skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Courts are pretty good at awarding large dollar amounts and/or throwing people in jail when they lie to the court. Which is what would be required if someone attempted this, since (as far as I'm aware) there's no religion or cult in history that believes anything remotely approaching this very strange straw man.
Surveillance of reporter a 'serious attack on freedom of the press in Canada' (2016)
He was under 24 surveillance orders, for an investigation on police planting false evidence. His phone's location was shared, as well as the time and recipient/caller of all calls and texts.

Journalists are protected in the canadian law and are not forced to share their sources, unless a court of law decides it's in the public interest (bit more to it than that, but that's the gist).

The SPVM didn't care.
Horryfing
Cacao: Pure Swift Cross-platform UIKit implementation
> However, there may be no other way to someday reach level 5 for general driving, other than to live with that middle zone for a while (keeping in mind that it’s already safer than humans driving alone) in order to conduct the training needed to reach level 5.

Gotta call bullshit on this. If human-piloted cars were bedecked in sensors, recording drivers' inputs and outputs, we could collect all the training we could need for L5 driving. It would take a ton of stringent curation, but that's going to be necessary anyway. It's not like Tesla has magically learned not to hit emergency vehicles stopped in traffic yet.
They have a CPU that's been labeled some version of fastest or most efficient, they're hungry for more revenue, but somehow have no interest in the data center market? There must be a reason.
Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programming
Oh, it's a different time for any group of people you ask. For some it was AOL, for others the media coverage that picked up around 1995/1996. And some were late to the game and only noticed when every one around them got DSL in the early 2000's. I kind of picked 2004 at random. It represents a (sadly rather sizeable) group of people in rural areas who neither got DSL nor internet over cable before that time and therefore just didn't pay attention.
> This removes the need for VDOM diffing, but unless I use a `MutationObserver` external updates to marked branches will probably mess it up.

Similar in Reken. It controls all the DOM; DOM updates outside Reken will get stuff out of sync. After a model change, all managed DOM gets directly updated by a generated controller. It does check the DOM first if a textContent or attribute change is necessary. Most DOM state checks are cheap. Another optimization is that all hidden DOM trees get skipped; Great in SPA apps with multiple pages.
The article you linked has nothing to do with your claim and neither the article nor your claim have anything to do with my point. The article demonstrates proof of choice-supportive bias, not that people have no recollection of their previous mental states. And LLMs don't merely exhibit choice-supportive bias—they wantonly contradict things they said moments earlier and wildly hallucinate things that never happened.
Yep, I've been in companies where it's the whole "every department needs to cut" rather than only cutting dead weight.
This will be great for everyone doing something in the digital twin like engineer.

Anyone else? No clue.

I bet you might see someone in a public setting but not for long.
Also they look cool. Also they're a platonic solid. The golden ratio is built into pentagons, they're tricky to construct with a compass, basically they're cool
Thanks for caring!

And from what I saw before killing the tunnel (metered data), neat project
I think people at the top miss that they get, in some sense, some of the most value for money from a modern functional society.

In the absence of a government monopoly on violence and functional government services, a highly paid business exec will need to live their life more like a mafioso or warlord. There's places in latin America where even what Americans would call "upper middle class" people need to hire security and worry about kidnapping and extortion plots.

Add to that things like rule of law, so that the government strongman can't suddenly declare your business anti-patriotic / illegal (China) & take your cash / put you in jail.

Then you have things like - copyright, trademark, etc systems that allow you & I to develop ideas as IP and the government allows us to protect it in court so that we can reap the benefits.

So no, I don't think "tax is theft" and that we should live in some Mad Max world.

People who denigrate high trust society & rule of law do not understand how messed up living in low trust societies is.

Nor am I thoroughly impressed with the idea that we need a permanent overclass who is able to pass wealth down untaxed across generations, especially given all the trust fund underachievers I've met in my life in NYC.
Yeah, sometimes stuff will get reposted like 5 times in a row before anyone notices it.
So we just recreated all of the previous SQL injection security issues in LLM's, fun times
And don't go barefoot in the locker room or shower.
> Doesn't the algorithm work on directed graphs, rather than only DAGs, i.e., also on cyclic ones? That's a difference with Dijkstra, where cycles are excluded from the solution

With the Viterbi algorithm, you're decoding a sequence of observations, indexed by observation time. At each timestep there's an array of probabilities indexed by the hidden states. State s at time t has some probability of transitioning to state s' at time t+1, defining an arc from the node (s, t) to the node (s', t+1). That defines the "trellis" structure. Since time doesn't loop back on itself, an arc can never point back to an earlier time, so there aren't any cycles in the trellis.

As lqet explains, its essentially computing a shortest path through the DAG.

