At the end of the day, it's sales / marketing content. It's a spectrum, and some of it is obviously high quality, bit a major aim is to draw in customers as opposed to directly supporting products or customer engagements.

On the plus side, doing research does advance the state of the art, so it's one of the most productive marketing activities.
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." -- Doug Linder
VS Codium and other forks don't (maybe can't) use the official VSCode extension market. Because a lot of goodness, like the ability to refactor and debug PHP, is coming from the extensions and the extension ecosystem, it can be a big deal.
> But there will never be any solidarity between say US and African workers

You'd be surprised - dock workers across the Western World started to refuse to offload Russia-originated cargo after they invaded Ukraine. Cross-national action is difficult, but not impossible.

Obviously this is a different situation, but it shows cooperation at that scale can happen.
This is an expected normalization of html email and the mostly-client-side-apps; Outlook (the desktop app) already renders the html email in a MS rendering engine (Edge? I don't know).

If the email has a button (or a link) - i think it makes sense that the click event shows up "in" the mail client.

I hate html email - but the last 20 years have been all about siloing hypertext apps in email systems - proprietary protocols (exchange, Gmail web - with IMAP/SMTP/pop3 as secondary citizens).

This just a natural continuation.

If you want to escape use a real MUA - and maybe a real mail provider.

Unfortunately if you want groupware - there's no proper open solution (but props to Fastmail for at least trying - but until there are good independent desktop/mobile/console apps with JMAP support - and the equivalent for shared booking and calendar) - it's pretty much either proprietary crapware, or open solutions without feature parity.
Rest of the world has dollars lying around. Suddenly, several of their trading partners stop taking those dollars, throwing supply/demand for dollars out of whack. Execs would be foolish (and in breach of fiduciary duty) to not raise prices in such a scenario. After 78 years of pushing everyone around, it was bound to happen. Maybe transition from bully to neighbor, other countries will re-dollarize (it was a pain for them to de-dollarize in the first place), and things will come back into balance?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-18/de-dollar...
I'm not sure about Watson's "expensive disaster", because all the public knows is "that charming supercomputer that starred on Jeopardy! and beat the pants off all other human contestants". That was a massive, enormous PR win for IBM and AI across the board. Nobody in the general public will forget that, and that will give a noticeable boost to any AI remotely like Watson, science be damned.
It’s terrible and math and logic, but ChatGPT is amazing at concepts—that’s why it is so powerful.

It doesn’t work programmatically—that’s why it fails at logic. But it can reason inductively very very well. Do you have an example besides logic/math where it doesn’t understand simple concepts?
On Android I can install Firefox and have all browser activities forwarded there, even from GMail, and even for opening YouTube links.
Outlook renders the HTML in word. (It's a custom rendering engine)
Although there's just about time to make the middle of the message "fox".
Yes it's pseudoscience at least until someone comes up with a good metric to benchmark the quality of these LLMs. And then don't make the metric the target.
I can't say I personally like the girth of binders either. Perhaps some new future tech will make them thinner?

But the ability to swap out pages for correction or archiving, swapping in printed pages, and the ability to use accessories like card sleeves makes the binders win out for me, other than maybe if I was going to start paper journalling again.
They surely do, one of the reasons why Windows Phone failed to gain adoption was how Google blocked access to their apps from Windows Phone.
it's mostly peaceful but not fiery
The PWA version of Teams also doesn't open links in the default browser. Very annoying having to right click, copy, right click, paste and go for every single one of them.
Public Report – Kubernetes 1.24 Security Audit
> On x86, and I think every architecture, when you write to a memory mapping that is not already backed by a writable page, the kernel is notified that user code is trying to write. And the kernel needs to fill in the contents of the page, which requires a read if the page isn’t already loaded.

This is very true. Perhaps there wasn't enough context to what the article is describing. The read problem started to occur on database that is subject to constant write workload. Data is flowing in all the time at variable rate. Typically blocks are "hot" and being filled in fully within seconds if not millis.

