skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically there are much better ways to speed up the flight experience without actually making planes fly any faster. To name a few:

- Accessible, high speed rail connections to the airport

- Better throughput with security theater

- Faster boarding methods to prioritize speed (back rows first)

- Faster luggage claim process

and so on. There's a reason why high speed rail is competitive with flights below a fairly long distance. Most people aren't flying this far at current prices, which does not even reflect the full cost of carbon emissions. Flying faster is inevitably less efficient, and when the full cost of energy is reflected on the price tag, this is only going to be less appealing.
Good thing they just got Billions from Microsoft to deal with growing pains like this.
Reports of missing Messenger media files in the Philippines
Just looked, and I'm guessing this is an EU thing? No option for US in dropdown.
> PKD is not interested in what it means to be human. He is interested in "what does it mean for a human to decide that another person is not a human?".

This is why Blade Runner is my favourite movie. This one question is so interesting to consider and creates a great setting for a scifi story.

It will be relevant in the future with augmentation and AI.
I love this project. But what they need before I'd use it in prod is, the equivalent of an EXPLAIN command.

It's a pretty common problem for a developer to have: "this query looks like it should be fast, but actually it's slow. What's the DB doing?"

I thought I saw somewhere that EXPLAIN was coming in EdgeDB 3.0(?)
The system has been designed by the LLM, as opposed to interact with the LLM.
I always question startups like this where multiple breakthroughs are required. In this case it's hypersonic aircraft AND rotating detonation engines. For a 20 percent fuel savings they should be able to prove the aircraft concept independently. Either that or a fully usable RDE is a product in itself. Making the company success dependent on both seems a mistake to me.
I'm sorry it sounds antagonistic, but the negativity and "it's too late and we're all going to die no matter what we do" nihilism, is having the effect of sensationalizing the issue in ways that have been incredibly counterproductive.

Here's what happened the last time technology was going to destroy us all:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a11217/what-stephen...

"The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100 [billion] gigaelectronvolts (GeV). This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn't see it coming." —Stephen Hawking

I'm not trying to make fun of Eliezer and co., but we have to have some proper perspective. We don't do that very well these days, because end-of-the-world scenarios are good for clicks.
Assuming airplane takeoff 5m/s² (equivalent of 0-60 in 5 seconds) you'll reach "Mach 9" or 3000m/s in 10 minutes, covering the first 900km. You'd cover then next

Assuming 25 minutes to slow down at 2m/s² covering another 2,250km and that's 35 minutes for takeoff/landing and 42 minutes at cruise to do the 1100km.
Call me when they have them driving around Syracuse, NY. In winter.
On the floor, with a majority present.
That is ironic. Here [1] is an alternate link.

[1] - https://archive.is/20230504130057/https://techfreedom.org/ea...
A rational person could interpret these spokesperson replies as being "furious" (but I agree that the headline is hyperbole)

> A Meta spokesperson told Ars that the FTC's proposed changes are "a political stunt," saying that the FTC gave Meta "no opportunity to discuss this new, totally unprecedented theory." Meta considers the FTC's proposed changes to the privacy order "a new low."
StarCoder open-access model for code generation
ServiceNow and Hugging Face release StarCoder, one of the world’s most responsibly developed and strongest-performing open-access large language model for code generation
Candiru
I think you’re first instinct is correct given libraries like Linq and GQL in Groovy. The relational algebra is decidedly different versus say map, filter and reduce.
It's not interesting if you are at all familiar with Mormons. The problem is people are only familiar with us from Under The Banner of Heaven saying we're all violent extremists or countless reality TV shows painting us all as polygamist.
But did you think of the children though?
Does the US law have anything that guarantees you to have your data deleted from platforms? I don't recall that existing, so makes sense OpenAI does the bare minimum to be compliant in the markets they're active. Just like most companies.
Well, a bit arbitrary, especially the choice of Self as the "ur-language" of object oriented programming.
Oh come on, pure K&R-C is a pain to read and write even for old-school C enthusiasts, and C99 brought some really nice improvements (like compound literals and designated initialization) while not overloading the language with bells and whistles, it's mostly just logical extensions of existing syntax that should have worked to begin with.

And C-isms like '= { 0 };' instead of '= { };' never really made a lot of sense.
What's wrong with constexpr?
Important points. I aim for version control for data repositories with HDD efficiency, visualization of diffs for collaboration, and API accessibility of individual datasets from multiple identifiable versions from git. Datasets can then be streamed into a database individually. Migrating by processing diffs from commits, a future possibility. Fast direct database-like repository access with in-situ editing is not my initial goal, rather a clonable Git repository that is separate from the database working areas, can be connected to MySQL using i/o pipelines, and can easily export datasets versions as labeled snapshots.

