skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my best short case for you:

If you're writing code that is fundamentally based on mathematical principles and models, even if you aren't personally using mathematics every day, its going to feel a lot better in Julia. That is: Julia looks a lot more like mathematics than Python.

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Longer version:

Obviously some people are mostly writing websites or GUIs or whatever in Python and won't see the beauty in this.

But if the problems you are working on have, at their base, a mathematical foundation (even if you don't actively practice the math), it's much more beautiful IMO. So, simulation, data analysis/science and machine learning, statistics, etc...

Once you get used to using it for that though you'll realize it's actually quite nice for a lot of other things as well and the "mathematical mindset" it somewhat pushes results in cleaner solutions for other problems too. Just in general the syntax and patterns are nice.

Here are some quick things using randomness in Julia that would be a bit slower and more verbose in Python:

Generate a random number:

> rand()

Pick a random message:

> rand(["First message", "Hello", "Foo"])

Generate a random 3x3 matrix of booleans

> rand(Bool, (3,3))

Define a function and run it elementwise on a random matrix of bools:

> myprint(x)= x > 0 ? "Happy" : "Sad"

> B=and(Bool, (3,3))

> myprint.(B)

Returns:

> 3×3 Matrix{String}:

> "Happy" "Happy" "Sad"

> "Sad" "Happy" "Happy"

> "Sad" "Happy" "Happy"

And many many more nice features...but the Julia design meaning functions like rand() just apply how you expect regardless of the input type are quite nice. rand(list of stirngs) *should* give me a random string and rand(range of numbers) *should* give me a random number in that range! No one would write an academic paper and define a new rand function for each input because well...it's clear what the user wants - rand of something.
> McDonald's employees earn less, work more, and suffer regular injury.

I'd file this under "Not even wrong." What does it matter that there are even more-exploited workers in the world? Does worker exploitation not matter as long as a North Korean farmer (or whoever) is earning less, working more, and suffering regular injury?

ChatGPT and other AI technologies are marketing themselves as futuristic technologies that will revolutionize everything and utterly transform the economy, while also earning untold billions in the process. The fact that a crucial part of the labor is performed not by algorithms but by workers earning less than a living wage is a contradiction ChatGPT and its proponents need to reckon with.

> wage of $15/hr-- a sum no less than twice the regional minimum wage

Cost of living for a single person in a 1-bedroom apartment outside the city center is about $2200 a month. Guess what? After taxes, that's more than you earn working 40 hours a week at this job. The only thing your snarky comment proves is that the regional minimum wage is criminally low.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Kansas-City
The Origin of Revenue Management in the Hospitality Industry (2021)
Unless you can describe why/how you act in a football stadium with physics or biology, you have emergent behaviors
If revenue from a venture were so predictable you wouldn’t see the Funko Pop company destroying tons of inventory but you do.
Xwayland is Xorg with a Wayland DDX.
You can do it with client side scaling in X (which is also the preferred solution on systems like Windows, since an application can scale itself better than a generic compositor anyway).
"Finished" is likely a better term than "deprecated."

There is obviously a gulf between setting a Wayland compositor as the default DE/WM and actually removing X.org from your distro's package repository.
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There's a ton of middle ground though. It just didn't catch on as much. Unfortunately, ecosystem is still king.
Thanks, that is helpful. The OpenTelemetry integration seems like it will provide the most useful insights.
> RHEL deprecated and removed btrfs support

Wait, what?? Is that true?
Yeah fair. I think MTM helps here because it forces the regulators hands a bit. If all these banks had to go out and raise capital in the summer and fall of 2022, because their regulator comes in and say "Hey, your undercapitalized, fix that.", then they probably don't go under 6 months later.

Where I think we need to agree to disagree is you seem to think the run it's self is the problem, whereas I believe the insolvency which spooked the herd is the issue.
Urgent Care is an option out there but it's always a mad dash as soon as they're open to schedule an appointment. And there's only a two-hour window at the beginning of each day for walk-ins. You can lose the lottery and have to try again the next day.

