skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
麻 isn’t always numb. It’s also a genetic term for all kinds of flax or fiberous plants like hemp. For example sesame is 芝麻.
New York Is Forcing Schools to Change How They Teach Children to Read
Now do per capita.
Another side of this story:
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/17/thousands-condemn-extinction-...

This feels like a partisan hatchet job. There is a balance. Freedom of protest does not give the right to perpetually block roads and motorways putting protestors and others into danger.

This organisation had no issue with governments imposing multi year lockdowns without any form of criticism.
> Being barebones is a part of the selling point for an eXtensible platform though.

Understood but as a user I don't want core functionality like history to be hidden behind extensions which may or may not be supported or need additional components to client or server.

As a user (and home server operator) I found that Matrix+Element gives me a much better user experience with much less fuss (though I admit it was more than 5 years ago when I last ran ejabberd). And the bridges are amazing, just what I needed. Because Matrix is not very useful until everyone uses it, for the transition there are bridges.

I don't really care about the underlying architecture, I just want it to easily provide me a modern chat experience.
"Super powers will become super tyrannies"

-- Apocalypse, John (in some parallel universe not far from ours)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker inspired me to build a boat (2016)
They're Not Artists Because Nobody Can Play The Guitar
I would guess more than 50% of the extra generation needed to charge cars has come from gas: marginal increases in gas generation. Marginal (where extra MWh come from) generation matters, not overall generation sources.

In 2019, natural gas had the largest share (38 percent) in U.S. electricity generation, coal had the second-largest share (23 percent), and nuclear had the third largest (20 percent).

For example https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116632119 “We apply our estimates to an analysis of the Biden administration’s target of having electric vehicles make up 50% of new vehicle purchases by 2030. We find that, without significant and concurrent changes to the electricity sector far more substantial than those over the last decade, the increase in electricity emissions is likely to offset more than half the emission reductions from having fewer gasoline-powered vehicles.”
You wrote the same sentence twice.
We have had this in Spain for decades. At the entrance of every village you have two traffic lights: a blinking one, where the measurement is performed, and the actual red-amber-green. The main light is always green until a car crosses the detection line, then it turns red for the exact time that it takes to cover from the measurement area to the traffic light at 50km/h…
Problem is of course enforcement. No one prevents you from just disregarding it unless you pair it with a speed/traffic light trap.
Given their experience in signing off on a bad, exploitative deal at the inception of their careers, and the fight they had to get control of their songwriting catalog from David Geffen, I really can't be surprised.

Once (at least!) burned, forever shy. And they're not wrong: what YouTube does is also exploitative. Anybody on YouTube who's building a career on publicising the reprocessing of other people's music in any way, is building on sand. In no way are they any better off than the Eagles were under their original contracts.

Leaving the question, is it better to do react videos on Creedence because the owners aren't issuing copyright strikes, when you know that Creedence was robbed?
Political apathy is at an all time low in the UK it feels like. We've had political upheaval after upheaval in the last 10-15 years, be it Brexit, Covid-19, Tory Austerity, the Coalition government, rising Scottish Independence sentiments, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and Truss almost singlehandedly rocketing inflation to something we haven't seen since the financial crisis in the early 2000's.

People are exhausted by a never-ending parade of scandals. The conservative government should have been out in 2019, but were saved by having a socialist, Corbyn led opposition party that did not resonate with any of their centrist Blairite voter base. Labour crumbled into infighting, and the Conservatives swept up another 48 seats.

Most people just want to keep their heads down and make it through this period of financial uncertainty, waiting out until the next general election so they can oust the Conservatives. Of course the Tories are going to try and sneak in as much abhorrent policy as they can in the time they have left.
Casio W-736H: they are indeed clunky though.
Legislation can be passed but there are still some checks in the legislature.

Takes time though but there's examples where the judges have deemed a law unlawful. Usually based on common law basis.

With this law I'd say that all of what it's trying to address is already covered by existing laws.

For example, harassment in public spaces is already illegal.
>Fundamentally most non-religious people are utilitarians, who see no inherent value in a life and hence are open to the idea of sacrificing a few lives for the "good of the many".

Non-religious people are no different than religious people in the way they view life and its inherent value. They simply don't feel that value necessitates a supernatural framework. I know this will likely be incomprehensible to you, but one does not need to believe in God at all to value human life.
> Then spew out like a mindless robot.

I think you just explained extremely clearly, why hiring managers aren't really into that sort of candidate.
Easy to explain.