On diffs: diffing workload is lazy and needed just once upon requesting a commit for a repo, the bidirectional diff results (incl. index and columns changes) - not the newly changed files - are then committed as csv or pointer objects, git natively supports seeing such objects as new. I had to write an engine to rebuild and serve snapshots from git history, now on localhost with posting to S3, later also in the cloud. Diffing a dataset (csv, Excel, SQL) against the current checked out version, which now resides in a gitignored "datasets" folder in the working directory, now takes ~20 seconds on a 1 GB CSV dataset with 10M rows. Diffing is not always needed, can be bypassed with incremental workflows (new data daily), committing just the diff. I can handle repos of 10s of GBs, with individual datasets of GBs each. Where to put the compute workload of diffing, checking out, and building snapshots is under careful consideration.

Merge will be assisted, with files in S3 or without: 3-way comparing commits boils down to reusing features from the snapshot rebuild engine, starting from the common ancestor and using only the diffs, and handling conflicts. Merging small changes on large datasets involves dealing with the small changes only. Data and diffs can come from S3 if not already on localhost, to merge data, not pointers. Visually presenting diffs in non-adjacent commits requires UI, current git tools would not interpret history correctly.
If you are in the EU, in most countries there are interoperability exceptions for this purpose which apply here since you are using the games in another system.
Protected spaces would be over-run without permits and enforcement of said permits. These are fragile places. The dystopia would be a graffiti-laden, human excrement covered Wave with garbage laying everywhere and tourists piling on top of each other.
All of that might not be enough. Renters might still find they are in a weak position to negotiate a contract details like that, if they even comprehend the full meaning and consequences. Landlords will figure out the "Legitimate use" legalese and paste it in each contract, and it is in the nature of data collection that mose abuse goes unnoticed.

Casual surveillance and the landlord-renter power dynamic are things that should be established at the society-level.
Adopting Apache Arrow for ELT at Cloudquery
> and they'll bank on you not figuring out that they're doing it anyways

I mean, if this is the kind of apartment that requires an app, and showing your face at the door, to enter, you'd figure it out
It is great, but, having read it before I saw 2049, I found references to it in the film pretentious. The article says that '"Pale Fire", like BR2049, is a story about a man who comes to the false conclusion that he is the protagonist of someone else's story.' This isn't what it's about and the interpretation in the film is one you could get from reading the first few lines of the poem the book contains but no other material.
The Wright Brothers' first flight lasted 12 seconds.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/115-years-ago-wright-brothers-m...
Yes this feels analogous to ensembling which can help measure variance, also
They could be soft by then. They should also have a comparable weight because you don't want to be on the ground under by a soft 200 kg man or robot or whatever.

However they'll win easily if they are made to be stronger and / or faster.

Strength: hard for humans to push them around and to steal the ball from and easy for them to do it to humans.

Fast: they'll just throw the ball past the defenders and run, like boys vs children. No need to use any soccer skill.
> Only sized primitive types (u8/s8...u64/s64, f32/f64);

C's success came from portability, so that would have killed it. Certainly you need fixed-size types occasionally to match externally-defined structures (hardware, protocols) but if you write u8 loop counters and u32 accumulators you're screwed on a DSP with only u24.

> That said, if risc-v is successful, many components will be written directly in assembly

There are already too many RISC-V extensions for code to be portable between different RISC-V chips without using a higher-level language.
>"at the expense of compile speed and debug-ability"

To me reduced "debug-ability" is one of the primary reasons to ignore any language however "beautiful" it is
Don't allow them to vote on anything they cant pass a basic comprehension test on.
>How can a corporation be furious? After reading the article, they don't say anything about the company or people inside the company being furious. The closest thing I could find is that a Meta spokesperson said they plan to fight it vigorously and expect to win.

To be fair, the spokesperson's tone, and the insistence that they'll be fighting, does make them sound pretty pissed off.
That's their view on it, and i'm glad we agree that it's not the right one and is unconstitutional. If you actually look at gun related homicide statistics, you'll find that certain demographics are that of European levels, while others are that of third world. There's something called availability bias that people can have, and I think you'll find at a NRA convention, or in most of the country, with regular demographics, you are just as likely to be murdered with a weapon as you are in Europe.
> (aka no stipulation saying you can't rent without accepting)

Is this specifically for landlords, or are companies forced to serve you even if you reject data collection?