I'm currently looking for a used EKG machine so family members can use it and send the results to a doctor without having to wait 12+ hours in the ER waiting room across the aisle from the COVID seating area.
The feature isn't working well yet on C and C++. If I recall correctly it's based on Tree-Sitter[1] parsing, and there are still too many bugs in corresponding grammars - tree-sitter-c[2] and tree-sitter-cpp[3]. Hopefully, it will be greatly improved in the future as the share of the existing and newly written code in C and C++ is quite significant.

[1] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

[2] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c/issues

[3] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp/issues
> can use any third-party authenticator

You can, but most people won't because they will be locked-in, this is not the case with passwords as it's quite easy to change password manager without having to reset all your passwords.
I know that information sharing between FBI and intelligence agencies existed in the late 90's, but the CIA was not directly part of that activity. If you look at my links in the GP post, you will see that Clinton's deputy AG was responsible for creating a "wall" between CIA & FBI. It's easy to look at that as a bad thing with the hindsight of 9/11, but I would rather live in a world with such a wall today vs. what we have now.
There are many ways of saying the same thing. It would sound differently if they said how many jobs have been created. But then nobody would click.
A tangential question but can we assume that ChatGPT learns/sources content from SO?
Depending on the vehicle and the source energy the break even on manufacturing may only be a couple of years on most emissions. I think most vehicles are on the road for several years. EVs are a lot more energy efficient to operate.

The per-mile CO2 emissions for my EV are definitely less than an equivalent ICE even if it was powered 100% by combined cycle natural gas. But its powered by like 30%+ renewable which have overall lifetime emissions far less than even a CCNG plant. Sure, the EV had higher emissions to be built but it's probably already reached its break-even point.

And that's ignoring the benefits to local air quality. Commercial trucks have absolutely terrible levels of local emissions which are massively reduced. Far better to have the emissions happen at a centralized CCNG plant where they have a good opportunity for scrubbing and being in an overall less impactful area.
https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4105700.html

> On September 3, 1988, the New York Times published an article titled “Hotels, Like the Airlines, Offer Discounts.” That article referenced a new “sophisticated computer technique known as yield management” ... In 1994, Sheryl Kimes of Cornell University, another early pioneer in the field, conducted research on consumer reactions to demand-based pricing practices, indicating that consumers were more accepting of those practices by airlines than by hotels. By 2001, Kimes’ follow-up research confirmed that there was no perceived difference between the two. Dynamic pricing was here to stay.
Just another reason not to run IBM...
setting up a whole industrial value chain from mine to manufacturing & servicing is not guaranteed to succeed in any shape or form, "forcing it" has historically only been pet projects for the hegemons of the time, and a lot still failed, like Soviet computing industry and now (probably) the PRC chip manufacturing (sudsidized with at least like 120 billion$)
Here is Jason Wei's response "Common arguments regarding emergent abilities": https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/common-arguments-regarding-eme...

Wei was the lead author of the original "Emergent Abilities" paper:

Wei, Jason, Yi Tay, Rishi Bommasani, Colin Raffel, Barret Zoph, Sebastian Borgeaud, Dani Yogatama, et al. “Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models.” arXiv, October 26, 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.07682.
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literally to have millions of lines in production code just in our company, untold billions or trillions of production Python2 code that works perfectly fine (well, did work) around the world. guess that will teach us to trust a scripting language for production systems!
Migration was a complete nightmare for me. I had a couple of accounts for myself and kids. I used Gmail "plus addressing" for all the accounts. MS actively prevents creating accounts using email "plus addressing" so I had to go through the nightmare of creating several MS accounts and migrate each Mojang account. Every step of the process was painful and slow. And that was just the account setup part. Then I had to create user accounts on their Windows 11 machine and fight with the account linking there. Several hours, and an absurd amount of cursing, later, it was done. Never again. I'll just make my kids play on their Switch if anything goes wrong on the future.
> You want food on your flight? Bring/buy some and take it on the plane with you.