> Jobs at this time are hard to come by. The biggest employers in the industry have laid off hundreds of thousands. There is a lot of competition for every position.
Is harassment by religious fanatics right outside abortion clinics actually a problem anywhere in the West but the US? Europe doesn't really have the US-type fundamental evangelical movements at all, and Catholics are for the most part a pretty chill bunch.
Yup! The German word Bein means both: Leg and Bone. Ethymology is a fascinating subject, for sure.
Do students respond well?

When I was in school, a lot of teachers did a little tidbit of history at the start of topics, but I never latched onto it and found it boring. It was only after my studies that I started to really love going back to the origin.
To be fair, I'm a fairly intelligent human (or so I'd like to think!), and I'm having a lot of trouble following this. I'd have to sit down with pencil and paper and do the transformations on it.

Keep in mind that LLMs like GPT 4 do not have a scratchpad and can't back-track. Asking it a question is the rough equivalent of asking a human standing in the middle of the room a question. No paper, no whiteboard, nothing. Just a demand for a verbal answer then and there, from a standing start.

I've only met a couple of humans who would be able to solve this problem like this one under those circumstances.

Despite its impediments GPT 4 solved this correctly:

First, let's break down the statement and evaluate the individual components.

col(true, false) = true AND false = false
pel(false, true) = false OR true = true
erf(col(true, false), true) = erf(false, true)

Since the first argument of erf evaluates to false, erf is equivalent to "pel":

erf(false, true) = pel(false, true) = false OR true = true

Now we can substitute the results back into the original statement:

col(true, pel(false, true), erf(col(true, false), true)) = col(true, true, true)

The col function acts as an AND operator, so:

col(true, true, true) = true AND true AND true = true

Therefore, the given statement evaluates to true.

Alternatively, to give an idea of the upcoming "Wolfram Alpha" plugin, you can instead ask it to convert the expression into the equivalent Mathematica program:

col[x_, y_] := And[x, y]
pel[x_, y_] := Or[x, y]
erf[x_, y_] := If[x, col[True, y], pel[False, y]]
col[True, pel[False, True], erf[col[True, False], True]]

Very nice! Unfortunately, it didn't notice that "col" is used with three arguments, not just two. This is a mistake many (most?) humans would make also.

No worries, you can ask it to correct that. It'll apologise and produce this:

col[args__] := Apply[And, {args}]
pel[args__] := Apply[Or, {args}]
erf[x_, y_] := If[x, col[True, y], pel[False, y]]

col[True, pel[False, True], erf[col[True, False], True]]

Which evaluates to:

True

There you go. Now go find me a random human who can do any of this from a standing start, no preparation, no warning, no tools, nothing but their wits.

As a bonus, here's a related joke:

Why did the logical functions col, pel, and erf form a band?
Because together, they could create the perfect harmony:
they knew when to "col"aborate, when to give each other
some space and "pel"ay, and their "erf"forts were always well-timed!
Correct me if I’m wrong but he gives no real reason to feel the way he does, that technology is evil. This seems just like some emotional prejudice (shared by many Americans for some reason) that he expects all others to share. Perhaps he needs to actually analyse why he feels this way
There was already a degree of legistlation in place to tackle this and when did we have "multi-year" lockdowns. Come on now.
I was going to mention CPU, too. I've noticed in the past that even for a single site (or web app, I guess I should say), it's possible to get somewhat a better Lighthouse score on a fast modern computer than on somethig that's a bit slower/older. I think it causes some devs to miss major performance issues.
No existing keyword research tool combines accurate intent identification with the possibility to conduct research at scale and under budget. But you can have both with this API!
Isn't it annoying how hard it is to ban behaviour you don't like without risking banning behaviour you approve of. What's a progressive authoritarian to do?
Constitutional part refers to set of ethical rules the agent must reflect on to iterate his response.
i.e. it's not just "make it more ethical" but "basen on theseruels(constitution), can you improve your response?"
Lottery framing is the gentle way of saying, what if they die.

But sure, go with the "other" lottery.

That's why we called it a Truck number.
Yes, it's not as bad but there are still loons in the UK hassling every woman who goes to the clinics.
Not any more, true.

Pretty sure isles in Indonesia recall the heel of the Dutch East Indies Spice empire.
Just because something isn't studied doesn't mean it should be dismissed as FUD. It's just unstudied.
I use Gmail and Youtube and that's about it. ok I use Chrome too but I also use Firefox and Brave as well.

I'm much more locked into Apple's ecosystem but at least Apple works very hard to ensure compatibility and supports hardware for many more years than Google does (with updates, etc.)
>So is me not being able to demonstrate inside your house.