Also, will this actually be enforced in practice? Websites with n > 1 million users are one thing, but landlords / apartment management companies with a few hundred units are going to be tough to go after one by one.
Yeah, there are a relative handful of places in the US/North America that, during remotely popular times, access has to be rationed for good reasons. The Enchantments are definitely one of those--I'm resigned to never be organized/lucky enough to go there (and that's not even a national park). And once you're going to ration, it's just a question of how: very high fees, lottery for applications within some window, first-come first-served x days in advance, queue at the ranger office on the morning of and hope you get lucky or have to go somewhere else...

Excessive fees going to a for-profit company is a separate matter but doesn't change the fact that, for any reasonable fee structure, way more people want to camp/stay/hike in certain places than those places can reasonably support.

Different approaches just have different drawbacks. In general, I'd probably disfavor technological sniping approaches for most sites in this day and age in favor of a lottery with a wider window. (And for most public properties just increasing pricing isn't really the right answer.)
This is already the case in California. Tapering with the ECU (in a detectable way), will cause your car to flunk the smog exam, which, unrectified, makes it illegal to drive your car.
The most cost effective bug bounty program. “Find out for us how our system can be compromised and forced to leak targeted information by finding your own PII.”
Please read my argument: I'm not against the use of polynomials. I'm against using "real" numbers.

The "real" numbers taught in high-school or in college are, well, basically, a thinly veiled lie. They "work well" for students who substitute memorizing the page number of a proof of a theorem for actual understanding of a theorem, but they don't work well for mathematicians who would actually want a good theory justifying their existence.

Needless to say that nothing in computers work as a "real" number. Knowing this is important to understand that you work with, as you called them "approximations" and that those "approximations" will have pathological cases where the distinction will bite you.

Finally, it's completely unnecessary for the purpose the author is using them for to have "real" numbers. It works perfectly fine with a much simpler and straight-forward concept of rationals, which doesn't require any pretension and wink-wink fingers crossed explanations.

I specifically pointed this out because I remember how in my days of being a CS student the boneheaded practicum material made my blood boil because a professor would write nonsense like "let A[j] be an array of real numbers" in a... C program! And the same boneheaded professor, when told to correct that to "floating point" or "rational" would spit some more nonsense about "real" numbers.
A doorman helps keep randos who intend to steal packages, jiggle door handles to check if any apartments are unlocked, or urinate and puke in the elevator from tailgating their way into the building.
> Don't you want software upgrades?

Yes, but that doesn't require I give up freedom or control. The number of years a vendor provides upgrades adds value to the product (i.e. long term commitment or not). The cost of a car is so ridiculous any more that expecting a lifetime of software updates is probably a rational demand from a consumer.

> but a lot if for safety reasons

Yes, so? I wrote software for vascular ultrasound devices in the 80s. Those could do really bad things to humans. Upgrades were provided for free and accounted for in the price of the product because... SAFETY IS NOT OPTIONAL and should never be relegated to a subscription where if you stop paying YOU ARE UNSAFE.
> python's syntax is whitespace-sensitive and doesn't have curly braces around blocks

That's a good thing.
I am very, very happy the FTC has tools to ensure fair business competition and the protection of US consumers. It has been woefully absent from regulating data monetization for three decades to the point that any regulation seems like deploying extreme powers to the data-addicted.
You end up having to turn a lot of C++ features off in order to get the experience you want in certain environments. In an application running on a modern Windows/Linux/Mac system, it’s no big deal to use those features.

Some platforms also just don’t have C++ compilers. Yes, they still exist. You buy some microcontroller, download an IDE from the manufacturer's web site, and you get some version of C with a couple extensions to it. And then there are all the random incompatibilities between C and C++, where C code doesn’t compile as C++, or gives you a different result.
So if the big trick is using optional strong typing, couldn't CPython just do the same? And syntax for type hints is stable enough now, that there would be only little changes necessary on the front. It will likely not give the same level of speedup as Mojos new runtime delivers, but could there be at least some significant boost possible which would make in impact?
> > Absolutely nothing prevents someone from creating their own bespoke backup/restore process in the meantime, which could very well get adopted by others.

How would they? None of the software involved here is Open Source, I can't open a pull request for any of this. And the backup/restore isn't going to work with any of the major players.

It's kind of striking that there literally isn't an Open Source provider supported on any of the major platforms. Let's say you build an Open Source one for Linux. Is it usable with Chrome? No, Google has no plans to support that. Does Mozilla have a working implementation? Also no.

Is that the FIDO Alliance's problem? Sort of? I mean, they want me to believe this is an Open standard. How many "Open" standards have zero officially sanctioned Open implementations of the standard?