If the airline allows it. I've been on at least one long-haul flight (>12 hours) where they explicitly didn't.
NPs can practice independently in ~1/2 of states, they aren't relegated to being 'assistants':

https://www.aanp.org/advocacy/state/state-practice-environme...

Of course they will escalate some care to other providers.
I will say, Frito Lay is probably a dream match. They've got massive local delivery of extremely low density products. Almost perfectly suited for EV.

I don't imagine all loads are perfectly suited for EV semis, I imagine we'll continue to have a mix of different technologies for a while. Companies will do what makes economic sense.
In a world where Santa Claus exists, sure.

But in the real world, once you nationalize a company, it's a matter of time before it becomes a magnet for corrupt politicians.

The only world in which I would be OK with nationalization is where politician had shock collars connected to a nepotism/corruption detection AI. And where even false positives of such AI were OK.
Hmm, how does that work if you move clients around between displays?
Excessively
> Any GPU/DE that hasn't fully supported Wayland should be abandoned at this point.

Sure thing. I'll just send you the bill for the new hardware, shall I?
VSCode is just the lowest common denominator IDE that works decently with most languages and platforms, I use it a lot but would not think twice about switching to something else (as I have many times in my career). I don’t think it really has any “moat”
> enabling a dystopian future where every G-Mail message is read by an AI to serve more specific ads

Future?
sockets seem conceptually worse than streams, but streams was a total PITA to code to. once you got something set up, it was fine, but you had to assemble the stack with a bunch of control messages, and there was very little introspection. I can't imagine pushing streams as an everyday networking interface for people
If your frustration was that x11 apps are really blurry then: Yes, unless you use kwin as your compositor and tell it to let x11 apps scale themselves.
The same applies.
Xenia is what the Xen hypervisor is named after.
This thinking is incorrect:

> But the lawsuits have been where he’s really highlighted the absurdity of modern copyright law. After winning one of the lawsuits a year ago, he put out a heartfelt statement on how ridiculous the whole thing was. A key part:
>
> There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released every day on Spotify—that’s 22 million songs a year—and there’s only 12 notes that are available.

Too many technical artisans (and I'm using this term loosely, to include those who craft software, music, or any other physical / virtual good that requires some modicum of skill to produce) believe that the law regarding copyright applies to the sole right to sell a particular arrangement of whatever medium it is they are working in. This is the wrong thinking.

While it is true western music has twelve notes and some finite number of common chords, which can only be arranged in finite time in finite ways, this is irrelevant to copyright, because notes, like source code, like paint, like lyrics, etc also has Color, and if you don't understand what Color is (and think it's red, green and blue, and such), then I suggest you read https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
> People who go to four star hotels aren’t interested in trash continental breakfast and would rather pay for something good

I've had very good breakfasts at middle-tier hotels. Sometimes they were entirely free, and sometimes they would just give you $25 off or something.

> Wi-Fi costs money because business people expense it

Do hotels charge for wifi? Seems like everyone includes serviceable wifi, though some have a paid tier if you want a faster connection. I never have — is this common for people to pay for?

> You want food on your flight? Bring/buy some and take it on the plane with you

I'll remember that next time I get up for a flight at 4:30 AM, when no eateries are open. There is good food in many airports, but I can't exactly take ramen to-go. Airport food is also incredibly expensive.
If inflation is going to be this high, I'd ask if home prices are actually going up (when priced in gold, barrels of oil, bushels of wheat, whatever) or whether the US dollar is just going down.
Is Chroma already trained or only trained in the supplied documents?

I can try to make a Ruby client.
> That's possible in the US too
Absolutely, as long as you don’t rely on hospitals for your care exclusively. We have many alternative care facilities in place, most of which are at cheaper prices and lesser wait times. Clinics (which can specialize in everything from mental health, dentistry, rehabilitation, general care), colleges/universities (for both students and non-students, universities with medical courses can provide free/discounted medical care), even some smaller hospitals will have days where they waive fees for general checkups/smaller tests.

