skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Afaik you cannot discern null and undefined. So, not there and "null"?

So?

Don't similar footguns appear in Python and JS? Why single out PHP for footguns when the other languages are no better?

While I'm not a PHP programmer, I have used most programming languages, and PHP doesn't seem any worse than the competitors.
Yes, there are many indigenous Americans who think that the lands and gold that were taken from them by the ancestors of those who now have "too much stuff" should be taken from those people and returned to them.

It's not hypocritical.
I have charter/spectrum but not by choice. If I were buying/building a house, I would give preference to places that have fiber.
I think you can use a different launcher.
No, not necessary the “same people”. Perhaps you would like to clarify?
First:

> Ecosystems are a collection of species and are about as harmonious as a poison jar over time, but the jar itself has no intentions, it’s just a jar.

Then:

> Ecosystems are by definition too complex to have anything cognizable as intent.

Which is it, are they too complex, or too simple?

I do think that "cognizable" is the right word though. It's not about complexity. Whether a phenomenon is emergent, or the result of intention, depends on how we're thinking about it. It's a rhetorical choice, stylistic, not a matter of fact. It has to do with how you're telling the story, with whether its a character or the environment that does the thing.

I can see that you have different preferences over how to style conversations about ecosystems, and that's fine, but do you think there will ever be evidence that sorts this out for us, or are we just fighting over words?
How would you get a defunct sim card?
Columbus has a holiday named after him here in the US, so there’s a visible target. He’s more an avatar than anything else, though obviously problematic.

There are plenty of terrible people - living and dead - that are worthy of disdain. But the dead, like children, can’t speak for themselves so they’re decent as far as avatars go re: making a point.
> Some people write whole-ass applications in bash, the psychopaths

*giggles nervously, then changes the subject.
I mean "can it call blocking code without bringing everything to a screeching halt".
I guess if you do that you're not too far from planar reflections in terms of cost, which would be better as well since they don't suffer from occlusion artifacts.
Vouching for saffron, definitely great!

Just... not too sure how we ended up here considering the topic of OP.
Sometimes well, things aren’t balanced. The job of historians isn’t to create balance at the expense of facts. A great example would be the actual Holocaust, where a “balanced” history would be completely disingenuous.
Maybe it's because Kaiser is more integrated than most providers, but that wasn't the case for me. I might've had to check in with separate receptions, but no actual paperwork
lol

I work on a single codebase with 2000+ engineers
People fish in the ocean and think that the fish is theirs. Huge companies do that and they act and profit as the fish is theirs. But isn’t the (now depleted) fish something that belongs to humanity. For popular music is so much you can pull out of the pond, in my opinion it can hardly be somewhere own property. Maybe a too advanced thought? When the white man landed in America they said this is ours, the aborigines reply. Yes, meaning this belongs to everyone and it is yours too. Can we transcend this ownership thing?
In general, separating data from UI would solve many problems across many domains.

Paying should be for the right to access video content alone, with many UI providers to choose from. Would increase competition within the market greatly. Centralized (or decentralized) database of all video content, with UI vendors caching from that for perf reasons.

UI would have to compete on its own merits rather than relying on data lock-in. Better products in the end.
I don't disagree that YouTube would be better off away from Google, nor that it's a monopoly, but in terms of content it is magnificent.

Vintage films, tutorials for the most niche practices, 4K videos of exotic locations, a better music selection than Spotify: all at your fingertips on one site.
If someone has even heard my song and thinks it's good enough to be worth suing over I must be doing something right...
Most voice assistants can work with simple phrases like that. Alexa, lights on. Hey Google, thermostat 70 degrees.
I recently learned that the Eagles is also a big one: they will copyright-strike any cover, no ifs, no buts.

Not share earnings, not demonitize, straight to strike.
In India, there is a lot of competition in the tech field so devs often want to put open-source contributions on their resume. This definitely does not account for the majority of the spam, but could possibly be a sizeable minority of it.
I don't think so, I think the tax is only 20% on the dividends
Same thing happened with housing in North America. Life imitates ant
I don't know if we're talking about the same thing, but to me it seems like there's potentially two issues at play here: self control to act in accordance with one's supposed morals, and, the changing of the presumptive morals of a society.

For self control, I feel like it's universal human experience to always find this falling short. Throughout history we do things we know we shouldn't, as in, we agree they're bad for our health or unethical, but we're really good at doing it anyway for whatever reason. Reasons like forgetting in the heat of the moment or dreaming up some unreasonable justification. So, to say there's something new in modern society about this, I don't know if I agree. If anything I think each individual's ability to manage this is under direct attack by increasingly effective mechanisms manipulating our cognitive biases and flaws, such as notification bells and other UX dark/whatever patterns.