Zeroing the file is an option to try. QuestDB allocates disk with `posix_fallocate()`, which doesn't have the required flags. We would need to explore `fallocate()`. Thanks.
I repeatedly see features being placed into a "phase 2" that appears approx 90% into a project as the deadline looms.

Half of those features eventually get implemented, the rest it’s realised are not needed at all.
Yea, I agree with you on this. It just sucks when the options available involve trying to guess which candidates are the 'lesser evil' rather than the 'greater good'.

But to dig down into the point, if it is to avoid 'bad' people, then the reasoning is questionable as far as the monarchy go. They have very limited powers as things stand and their economic impact from things like tourism has been greater than the cost of maintaining them. I doubt very much anyone will want to visit the UK to see an elected monarch.
The point of zk proofs is that you don't have to trust. But you can verify. Without having to rerun the computation yourself, simply verifying the proof which is much cheaper computationally.
Happily, licensing.
buy android and be free.

https://store.google.com/config/pixel_7_pro?selections=eyJkO...
Yet whenever I've seen this attempted in practice it's failed miserably. It sounded good when I first heard it, but now I treat it as cargo cult nonsense. Maybe it works but nobody does it right?

A point is a different size for everyone, but a day is a universal (ok technically global) unit.

We deal in time all the time, we know how long an hour is, a day, a week. We can remember "I did something like this before, it took me 2 weeks", not "it took me 13 points".

No manager can predictably translate story points into days, which they need in order to pitch to customers and manage their budgets.

The first thing I ask when I have to estimate in SP is "how many hours is 1SP?" and after a few minutes of the usual back-and-forth, whoever has to actually use these damn estimates always says something like "I treat 1SP as half a day". Bingo, now I can give you a number you can use.
In other news (https://archive.ph/WWKQ3):

> “I would advocate developing these types of AGI technologies in a cautious manner using the scientific method, where you try and do very careful controlled experiments to understand what the underlying system does,” Mr. Hassabis said.

Myabe that's why Google was (seemingly) left in the dust?
It's true that if all the people in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and the western half of Minnesota were packed into a tiny space with the density of NYC all of the land they abandoned would be better off, but the land they were shoved into would be much much worse off for it.

Like I said: the greater the number of people in a given area the worse it will be for that environment.

We need to find a better balance between stacking people on top of each other and destroying the ecosystem in the places where we live without any thought to biocapacity or local wildlife, and spreading out so far that it's impractical and inefficient to deliver or provide the goods and services humans want.

Since every human takes a massive toll on the local ecosystem, spreading that impact out more than we do in highly packed cities would be better for the environment and also better for humans who also suffer under those types of conditions. As I said, I don't think I've seen that balance hit quite right just yet, but it's something we're going to have to start thinking about more carefully as resources like drinkable water grow scarce, climate refugees from around the world are taken in, people along the costs are forced inland or to higher ground, and much of the western US succumbs to desertification and high temperatures that threaten to make large population centers unsustainable.

The US is likely going to get a lot more crowed in the future. We'll need to find a better way than absolutely trashing the land we settle on and suffering all the effects that go with that.
That's one way to make me blush while at work haha
One hopes that this article and the data behind it will be used in the ludicrous “negotiations” over the fake debt ceiling.
The Yuan becoming the world reserve currency would mean the Yuan had significant value outside of China... which would mean Chinese citizens could leave the country with their wealth, and China doesn't want that. What they want is the hurt the US, so propaganda that scares Americans and even causes financial havoc is valuable.
.NET events, P/Invoke and Forms were born as J++ events, J/Direct and WFC.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#The_WFC
> If Russia had invaded Belarus or Tajikistan instead of Ukraine, I doubt there would have been any real consequences.

You don't need to speculate. There were no real consequences when Russia invaded Georgia, and that's even a democracy, although unfortunately too small to be relevant.
Nicky Case has been doing these interactive experiences for quite a while, I love every single one of them
Quantum doomsday planning (1/2): Risk assessment and quantum attacks
The bing search bar is from an Edge update via windows updates as I understand.