> It depends on the group, but proposed standards for interoperability typically need at least two implementations - two parties have to commit to actually supporting the result. Actual standards need to show way more.

The FIDO Alliance has more than two members. Microsoft/Apple/Google are already in talks about how to build out passkeys. And they're the players that really matter here. Whatever standard they come up with (or decide not to come up with) is going to dictate how the rest of the ecosystem moves.

But again, they're the companies trying to tell me this is an Open replacement for passwords. I feel like it's kind of on them and their alliance to prove it.
As if the landlords didn't already know their renters were in minority groups.

Your fear is no different than if the landlord had surveillance cameras in public areas of the property, recording 24/7... which they absolutely should anyway.
The current route takes it through the Arctic rather than what you may expect looking at a flat map. While it does go over land it wouldn't be hard to avoid populated areas, since there isn't many people in Greenland or the Arctic parts of Alaska.
I doubt we disagree on that all that much, but I think we probably take very different second-order interpretations. People are agents of joy and experience and change. Life is a quest to find interest, fulfillment, and meaning, and we all end up valuing different things.

It's a quest pretty much everyone struggles with. And it's one that's made harder by everything getting so big and mechanization taking away so much. But there's no panacea in returning to an agrarian, village life as you seem to suggest.

Many of us enjoy the vibrancy of the larger world, and enjoy the bigger things we are able to accomplish by educating ourselves (and our children) deeply, and also enjoy our deeper engagement in this larger complicated world. Why should we not listen to educational research (other than we have precious little of it to listen to)?

I know I am easily fooled by what "seems to work" and the power of the anecdote. I seek to continually improve through careful study of what can be proven.

We know that we don't have the resources as a society to provide the depth of education we currently do in a one-to-one or co-op format. We also know the quality of real co-op or homeschool is terrifically variable. Some of the best education is there. Much more of the worst is.
Maybe not robots as we understand them today... but the robots in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. were the same: artificially created, but biological, humanoids.
"Malfunctioning" isn't really accurate, either—because the common usage of that term isn't "not functioning as advertised", not in this world where salespeople will say literally anything to get someone to buy their product. It's "not functioning as designed".

"Hallucinations" are 100% an LLM functioning as designed. They are every bit as valid as any other output. LLMs have no concept of truth, no model of the world, no way even in theory to determine the validity of any particular statement they output.

The problem isn't the term "hallucinations", so much as it is the idea that anything they produce is not a hallucination.
I mean conversely when people working for company towns attempted to strike in the 1800s, the companies just hired groups like the Pinkertons to come kill them. That is something that is very well documented.

The above story about passive theft sounds complicated, but not impossible, but why do that when companies were fine with actively just screwing everyone over at the point of a gun already?
Why does interaction need to reach a human though? I'm hoping that once the chatbots get good enough, we can give them all the powers of a human representative and get rid of the human.
> If you use a password manager today, then you're already essentially using something you have, because you need to be in possession of your login database to retrieve passwords, and nobody can remember that in their head.

Which is precisely why I would never use an offline only password manager. In the case outlined above, I would need to connect to my online password manager, using the master password I have in my head; which then would allow me to connect to all my services.

How would that work with passkeys ? So far the only way I could see this working is if every single device on earth comes with a fingerprint/face scanner. Because my face and my fingers will always be there for me (hopefully). Otherwise we are back to secrets (aka: passwords).
To be clear, the query compiler (that turns an EdgeDB query into a SQL query) is written in Python. And AFAIK, compiling the query should be very fast compared to actually executing it!
That's a myth based on a single very flawed study that's 15 years old. Every study since then has Utah in close to last place for porn consumption per capita.
Is the company structurally weak? Absolutely awful situation for the workers, but I haven't seen systemic negative effects for the companies conducting layoffs.
You were hired for a reason, you got this!
Top 20 geek novels – the results (2005)
And even then economy would not be completely "done", as long as ownership of all that nothing that does everything is still distributed. But when that chapter is also over, imagine the succession drama!
It's like those people who have to give every security vulnerability some stupid cute name.
I fear this is going to be the cause of the slow death of gitlab. They over-promised on far too many features and have underdelivered with many half baked products and MVPs that have been left to rot. I like the product and the company but they clearly tried to do too much in order to gain market share. GitHub needs competition so it would be great for GitLab to thrive, but the state of the product worries me.
Excuse me but how is fitness a bullshit fad that has “slight to no effect?”
A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco
> Swift literally took 10x more time to compile than equivalent objective-c

Same with C++ vs. C