As for the changing of presumptive morals, this I feel is quite noticeable in modern society, and I wonder if when someone appears "offended for being called out," what's really happening is a misinterpretation of their morals. In fact they're acting out their morals just fine, and there's a disagreement.

The example of this I most often think about is laziness. I personally feel bad if I spend a day at home watching netflix or whatever. I think I should instead be reading my HUGE backlog of books I want to get through, or work on my personal projects, or go clean the local park, or do literally anything. If you catch me watching netflix, that's a failure to act out my morals.

That said, I don't have the strongest argument for my morals. After all, what's all that wrong with spending a lifetime sitting at home watching netflix? Honestly? Do we need to have massive expectations for all the billions of humans? Maybe we do, and maybe the person works really hard during the day, and that's good enough? Or maybe our technology has advanced to the point where perhaps it's just fine for us to relax and float on the river of life. In fact maybe technology has nothing to do with it, maybe it was always ok to do nothing. In Cory Doctorow's "Walkaway," there's a subset of the culture that exclusively do nothing, contribute nothing, so as to lessen the guilt of hardworkers when it's time for them to take a break: "Relax, there's no way you can be lazier than us after all!"

What examples of people being offended, for being called out for what, did you have in mind?
From a fun book I have “Philosophy in 40 Ideas”

Eudaimonia
THIS IS AN ANCIENT GREEK WORD, normally translated as 'fulfilment',
particularly emphasised by the philosopher Aristotle. It deserves wider currency
because it corrects the shortfalls in one of the most central terms in our
contemporary idiom: happiness. The Ancient Greeks resolutely did not believe
that the purpose of life was to be happy; they proposed that it was to be fulfilled.
What distinguishes happiness from fulfilment is pain. It is eminently possible
to be fulfilled and, at the same time, under pressure, suffering physically or
mentally, overburdened and in a tetchy mood. Many of life's most worthwhile
projects will, at points, be quite at odds with contentment, but may be worth
pursuing nevertheless. Henceforth, we shouldn't try to be happy; we should
accept the greater realism, ambition and patience that accompanies the quest
for eudaimonia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-21/trivio-dumps-perth-mi...
"Antiquity" meaning the time of Augustus. By then the Romans had conquered all of the Italian peninsula, including the area in the southern-most tip the Greeks called "Italia."

Referring to the people of the peninsula as "Italian" dates from medieval times, not ancient. In Columbus' time the Genoese, the Venetians, the Sardinians, etc. would not have referred to themselves as Italian, as that Roman term for a province (not a single people) had fallen away with the Roman Empire a thousand years earlier.
I am all in favor of suing FB but one way to stop this is to pay all dues and close your card before the next payment happens.
https://archive.md/LUcsa
Just missing punctuation I think - 'a weakness of will; to act against [...]'.
Something else to consider is that languages differ as to the complexity of their grammar.

Much research and training of LLMs has been done in English, but if these models were trained on as much data in other languages as English, I wonder if:

- LLMs would do better or worse on intelligence and other tests if they were tested in other languages?

- Could conversing with LLMs be easier or harder in other languages?

Some languages, like Logan or Lojban, might be especially suited towards this sort of testing and interaction, as they were designed to be easy for computers to interpret.
That's probably true for protocol-level things but still doesn't cover as much as you'd think. For example, with X (possibly just Xorg but at least everyone standardized on that) I could run `setxkbmap` to set keyboard layout. Now as far as I can tell, wlroots does have a proper way to control keyboard layout... but it's up to each and every compositor to hook it up. So naturally, when I went to try a cool new compositor I found, I discovered that it doesn't actually support that. In fact, I couldn't find a way to configure keyboard layout at all in that compositor (don't recall which, but it was wlroots-based). So I threw up my hands and went back to X11, where one command controls the keyboard on literally every window manager I have ever tried.
https://archive.ph/vPRoW
Tasteless and offensive? Sure. But why should it be illegal to do such a thing?
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One would, in that case, draw the ire of the justice overseeing the case, whose time one would be pretty obviously wasting.
It existed as a unified kingdom from 1492. A kingdom occupied the same place in international relations and national identity back then that modern nation-states occupy today.
Sec is a standard suffix for time values, anything ending with Sec accepts a value in seconds. 12h is shorthand for 'the number of seconds in 12 hours'
Columbus was bad enough, but what followed after him was worse.

The Tainos and other island tribes were cursed to have gold jewelry. If they had never had it the Columbian discovery of the Americas may not have been that much bigger a deal than the Viking discovery of the Americas.
> The arguments to the directives are time spans configured in seconds. Example: "OnBootSec=50" means 50s after boot-up. The argument may also include time units. Example: "OnBootSec=5h 30min" means 5 hours and 30 minutes after boot-up.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.tim...