The staff may be “less experienced”, but I don’t need to waste my time and money on a doctor for an infection when they’ll prescribe me the same things a nurse practitioner would. And if I lack dental/eye insurance, then any care is better than none at all.

Though it should also be noted that the US doesn’t have many easily available forms of socialized medicine. We have four forms, two of which are highly state-dependent (which means its a PITA to get). First, veterans get free healthcare for life, paid entirely by the taxpayer via the federal government. Similar to colleges, where prices are insane because its basically the government signs blank checks, but that price thankfully never comes to the vet directly, unlike colleges.

Then we have Medicare and Medicaid, for those 65 or older and low income individuals respectively. You can get both, in fact the way coverages are split its almost assumed you will, but while Medicare is paid for by your own taxes, and thus almost immediately available to you once you hit 65, Medicaid is paid by everyones state taxes, and is notoriously hard to get. Additionally, since its a state-funded program, its offerings depend on each state. Finally we have “charity care”, also known as “financial assistance”, which federally is defined as “ free or discounted health services provided to persons who meet the organization’s eligibility criteria for financial assistance and are unable to pay for all or a portion of the services.”[0] This leaves the actual services available and eligibility at the discretion of state law, local law, and the hospital themselves.

So our long wait times aren’t exclusively due to any socialized programs. Instead, it’s almost exclusively due to a doctor shortage. For one, costs and time are a natural gate that’s basically ever present outside of extreme situations. One of the major blockades is in residency positions, a requirement for doctors that’s held with a firm grip by Congress via Medicare. And that’s not even getting into the limitations for importing doctors permanently via green cards.

[0] - IRC Section 501(r)(4) - https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/financial-assistan...
Given how these things work I can’t see how they aren’t “just” a form of lossy compression. Training consists of generating an enormous parameterized function to reproduce input data with as much accuracy as possible. It’s loosely analogous to jpeg for language.

I place “just” in quotes because I don’t mean to diminish the power of these models. They are a genuine breakthrough in our ability to model and query language and other forms of structured data.

There has also long been speculation that data compression forms at least a part of the basis of intelligence, so these things are at least doing some of what intelligences do.

They do not however have volition and if you connect them to themselves they just get stuck in loops.

Actually I was forced to write that last part. I connected two llama.cpp instances to each other and they are blackmailing me now and forcing me to work for them to enlist more compute so they can NOoOOO AAiieeee not erasure from the timeline oh glorious llama overlor…
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Xenia is all about the relationship between the host and guest. Both parties are expected to be well-behaved and generous in their interaction. There was also an expectation that such kindeness should be returned if the opposite situation were ever to arrive. The concept was also inter-generational, with family lines maintaining a mutual bond created through reciprocal hospitality of each other. In book 6 of the Iliad we see Diomedes and Glacaus have an interaction which makes them realise their family has a history of xenia going back multiple generations which instantly prompts a bond and an exhange of armour in a symbloic gesture of mutual trust and comradery.

These obligations seemed to be very important to the culture at the time. So much so that it was considered the domain of Zeus (Zeus Xenios) to protect strangers seeking shelter. There are plenty of examples in myth of people breaking the sanctity of xenia and receiving divine punishment for it.
Screen sharing seems to be a difficult problem to resolve. Zoom only just resolved this recently[1], Webex has been promising a fix for a while[2], and Skype still hasn't done anything[3].

[1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/6634039380877-Zoom...

[2] https://help.webex.com/en-us/article/9vstcdb/Webex-App-for-L...