The Viterbi algorithm could be reimplemented as Dijkstra's algorithm. But that wouldn't gain anything, and it'd make it harder to compute efficiently -- with Dijkstra's algorithm there's a sequential dependency of popping a minimal length path off the priority queue and expanding it before you're able to pop and start processing the next path (as the path you're expanding might push the next minimal length path onto the queue). The bottom-up Viterbi algorithm computation is closer to a BFS, where you could process the whole layer of arcs at corresponding to timestep t in parallel - apart from the argmin over input arcs at each node (s, t+1) in the next layer.

Another small difference is that Viterbi's algorithm deals with node-weights as well as arc-weights, corresponding to the probability of emitting the observation y_t at timestep t, supposing the system had been in the hidden state s_i at time t. I think that can be dealt with by absorbing the node weights into the arc weights -- each weight is a log probability, and log probabilities can be added.
Prevalence in adults is 0.5% to 1%. Around a half of the population is introverted. OP, please see a doctor.
I love Svelte for all these reasons. But in the end, was turned off by the required tooling.
The UK can't escape capitalism because it hasn't escaped feudalism yet. Should try that first. It's run for the benefit of retirees and landlords at the moment.
Weird title. The actual title is "Human activities and species biological traits drive the long-term persistence of old trees in human-dominated landscapes". Looks like the nonsense title here is the result of removing a bunch of words from the actual title. Maybe it was done automatically.

> identified which species were most likely to persist as old trees in human-dominated landscapes and where they were most likely to occur. We found that species with greater potential height, smaller leaf size and diverse human utilization attributes had the highest probability of long-term persistence. The persistence probabilities of human-associated species (taxa with diverse human utilization attributes) were relatively high in intensively cultivated areas. Conversely, the persistence probabilities of spontaneous species (taxa with no human utilization attributes and which are not cultivated) were relatively high in mountainous areas or regions inhabited by ethnic minorities.

Unsurprising results, but it's interesting seeing it quantified.
i've never had a pair of wired headphones last more than ~2 years

i usually buy cheap wired ear buds that i can listen to while i walk to work
Speaking as a "whiny boomer nerd," I can say that another demographic is people that need the types of services we provide, and can't afford squat, because they are destitute, physically or mentally challenged, rebuilding shattered lives, or dealing with serious IRL challenges.

That's the demographic that this "whiny boomer nerd" Serves, and they matter to me. I'm quite aware that many non-whiny-boomer-nerds feel as if these people should not exist, but they do exist, and mass murder is not an option, so some of us whiny boomer nerds actually care enough to try helping them.

Also, it's kinda fun, helping folks that can't make non-whiny-boomer-nerds rich, simply because it upsets non-whiny-boomer-nerds to see these “not worth the trouble” folks experiencing better Quality, Security, and performance, than the non-whiny-boomer-nerds do.

I know that it’s kind of immature, but I've always had a bit of a rebellious streak, and I’m easily amused.
Can it spread through water in the swimming pools?
For what it's worth, I often find myself defending the passive voice in various contexts. I don't know why the Style Tsars decided to hate in that one, but it's really not universally bad.
I skimmed most of this because the whole notion is ridiculous. So this person can do 4 digit division at age 5? So what? Anyone can be trained to do 4 digit division really young. Succeeding in life is infinitely more complex than doing division. The complexity comes from the problem not being narrowly defined. You know there's a simple algorithm for division that you can practice 16 hrs a day, right?

I was skeptical of your argument, but the specific example you came up with is so stupid I'm starting to think you're trolling.

You know what's also stupid? Making policy decisions based on anecdotes. Sure, I could invent a system that would work great for a specific kid but terrible for society. So? That's no basis for making policy decisions.

Surely you're trolling.
Apple Watch was not popular in its first or second iterations. And in fact in the early days its sales were so lack lustre it was borderline 50/50 as to whether the device would even continue to be sold.

It wasn't under years later when the performance improved and the cost came down that it started to gain traction amongst the mass market. I suspect the Apple Reality headset will do the same.
If there's anyone left in the comment section now that this has been flagged and consigned to the outer darkness...

Please take a moment and imagine a world in which software developers were all forced to spend 4 weeks a year building drone missile AIs for Palantir so that the US can bomb weddings in Yemen.

Further imagine that you started your career before the US had drones, so the possibility that your skills would be required to bomb birthday parties had not occurred to you when you initially chose your current field.

Obviously not everyone here is in agreement about the moral status of various forms of medical services. That's fine - as it happens, apparently not everyone in the US is in agreement about the moral status of bombing weddings in Yemen either!!

But a failure to understand that – especially in a big tent society – sometimes people with certain skills don't want to put them to use in the way that other people want to see them put to use, is a truly remarkable failure of imagination for a message board filled with people of above-average brainpower.
I just meant the first "Wallpecker" blows were decidedly small-scale -- and not part a plan to demolish the wall per se.
Both. It is scientifically driven, but scientific exploration itself is a necessity.