Ie seconds if no units specified.
Another interesting fact is the difference in quality of the armours exchanged. One was incredibly valuable (gold or bronze if I’m not mistaken) and the other one was relatively poor.

Xenia was such a powerful social norm that for a warrior, in the heat of battle, is perfectly fine to temporarily be nude, exchange your finest armour for a lower grade one, and still be happy about it.
I suspect what's going on here is that in music, it doesn't matter if you understand it right the first time.

How many songs do you misunderstand the lyrics for on the first few listens, in your native language? For me, in English, I either can't tell exactly what they're saying for some proportion of lyrics, or just totally mishear them _quite_ often (especially depending on the genre).

Music doesn't require every word to be perfectly understandable. Communication does, ideally.
No thing as free speech, there's consequences to saying anything you want. Rightly so hate speech is removed from platforms and those people face prison time. What falls under that is constantly changing.

There's no real debates on whether Nazis should be given platforms on reddit or YouTube.
Somewhat oddly this song fits into a weird slot in history:

“
A quirk of the law restricts which aspects of “Let’s Get It On” (1973) are under copyright. For many songs made before 1978, only the contents of the sheet music submitted to the Copyright Office (known as the “deposit copy”) are protected. With “Let’s Get It On,” that notation was skeletal: just chords, lyrics and a vocal melody. Other key aspects of the track, like its bass line and signature opening guitar riff, were absent.
That means the lawsuit primarily came down to the chord progressions of the two songs, which are nearly — but not entirely — identical.”

https://www.nytimes.com/article/ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-copyr...
Microsoft seems unable to do language settings as well. I bought a laptop in Germany that came preinstalled with windows, so the first thing I did was switch the OS's language to English. At some point during setup it also asked for my region or some similarly called info and I said Italy. The result is that now most of the OS is in English but random pieces of it revert to either German or Italian every now and then, especially error messages and similar things... Luckily they are languages I somewhat understand at least!
Is a larger model better with numbers simply because it is more likely to have examples that use those same numbers? Or because it somehow gives it better ability to reason about numbers?
No, `swaymsg` is specific to sway, not wlroots. It won't work with any other compositor (wlroots-based or not) unless that compositor also binds $SWAYSOCK and serves the i3-ipc protocol.
I've seen a few stories about this, mostly in relation to banks' CRE portfolios showing weakness to varying degrees

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/convert-emp...
There’s a lot of misconceptions here but LLMs and stable diffusion have spat out copyrighted material verbatim.

So that’s not accurate.
Why would fish belong to the humanity? They are fish in their own right and belong to no one.
In capitalism, competition is on a higher level of abstraction than the employee’s (even the CEO)’s performance.

The entire company will go up or down according to output, even if due to external circumstances. Capital gets reallocated to better performing companies.

Examples: IBM, HP, Dell went from dominating to the doghouse; Microsoft made excellent strategic choices and remained relevant; Apple went from the doghouse to dominating, and so on.

This filters down to the employees. There is much more turnover and harder work (and higher pay) in private companies than at the government.
There are existing coins like PAX Gold worth looking at as well.
I love how it’s still beautiful…
The same signature you scribbled on that unresponsive, old and abused touchscreen?

Are signatures even a good way to validate identity?
From my understanding Mandarin has a lot of two-syllable words and in many of the words the second syllable doesn't add much, if any, additional meaning.

Contrast that with Cantonese, which I believe still uses a single syllable for most words. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

So it makes sense with less tones, because you have more syllables to disambiguate.
How many (modern, written) "ideographic languages" exist? I can think of two: Chinese and Japanese. Old Korean and Vietnamese used some Chinese characters, but the modern languages use none.

It is interesting to me when written Chinese and Japanese use commas. It is pretty much never required, but pure style. It does help to breakup a complex sentence, similar to phonetic languages.
It's really good and thoughtful.
Capitalists are greedy for profits.

But bureaucrats are greedy for power.
Upsert (Update+Insert)
> There are just too many examples of songs that make really good mash-ups.

A few years ago Pomplamoose was really into mashups, and sometimes I had to remind myself these were two different songs. I just checked their channel, and their two most popular pieces are mashups (Sweet Dreams + Seven Nation Army, and Stayin’ Alive + Virtual Insanity)
A few years ago I spent a little bit of time digging into the earliest claims that the Earth was round. As the article says, they seem to go back to 600 BC, but unfortunately the sources from that era are all pretty patchy (they're copies of fragments of quotations of the original texts). Some assert that Pythagoras was the first to claim that the Earth is round, others say Parmenides, but they didn't seem to have offered any real evidence.

By the time of Aristotle in the late 300s, though, there was pretty substantial evidence that the Earth was round and Aristotle collected it all together. Broadly, the arguments could be put into two categories: empirical arguments and theoretical arguments.