That is quite the movement of goalposts. "Outside an abortion clinic" is by definition a public space. Inside my house is not a public space. Demonstrating in a public space should be protected as free speech.
YouTube has the best UI and Spotify has the worst.
Watching Joe Rogan on TV is painful, if you ever want to pause it - which is quite often considering how long his podcasts are - resume does not work - you have to close the App and go back in - sometimes it doesn't remember where you were and starts from the beginning - fast forward is excruciatingly slow.
Spotify should sack all developers who work on video they are totally incompetent.
Two questions:

1) Why so many Python compilers - should python be more open/modular so different JITs and other functionality can be plugged in/chosen at install or runtime?

2) Why has no one named a compiler "Monty"?
Scheme is from 1975 with huge influences from Lisp -> 48 years.

Sussman is 76, Steele is 68.

I don't think it's a only a problem of Common Lisp, which, btw., is younger than Scheme (which wasn't created completely new in a vacuum). The Scheme Report revisions upto R5RS for example ignored a lot of practical problems (no error handling, no namespaces, no object system, ...). The kludges then were outside of the language definition. But having no error handling in the language definition is not better than having one with less than ideal integration into the language. It's just a different way to deal with the problem of features which need a deep language integration: writing a larger standard with compromises or just pretend that one defines a language primarily for teaching computer science concepts (and which lacks really necessary features like error handling). The language definition then should only have as many (very dense) pages, as a student could handle in introductory course.

R6RS was an attempt to get a more complete language, which then kind of failed and was controversial amongst users and implementors.

I'd think, a to defined a language with kludges, but which tries to address practical problems, is a respectable and useful approach. Being self-aware that not everything is ideal is also nothing to look down to.
Why on earth you would pay to have a spy camera for the world's biggest surveillance company in the first place is beyond me.
> Also, are you posting here because you're frustrated and want to rant?

It is OK. I asked a question, and you gave your advice. And I am definitely not posting here because "you're frustrated and want to rant". I am posting here because I'm sure others have unfortunately found themselves in similar situations, and I'm looking for their input. Have you found yourself in a similar situation, either as the developer or manager? If the answer is no, then what is the point of you replying to me in this thread? If yes, then please, share.

> That's OK, I do it too, but it's pointless me trying to offer advice if that's the case.

And I'd email you, but you have already stated that you feel I have no case, so what's the point?
Thanks! I'll look into the discord channel!
> Their ability to classify something may be far beyond their ability to generate that thing first time, in which case training on their own output makes total sense.

It is possible to amplify a model - for example ensembling a bunch of predictions, using reversible tasks like translation to check if you get back to the original, applying code execution and math verification, using a search engine or using narrow models. Basically augmented LLMs are smarter than plain LLMs.

Another way models can self-improve is to generate training data. The LLM could process the training set to clean it up, bring contextual information and check facts and in the end retrain on the improved text.
Most of the countries actually
How is it relevant?
I really hoped there would be something more organized that I missed :(
Referring to COVID I think
the whole point of this architecture is to transform conway's law from a liability to an asset -- it's a solution to problems that only exist at org sizes large enough where product velocity is bottlenecked by inter-team friction

services map to teams, not units of functionality

imo minimum org size to use microservices is something like 50 engineers
It was optimized for interactive use by people that already know it.
The best solution is to mine bitcoin with it. They can quite easily turn the methane into money. There's a company doing this: https://www.weforum.org/videos/this-start-up-catches-waste-m...
Is Texas getting ready to secede from the union, or what ?
Our World in Data have an interactive map of it

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions
>Political apathy is at an all time low in the UK it feels like.

Do you mean all time high? "Apathy" means a "lack of interest or concern"[1], so "all time low lack of interest or concern" would suggest political interest is at an all time high due to double negatives ("low lack").

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apathy
Yes, the Pixel 4a is the last "compact" phone I can find. Bought it refurbished and slapped LineageOS+microg on it. Google spyware is a no-go!
I agree. As far as I can tell he gives no real reason why it's wrong. He just says "it's evil, I hate it, and so should you"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/us-anti-aborti...

Search for UK abortion clinic news. No it's no where near as bad as what happens in the US but it has been getting worse.
I was mostly just joking/pointing out that the comparison's a bit.. not to say 'apples and oranges', but a bit arbitrary, it seemed to me could just as well be comparing letter count - or even that that makes more sense as a comparison for (disregarding tone) characters, but still arbitrary, the languages just work differently.
"If there was a big red button that turned off the Internet, I would press it without hesitation. Then I would collect every screen in the world and bulldoze the lot down into a deep mineshaft, which I would seal with concrete, and then I would skip away smiling into the sunshine."