Not necessarily because we will all die if we don't do it (though there is a bit of that), but because curiosity is what makes us human. It is as necessary as heroin is for an addict, except that unlike heroin, it is an addiction that lead us to great things. If we stopped doing that, I wouldn't even want to call the resulting species "human".
I would assume it was named that knowing exactly what it means. I wouldn't call it VVVVNSFW.
That doesn’t seem fundamentally bad to me. What do you think the risks are of this approach?
Because hydrogen cars are less efficient, more expensive, more dangerous, and require more infrastructure than EVs. The speed of refueling isn’t enough of a justification to pursue hydrogen cars. They only really make sense if the raw materials for batteries become too scarce.
I agree with you on the philosophy of open source, and how important it is, but allow me to defend my viewpoint.

As a passionate long time supporter, user and developer of OSS, my reaction was purely based on that "deal with it" quote from TFA.

All software, regardless of its licensing terms, should first and foremost deliver a usable product. The expectation that users of free software (in both meanings of the word "free") are somehow under moral obligation to test the software and report issues to the authors is wrong, just as OSS developers aren't under any obligation to implement specific features or provide support. These freedoms go both ways.

But when a developer takes the hostile stance of prioritizing their QoL over their users', as in TFA, that is the attitude that's hurting users, and the adoption of OSS. I appreciate the effort the Asahi team is making, but this is a toxic attitude that shouldn't be part of any project.

Most of the time, I do take the effort to diagnose issues and report them where appropriate. But as you can see detailed below[1], the issues I experienced were so obvious that I assumed they had already been reported. Given the complexity of an environment like KDE, it would have definitely taken me hours of my time to properly diagnose and report these issues. And sometimes, I just want to get work done, without "dealing with" my machine... The reality is that most users feel this way, so this response shouldn't be surprising.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932839
I don’t agree that it is up for debate. The profession has clear ethical standards, you know them when you begin training.
Also the analogy sinks to the level of not even wrong which is clear to anyone with a basic education in European history.
That doesn’t really apply to this debate. Netflix isn’t sending data back and forth through the ISP’s network just for their own fun and their own benefit. They send the data because the ISP’s client specifically asked for it and is paying for that bandwidth. They are also likely paying for far less bandwidth than the low bitrate Netflix is using. TV streaming is also arguably one of the main reason why the end user bought a high speed internet connection in the place.
I wasn't trying to justify it, just letting you know the background, hence why I said "FYI". I'm half Dutch and it annoys me too.
Having a wide backend which cannot be fully utilized is common in non-x86 chips as well. The backend units are specialized while the front end less so, so to sustain the front-end bandwidth for many instruction mixed you need a wider backend so you have enough units of the right type.

Wide x86 decode definitely has a cost, but I don't think it's the primary limiter as you make it out to be: for several x86 generations the narrowest bottleneck has been the renamer which has crept up from 3 to 6 in a glacial manner. Admittedly rename is also complicated on x86 due to memory source/destinations, 3 input instructions, 2 output instructions, etc.
Vore is just a latin root relating to eating. Vorarephilia is just one use of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vore
you keep saying this, but if a doctor believes that a gay person is not a human being because of religion, this bill would allow them to prevent giving that person any kind of care.

"i have a persistent cough and need a check up."

"sorry, i'm going to deny you a routine check up based on my belief that homosexuality is a sin. providing this procedure to you would be tacit support of homosexuality."
For some embedded applications, fixed memory regions work fine. For something like a compiler, not so much. Remember that you have to deal with chunks of data of unpredictable size. Even string literals might occupy megabytes. You could program your way around that, but most of the time these days, it's ok to burn memory (i.e. use GC) for the sake of development velocity.
this is some of my favourite advice. once you have your message down to its bare essentials, you can riff over it with decorations to get the feeling across. I reference this a lot
People who insist on an internal battery miss the point entirely.

The device is going to spend 95% of its time connected to a Mac where an internal battery provides no benefit and significant downsides in weight and bulk.

The key initial features will be adding virtual monitors and allowing new UI controls e.g. floating timeline for video editing. It will be a productivity enhancing device not for gaming or entertainment.
x86-64 is not even a particularly compact encoding even compared to contemporary fixed length encodings. The inherent advantage of variable length encoding is largely cancelled out by wasted encoding space for legacy cruft.

Aarch64 is roughly on par for encoding density.
(Well, the main topic of this thread was surely something else than gender identity and it is a flagged thread already anyway. I just wanted to make clear that I was especially arguing about hate speech.)

And I don't say, it is the same, but I don't talk about people who have merely "an interest in fashion". But people who really bind their identity towards it. That can be indeed fancy art clothing, or scenic cloths, like punks or goths dress or furry people. Saying they don't dress right, is a straight attack towards their identity.