Still unjustifiable, along with the mess they made of changing default apps/browsers in Win 11.
Unfortunately this argument, while imho entirely valid and also frequently seen in discussion, is unable to stop the massive train that has been set in motion.

There are various types of retorts: i) the brain is also doing gradient descent; ii) what the brain does does not matter (if you can fake intelligence you have intellegence) iii) the pace is now so fast that has not happened in decades will happen in the next five years etc.

None of them is remotely convincing. I would really start getting worried if indeed some of the AI fanboys had a convincing argument. But we are where we are.

Somehow this whole episode will be just another turn of the screw in adopting algorithms in societal information processing. This in itself is fascinating and dangerous enough.
https://archive.ph/aEJxE
The more childish MSFT plays, the more I love remembering ditching almost anything from Microsoft and never recommending anything Microsoft (other than Vscode) to anyone ever again.

The more they act bizzare like this, the more they deserve to lose it all.
Prepared food is really unconsolidated like bulk food unless you live in a total roadside mall hellscape. There seems to be agreements on maintaining irrational pricing where there is price differentiation. I.e. you will pay more for cheaper to make vegan food because a vegan can't eat a cheap burger. IMO this is more distributed in nature like landlords sharing a price fixing app.
> There is an option to turn off this policy to use your default browser.

They should add a new option to ignore this one that is also turned on by default. Default overrides all the way down.
In my experience, in any company larger than 500 people at least, the IT admin has little say in the matter. These sorts of decisions are taken higher up, and the admin just has to live with it.
On the middle one they only check if you go backwards from the position of the key (I got it to work clockwise). If you continue on the intended path and then go back the clock won't go faster. You have to be fast though.
Whatever WinDev/DevDiv earns in developer points, marketing and sales kill it.
Both monopolies and duopolies are unhealthy, the only reason they're acting better in Europe because, as you said, they are being forced to.
Probably the best summary of what quantum computers are, what types of problems can benefit from quantum speedup, and the consequences for todays crypto algorithms and protocols that I've read.
The definition of M1 and M2 money was changed in May 2020, conveniently right as the government started printing money for their pandemic response.
"just" is doing some Superman level heavy lifting there.

FBI won't imprison a million people in re-education camps.
> As long as they fully pay taxes

Yeah about that, you may want to look into the Duchy of Lancaster. A huge holding whose owner (aka the sovereign) only pays income tax because they want to, and which has not been subject to inheritance tax.

https://news.sky.com/story/why-king-charles-wont-have-to-pay...
> and no company wants to get an edge over its competitors by undercutting on price despite having record margins?

They have record profits, why disrupt a winning formula?
Humans are confidently wrong about all kinds of things all the time. We don't call it hallucination other than for very specific, limited subsets. We call each other names over it, call it mistakes, stupidity, or lies. In fact, we structure large parts of society around it (the presence of multiple contradictory world religions means the majority of the worlds population goes through life being confidently wrong). It's just being confidently wrong about some subjects is more socially acceptable than others.

ChatGPT clearly needs reinforcement to know its limits the way humans are constantly reinforced from childhood that making confident claims about things we don't actually know well is often going to have negative consequences, but until we've seen the result of doing that, I don't think we have any foundation to say anything about whether ChatGPT's current willingness to make up answers means it's level of understanding is in any way fundamentally different from that of humans or not.
addiction level over 9000
How do we know those two are different?
> Were they ever different tho?

According to many people on HN, they changed completely, and they have nothing to do with the old epoch of Ballmer and Gates. Yet, I was never convinced by the "but they embrace open source now" argument:

* their financing of SCO in the "Linux is illegal" ridiculous attempt to discredit their competition that took over a decade

* the contempt for their users in various ways, from gray patterns with local vs MS accounts to ads in the start menu and other spyware with settings that reset after random upgrades to "defaults" convenient only for MS

* if they profess so much love for Linux and spend so much on kernel development (actually, that's mostly for Hyper-V etc.), why they don't do one simple thing and recognize Linux as a Desktop OS that you can install along Windows? Instead, in 2023 you have to still install Windows first to avoid problems. Linux doesn't have this problem and will recognize an existing Windows installation and will even add it to its boot menu.