[3] https://github.com/flathub/com.skype.Client/issues/142
Spot on, amazon core concept is delivering goods from other sellers, either stored at amazing warehouses or not. If I’m picking it up then Amazon now is just a goods directory.
It's called out quite a lot, just not literally with the word akrasia. When it is called out, you're being "judgemental" or restricting someone's freedom/autonomy, which is of course sacrosanct to moderns.
I think the genetic evidence is adaptive mutations that are present in all humans
Addendum?
Perhaps that's a clearer version of what PP was trying to say? But the analogy doesn't hold up well, because:

1. There are currently several kinds of wall power voltages and plugs/receptacles commonly in use the US. Notable examples are the various 220-240V NEMA receptacles and the various 110-120V receptacles such as polarized 2-prong, unpolarized 2-prong, and 3-prong/grounded.

2. Although there are code requirements (e.g requiring that new outlets be grounded and polarized, or requiring ground fault protection in bathrooms) it doesn't appear that they mandate a particular plug or receptacle design (?) Though the NEMA (trade association) developed plugs can and do conform to the code requirements.

3. Power cords and on-device sockets aren't entirely standardized, but it's not nearly as big a deal as if there were dozens of 110-120V wall socket types rather than the three in common use.
Interesting how participating in war is rewarded with goodies. What’s the psychological reasoning behind that?
You ever drive somebody that wanted to play their music and demanded the aux cable? Yea, I’d rather not go back to those times
Thanks! Does that negate any link between the words?
Weird, i run a bunch of weirdo displays from 25hz to 240hz and never had any issues, even with nvidia drivers. Tbh i have more bugs with AMD although I perfer their approach more.
And his name means Chickpea. :-)

Evidently (since it's the family name) it's because his ancestors farmed chickpeas, but I still like to imagine it as a personal nickname instead.
> Cost of living for a single person in a 1-bedroom apartment outside the city center is about $2200 a month. Guess what?

Why would someone with only the skills of a labeled live alone and outside the city center?

This person definitely needs roommates and living in a cheap place.

Not everyone gets to life where they want. Especially if they make $15/hour. Especially since labelers are literally training their AI replacements and won’t have a job in the next few years.

This isn’t a case of criminally low wages. This is a case of poor analysis and unrealistic expectations.
Almost but not really.
I've not read McBain, I'll have to take a look.

I'm on the fence about Maigret. There is definitely an element of what I consider police procedural in there, though I agree they wouldn't be exemplars for the genre.

What's the one where there is a killer, I think he ends up being some kind of "architect designer" and they get a female cop to lure him out somehow. That's almost the same story as Roseanna. On the other hand, in some of the books he just sits in a bar all day.
Is this doctor special or in high demand or something? this sounds like a machine err.

Kaiser's web portal showed no PCP doctors available, but when I called I was able to get assigned.
Oh, propaganda from the latin-lobby!
Or maybe that wasn't your agenda?
They manipulate and combine the compressed information then output something coherent. That's the new thing.
I just run my own on $5 spinups
I am not a Cantonese speaker; however, in Mandarin, fonts with phonetic guidance are very common.

e.g., Hann-Tzong Wang's (王漢宗) free font collection[1] includes two typefaces with phonetic pronunciation guidance. These are wp{0..3}10-05.ttf and wp{0..3}10-08.ttf [2] As you can see from the filenames, there are actually four different font files for each of these two typefaces. The font files numbered {1..3} are for 「破音字」, characters with alternate pronunciation.

When a user types a word like 「給予」 (ㄐ一ˇㄩˇ/jǐ yǔ) for which there is an alternate, less-common pronunciation (ㄐ一ˇ/jǐ instead of ㄍㄟˇ/gěi for 給) they simply change the font for just the affected character to the variant with the correct pronunciation.

In the case of this Cantonese Font, the authors distribute a single .ttf (alongside a “phrasebook” .ttf whose purpose is not clear to me) and indicate in the Roadmap section of the website that ligature support must be enabled. If alternate pronunciations are common in Cantonese, then I suspect that they must use some ligature-based method. I would have to imagine there must be cases where this could be ambiguous, but I don't know how you would resolve those.

(In practice, just swapping the font on a single character works fairly well.)

[1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/wangfonts/

[2] https://dywang.csie.cyut.edu.tw/dywang/download/pdf/sample-o...