Still, I would consider this rude and ignorant, but not hate speech.
I hadn't heard of this gizmo, seems to be a small e-ink display on an rpi:

https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-badg...
If I google "Vore" what am I going to find
Most of my complaints about excessive/inappropriate use of passive voice are when it's used to obscure a point. "It was decided that we'd do XYZ." rather than "Pat decided that we'd do XYZ."
Maybe there are some efficiencies to be found, but we are talking about experimental treatments where the efficacy takes weeks to years to measure. You can't run an overnight benchmarking test.

But in saying that, if a trial is showing very positive results then it can be fast tracked, as it is unethical to withhold that kind of treatment. Conversely, plenty of trials that look good in phase I/II fail in phase III and are terminated early.
you must have access to this article.. looks like a paywall.

It seems rather important that the trees studied are in China and this is about natural history there. I was told casually that every natural forest in that part of the world has been substantially cut.. there is no "old growth" past some threshold.

Lastly, no mention of methods .. we are in an information age.
Supposedly this is between gpt3.5 and 4, so pretty good.
> No other organ has this

is that known?
Ask HN: Why don't apps have a “show author mode” that shows who wrote a feature?
For example, if you activate this mode in a word processor and then export a document to pdf, then you will see all the people who contributed to the export to pdf code.
lmao jesus christ - "being gay or a minority and seeking medical care is the same as drone striking a wedding, actually." keep it classy, hn.
Looks like typos to me.
I found the whole ncurses drama tragic and sort of ridiculous because ESR behaved in a very non-bazaar manner. Held on to that thing like it was a precious family heirloom.

Really lowered my opinion of this book and ESR a lot. Not that it was ever particularly high.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10138963 - the ncurses licensing saga

It's a long read; skip to https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html#ju... for the essence.
I think it depends a lot on the product. Their aviation headsets and other non-consumer audio equipment gets repaired for sure
Don't know much about philosophy (hopefully you got the reference and sung that line in your head) but I was surprised not to ctrl+f and find a mention of Schopenhauer in this

Didn't the famously miserable old sod carve out an exception in his bleak post-Kantian world view for music as some direct channel to truth?
I assume management failure. Always makes me think of the documentary The Rubber Room, about the employees who can't be fired and won't quit.

Our startup was acqui-hired. We were assigned to the one VP who voted against hiring us. That VP then devoted themself to managing us out. Natch. We were literally prohibited from doing new work; support existing clients only. While requiring us to file time sheets and status reports (forcing us all to lie).

One teammate really got into everything Clojure.

Another went back to school to get his MBA.

One teammate launched his next startup. He'd drive into work, remote back to his own computers, and code like a demon. He did quite well.

I ran for office. I did less well.

Our H1Bs, unfortunately, had a terrible time.
I think a ton of reddit is already bots. But usually they copy comments word-for-word.

Also, I think voting and moderation will upvote and downvote the AI generated comments in such a way that they don't poison Redditch as a training data source.
Palmer has every reason to stick it to Zuck, so even if the Apple headset is just “good” he would be pleased to say this.
> My understanding was that that words are typically ordered differently in other languages, is that true? That would seem to disprove the idea that "all brains work this way" (although it may be how the brains of native english speakers work).

Well, first, the quoted extract is referring to the subject of the sentence as "the object", which is a terrible mistake to make - the claim is incomprehensible unless you pay attention to what should be a superfluous example. It is very common for languages to put objects before verbs by default, but not in English.

Most potential word orders are attested in some language or other. Creoles (new languages that don't develop from ancestors) are usually subject-verb-object, which is evidence that supports the idea that that word ordering is more natural. Creoles can develop that word ordering even when no language in the local environment uses it.

As further support for SVO order being "more natural", you can also observe that it seems to have spontaneously developed in the major trade languages. Latin was SOV; French, Spanish, and Italian are SVO. Most Chinese languages are SOV today, but Mandarin is SVO. (So is Cantonese. Old English, unfortunately for this line of thought, seems to have already been SVO by the time it's documented.)

All languages feature ways to rearrange the words in a sentence.[1] The reason it's an option in English to say "the ball was hit by the boy" is that you might be talking about the ball. A text written entirely in the active voice is going to end up being much harder to understand than a natural text, specifically because using that style will prevent you from organizing your ideas correctly. The call to "learn how brains organize ideas" is misguided puffery.

[1] Active/passive is kind of an impoverished way to do this, though English does also support topic fronting. In Mandarin there's a three-way syntactic split between SVO ("active"), O被SV ("passive"), and S把OV (with 把 being a "preposition marking the direct object").
All social media and “content creators” and other BS is worthless to me, blue mark or bot won’t change that.