Plus one million other tricks they played that shows the changes are just superficial.

*
This. It surprises me every time when battery or any "green" technology is discussed here and 90% of Americans keep parroting Trump's talking points. For example one of the comments above is talking about how EVs are just "a rich boy's toy".
Why is this so funny, I watched the video like ten times and it is still kinda funny yet so weird to me. But I think this still a giant leap forward.
Circles don't have volumes?
I hate Microsoft though I highly doubt that the Bing search bar came from a Vscode installation.

Are you sure it is the case?
Verge seems to be only one covering this. Any sysadmins here with 1st hand experience with the change?
Do you mean aesthetics of programming style and software design (elegance & systematicity etc.)? or programming for artistic purposes (e.g. demoscene)?
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> To help increase productivity while working online, web links from Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts and Microsoft (MSA) accounts in the Outlook for Windows app will open in Microsoft Edge in a single view showing the opened link side-by-side with the email it came from.

What is single view? Does anyone have a screenshot or a screencast of that UX in action?
No, because you would still need to pay your land value tax.

The lower mortgage payments on the cheaper property would be offset by higher tax payments.
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Umm, MS Teams on Adroid forced me to install Edge to open links. Even the copy action pushes "haha, we wont give away this link you moron" (in corp speak) to the clipboard.
Amnesty International seems to morphing from a well respected NGO into a partisan political movement https://www.politico.eu/article/amnesty-ukraine-report-wrong...
Favorite, because it is hilariously wrong?

Functioning code and tools are available for almost all of the relevant AI and ML work in academic publications.

Yes, it took a big leak from Meta for a certain type of model, but the techniques to use LLMs and other transformer based tools are not vaporware. Most have code repositories and functioning open-source implementations.

We can certainly be critical of the datasets used for testing but we can’t accuse people of selling snake oil when so many of us are implementing and gaining value from the techniques described in these academic publications.
Can we use React with JSX in browser without any compiler using this? I'm sure people have tried it but I can't find it. I just want an `index.html` file that I can write React code in it and play around with things...
This is an expected normalization of html email

I have two Macs running Microsoft Outlook. One is running a version several years behind the current one.

The old machine can send e-mail as plain text. The one running the current Microsoft Outlook doesn't have that option, or a way to enable it that I've been able to find.
The elephant in the room here is, of course, that often accurate estimates are unwanted. If you tell the truth about how long something will take, maybe your customer will go with someone else. Maybe the CTO will decide to outsource instead of giving the work to your team. You know those other guys are probably as good at estimation as you are, they're just deliberately going low so you have to too. (And thus, everybody now expects IT projects to overrun!)

Other than that I agree with most of the linked article, I get very good results by breaking tasks down into smaller (<1 week) jobs and getting a best and worse case estimate for each. Sum both columns, multiply both by some number for unknown unknowns (usually 1.5, 2 when there are bad vibes) and you have a realistic minimum time and a worst case. If the max is >2X the min (it will be to begin with!), get more information to narrow the range, repeat until it's not outrageous.
> the assumed long-term consequences [...] doesn't happen.

It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end. I would hesitate before saying anything categorical.
I'm saying China wants to rule its sphere of influence.
to quote myself, "All too often journals, galleries, and museums are becoming not
disseminators of knowledge—as their lofty mission statements
suggest—but censors of knowledge, __because censoring is the one thing
they do better than the Internet does__."
It has already been done: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221

However, it seems that RLHF considerably reduces the model's calibration, so perhaps the method above won't be applicable to ChatGPT and similar.
And Bear Sterns?
> They publish papers with grand claims but provide no access to any of the data or code used in the research.

A common pattern around ai companies. To me it appears that a genuinely interesting technology has been hijacked by marketing and fud.