I know Paul Kingsnorth from the "Dark Mountain" days -- I worked closely with Dougald Hine on a project (http://collapsonomics.org) before they started Dark Mountain.

The rhetoric is strong, but the realism is not. Next step: let's turn off the electricity.
You could make similar arguments against just about any mature network protocol (see the recent HN post about regrets in TCP/IP's design). Luckily we have plenty of choice, and there are bridges between the open solutions.

The fact is that XMPP has been, and still is, happily deployed at scale in various scenarios. You're welcome to your opinions, but they are just that.

Disclaimer: I'm a full-time XMPP developer and executive director of the XMPP Standards Foundation.
A massive problem with political issues in the UK is that the US constantly tries to export their bullshit to us. So yes, unfortunately there is a problem with it - although no where near the scale of the US. There's also a problem that failed politicians on the far right in the UK can essentially fund their entire political projects with support from US interests trying to push us further right.
For little extra context here (for anyone not in the UK), since the OP article was published we had the coronation at the weekend during which many anti-monarchy protestors were arrested - despite prior approval and communication with the Police ahead of the protest. This has been seen as the first major use of these new powers:

> Police accused of ‘alarming’ attack on protest rights after anti-monarchist leader arrested

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-...

Prior to the coronation the Met Police tweeted:

> Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low.

> We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration.

https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1653745710724968448

Again, this has been seen as further moves by the Met to quash the right of protest in the UK.
> There is no version of protocol to target by client or server, there is not even "level of features" (lets say "text only", "text + voice", "text + video conferencing"), no, pick and choose, and on both server and client site.

Yes, there is. But your entire comment is based on years-old view of what XMPP was
Non religious people live in a culture that has been created by people including religious people.

In other cultures and times in the past, for example, all human life was not valued and slavery was considered a normal part of life.

We don't really understand what culture is and think that the values are fundamental constant variables baked into biology.
Someone does have the right to demonstrate inside your house, if you've first invited them to be there. Even if you tell someone "I'm only inviting you inside if you don't bring up abortion" and they do anyway, they have not committed a crime unless they also refuse to leave after you revoke their invitation. If someone has the right to be at a location they have the right to peacefully protest there.
I thought this was the case. An unhappy customer of Wizz Air did this recently which is why this was in the back of my mind:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-gets-4500-wiz...

My favourite part of this article:

"He then applied for bailiffs who attended the Wizz Air desk at Luton Airport - saying they could take goods including chairs, tables, computers or an even aircraft."
Psychologists issue health advisory for teens and social media
If so (and it's a very big "if")

then so is sin, and Satan.
UK: there were regular demonstrations outside of a clinic in my city some years ago. Not nice. Residential area so local householders not happy either.
Burning the fuel simply would be even better solution.
Or with the computing power, you could do more useful stuff: training AI, simulating protein folding, predicting weather.
I wonder why they even keep the "suspicious behaviour" front. My account got locked within seconds after creating it and I had to add a phone number. Who are they trying to protect against? Scammers who bought Minecraft? I didn't even have a chance to behave suspiciously.
They didn't talk about radiation hardening. Is this chip safe to use in space? I thought a chip that dense would be vulnerable to cosmic rays?
The 1956 Dartmouth AI workshop
> core functionality like history

I won’t disagree with this. It could be a part of the main spec, but there’s some novelty knowing you could do a ‘complete’ server or client in a day. There are certainly different modern expectations than compared to IRC. Compared to the OP, barebones XMPP is much closer to a ‘simple chat’.

> bridges

XMPP + libpurple were trying to do similar things. For a hot minute everyone, even the like of Facebook Chat and whatever Google’s chat was named at the time, was using XMPP til they all decided to go for a proprietary option and users had the option to chat from anywhere with anyone. That doesn’t discount Matrix for doing something needed now. Proprietary chat lock-in runs in cycles. Here’s to hoping they don’t adopt & abandon Matrix.
> I get what you're saying here, something like, "we couldn't change it if we tried"

Not exactly. “We just need to offer a bigger carrot than Russia does”
I have been meaning to add a hashcash style calculation on searchcode for ages to make the bots a bit less painful.

I did add it to another search I run to stop spam and that was very effective.
I setup a new Microsoft account and tried to buy minecraft. Maybe I mistyped a digit, maybe I just got flagged for being an unusual user agent, but I got the account stuck in purgatory indefinitely, along with my credit card number (no starting a new account).

Having gotten flagged that way, there’s no way to buy it anymore; other payment methods also fail due to the flag.

Support took weeks and multiple escalations to figure it out, by which point I had migrated the family server to minetest (which has so many qol improvements that the kids were thrilled to change).