The empirical arguments were pretty clever. Astronomers noted that whenever there was a lunar eclipse, the shadow of the Earth was always curved the same way. Since lunar eclipses occurred at different times and different locations on the sky, it could only produce the same shadow if the Earth itself was spherical. Another argument relied on a somewhat fortunate coincidence that one of the brightest stars in the sky, Canopus, is right on the horizon at the latitude of Greece. Astronomers noticed that they could see this star low on the horizon when the traveled to southern cities like Alexandria, but could not see it in northern cities like Athens. This also implied that the Earth was round. Later on Eratosthenes was able to use this principle to measure the size of the Earth and got the answer right to within 1% (although he probably got a bit lucky since he seems to have made two mistakes which partially cancelled each other out).

Aristotle's theoretical justification for a round Earth wasn't too far off the mark, either. His basic argument was that because matter tends to fall to the center of the Earth, if the Earth was some other shape, the matter would rearrange itself until it achieved a spherical shape. His theory of motion was all wrong, but the basic idea that a system with radial forces would produce spheres was correct.

(Shameless plug: I do a podcast on the history of astronomy, so if you want to hear more on the subject I have much more to say [1].)

[1]: https://songofurania.com/
That’s a very pretty house! What country do you live if I can ask and is this a common theme?
Apparently this medical usage is the source of the wider adverbial use of 'stat' (as in "get it done stat!").
Gold coins are beautiful liquid assets. Why not keep part of your retirement or emergency fund in gold and silver? I can just go down to one of many local coin stores and sell them if I need the cash.
Chess Kingwalk
Which vitamin K2? There are distinct:

– short-chain menaquinone or menatetrenone: MK-4
– long-chain menaquinones: MK-5, MK-6, MK-7 (found in natto) and poorly studied MK-8 and MK-9.

The study does not mention which one of them was used in the study, it only cites the amount used being 720 mcg. Since the supplementation with long-chain menaquinones in dosages larger than 200 mcg per day is considered dangerous due to excessive blood thinning effects, it is reasoanble to presume that the MK-4 form was used. But MK-4 has been studided for its calcium redistribution effects in the body in clinical dosages of 45 mgs, which is two orders of magnitude larger than that of used in the study.

The article also conflates natto as being a source of K2 with being a source of the menaquinone (mostly MK-7 but also other long-chain menaquinones) but not menatetrenone. Truth to be told, there are better studies out there.
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No. The cable charges 1 device but not the other. That is because the whole USB-C spec is trash.

Why do you so desperately try to defend rubbish hardware like USB-C?
No, it isn't. I can see my Primary Care Physician (PCP) same- or next-day (or a rotating replacement on the weekend) and this is true for pretty much everybody in Germany. Appointments with specialists can take longer, and many do report waiting weeks or months, though this has not been my experience at all and I usually get an appointment within days or, rarely, a few weeks.

Ymmv, I think it mostly depends on where you live, how flexible you are, if you're willing to call another specialist practice when the first is booked and whether you're insistent. And on the specialty, obviously, I'm sure there are some that are perpetually overbooked, which I was fortunate to not need myself so far. There's an artificial limit on the number of medical practices in Germany, as well.

Incidentally, my relatives who live in more rural areas seem to think nothing of driving twenty minutes for every trivial thing sometimes multiple times day, but driving 90 minutes to see a specialist twice a year is totally out of the question.
Mauro just can't catch a break
I wonder if this will have implications for other brain conditions, like Parkinson's, depression, or narcolepsy where some protein or hormone is missing from the brain and can't be delivered across the BBB.
You’re going to miss the pixel perfect lines. There’s a whole subtle esthetic in this version from the careful manipulation of pixels…
> I’ve never understood why voice recognition has always attempted to be complete understanding of arbitrary input, rather than follow a simple command language

Because the UI affordances (in this case the control language) wouldn’t be discoverable or memorable across a large range of devices or apps. Moreover, speaking is an activity that allows for an arbitrary range of symbol patterns, and a feedback loop between two who are in dialog are able to resolve complex matters even though they start from different positions.
There is some survivor bias at play. We don’t know how many other people attempted the crossing before him just to get lost at sea.
Too late. What investor will want Chile now? You make one peep about nationalization, and we all go stampeding the other direction. The whole place just went radioactive from capital’s perspective.
They might be just removing "to be", that's what I love about English you can break and abuse it and it still mostly makes sense. You could even drop the
"the" and "-ed" from those phrases and most people would still understand what you mean by "dog needs walk".
With 75B tokens, would it be better to train from scratch, then apply instruction fine-tuning? Training from llama seems like it could introduce a lot of unexpected behavior.
I'm a big fan of web page CVs too, perhaps I should amend to suggest this as a great alternative
this word (as several others) made its way into Hebrew.